I know this is my vinyl blog but since I also enjoy doing embroidery I thought I'd add some projects I've been doing lately for that as well.  I do all custom embroidery.  A friend of mine asked me to put some names on blankets for Christmas gifts.  That was a lot of fun and they turned out wonderfully.  She was very happy with them.  And yes, there is some weird stuff under the name.  That's the stabilizer.  Some things need stabilizer on the top and the bottom.  In this case there was too much fuzz to not put some stabilizer there.  It's water soluable and will dissolve when it gets washed.  Nobody will ever know it was there.  Except for everyone since I just told you. 

I am blessed to make the baby blankets for all the sisters in my church that have babies.  This is one that I just finished.  Doing names personalizes things and I always think they look nice when they're done, but adding a picture is my pride and joy.  It's a lot of work to make the embroideries myself but the finished product always makes it worth it.  I wish I would have taken better pictures of everything else I've made.  Oh well. 

Over the summer we discovered "Phineas and Ferb." We've really enjoyed watching it together. It's something that even mom and dad don't mind watching a little. This is what I came up with to mark the children's tablet, we have three with the same cases and needed to differentiate between them. We decided to put Agent P on the children's. I haven't decided yet what to put on mom's or dad's but I'll be sure and let you know when I get to that point. I had a lot of fun making this and think it turned out pretty nice.

There is something so sweet about stuff for a baby. This is a fun little train I made. It's also on a wrapped canvas, painted with an off white background, and then the train applied in vinyl. Some lucky person is going to get this to hang up for their new baby boy. Ah, Precious!!

As a mom t0 5 boys, this really warms my heart. My little boys are all good friends and spend most of their time with each other, outside of school that is. We aren't exactly cowboys, but we live in a small town and I still love this. It's another blank canvas, painted blue, with brown vinyl on top.

This was a lot of fun to make. I think it makes super cute decor and it was super easy to make. I bought some blank canvases at Joann's, painted them black, and added white vinyl flowers. Voila!

I really wanted a place to display the kids artwork. Since our house isn't real big and I don't have a lot of wall space available, I finally decided on the hallway to put this up. I think it turned out great. My school kids love that they have a place to display the fun things they make at school.

This was a big project I worked on for our FFA. They took this to state. It turned out really awesome. The outline of Idaho was 9 feet tall. I was very nervous about the outline of Idaho coming all together and looking good, but it turned out great. I was very excited about it. I wish I could have been at state to see it on stage.

Great Gift Idea - Name Blocks

I just LOVE these!! I think they are great gifts and so fun to display in the house. They're super cute, inexpensive, and thoughtful. You can do so many different things with them. A family name, holiday decor, a children's room. Plus, it only takes a few steps to make. I only have a picture of the finished project, but below I have step by step instructions. Not as cool as pictures with each step, sorry about that.

Step 1
Find some 2x4's and cut them the size that you want them.

Step 2
Paint the edges. Or if you don't want to use paper for the design, you could choose to only paint it.

Step 3
Choose the paper you want and put a layer of modge podge over it. Wait for it to dry before moving on to the next step.

Step 4
Place your vinyl letters on the top and add more modge podge. Then if you want to pretty it up even more, you could add a ribbon.

Have a good day, and happy creating.

Valentine's

Here's some Valentine fun.
I've been working on these Valentine's and having so much fun. I want to make them for the kids to take to school but my husband thinks we should use the ones we bought two years ago after Valentine's Day. He's probably right but these are so stinking cute. I guess we'll just have to send some to the cousins this year.
Some of them are on gray card stock, that's just what I had access to, and they didn't turn out as cute as I wanted. So after that I started putting vinyl on top of vinyl to get the color underneath that I wanted. It was super fun. I'm planning to make more just so I can try some new ways of layering them.

My kids love the Ninja Turtles. They wanted their room decorated in Ninja Turtles. My living room is painted green and a few years ago I bought this color green for the living room, started putting it up and hated it in there. So we've just been storing this paint. Luckily the kids like the Ninja Turtles so I could paint their room with it. We still have over a gallon of it. I don't know how many rooms I can paint in green. LOL
It was a whole process getting them up. They were my first vinyl project, so it was an interesting one. I originally just planned on putting up the masks with eyes on it but after I got one of each up my husband thought it would look so much better if we just did an outline of their heads. And since the wall was already green, we really only needed the outline. It took a few tries to get the size right but I figured it out and voila.
I don't feel like the pictures do the room justice but that's the best I could get. There are four boys living in this room and since there's four Ninja Turtles, they each have one that they pretend to be. It's a lot of fun . The placement of them on the wall isn't my favorite but I let the boys choose where they wanted their turtles. There are 4 of each color.
If you'd be interested in these or even another character, just email me and I'll see what I can do. Have a great day.

A quote for the new year

I'm starting the New Year off a little slow but I'm ready to get going. Here is quote from President Monson that I put up in my kitchen that I love looking at. It helps me to remember I need to use each day to it's fullest.