We are headed out for our Summer road trip tomorrow. We are leaving Arizona and starting at the bottom of California in San Diego and driving all the way to the top to see the Redwood Forrest. We will stop all along the way to see sites and many friends. We are very likely to get caught in what is being coined “Carmageddon” so to ready ourselves for the boredom factor I created a road trip Boredom Buster tube. It is filled with several slips of paper listing games, hunts, sing-a-longs and so on. This should buy us hours of time if we are stuck sitting still. We are taking this trip in our newly renovated 1972 VW camper bus – I can not wait!
Want to know what ideas I put on the slips of paper? Download it here: Road Trip Games Boredom Busters
To create this project I used a plastic tube from the craft store and cut the stop light, camera and arrows using my Cricut and the Creative Memories Traveler Cartridge. I attached them to canvas and used markers to color them in.
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Yea, Yea, Yea – my Twist Itâ„¢ T-Shirt Yarn Kits produced by Such Designs are now for sale! I am so thrilled these are now on the market as it has been a beautiful labor of love for my friend Carrie and I to work on. She also has several patterns including puppets and quilt designs and there are many more to come!
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For our 4th of July get-together I made Martha Stewart’s Favor Rockets, but I used them to stuff the plastic silverware, napkin and straws inside. Super cute stuff I think! For her instructions go HERE. I added personal bling with glitter pow’s at the top. After the meal the Short one and the Smallest one had a ball playing rockets together.
Happy Independence Day! I created a 4th of July cake using the silicone giant cupcake pan. I had been wanting one of these for a while now and my auctioneer Dad found one for me a couple of weeks ago so I was ready to test it out. It was actually a bit harder to use then I had imagined and I definitely need to practice more!
I frosted the cake with my Butter-crème Icing and then used cans of Wilton Color Mist in red and blue on the surface. I cut “4th of July” and fire crackers out of red glitter paper on my Cricut using the Independence Day cartridge. I then attached the the paper cut outs to wooden skewers and placed them onto the cake. The short one added the final decorations of red, white and blue star shaped marshmallows.
Sadly, it is now a daily norm to have Phoenix temperatures hit 112 degrees so the cake started to melt almost immediately but hey it all goes down into the mouth and tastes the same no matter if it is pretty or not and it tasted delicious.
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The little ladies big Summer slumber party is tonight. I used the Girls Make Up Party Cartridge to create sleep over nighties for the short one and her friends who will be at the slumber party. The front is created by cutting the “Sleep Over†out of black paper on the Cricut and using that to burn a screen for the YUDU. I used a 70 mesh screen to print Water Based Adhesive on to the tees and then sprinkled pink YUDU glitter on top, covered it with a soft cloth and ironed it down. I also created some of the t-shirt’s using pink YUDU flocking, printing and ironing the same way. On the back of the nightie t-shirts I screen printed wings from a Hello Kitty cartridge using YUDU glow in the dark ink.
The flocked version:
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