All posts tagged Christmas
I used the Cricut Sweater Weather Cartridge to create an ugly Christmas sweater t-shirt design. I did this because I live in Arizona and even on Christmas day a sweater can be a bit warm. So this year when we are invited to an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party I thought I’d create the Christmas sweater concept that could be layered with a long sleeve t-shirt.
To make this I cut the designs out of black card stock using the Sweater Weather Cartridge. The shapes are cut at Tree and Reindeer 3 in, Hearts and arrows 1 1/2 in, Stars 1 in. I then used those shapes to burn a YUDU screen and printed onto white canvas cotton t-shirts with red ink. I made a tone of these to give away to my friends.
It’s black Friday and if you are running off to the mall I’d like to send out a reminder to also save some of your hard earned cash to spend on hard working local makers.
Where to find Cyndi Coon of Laboratory5/Lovely Lula this Holiday Season:
December 1 – 31, 2011 Shemer Art Center Holiday Show & Sale
December 2, 2011 6 to 10 pm Crafteria at Frances
December 10, 2011 Phoenix Craft Rave at Braggs Pie Factory
ONGOING AROUND TOWN:
a.ware Shop – Check out our cards (Daily – see website for hours)
Castello Childs Gallery – Check out our ceramic vessels and tile pieces
MADE Art Boutique – Check out our cards and screen printed t-shirts (Daily – see website for hours)
Modern Manor – Check out our furniture pieces, ceramic vessels and tile pieces and paintings (Daily – see website for hours)
Practical Art – Check out our ceramic jewelry (Daily – see website for hours)
Other ways to see us and our work in December:
Dec 1 – Jan 24 Artists and their children show at Young at Art gallery Scottsdale Center for the Arts by SMOCA (Daily – see website for hours)
Dec 8 Artist on Artist Talk at Scottsdale Center for the Arts (6:30 pm)
And you can always visit us on our website Laboratory5.com
I know I should be putting up a post about Thanksgiving this week but I am just so excited about Christmas this year I am just gonna skip right on over it and get the countdown going! I created the “Days til’ Christmas” sign using the Winter Frolic Cartridge for the font out of silver vinyl and Winter Lace cartridge for the snow flakes out of white paper. The stripes of green paper and the white snow flakes are all Bazzill Basics.
The area to write the days on is a large circle of chalk board vinyl and we’ll count the days down with chalk.
Happy crafting xoxo. Follow me on Twitter I am Lab5 and on the Lovely Lula Facebook Page
This was the short one’s Christmas present on Christmas morning. It is a 2 foot x 3 foot canvas painted pink and screen printed, using the YUDU, with a castle from the Once Upon a Princess Cartridge and the Cricut. I added embellishments along the top out of felt and a ribbon notion and I added in felt trees to the sides of the castle. We just recently saw the movie Tangled about Rapunzel so I decided to make her blond hair cascade down from the tower window, this was made by pulling apart yarn and tying a bow. The short one was so thrilled that we had to stop everything and hang it up in her room above her bed.
For the complete tutorial click here: Princess Wall Hanging How To
The gifts are all wrapped, the stockings await the stuffing I declare it to be time to settle in for a sip of spiked eggnog. Yum! See some of my gift wrapping favorites, crafty style. I used everything from newspaper to school writing paper, paper table cloth, legal ledger paper, contact paper and wall paper. I stamped many of them with rubber stamps and ink. The bows vary from ribbon to tinsel to chair canning and bakers twine.
