DIY Gift Ideas- Heart Shaped Puzzle
Learn how you can create your own custom puzzle using the Cricut Maker and knife blade, their chipboard and an image that you love! Its so simple!
DIY Gift Ideas- Adorable Mason Jars
DIY Gift Ideas can be hard to “nail down”. Ha get it? I kid but seriously there are so many homemade crafts we can create as gifts for those we care about. Creative homemade gifts will always be treasured but I also love to tow that balance of cute and decorative as well as classic or timeless. So often when I DIY teacher gifts or even maybe Christmas crafts to sell I find myself figuring out how they can pull double duty between form and function or be used throughout the year. One thing you may have noticed I have an affection for is vintage mason jars! I love to collect the blue ones of my…
My New Toy-The Cricut Explore Air2
Today I get to introduce to you my new Cricut Explore Air 2 machine. I had taken such a long hiatus from using any vinyl cutting machines and had basically sworn them off when I was presented an opportunity to try out this pretty lady. I felt like it was only fair that I give her a shot.I’m sure you have seen the Cricut around and I had too! However, this isn’t the machine I had locked in my brain. If you are like me, instead you may just remember the Cricut as this little guy. Some people had these massive yet limiting collections of Cricut cartridges! I wasn’t sure how I…
DIY Wooden Nativity Sign
Wooden Decorative signs are so easy to create! I love that I can make and customize my own home decor (and porch decor of course) with a board, little bit of paint, and my Cricut. I had already made a vertical Wooden Christmas sign that I loved but I really wanted to create a horizontal one for the home too! I made this one super simple, but feel free to create your own painted effect on the board when you are painting! PLUS once again I have teamed up with those amazing bloggers from the Deck the Home Blog Hop! Be sure to check out all their amazing projects at the end! Wooden paint your own nativity set simple nativity painting modern…
Easy to Make Christmas Door Decorations
If you are like me you love looking at Christmas door decoration ideas for your home (especially EASY to make Christmas decorations). But, if you are even more like me you will often find yourself in analysis paralysis unable to find just the right one for your front door! While we want our own virtual winter wonderland, we find ourselves not so interested in traditional red and green. For the Christmas season we like to have fun and use things like pine cones in our Christmas wreath or even on the Christmas tree. Our holiday decor may or may not include Christmas lights across the front porch-again these are decisions that have to…
DIY Door Decor for Christmas
DIY front door decor or door hangings. We aren’t bound to just Christmas wreaths anymore, so no need to go to the hobby store for wreath forms or floral wire. We can get even more creative when we DIY door decor for Christmas and head instead to the home improvement store to create our holiday decor! Its time to take a look around the front porch, remove those spider webs (whether from the DIY Halloween decorations or,.. well the natural ones) and dream up our favorite DIY Projects and work them into our home and front door decor ideas! Want some great Christmas Decoration Ideas to DIY for your home? To help you…
Cricut Deals Galore
Lets face it, we JUST WANNA GET OUR CRAFT ON! So, lets find the best deals on our Cricut goodies so we can get on with the making! Below you will find a comparison chart to make choosing machines a little easier in case you need some direction. Up here I will link to all the deals I can find you and update them monthly. Don’t forget to check out the Promo Codes! My Favorite, The Cricut Maker Starting today through 11/20, Cricut is featuring BOGO deals on materials & accessories! Also check out the new Cricut Easypress 2, now in three sizes. Be sure to tell your readers to take advantage of…
DIY Sign for Christmas with Blended Paint
DIY signs for the home may be the easiest way to begin putting your mark on the decor and making it your own! What’s better is creating painted wood signs gives you the opportunity to work on your paint techniques before using them on large pieces of painted furniture. Whether you go purchase planks or just use spare wood you have laying around, DIY Signs are usually pretty easy and quick to whip up! Want more That Sweet Tea Life in your Inbox?? You may remember me creating this wooden sign during the summer. June 11, 2018 Using Wise Owl Paints and a piece of 1×8 scrap wood I created a…
How to Make a Custom Tee You LOVE
Its time for a new Craft & Create (a custom tee) with Cricut Challenge! When we were tasked to make custom t shirts I knew I really wanted to make a shirt design I LOVE and will actually wear… more than once. I cant tell you how many times I have created tanks tops or other custom tees with my dear Cricut Machine that aren’t easy to wear or use through out the year! Whether its to sell your designs, or design custom work for customers we want to do it right in the simplest way possible! This month we gained an amazing sponsor in Happy Crafters I HOPE you go check them…
All the BEST DEALS I could find you from Cricut!
Disclosure: This post contains Affiliate links, this means if you make purchases through them I may make a small commission. So you’ve been thinking about a vinyl cutting machine? But which one? and whats the Best Deal?! The short of it is this. I’ve had both the Silhouette Cameo 2 AND the Cricut Air 2, and hands down will recommend the Cricut Air 2 in a heartbeat! …I would say the Cricut “Maker” But,.. I haven’t used it yet to fully give my endorsement! Although if I had to guess, its twice as nice as the Air 2. Im going to get to the point and hand over some of…
