I used the Cricut Sweater Weather Cartridge to create an ugly Christmas sweater t-shirt design. I did this because I live in Arizona and even on Christmas day a sweater can be a bit warm. So this year when we are invited to an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party I thought I’d create the Christmas sweater concept that could be layered with a long sleeve t-shirt.
To make this I cut the designs out of black card stock using the Sweater Weather Cartridge. The shapes are cut at Tree and Reindeer 3 in, Hearts and arrows 1 1/2 in, Stars 1 in. I then used those shapes to burn a YUDU screen and printed onto white canvas cotton t-shirts with red ink. I made a tone of these to give away to my friends.
It’s black Friday and if you are running off to the mall I’d like to send out a reminder to also save some of your hard earned cash to spend on hard working local makers.
Where to find Cyndi Coon of Laboratory5/Lovely Lula this Holiday Season:
December 1 – 31, 2011 Shemer Art Center Holiday Show & Sale
December 2, 2011 6 to 10 pm Crafteria at Frances
December 10, 2011 Phoenix Craft Rave at Braggs Pie Factory
ONGOING AROUND TOWN:
a.ware Shop – Check out our cards (Daily – see website for hours)
Castello Childs Gallery – Check out our ceramic vessels and tile pieces
MADE Art Boutique – Check out our cards and screen printed t-shirts (Daily – see website for hours)
Modern Manor – Check out our furniture pieces, ceramic vessels and tile pieces and paintings (Daily – see website for hours)
Practical Art – Check out our ceramic jewelry (Daily – see website for hours)
Other ways to see us and our work in December:
Dec 1 – Jan 24 Artists and their children show at Young at Art gallery Scottsdale Center for the Arts by SMOCA (Daily – see website for hours)
Dec 8 Artist on Artist Talk at Scottsdale Center for the Arts (6:30 pm)
And you can always visit us on our website Laboratory5.com
I know I should be putting up a post about Thanksgiving this week but I am just so excited about Christmas this year I am just gonna skip right on over it and get the countdown going! I created the “Days til’ Christmas” sign using the Winter Frolic Cartridge for the font out of silver vinyl and Winter Lace cartridge for the snow flakes out of white paper. The stripes of green paper and the white snow flakes are all Bazzill Basics.
The area to write the days on is a large circle of chalk board vinyl and we’ll count the days down with chalk.
Happy crafting xoxo. Follow me on Twitter I am Lab5 and on the Lovely Lula Facebook Page
I am writing for National Novel Writing Month – I am up to 30,000 words – hoping to hit 50,000! I am breaking only to make some visual art journaling pages, about writing!
