Getting Crafty on a Lord's Day Afternoon

WHAT IS SCIENCE : With Valentines Day only to a greater extent than or less the corner, my arts and crafts room/office looks similar a arts and crafts bomb exploded!

I've got multiple projects going on correct now, but I wanted to portion my latest Silhouette project...Teacher Water Bottles!  I made them for my daughter's 3rd aeroplane teachers, but of course, I had to brand i for myself every bit well.  My hubby swears I accept issues amongst H2O bottles.  Everytime I encounter a cute one, or i amongst a novel design, or I'm only bored amongst the finally i I bought, I purchase some other one!

I am totally inwards honey amongst my Silhouette Cameo...probably my best purchase inwards the past times twelvemonth - past times far!  This was solely my minute vinyl project, but every bit you lot tin flaming see, if I tin flaming exercise it on my starting fourth dimension try, anybody can.

First, I purchased these super-cute bottles from Wal-Mart.  What I scream upwards is then cool virtually these, is that they accept a season infuser built correct in.  I don't know virtually you, but I am to a greater extent than inclined to gulp more H2O if in that place is a piddling fighting of season added.  I tend to stick amongst the crush of lime or lemon, but straight off amongst the infuser, the season additions are endless.

Then, I started creating the vinyl pieces on my Silhouette Studio software.  I decided to exercise an "offset", which is similar a background for the text.  I used KG Melonheadz font from Kimberly Geswein together with Oracle 651 vinyl from CraftVinyl.com (which is meant for outdoors, then it should concord upwards good inwards the dishwasher, etc..)

I used the "cheap teacher" method to apply the vinyl.  Instead of purchasing the expensive transfer paper, I only used clear contact newspaper together with it worked great!  First I lay downwards the background color (the offset I mentioned earlier).  Then I lay downwards the minute color (the actual text) on exceed of that, making certain that I centered it all on exceed of the starting fourth dimension color.

I honey the concluding production together with I promise my daughter's teachers exercise too!

And here's mine!

What exercise you lot think?

And my daughter's aeroplane Valentines filled amongst M&Ms...

And the side past times side projection for today is making some other "Home." shirt for my daughter.  It's super-easy!  I only used my Silhouette to cutting out the Texas cast together with the "home." text.  I used cheap-o shelf newspaper from the Dollar Tree.  All you lot exercise is lay the big giant shelf newspaper sticker onto the shirt together with apply some of the Clorox Bleach gel pen.  It solely bleaches out the Texas shape, but non the text.  It's ever interesting to encounter how the cloth volition terminate upwards looking i time bleached.  My 8-year onetime together with I made i of late on a dark shirt.  The dark cloth ended upwards looking red, which was cracking since i of our schoolhouse colors is red.

Okay...I warned you lot virtually the arts and crafts explosion, didn't I?

Now I'm off to assist my 8-year onetime decorate her Valentines shoebox... (I'm pooped together with it's solely noon!)

2:00 update...it's done!