For this week's project, I thought I would decorate my Cricut Expression with some vinyl. I found this cute little owl over at Shery K Designs. Isn't he adorable?
I had several vinyl colors on hand. I usually all my vinyl from Expressions Vinyl. I use SCAL, so I downloaded the file and imported it onto my SCAL. This is what my screen looked like.
I sized my image, then using powder blue, ice blue, pink, and brown vinyl, I cut it out. I keep my blade on 6, and set my pressure to 3 for all vinyl cut outs, and get perfect cuts every time.
Then, I put him all together using clear contact paper.
Then, I cut out a little branch I had in my files. You can find it here. It includes a bird, so I just removed that part with scissors.
It looked cute like it was, but I thought a little monogram would add a nice touch, so I cut one out and added it as well. The font is just Times New Roman, and I got the scallop circle SVG here.
This is what the final project looked like.
Now for that Christmas un-decorating that I should be doing...
I'm linking up to these great parties:
11 comments:
That little owl is on the Create a Critter cartridge for those readers (like myself) that don't have SCAL! :)
That's to darn cute!!!! I enjoyed my visit to your lovely blog. I hope you'll stop by Katherines Corner and say hello. Hugs! P.S. I hope you'll enter the Pink poodle giveaway too
So adorable...I might just have to do this on mine especially since my logo has an owl in it...thanks for the inspiration!
Just pinned this! I love this! Thank you for sharing.
aww so cute...:)
That cracked me up! So cute! I'm trying to decide between a Cricut and a Silhouette. Decisions, decisions. :)
Love the owl and this has given me the fuel to try and personalize my machine. Thanks
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You simply can't go wrong with owls. This is super cute!
btw, I'm you newest follower. :)
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He is pretty dealing!
that is adorable! I need to do something like that to mine, great idea. I found your blog on the Haven link up, look forward to reading your blog more and meeting you in June.
Terri
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hi I was wondering if you could post somewhere how you got the different layers onto your scal. I am having some issues, as I am new to scal. I am able to get it open into it, just not sure how to get the different layers laid out like that. Thanks!
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