Hi Foxy Friends! I cannot believe that it is almost February! How did that happen? I have a fun non candy Valentine's Day treat to share today. You can get some of the stuff from Dollar Tree, but make sure to go early next year. I got my stuff 2nd week of January and when I went back a week later, all of it was gone. So make sure to be on it for next year! But good news, Amazon has all of the stuff too, and for a reasonable price too. So no need to panic, you still have time to put this together! Really you could make these for any occassion, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July. Just change out the jewel color or rock colors. Okay let's get to the quick tutorial:
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Note: If you don't have a Cricut you can always use a fabric pen for the Tic Tac Toe and a Paint Pen for the rocks.
Directions:
Here is a video I put together on how to make this. I would consider this a beginner Cricut project. I can't wait to give it to our friends.
Step 1: Create the correct size X's and O's and tic tac toe board and names if you are personalizing it in cutting machine program and cut out. If you would like the SVG that I created, please email me!
Step 2: Iron on the names and tic tac toe on your bag. If you got bags with hearts on it, iron on the name over the heart. If you didn't get the bag with a heart on it, cut out a heart with HTV and iron that on first and then iron the name on. In general I do 305°F on my Easy Press, but look at the directions of your heat transfer vinyl. Place your HTV on the bag, then put a piece of parchment paper between your HTV and your iron or press. Make sure to try and not put the iron over the strings of the bag. Sometimes if there is a little unevenness it is hard to get a good press and will result in your HTV not sticking.
Step 3: Put your X's and O's on your gems or stones. I didn't use the transfer tape, but if you want perfection use your transfer tape, but I found it to be faster to not use it. With how many of them you have to place, I would definitely just use them like stickers.
Step 4: Package them up super cute to give to your friends.
Here is a pin for later:
Other things you might be interested in from the video:
Make up is mostly from my friend Becky, you can find her on FB or IG, she has some good deals, and it's pretty much all I wear. Face: CCTM in Medium and Original Foundation in Tan
Eyebrows: Rustic Brown Eyes: Plum Berry, Amethyst, Deep Plum, Shell Glitter and Pink Opal Shimmer in the inner corner
Blush: Plum Berry (yep you can use shadow for blush too!) Lips: Lexie Bear-y, Kiss For A Cause, Lexie Bear-y, glossy gloss Eyelashes: House Of Lashes in Boudoir Concealer
Hi Foxy Friends! I've been meaning to put together this post for a while now, and I figure, new year, new me, new posts.
Sorry about the coloring, when I did this, there were a lot of fires in California and it turned the sky orangish/red.
I made a video of everything I'm about to show you, so if you're more of a watch and learn someone else doing it, this video is for you. Else keep reading to see pictures on how I put this together.
What You'll Need:
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Corrugated Plastic (4' x 8'), I also got a 3' x 6' but couldn't find it online), here is another option but a bit more expensive if you can't get a 4'x8' sheet in your car and this one delivers it, so there's the ease of delivery.
Note: Corrugated plastic is what you see on lawn signs/for sale signs, it's plastic and weather proof and has a space to put metal stakes to stick in the ground.
Quilting Ruler (it's 24 inches long, so it's going to be great for this project to help you cut your letters straight with the box cutter)
Directions:
Step 1 - Create letters in design program (Design Space for Cricut or Silhouette Studio for the Cameo), you're going to be creating an off the mat project. The next set of directions is specifically for Cricut. Create your letter, I put two letters in each file, but you can choose how many go in each.
Cricut only allows me to cut 11.5" x 23.5", so I made sure the height of my letters is no bigger than 23.5"(I picked my letters to be 23" high), and the width is no bigger than 11.5". As you can see my first half is 10.152" and the length does not exceed the 23.5". So the letter "O" will print in two pieces, and the letter "T" will print in 3 pieces. I made the letter "T" because I felt that having to make up the two short ends would be a lot easier than having to try and match the whole length of the "T".
Cut out/weed the letters, I cut all of mine out at once, so that I could get the most out of my corrugated plastic.
Step 2 - Use the contact paper, and transfer first letter, sticky side to the color side of the paper. For ease of applying such a larget letter, attach 1" of contact paper on solid surface, then place letter under it, and roll the contact paper on letter using the squeegee (see minute 7 of video).
Step 3 - Using two straight sides of the corrugated plastic (so you only have to cut two sides), carefully place down vinyl, see minute 10.22 of video to see me doing this. Use the squeegee to get as much air out as possible. This is going to be something that you get better at the more letters you do. I think by letter 7 I had it down, and by letter 15, it was easy. Trust yourself, and sometimes you just have to go for it.
Note: When placing the letters on the corrugated plastic make sure to place the letters so that they are parallel with the grooves in the corrugated plastic. Basically, think about how you are going to put your stakes into the sign, to place in the ground, so you want to make sure your letters are facing the correct direction.
Step 4 - Cut your letter to size. I used this quilting ruler to help get straight lines. For the smaller angles, I was able to use scissors.
For the times that you miss, and the letters don't line up, just cut out extra vinyl to cover the spots. In all honesty, no one can see those small mistakes unless you are right on top of the sign, and even then the letters are so big you can hardly tell, even when you know the mistake is there.
You can tell in the picture below this is one of my first letters, see how many bubbles there are? You can somewhat fix the large one, by using a blade and cutting in the direction of the corrugated plastic, then pushing down with your finger on the vinyl and the bubble will be less noticeable.
Step 5 - Continue making letters like this. The letter will stop at this bar in the picture below. You want to make all the letters even. So take note of the width of the H stakes you got, and where they are going to hit on the letter. Some of my letters, I needed to keep the middle of the letter so that when you put the H stakes in the letter, they are all even when you stick them into the ground.
As you can see this H stake is 5 inches wide, but the center of the H is larger than that, so I had to add the middle back in (luckily I kept all of the centers, never know when you're going to need extra material), so that the letters in BIRTHDAY would be on the same height level when I stuck the stake into the ground.
The taller H Stake was 10" wide, so I adjusted and kept the outside of straight part of the "Y".
Step 6 - Put letter on your lawn! I would suggest to lay the down on the ground first, and then stick them in the ground so you know you have enough room. I've done this twice now, the first time I laid them out, the second time I went for it and had to adjust the Birthday word by a foot or so...oops!
When your kids see this, they're mind is going to be blown, and the best part is, you get to keep it and use it for years! Hope you decide to give this a try! It's a lot easier than you think it is! If you have any questions or get stuck, shoot me and email or a comment on the video or in the comments below.
Hi Foxy Friends. It's been a hot minute since I did a fashion post. But since quarantine started I've been on this leopard kick that has not stopped. I'm not kidding, I've bought 4 pairs of leopard print shoes...I know where am I wearing shoes to? Anyway, the leopard doesn't stop there, I've bought so many leopard sweaters...I live in Southern California, in case you didn't know, sweater weather here is about 2.5 seconds. Okay so let's get started, so you can also get these fun and cozy, soft goodies!
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First up is the latest thing to join my collection of ever growing sweaters. Mr. keeps asking me where I am going to wear these things...I keep saying, around the house? It is one of the softest things EVER. My friend happened to be over when I got it in the mail, and she immediately went online and got one for herself. Of everything on the list get this!
How gorgeous is this sweater? It's the perfect length and the softest thing I've ever felt.
The pockets are so comfy, fits my phone perfectly.
The jeans I'm wearing are so stretchy and comfy. I've linked the same brand but different pair, as I can't find the same exact pair that I have on.
The second sweater is one that I bought sometime last year and it's great too. A friend also bought this and we try not to wear it at the same time. Not as soft as the one above, but it immediately ups a pair of jeans and shoes. I usually wear, these slip ons, but I was losing light and needed to take quick pictures. I love those shoes so much I wore out my first pair and am on my second pair! Go get yourself a pair too!
The third sweater, I'm not really sure where I saw it, but I saw it and knew I had to have it. It's great color blocking. So many times I see sweaters and the color that is closest to the face is some sort of orange color, yellow or some color that looks awful next to my face. So when I saw this I had to have it. Unfortunately I can't find the same colors, but this is the sweater I bought from this vendor. This sweater is soft and something that I don't currently have in my closet, color block sweater that is. Surprising I know.
The last sweater is actually a dress. I bought this originally to wear for our family photos, but decided to go in another direction, but kept the dress because it was under $20 and how could I not keep it? It comes in 9 colors, I might have bought 4 colors for the family pictures, but ultimately decided to keep just this Mauve color one.
I got a medium, but probably could have gone to a small, although I would have lost a little length, and I feel this is already at my shortest I would want to go.
This next sweater is one that I constantly grab as my "I'm cold and need to get warm" sweater. I know two other friends that have this same sweater and we're all always wearing it. It also comes in different patterns, like this plaid on the top instead (sort of want to get this one too), and the black and leopard one.
Honorable mention. I actually bought this sweater, but I have claustrophobic issues and I had to return it, but not before wearing it around the house for about 5 minutes, before I had to tear it off. I'm so sad, because it's the cutest and so soft! Another friend, the same friend who bought the above sweater, bought it and hers shrunk in length when she accidentally dried it, so don't dry it if you don't want to loose length.
Oh yeah, forgot about this one too, it's super lightweight and perfect for lounging around the house.
And it had pockets...need I say more? Hey there are those slip ons I was talking about.
This leopard shirt was a dud...don't get it, it's super boxy and wasn't very flattering. I just got it and still need to return it, luckily Amazon has a great return policy and it's super easy.
When I tell you I'm on a leopard kick, I'm not kidding, I also bought these heels, where I'm going to wear them, I have no idea! I just love that they are a subtle hint of leopard and for $30, yes please! How could I turn that down?
I bought these slip on shoes too, full confession I bought them freakin' twice! Once online and then a few months later I was in the store and bought them again.I had a feeling that I already had them, but because I hadn't worn them, I didn't really remember, and it was such a good deal, that I had to buy them. Don't worry, my mom ended up buying them off of me, so I only have one pair. They are so comfy that I wear them with no socks and no blisters while out doing errands. Run don't walk to go get yourself a pair. In case you wanted to know, this is the other pair I bought, it has a cute zipper detail that is good cute to pass up. It's the pair that I kept.
Also got these cute wedges on the recommendation of Kellyann ...this is just getting embarrassing now...
Okay one more pair, then I promise these are all of the shoes I bought during quarantine...wait that's a lie. Darn. I can't find the link to the other pair...but know I bought a pair of leopard sandals. I did also buy these running/workout shoes. They're comfy and I might have bought two pairs. One to wear while working out outside, and one for the house. Everyone does that right?
We'll not get into all of the workout/lounge wear that I've bought. But some of it is in this post.
If you're still with me...I know it was a long one with lots of words, here is a close up of my make up.
All make up is from my girl Becky, you can find her on FB or IG
Not sure why my outfit posts and turning out blurry, they don't look like that when I load them, but are coming out blurry in the post...need to figure that out.
