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While combing my local thrift store I found a small washed out rag rug and rag rugs always make me think of my husband’s Grandmother who past not too long ago. We have several amazing rag rugs she made by hand, that I look at all the time.
For the rugs restyling, I started by dyeing it an aqua blueish green. My husbands Grandmother worked in a bakery as a doughnut maker. So I decided to use a couple of different pieces of fat quarters I had on hand to cut fabric appliques on the Cricut. I backed the fabric first with heat and bond so they would cut cleanly on the Cricut. I used the Sweet Treats Cartridge for the doughnuts and the Everyday Pop-Up Cards Cartridge for the coffee mug. I ironed the appliques on and then sewed the rug into a pillow shape and stuffed it with a pillow form I also grabbed at the thrift store. Sweet and simple with a personal story. Happy thrifting and Happy Grand Parents Day on September 11.
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I found a sad looking chair that I knew I could re-style into something clean and fabulous! I used my Cricut and the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.
I removed the seat from the chair and pull off all of the fabric and foam. I sanded the chair, tape off the front bottom legs, spray painted it white and then once it dried I used a sanding block to shabby chic it. For the seat I cut squares and rectangles of the the light and dark grey papers included in the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Collection. On some of the cut pieces I used a stamp from the My Acrylix® Philosophy Tags clear stamp with green ink from the kit. I then used the pattern paper from the kit to cut branches and the orange paper in the kit to cut trees on my Cricut using the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.
I glued all the pieces into place and coated them with five to six coats of Min-Wax Poly Acrylic Water Based Top Coat. I like this product because it washes up in my kitchen sink and doesn’t ruin my brush.
I am in love with my new chair!
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The smallest one was living in a space with her sister’s hand-me-down mobile so I thought it time to make her one of her own. I created a mobile using card stock and pink printed paper out of an old Neiman Marcus Catalog for her room. To the balloon basket I added a small bit of ribbon lace.
All items were cut on the Cricut. The hot air balloons with flags were created using the Everyday Pop-Up Cartridge. The air plane and “Day Dream” phrase we create using the Just A Note Cartridge (which is a built-in cartridge on the new Cricut Expression 2: Anniversary Edition) and the clouds were cut from the Create-A-Critter cartridge.
All items are hanging from the Hanging Photo Mobile by Kikkerland.
What do you do with hundreds of yards of soft grey fleece after it is taken down from an exhibition? Give it to other artists to make things. This fleece project came about after an exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art called 90 Days Over 100° by Atherton and Keener, was taken down. This is the result of the scraps re-styled into a functional rug.
Learn how to make a woven fleece rug from my piece at the Phoenix New Times Jackalope Ranch blog: Art to Rug, a Restyle
Since I am working on spiffing up my entire office area I decided I needed to make a new mouse pad.
This little number is so super cute stuff! I used my Cricut and the Create-A-Critter cartridge to cut the hedgehog design out of layers of felt and fabric that I then sewed together to make a perfect desktop companion.
Want to make one too? Click here for the tutorial: Mouse Pad How To
Happy Crafting xoxo
