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Holiday Cricut Explore Giveaway! {$549 value!}

November 7, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 10 Comments

I’m excited to be a part of Bake, Craft, Sew today! I’m guest posting over at Thirty Handmade Days combining two holiday staples, ornaments and hot chocolate, for a fun gift idea for neighbors, teachers, or friends.

Pretty sweet huh? To make things just a little sweeter, you can enter to win this awesome giveaway from Cricut to give you a head start on your holiday gift and card creation!

One lucky winner will receive:

1 Cricut Explore $399 MSRP
(1) $250 Holiday Crafting Bundle!

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Make sure to follow the entire series because you can get a new entry each day by visiting the featured blogger! And they are sharing some awesome ideas for the holidays. A special thanks to Cricut for encouraging a creative holiday season with this cool Cricut Explore giveaway.

Halloween Gift Idea: Spider Web Nails

October 13, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 1 Comment

I love a good pedicure, but there’s not always time (especially since I just had my third boy a few weeks ago). I thought it would be fun to put together a simple gift for those who could use a little pampering (teachers, friends, daughters), but may not have the time to head to the spa. This way their toes will be spookified for Halloween and they don’t even have to leave their house! How about some spider web nails for a haunting Halloween gift?

All you need to put this gift together is …

Black Nail Polish
White Vinyl
Cutting Machine
Free Smell My Feet Printable
Spider Ring
Treat Bag
Candy Corn
Ribbon

I used my Cricut Explore to cut my vinyl because it can rock tiny designs. I measured the size of my big toenail (which was about 0.75 x 0.5). Then, found a spider web image I liked and sized it to fit. You can use my cut design here to make things simple if you like. Then, just weed out the unneeded vinyl pieces from the web so it looks like two stickers on a sheet. You can use transfer tape to place the design, but I just peeled them off like decals and placed them where I liked on my nail. Cover with a clear coat or two to waterproof. I did not include clear nail polish in the gift because I figured everyone has that.

I made a fun Halloween printable tag to put on the gift and continue with the theme. It is sized to fit two on a 4×6 photo card.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE “TRICK OR TREAT SMELL MY FEET” PRINTABLE HERE.

Now to finish off the gift, put the spider ring on the nail polish bottle, place them in the bag with two spider web vinyl decals and some candy corns and tie the tag on with some ribbon. It’s as easy as that!

4th of July Shirts: Pledge of Allegiance Flag

June 27, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 4 Comments

July 4th is right around the corner! Every clothing store around is selling flag shirts for a little USA spirit, but why not make some of your own? I love to put my boys in customized shirts and figured this would be the perfect opportunity for a little patriotic display of The Pledge of Allegiance. We kept the flag in there too for good measure.

You may recognize the design from a flag canvas I made for my house last year. I loved it so much I figured why not spread the joy to shirts?!

SUPPLIES:

Cricut Design Space Software
Cricut Explore
White Heat Transfer
Red Heat Transfer
Navy Shirts
Weeding Tool
Clean Cloth
Iron

I took this image from last years post and uploaded it in to Cricut Design Space. Cleaned it up, made a copy of the image and hid the contour to separate the white and red areas alternately on the two images. I was planning to share the design and save you a lot of work, but the software will not let you share designs of things you upload.

It will be easiest to just choose a font you like and copy my layout by typing in text boxes. Trust me. Then group the text boxes so you can move them as two images the white letters and the red letters.

Size the flags according to the size of shirt. Now you are ready to cut. Be sure your shirts are pre-washed to remove any shrinkage.

Be sure to flip the letters horizontally before cutting so they won’t be backwards! Cricut Design software has a check box to remind you of this on the cut screen. Select the iron-on setting (I use a Cricut Explore so mine is on a dial on the machine) and you are good to go. Load the heat transfer vinyl shiny side down and cut. You will load the mat twice, once with the white and once with the red.

Weed your vinyl removing all excess from between the designs. Be sure all the i’s have their dots.

Preheat the iron on it’s hottest setting with the steam turned off. Place the groups of white letter and red letters on the shirt to make sure you get them in the right place.

Then remove the red letters and apply the white ones first. Place a clean cloth over it (I use a tea towel) and press firmly for 30 -40 seconds. Let it cool a bit and check for adherance. If it lifts up try 20 more seconds. If it is stuck remove the clear sheet and place the red letters in place to iron. Cover with cloth and iron as before.

For my boys shirts (size 4 and 6) the letters ended up tiny!! This was proof how accurately the Cricut Explore can cut. Look at them next to a quarter. Crazy!

I love how our 4th of July shirts turned out and can’t wait for them to sport them next week!

Father’s Day Man Cards

May 29, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 2 Comments

The countdown to Father’s Day is on. Do you know what you are getting the Dad’s in your life? There are lots of things about marriage and having kids that people joke about taking away their man card, so why not give it back to them? These testosterone building coupons will be just the thing to put a big smile on his face. We’ve come up with a variety for the sports lover to the foodie to just plain getting out of things they don’t want to do. Give them a set of man cards and let them feel in control.

Don’t feel like getting out of bed? No prob. There’s a card for that.

Have a guy who likes to be in control? There’s a card for that. Or how about a wannabe golf pro? Gotcha covered.

Is standing by the side of a river all day his thing? Stabbing worms and slipping on rocks is manly, give him a card.

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, well, turns out it might also be through not making him shop or letting him watch the game uninterrupted.

There are plenty of ways to restore his man card so we came up with two full sets of cards and because we like to make things easy on you, we’re also providing the Cricut Design Templates so you can just load, purchase needed images, and cut. Easy as that!

Supplies Needed:

Cricut Explore
Cricut Mat
Gray Cardstock
White Cardstock
Blue Cardstock
Black Cardstock
Craft Glue

When you download the Cricut templates, they will not look like the following images but rest assured they will cut the needed components for the man cards. I had to layer and attach layers in a certain manner to get them to cut how I wanted.

Download Cricut template for the first set of man cards.

Download the template for the second set of man cards.

Now just cut all the layers, weed (which is mostly done conveniently by the Cricut mat pulling the letters out of the gray layer), and glue them all together to make your Father’s Day man cards. Easy peasy!

Which man card is your favorite?