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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Step 1) Pick your design – this one is called Pumpkin Silhouette and I purchased it in the online store for $0.99 – you don’t need to worry about size yet. (I changed the color of the shape to better stand out in this tutorial, you do not have to fill in a color.)

Step 2) Draw a rectangle the height of the wording you’d like to put in the pumpkin and a width that overlaps the edges. I picked about 1.75 inches tall. (Again, I am using the green for the tutorial visual)

3) Select both images (the pumpkin and the rectangle) by holding the shift key and clicking on each one and then under the modify menu click on “Subtract.”

4) Remove the rectangle from your pumpkin. You discard the shape or you can use it as your guide to option step 5.

5) (optional, skip 8 if you do not want the extended lines) Create a long, skinny (maybe .25 inch high) rectangle that overlaps the edges of the pumpkin. Copy and paste that rectangle so you now have 2 identical shapes. Place each of the skinny rectangles on the open ends of your pumpkin pieces. To make sure everything is centered select all 3 images (holding the shift key) and then select Object>Align>Align Center.

6) Now that everything is centered you can weld the shapes together so everything cuts as one. With all 3 shapes selected in the Modify menu click on “Weld.”

7) Once you’ve selected Weld you will now have only 2 pieces to your pumpkin (and SS will color them all the same so you can see that it is no just one image).

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Directions:

One side helps us show our Gator pride while the other side is ready for Halloween!

 As you can see the pillows help tie in the I Love Florida Football Wreath I made last week.

And just when I thought 2 pillows were enough, they weren’t. I needed 2 more. I was out of the orange and while chevron fabric so I fished out this polka dot fabric from the bottom of my stash and ironed on our monogram.

Again, both of these pillows are reversible, including color coordinating monograms.

 I even was able to quickly update my front porch bird cage with an easy ribbon change.

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Using an 18 inch flat styrofoam wreath form I used more than 40 yards of ribbon, beautiful orange and blue ribbon, to create this wreath. That’s over 350 hand-cut pieces of 4 inch long ribbon, sewn into 2 inch long loops, and then individually hot glued into place. There are no short cuts for this wreath that can have the same results.

And because the wreath wasn’t enough I created a multi-layered add-on pin to really hit the point across.

Sometimes you really need to be willing to give up a couple finger prints in order to get the wreath you want.

I think my door looks complete for football season now.

And there is no doubt with this wreath hanging up that In All Kinds of Weather I LOVE Florida Football!

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Then I filled the other words. I won’t lie, this part was the hardest because I had chosen this pallet type sign and had to work with the gaps. I wasn’t able to put the words exactly where I would have liked.

Once you’ve placed all your vinyl on the sign, and given them a good rub down, comes the most important part: slather that baby in Mod Podge! I like to use a cheap foam brush when applying Mod Podge and for this project I just used a medium layer so it would dry quickly.

Give the Mod Podge about 20 minutes to dry and then go ahead and paint your entire sign. I kept it to one coat because that’s the look I was going for but you can put as many coats on as you need to achieve your desired look.

Here’s a close up.

I like to pull my vinyl stencil up before the paint is fully dry because I find you have less instances of the paint peeling. As you can see, using the Mod Podge really sealed the stencil to the sign and the final result is as crisp as you can get it!

I added a couple little vinyl fish on top the finished sign to fill in some of the empty space I wasn’t happy with. Here is the sign hanging up in the lake house of our lovely weekend hosts. Once day we hope to own a lake house, too, but for now we love be invited down to the lake!

And just because I love this photo I look, my little one thinks that Like is Better at the Lake, too!

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The first thing you’ll have to do is carefully tear the back page off the catalog. The bottom half of the back page is a fabulous print, which can be trimmed down to 5×7.

Prep your canvas by finding the exact center. I wanted my print to look framed in gold so I marked off my 5×7 print and then added a 1 inch border all the way around. Using painter’s tape I taped off a centered 7×9 box and painted the inside gold. As you can see I didn’t care too much about how the inside of the square looked as it will be covered with the print.

Once the gold was dry and I peeled up the painter’s tape I measured out 2 inch stripes and taped the areas that I wanted to stay white. I then painted the rest of the canvas pink. As you can see below it is almost impossible not to get bleed when working with the canvas. But it’s not a big deal, you’ll just have to go back with white paint and touch everything up. I find that the best way to clean everything up is with that nice straight edge brush that I showed in the supplies photo. You can get right up to the edge rather easily.

Once you’ve got everything cleaned up and it’s completely dry you can attach your print with Mod Podge. I put 1 medium layer of Mod Podge on the back of the print and centered it on the gold square. After 30 minutes I applied a light coating of Mod Podge over the entire print and gold “frame” area. Let dry and repeat if you’d like. You are ready to hang it up!

I am so excited about my new artwork. It is going to fit into my Flamingo/Cabana Stripe/Beachy guest room perfectly! Now to just hang up everything else, upholster the cornice board, sew some pillows, and accessorize the room. Maybe it will be ready for a reveal by Thanksgiving!  

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Last week I made this piece for my sister. I knew how much she loved this saying so when I saw the file in the Silhouette Store I decided to buy it.

I like that the artists who list their designs in the Silhouette Store kind of give you a color theme starting out point. By no means do you have to you ANY of these colors they’ve used as their thumbnail for the design, but you can if you want. As you can see, I sort of followed their lead. I used Raspberry, Hot Pink, and Coral outdoor vinyl to make this sign.

I started by raiding my husbands wood pile in the garage and found this 16×12 piece of plywood. It has a small hole and notch on the back but no big deal, no one’s going to see the back! I sanded down all the edges and gave the side I was going to use as the front a good once over with the sand paper, too.

Next I gave the plywood a good, thick coat of gold metallic paint. I am way too impatient to wait for 2 coats of paint to dry so I only put on one coat. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I opened up my file in Silhouette Studio and sized the cutting file to give me about a 1 inch boarder – or 15×11. As I explained in my vinyl layering post, I like to ungroup the file and color in each piece of the file approximately the same color I am going to cut them out in so I have an idea of what the final piece will look like. That also helps me be efficient in my cutting so I know which pieces I need to grab for each piece of vinyl.

Once I got everything cut out I was ready to apply the vinyl to the painted wood. Using clear contact paper instead of pricey transfer tape I just eye balled it, but you could make some small pencil marks as guides where to apply the vinyl.

To be able to hang your art on the wall you can add a small sawtooth hanging hook on the back or go the wall friendly command picture hanging strip way.

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Here was the inspiration – it sells for $26 and is 8 feet long.

Source

 Here is what you’ll need to recreate it yourself:

• Various patterned and solid scrapbook paper
• Cotton Balls
• Twine or thin ribbon
• Hot Glue Gun and glue
• Cutting machine / bunny shape to trace / your own free handed bunny shape

Line up all your bunnies in the pattern you’d like use a little bit of glue on each bunny bum and attach a white cotton ball or pom.

Awww, cute little bunny bums!

 To attach your bunnies to the twine/ribbon just dab a little glue on the back of the ears and carefully place your twine/ribbon through the glue.

And that’s all there is to it! I ended up spending $0 on this knock-off and about 20 minutes!

So don’t just sit there HOP TO IT!!

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