One of my favorite, and most popular, monogram tutorials is on how to make these ridiculously awesome ring dishes. Perfect for almost any lady on your gift list!

Another very popular post is my DIY Ornaments for Boys and Tweens. I think all girls, no matter their age, would adore these monogrammed ornaments and they are super simple to make.

In keeping with the gold monogram trend I made this monogrammed clipboard for myself last year and I am still using it! I couldn’t think of any of my daughters’ teachers who wouldn’t love a chic monogrammed clipboard.

This is one of my all time most used and favorite pins in the (relatively short) history of Pinterest. It teaches you how to use free files to make an endless array of monogrammed stickers and labels. I couldn’t believe how easy they were to make and they came out amazingly professional looking.

I made this serving tray two years ago from a $15 tray I found at Target! The great news for you is that they brought these amazing serving trays back again this year AND they added a new size as you can see from the gold tray I posted on my Instagram account!

Another one of my favorites from my Instagram feed is this Charming Charlie necklace that I personalized. For help on how to cut and apply a monogram you can check out my Vinyl 101 tutorial.

And last, but certainly not least, monogram gifts don’t always have to come in the physical form. A personalized digital monogram that can be used as a phone, tablet, or laptop screen image is also a wonderful way to show someone that you are thinking about them. I LOVE Monogram App available in the Apple App Store.

So those are just some of many DIY monogram holiday gifts that you can make this year. And monogrammed gifts are just for the holidays they are the perfect gift for any occasion. You can turn a plain jane mason jar, tumbler, coffee cup, frame, or clipboard and turn it into a one of kind, from the heart gift with just a little vinyl decal or a carefully painted set of three letters. If you don’t have a Silhouette CAMEO or Portrait, now is a wonderful time to get one. Black Friday deals are happening at Silhouette until December 8, 2014.

Happy holiday gift making!!

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The supplies you need are very simple and very easy to customize – the shapes and the colors are all interchangeable, just pick what you want!

Supplies:
Glass Ornaments
Fine Glitter
Satin Angel wings
Coordinating 3/8″ Ribbon
Funnel (or a piping tip as I used)
Pledge Floor Care clean & shine or the cheap non-aerosal hair spray works in a pinch, too
Glue gun and glue sticks

Step 1) Remove the ornament tops and swish around a small amount of Pledge or hairspray. Dump any access liquid into your next ornament.

2) Place a funnel, or icing piping tip, into the top of your ornament and pour some glitter in. Start rolling the glitter around to cover all the sides, adding more glitter if needed.

Step 3) Place caps, carefully, back on to the ornaments.

Step 4) Hot glue angel wings to the back of the ornament and tie a coordinating ribbon through the loop for hanging (or use an ornament hook).

It was really THAT simple! Now you have a beautiful ornament to adorn your tree with the memory of loved ones or give ask gifts.

Of course, you could take it one step further and add some personalization – with paint, vinyl, or stickers.

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Supplies:

Wide mouth mason jar (I use Ball Canning jars)
Vinyl decal or sticker
Mod Podge
Paint (I used black and white but you can use any two colors)
Glitter
Paint brushes
Painter’s tape
(optional) Acrylic sealer

Place your decal on the mason jar wherever it has the least about of raised lettering. I cut this snowflake out on scrap vinyl with my Silhouette CAMEO but you can use any shape, any color, or any sticker.

Next, apply a light layer of Mod Podge over your decal/sticker – this will ensure that instead paint that might get under the decal/sticker edge it is clear Mod Podge instead. Let dry 15 min or so.

Next, starting right under the rim, make 2 stripes with 1″ wide painter’s tape. Paint the exposed glass with one of your colors.

Let the first coat dry. Paint a 2nd coat of the same color and then before the 2nd coat dries pull off the painter’s tape.

Using a flat edge brush I hand painted the black stripes. I did this for two reasons: 1) I am very impatient and I did not want to wait for the white to completely dry before moving on and 2) Paint doesn’t necessarily want to stick to glass, especially acrylic paint, so I feared that covering up the white with painter’s tape to paint the black would result in the white paint pulling off of the glass. Hand painting 2 stripes is pretty simple, you an totally do it!!

Before the 2nd coat of your 2nd paint dries it’s time to pull up the decal or sticker you used. Using a snowflake might not have been the best way to go, it wasn’t easy pulling up all those points of the snowflake. I think a Christmas Tree or reindeer would have been a little easier. As you can see below I had a little issue in the lower left hand side of the snowflake – but no big deal I just used my painted brush and hand brushed in the parts that peeled away when I was removing the decal.

The only thing left is to brush Mod Podge all inside your jar and shake away with the glitter. Once you’ve got a good coat you an choose to spray acrylic sealer inside the jar, on top of the glitter, to help it from shedding.

To add some extra shimmer to all that glitter drop in an LED tea light, you can pick them up in almost every candle section these days. I would just hold back on placing a real open fame due to all the glitter and sealer.

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This project started out like many others of mine, perusing the Silhouette Online Store late at night while watching TV. When I saw this design, I just knew I had to buy it even though I wasn’t really sure how I would use it. The next day, however, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it – search through my husband’s scrap wood pile in the garage and make it into a sign!

After prepping (sanding) and painting the board I cut out the sign letters in brown and red vinyl and applied them to my sign board. If you need tips, tricks, and tutorial on how to make a typography sign using your Silhouette machine you can read my post Make Subway Art from Silhouette Store Files.

Here is what the sign looked like before. It’s cute, but a little plain.

I could have just painted a circle with Mod Podge onto the center on the sign but 1) there is no way it would be perfectly circle 2) I didn’t know how it would all stick, and stay, to the glossy outdoor vinyl I used and 3) I didn’t want glitter all over my sign.

So I flipped through all my specialty papers until I found the double-sided adhesive sheets that I had purchased a while ago from Silhouette (probably when they had a 40% off sale, which is when I like to stock up…usually around black Friday).

This material is great, you can run it right through your machine, peel off the top, white layer, add your glitter, then peel of the back, yellow layer and stick it anywhere you want!

And now you have the perfectly glittered ruby red circle to turn this great song lyric from Kristoff into a Christmastime themed sign!

linked up: tatertots and jello, SNAP

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When I first saw this paper maché reindeer at Michael’s I picked it up not having any idea what I was going to do with it other than make it the centerpiece of our holiday decorations.  Add in a little cabana stripe ribbon from Nashville Wraps, vintage gold paint, red glitter, and some pom pom trim and I was in business!

I thought good ol’ Rudy could use a little extra glitter so I made a quick rosette out of ruby red glitter paper and attached a piece of wood bunting painted in the matching gold and adorned with a vinyl decal I made with my Silhouette CAMEO.

And what dapper man, or deer, doesn’t look better with a bowtie. I made this one out of wired glitter ribbon, a twist tie, and some hot glue.

Rudolph would just be any reindeer walking down the street if it weren’t for his red nose. Using a q-tip I applied Mod Podge in a deer nose shape and covered it with bright red glitter. A great tip with glitter is to use a dry paint or makeup brush to remove excess glitter from areas around the glittered spot.

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Supplies:
– Silhouette (or any other vinyl cutting machine)
– Vinyl (outdoor gloss vinyl if your dish will get wet)
– Contact or Transfer paper
– Small ceramic dish – I used “Tasting Bowls” from Libbey (found on Amazon) but any small dish will do
– Ruler

Measure the inside bottom of your tasting dish. Mine was just shy of 2 inches in each direction. Using your design software, Silhouette Studio in my case, and design your monogram* and size it smaller than the dimensions of your dish. Cut out your monogram on any color or patterned vinyl and use your contact paper or transfer tape to press your design on to the dish. That’s all there is to it!

*The Silhouette Store has the script monogram letters but you will have to buy each letter individually. You can also buy the script font Vines from Front Bros as well as the Circle Monogram font. For a free alternative to Vines you can try KK Monogram that is available for free on DaFont.com.

I just really love all things gold when it comes to decorating and accessorizing right now so I had to make one using this shiny gold vinyl.

It’s just so elegant.

But then again I love all things polka dot and black is so timeless that I just had to make one using this great patterned vinyl, too!

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You will need minimal supplies and skill for this skirt, however, you will need a sewing machine. I am sure a nice package of fudge covered Oreos would persuade your friend with a sewing machine to help you on this one!

Supplies:

Your tulle will come folded in half length-wise (making it 22″ wide or so) DO NOT UNFOLD IT!

Simply place one end of your length of tulle in the sewing machine about 1″ from the folded seam and start sewing. * If you want to use thicker ribbon, make the distance between your fold and where you sew thicker to accommodate your ribbon.

And keep sewing…

And keep sewing.

When are finished sewing prepare your ribbon by tucking 1 end into the loop turner.

Then simply run your turner and ribbon through the “tunnel” you’ve just created. Just keep on feeding it in there and gathering your tulle onto the ribbon.

Once you’ve gathered all your tulle onto the ribbon you’re done! You can now tie it around your tree.

Tulle is magical! It comes in any color you want, and like this gold tutu skirt it even comes in shiny finishes.

And when your tree is done with it, your daughter will enjoy nothing more than tying it around her waist and running through the yard on a beautiful, sunny day.

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I am loving all the creativity I’ve seen lately turning clear ornaments into little works of art so I wanted to make several for our tree that’s going up any day now!! After finding these mini snowmen ornaments I just knew that they needed a home at the North pole, so I made them one.

Supplies:

Directions:

 Thank you again to Jen at Tatertots & Jello for having me guest post in her Happy Holidays series! I hope you enjoy making these ornaments as much as I have!!

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For supplies I used fillable plastic pancake shaped ornaments that I found at Walmart for $0.88 (SCORE!!), poly-fil to fill the girls ornaments, legos to fill the boy ornament, and vinyl decals I cut with my Silhouette Cameo. Silhouette has some of the best deals EVER on their machines and accessories right now just use the coupon code KINDA at check out – more details below.

I like the flatter, pancake shape for personalized ornaments because they pose less of an issue when applying you vinyl than the traditional round ones. The round ones are great for hand painting!

After applying the decal to hopefully the center of the ornament you just fill the inside with the poly beads, replace the cap and top it all off with a bow!

I love this polka dot vinyl that I’ve been hoarding in my vinyl stash for the last year or so. It’s perfect for this preppy Christmas themed ornament.

Even little boys need in on the personalized ornaments. This one has the name and year on the back and is tied with a simple navy blue chevron ribbon to keep it masculine, yet still preppy.

And what LEGO loving boy  wouldn’t want his very own personalized LEGO filled ornament! Just shove a handful of LEGO bricks in the ornament and replace the cap. It would be really fun to put LEGO mini-figs in there as well.

I simply tied a little coordinating twine to each ornament so they would be ready to hang straight out of the box.

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To make the Gold Vinyl circles I opened my Silhouette studio, drew a circle to the size I needed and then used the duplicate function to fill up the page. Once you cut out the circles, simply sandwich your twine between two gold vinyl circles every 4 inches for as long as you need your garland to be. That’s it, it’s really THAT simple!!

I also used my Silhouette Cameo to make a really fast Joy banner using black cardstock hot glued on to twine.

I am really in love with these gold gumballs, they are just too pretty.

(1)  A Silhouette CAMEO®, Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software, a dust cover (the color is decided by Silhouette), a $25 download card, a hook, a scraper, a spatula, and a pick-me-up® tool for $229.99. Retail price for all of this would total $406.93 (over 40% savings!)(2)  A Silhouette Portrait®, Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software, a dust cover (the color is decided by Silhouette), a $25 download card, a hook, a scraper, a spatula, and a pick-me-up® tool for $129.99. Retail price for all of this would total $286.93 (over 40% savings!)(3)  A Silhouette CAMEO®, a Silhouette Portrait®, and two $25 download cards for $299.99. That’s right: If you buy a Silhouette CAMEO® at full price, you get two $25 download cards and a Silhouette Portrait® ABSOLUTELY FREE! Retail price for all of this would be $406.93 (over 40% savings!)(4)  40% off consumable products at silhouetteamerica.com. This excludes machines, subscriptions, download and gift cards. Cannot be combined with any other offers. Rain checks not available.(5)  FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.Here are a couple products I will be buying to stock or re-stock my supplies:

A 12″x24″ cutting mat

Stamping Starter Kit (you can make your own rubber stamps!!!)

After 2+ years of heavy use I finally think I could use a new blade.So don’t forget – the sale runs from Nov 28 – Dec 8. You must you the special BLACK FRIDAY LINK and the coupon code KINDA to get these incredible deals. Also, if you need help deciding on which machine or which materials you need please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or Facebook.

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