Posts Tagged ‘Wedding’

Have you ever had one of those awesome days?  I did yesterday.  The children slept until 10:15 which is unheard of.  My daughter was born with a club foot and yesterday was her check up and the doctor said that her foot is awesome.  She needs to keep wearing her brace at night and when she is three no more braces!!  Then I got home to this wonderful cake and pizza lunch.  My niece and I celebrate our birthdays together every year and she picked out this cake and her and her mom brought it over.  I had an appointment that I was suppose to got to early this morning.  I was dreading getting up an 6 a.m. and that got canceled yesterday.  My husband made steaks and baked potatoes on the grill.  All in all, it was an awesome day.

I decided to try and do some glass etching.  I bought a few glass items at the dollar store and also this glass dish on sale at Wal-Mart.  I thought that I would start with this glass dish.

I found a design I wanted on the Wedding cartridge and cut it out on clear contact paper.  I got a huge roll of it at Wal-Mart for $5.99.

I pealed off the contact paper and put it on the dish where I wanted.

I used Armour Etch next.  I just took an old small paint brush and brushed it on.  I did it outside on the patio though because the smell is awful and I did not want any one, especially the kids breathing the fumes in.

This is only my second time using Armour Etch.  I got the large bottle with a 50% off coupon at Michael’s.  I think that I did not get it on as thick as I was suppose to.  Next time I will really put it on thick.  This is what I ended up with.  I still think it turned out nice.  When I have more time I am going to add the word Family to the other side with all of our names.  I think that it would be a nice center piece.

Awhile ago I had some 50% off coupons for Joann’s so I decided to buy some custom cricut embossing folders.  I just got around to trying them tonight.  It was more difficult then I thought.  I read the directions very carefully and still my first attempt went straight to the garbage.

I tried to do a grouping of rose buds from the Walk In My Garden Cartridge.  The directions say to use blade depth 6, Speed 3, Pressure 5 and multi cut 2.  I followed the directions to a T.  It looked pretty good when I removed it from the mat.  

Step 2 is to remove the outside paper around the design.  Which came off wonderfully.  Then you put it in the emobssing folder and run it through your embossing machine, (I use the the big kick) and then you are suppose to open the folder and remove the design part from the back.  The problem is that the cut did not go all the way through so on the back it was just a solid blank sheet.  It was not going to come off properly.  The instructions say multi cut 2, but even with a brand new mat and blade it did not cut through even a tiny bit.  

I decided to try again with a less complicated design so I used the heart from the Weddings cartridge.  I set the multi cut on 4 hoping that would do the trick. 

It cut out wonderfully but when I lifted it off the mat the back was not cut at all.  So I removed the outer front paper and adhered it as directions indicated.  Then I used my Martha Stewart knife and basically cut the paper portion of it by hand.  It turned out okay this way but I don’t understand why the cricut would not cut through it even on 4 multi cut.  Next time I will do the 4x multi cut 2x and see if that makes a difference.

This is what I ended up with.

Here is a sheet of paper that I embossed.

The embossing design did turn out well.  I did waste a few piece of paper the first couple times I embossed with the folder.  It is a little sticky from the left over residue and you have to pull the paper off the folder and it gets little waves it in.  

There is one tip that I can give though that really helped me.  I took a rectangle from the George cart and sized it to the same size of the cuttables page which is 4.25×5.75 and then put my design in the middle.  That way I knew exactly how my project would work and where to put the cuttables on my cricut mat when it was time to cut.  Then I just deleted the rectangle before cutting.

If this is something that you want to try then read on.  I am giving away 1 Cricut Cuttables Embossing Kit and 1 Cricut Cuttables Embossing Sheet Refills.  You will end up with 1 embossing folder and 5 sheets of cuttables.  Just leave a comment on this post and the winner will be chosen on Sunday May 24th.  I will post the winner here as well as e-mail you.  You will have 3 days to respond or another winner will be chosen.