Wordbooks

Last week I made a wordbook for French friends who lived the Netherlands (or as we call it in Dutch: Nederland) for a couple of years. They moved back home this week and I thought it would be nice to make them a wordbook filled with things we'll remember them by. They absolutely loved it!

This is how is turned out.

And this was the first wordbook I made. I made that one for my sons closest friend who left daycare because he turned 4 and started school. A couple of day later I got an email from his mom, telling me how much she liked this recap of their 2 years of friendship. FYI "vrienden" means "friends".

I learned how to make a wordbook in inkscape from this tutorial: http://mycricutscrapbooking.com/how-to-make-a-word-book-in-inkscape/

From making this book I learned that the contrast between the background and the letter should me higher.

I used cardstock from DCWV's glitter stack for the letters.

I really like making wordbooks, so I'm pretty sure I'll be doing more of these in the future.

If you would like the SCAL files, just send a request by e-mail.

Have a great week!



T-shirts



I've also been using my Cricut to design some t-shirts.

The first one was a cassette tape for my son. I saw it on an adult shirt and thought it would be funny for him because he never even saw one for real.

The cassette is from the Cricut cartridge "Indie Art" and I used hotfix glitter foil for the middle part. For the outer part I used regular cotton which I ironed on the shirt with steam-a-seam.





Later on my husband had a family day at work so I wanted to make my son a shirt with their logo on it.  My son picked the colors and the guitar model. The Flying-V is from the Cricut Cartridge "Indie Art" and I used hotfix flock to iron onto the shirt. I downloaded the Gibson-logo from their website and used SCAL to cut it with my Expression.

And when I couldn't find a Pink Ladies jacket in the size of our bridesmaid I made her a Pink Ladies shirt myself. I downloaded the font American Pop One to cut it on my Expression with SCAL. I think it looked really cute.

But it all started out with this hotfix nailhead KISS logo I made for my son after a rhinestone shirt I once bought for myself at a KISS concert.
Next project is a shirt with the Incredibles logo on it, but I'm gonna wait till summer for that. Untill then I'll probably find lots of other stuff to fulfill my crafting needs with!