cricut projects in 2020

These are 2 round cricut ceramic coasters I did with infusible ink. I cut the design and used both the negative and the positive sides.

I decided to see if infusible ink would go onto wood so I use a board to see if it worked It was quite pale with the yellow so I outlined it in silver pen

The internal door to my craft room needed something so I made a window and now Cricut peeps at me through the window. I used adhesive cricut vinyl.

Elephant Mandala adhesive vinyl on a board from kmart

Decoration inside my maker. Cricut adhesive vinyl again

using infusible ink on a pair of socks

Cat mandala on tee shirt in iron on

when we had lockdown and couldn't go out we were supposed to put bears in the window however I decided to put a panda on the letterbox and have bear hug for trees

making paper flowers again

come ANZAC day I made some large poppies and put one on the post outside on the terrace at the front

Butterfly card a box type card that folds flat for posting

Got some new cups and what better to do than find designs to put on them

Playing with the cricut joy to make labels

making my own design for a joy cut card

Oh the cups I played with with the Cricut shimmer vinyl

Naming bottles so I can work out what is in them

My beautiful granddaughter modeling a cricut Te shirt with infusible ink design on

more infusible ink designs

Infusible ink on socks one is paler than the other due to using an ombre sheet

Oh I can name anything now. Cricut iron on and the minipress are awesome

Small bunny paper sculpture, cut on the cricut machine

playing with the foil transfer paper and tool from cricut. I love it as its pressure activated not heat activated so I dont have to worry about burning my machine or my fingers. Above I did crocces on coffins and below you can see the brickwork for the haunted house I did this yesr

2 Apothecary bottles with lids, made from card stock. The left one has a web design from the cricut foil and the right one has embossing on it. They both have written labels from the cricut.

Cricut design space cauldrons

Playing with black card and the cricut foil again

Christmas advent house. Design By Ru

Pumpkin box

Lanterns

Now having done a small well hes about 8 inches rabbit I decided to do this one. He doesn't come into design space as an svg however with some manipulating I managed o cut him out in design space with my cricut. I didn't realise at first he was going to end up 20 inches high and 22 inches long but he is quite amazing. More pics below

Now its always interesting when I get a thought in my head that someone says you can't do that so with this note book I foiled the brown adhesive vinyl with silver foil to see if it worked and yes it does and it still there.

A card to go with the kitten I gave my granddaughter for christmas. It was made with the joy.

Playing around on design space I found a reindeer and sleigh in 3d so I decided to make it to see what it was like. I used cereal box as i had just finished our Nutrigrain and what better way to recycle and have firm card.

My niece loves eagles so I made this mandala and before Christmas put it on her bedroom door 

This is a box picture frame I designed in esign spave. The grandies wanted picture frames for their parents for christmas so as we couldn't get to town I made them each a frame which they then printed pictures and put in

This is a wine bag from Cricut. I used infusible ink and again I used both the negative and the positive I do hate throwing away any infusible ink its so pretty

Busy before christmas I was given the things Santa bought for the girls so they can tell their things apart Here are their brushes with Cricut textured metallic vinyl using a frame and font from Cricut design space

I had makeup bags and jewelry cases for them as well so here comes the cricut iron on and the mini press. Way to go mini press. 

Now these are seat cushions to alleviate you sore but when sitting on the ground or chairs that are hard. They are awesome to use but which one is mine. I used iron on cricut and the heat press to adhere the vinyl to make these personalised. 

A Tee shirt for a friend of my daughter who felt this was perfect

another cushion

3 reindeer free off a site I go to

Now after making the elephant mandala I decided to write out the words to the song. I downloaded the words and put them in design space to cut. I also did a QR code so the kids could follow along on their devices with a song on youtube. However I found that the words of the song and the words that are sung on the youtube video don't match. The 33 lines after the chorus are sung after the bottom verse. However I'm not sue which one is right. Which ever way it is I'm pleased with the result.

Another cup

Gingerbread House

It never ceases to amaze me what I can find in Design space. I love doing 3d work and decided to do a little gingerbread cottage. Well I cut the outside and the liner then started other things. I went back to cut the rest of it and have spent 3 days trying to find it outside design space. I finally found a picture of it but she didnt say where she got the design from. So I emailed her and received the reply that it was a project in Design Space. Well I had the project I had saved and finally I right clicked on the layers panel and got the # number and got the full project. Here is the little Gingerbread house in Design Space.

https://design.cricut.com/…/projec…/5f93e1a697e92f0394c32949

I made the recipie box from dreaming tree but being in a hurry I made it in all plain papers. It looked very bland and although it is serviceable it did not look very pretty. I had some cricut mosaic vinyl which came in a pack which had 6 sheets so I used the red dots and by slicing I made the pieces to insert into the panels. I also sliced out my name and recipies and I quite like it. I still have a bit more to do but it is looking better. The top pic is before I added the cricut mosaic vinyl.

Cricut maker quick swap tips

The quick swap tips for the Cricut Maker are slowly emerging with some being available in NZ on trademe or other sites and I'm sure Spotlight will have them soon. I have had so much fun playing with them and have found a new favourite crafting pastime and that is engraving on Acrylic. I purchased several 2mm Acrylic squares as I knew the maker could cut up to 2mm thick. There are 4 new tools out the engraving blade, the wavy blade, the deboss blade and the perforation blade. 
Here is a short video on what the debossing blade does

this blade has a number of uses with debossing and I can see some lovely patterns coming on 3d things I make. Now the next one I tried was the perforation blade and I had fun with that one making my niece a card. The video below is of her opening the card

Now I liked the wavy blade but have not done a lot with it, however I think it will come in very handy for those cotton tops to go on my christmas jars

Then comes the engraving blade and this one is my all time favourite. the video below is engraving an acrylic clip board. I did this by putting the board at the bottom of the mat and then putting a piece of card under it so the clip part could run freely over the drop down front of the machine.

below is a mandala cross which is an image I uploaded. One I left plane and the other I put an adhesive foil on the back to see how well it showed up. 

Now as people who know me will be aware I love bunnies and have 6 currently all mini lops. They adorable little creatures who give me loads of laughs and so when I saw this picture not only did I put it on a T-shirt but also put it on a piece of acrylic. As you will see by the edges it is not a smooth piece but I am working on that to see if I can cut the acrylic myself into shapes. Here I have put it into a light base so it can be easily seen.

The last one in this series is a metal bracelet below with my grandies name. She has a birthday coming up so I hope she will like it.

pop up penguin

This is the pop up penguin from jennifermaker.com made into a nurse for my sister who was in hospital.