Girl Scout Camp HTV

Yes, yet MORE HTV!  A few weekends ago, I was asked to help chaperone a girl scout camp sleepover, even though my daughter is not a girl scout.  Or, at least, she wasn't!  She had such a great time that she has joined the troop.  She really loves it and it's a great organization, I was just trying to limit the number of activities we are involved it, but oh, well!  So the original plan was for the girl scouts to decorate their own t-shirts, which I think is a great idea.  But then, after seeing the field trip shirts I made, they asked if I would mind doing camp-themed ones.  We were going to go with simple and easy until we looked at the Campin Critters cart.  Those critters are adorable!

The scouts supplied all the t-shirts and vinyl.  Each shirt had some flock on it somewhere.  I used the left over jewels from making the field trip shirts for eyes.  Just a warning-the jewels come off very easily.

 This one was my daughter's.  The black of the prorcupine is flock and she picked pink jewelled eyes.  I cut off the the marshmallow stick from the bottom, black layer so I wouldn't have to try to layer the brown and then white over it.  He was cut at 5.5 inches.  Some of the images I did the reverse-cut and some I didn't, since in most cases it didn't matter which way the animal was facing.

The troop leader's daughter picked the skunk coming out of the outhouse, with the little toilet paper stuck to his foot.  He's so cute.  His white stripe is flock.

 I personally loved the frog spraying bugspray.  I made the little flock flocked, as frogs aren't fuzzy.

 Here we have a fuzzy white rabbit in her sleeping bag.

 Big foot!  All the dark brown cut as one piece so the treads of his shoes are fuzzy, too.

I also love the squirrel reading by the lantern light.  Here, too, I trimmed off the bottom layer that would have just been covered by other colors.

 The duck's green head is fuzzy.

 The brown on the owl is his fuzzy part.

 Here's our forest ranger for one of the chaperones.

 How perfect is this eagle scout?!  We made him for the troop leader.  His white is fuzzy, which means some of his badges are fuzzy, but I wasn't going to be particular.

 I forgot to put fuzz on the snake but luckily he was for a chaperone, who wasn't upset by the oversight.  She said, "Snakes aren't fuzzy anyway."  My daughter, though, chided that I should have at least added fuzz to his hat or bandana.

 Since I was the resident nurse, I got the medical cardinal.  I love her!  The black face is her fuzz.

 A walking moose with a girly pink and purple backpack.  His brown is fuzzy.

The fox was a special request and he's made with red flock.

The bat with the compass to navigate his flight is another of my favorites.  His flock is the black part.

Last but not least we have a grey-flocked wolf calling the other critters to dinner.

 

 

I think Campin Critters is one of the cutest carts ever.  I can't wait to make the scrapbook pages from our camp out.  They'll perfctly match the shirts!  As always, thanks for looking.





More HTV For A Field Trip

When I started making field trip t-shirts, there were just 12 kids in my daughter's class.  They were going to the planetarium-so basically I was just cutting a circle, and squiggles to go on top for each planet, really easy.  Now we are up to 19 kids.  This year they are studying vertebrates and I have gotten carried away!  There are so many great styles, colors and textures of heat transfer vinyl!  So each animal will have flock or a pattern or glitter, and they all have jewelled eyes.  I bought iron-on rhinestones with a 40% off coupon.

Here are the first five t-shirts.

 My daughter picked the bat, with pink eyes.  The black is nice, fuzzy flock.  He's cut off the Happy Hauntings cart at 3 inches.

 The frog came from an old favorite, Animal Kingdom, cut at 5.5 inches.  His spots are glitter.  I'm a little disappointed, because the AK cart does NOT work in the E2.  PC said they are aware of the problem and recommend using Cricut Craft Room, which to me seems like too many steps if I don't plan on altering a cut.  With the E2, I can see exactly where on the mat the cut will be and not waste any vinyl, but I still have the original E and it's been working all right.

 The bird came from AK, also at 5.5.  I goofed and didn't peel off that little extra piece of yellow from by his tail.  I cut an extra wing, then free handed the swirls of glitter.

 The fish came from Wildlife.  The glitter does not stick well to the regular vinyl and really needs to be peeled cold.  Even still, a bit of the glitter peeled off in the center, so the fish looks like he is mising a few scales!

The wolf came from Wildlife, at 5.5 inches.  He's grey and silver, with jewelled purple eyes and his nose and mouth are flocked.

 

 

Fourteen more to go!  Thanks for looking.

Onesies

   So there was a break in the rain today and I went outside to get my camera.  And the Fedex guy pulled in with my gypsy from Cricut Rewards!  Looks a litle intimidating, but I know I can get plenty of help and advice on the cricut messageboard and new blog.
   So here are the onesies I made for a baby shower last weekend.  My sister's best friend is having her first baby.  Here are two generic onesies I made, suitable for anyone.  I cut "Diva" from Rock Princess.  The Got Milk? came from two carts, From my Kitchen and Graphically Speaking.  I love, love, love iron-on vinyl!!!  I didn't have any white to accent the milk bottle but I'm ordering some.  I used my new E2 to make the cuts and I tweaked the settings a bit because the preset kiss-cut was cutting through my plastic backing.  If you have an iron-on sheet like the teflon ones that some places sell with the vinyl or the ones from Joann's (silicone, 7.99, and I used a 40% off coupon) then you can iron them on even without the plastic but the plastic backing is great for transferring whole words. 

 It's hard to see in the picture, but I used iron-on rhinestones to accent the crown.

 Next I did a copy of the soccer princess t shirt I had made for my daughter, since the dad-to-be is an avid soccer player.  I already had the design saved in Design Studio, I just made it smaller to fit the little onesie.  The letters in princess were tiny but cut easily and the design transferred beautifully stuck to the plastic backing.

 This last one is my favorite.  The mom-to-be is a hair dresser and I wanted to highlight that.  I used the brush off Slumber Party and the hair dryer from Paisley-both carts I bought specifically for this project!  I have over a hundred and forty carts but I still find must-have images on lots of carts I don't have.  There are a lot of layers in this design and it would have been impossible (for me, anyway) to do with freezer paper.  The heat transfer vinyl went together so easily!!!  I am addicted.

This last onesie was a huge hit at the shower.  I love that my cricut allows me to personalize so completely-I'm not limited by the designs I can find in stores, I can make my own.