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Spirit Swag — Personalized cowbell

October 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

For me, fall means FOOTBALL!!! It's an especially good bright spot this year. Since my son is no longer playing college ball, we have "adopted" a couple of players from a local university. It's so they have a family away from home. This week, I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Tips Tagged With: bell, logo, project, spirit swag, vinyl

Think outside the box project: custom peel-and-stick paint samples

August 17, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

After several bad paint choices, I have learned it's best to put samples on the walls. I live with them for a bit, checking them at different times in the varying light. But it's not always practical to have different-colored squares of paint all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Tips Tagged With: home decor, paint, project, vinyl

Vintage-look sign letter on acrylic

July 3, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Our family room is decorated to express, well, our family. There's an old Disabled Vet license plate that was my dad's, a football, locker baskets with tags whose numbers are our old house numbers, an old Clue board of my mom's and more. For years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Materials, Projects Tagged With: acrylic, paint, plexiglass, project, sign, stencil, vinyl

Cutting paper to match a precut chipboard shape

January 18, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

baby name mod podge paper letteers

I've shared with you recently a couple of things I made for a baby shower -- some table decorations in which I used a custom plaid pattern I created. There's one more thing I want to share. I bought some large chipboard letters, cut patterned paper … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools and Accessories Tagged With: baby, cardstock, paper, PixScan, project, shower, sign

Canvas Wedding welcome sign

September 26, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: canvas, fabric, heat press, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, project, sign, vinyl, wedding

First Steps in HTV: Project #1 — Polka Dot Heart Tea Towel

September 19, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

using htv with silhouette cameo beginner

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...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: beginner, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, iron, mirror, project, towel, weeding

Get it together, man! 6 tips to make a project more cohesive

September 10, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette scrapbook page

Have you ever looked at a project someone else made and thought, “Why does theirs look so professional and pulled together while mine doesn’t?” Or have you ever liked all your pieces individually, but when you put them together they just don’t look … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Tips Tagged With: cohesive, color, coordinate, design, project, undertone

Paint by number designs – a “think outside the box” challenge

August 27, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

paint by number with silhouette cameo

I’ve been wanting to try this for so long! I finally had a good excuse because I needed a gift for my great niece’s birthday. I used my Cameo to draw the design and numbers on canvas for a paint by number craft. Once you understand the general … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Tools and Accessories Tagged With: auto weld, canvas, line thickness, paint by number, point editing, project, Sketch

Yeehaw! I made my Leather earrings!

August 1, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff 18 Comments

embossed leather earrings tutorial

I’ve been meaning to try making leather earrings with my Silhouette machines for quite a while. I freely admit I’ve been coveting those worn by JoJo on Fixer Upper. I was attending a country wedding this past weekend so finally had the motivation to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Machines, Materials, Projects Tagged With: earrings, emboss, embossed, jewlery, leather, project

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