I made a shirt last weekend to cheer on my Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championships. They made it to the final game -- HURRAH! They didn't win, but it was a great game that went to overtime. Wreck 'Em Tech! … [Read more...]
Frugal Friday: Making the most of expensive HTV and vinyl material
As I told you in my first Frugal Friday tip, I hate to throw away scraps of expensive or beautiful material. I like to try to find ways to reuse the bits and pieces whenever I can. That’s certainly the case with any patterned adhesive vinyl or HTV. … [Read more...]
Canvas Wedding welcome sign
I’ve been helping one of my daughter’s friends make some items for her wedding lately. She was struggling to figure out a cost-effective way to make a Welcome to our Wedding sign. We liked the idea of a plain black canvas with white letters. The main … [Read more...]
HTV Projects Checklist
This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to guide you while you work on a project. The HTV Projects Checklist helps you remember each step to take when you are cutting and applying HTV (heat … [Read more...]
First Steps in HTV: Project #1 — Polka Dot Heart Tea Towel
I didn’t realize when I bought my first Silhouette machine that I could use it to make custom shirts, or that heat transfer vinyl would turn out to be my favorite type of material to work with. My boys (and their friends) seem to have several new … [Read more...]
Cutting without the mat without losing your mind — Tip #1
One of the awesome things about a Silhouette machine is that you can cut some materials without a mat. That means you can create projects that are larger than even the largest mat (the 12” x 24” Cameo mat). However, there are definitely some tricks … [Read more...]