Hi there! I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend! I am feeling SO much better after being sick for over a week thank goodness and am back to my crafting. Woo-hoo!! Yesterday I had lots of fun playing around with my new Cricut Explore and broke out my cricut vinyl to finally give it a shot with the Explore. I'm currently in the process of cleaning/organizing my craft room and decided I would like to have a little gallery wall with cute, crafty signs. (To see my post about how I have been organizing some of the items in my craft room as well as some of my plans for it, click here). For this sign that I made, I used the cute saying that is on my sister-in-law, Mandy's craft room wall, Live, Love, Craft!
I love that the Cricut Explore uses Cricut Craft Space which has SO many different adorable fonts! I had alot of fun playing around with the different font options and can't wait to make more projects like this so I can use several other fonts that I found, :)
To make this sign, first I painted a piece of wood that I found at Home Depot's scrap wood area with 'Sea Glass' Krylon Satin Spray Paint (LOVE that color!!).
How-To Weld Letters With Cricut Explore Tutorial:
While the paint on the wood was drying, I cut out the different words at 2.5" x roughly 5.75" each. I typed each word, then changed the letter spacing to -4 or until all of the letters were touching, then I selected the word, right-clicked on it & selected 'ungroup'. After that, I took my cursor to the top left corner of the word, held the left cursor down and selected the entire word. After selecting the word, I clicked on the 'weld' option that appears in the edit box in the top left corner after selecting the word. Once that was done, I was ready to click 'Go' and cut!
After the words were all cut, I then cut out the buttons and the pair of scissors and used Cricut's Transfer Tape Sheets to transfer each word and image on a separate sheet. I could have inserted all of the images and words at one time so I could transfer them all together but they would have not fit on my 12 x 12 mat (need to get some 12 x 24 mats for this!) so I did them each separately. It really was pretty easy and I had alot of fun with it so expect to see more signs like this from me in the near future!!
Here is another sign I made a while ago. I used 'Lagoon' Krylon Satin Spray Paint on the wood and cut some cute K&Company paper that I had (sorry can't remember the name of the pack) with my cricut. I then modpodged the letters onto the wood, and sprayed it with Clear Acrylic Krylon Gloss Spray Paint.
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Wishing you a creatively fabulous day!
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