I used the Craft Room Exclusive Cart called Word Bubble to make Coasters. I cut out the bubble shape from some left over pieces of cork that I had previously screen-printed on with the YUDU. I am making a ton of these and packaging them as holiday gifts. Who doesn’t need coasters? Perfect for holiday parties!

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Happy crafting xoxo Cyndi aka Lovely Lula

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The Phoenix Craft Rave is tomorrow!

Saturday, December 10th, 2011 2 pm – 12 midnight
Braggs Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Avenue Phoenix, AZ, 85007
$5 admission, all ages.

FREE SWAG BAG FOR THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE THROUGH THE DOOR. The swag bag includes items from Michaels, iLoveToCreate, DecoArt, Spellbinders, ProvoCraft, Bazzill Basics, PEEPS and more…

How it works: come in and check out the 15+ craft tables, crafts range from $5 to $15. Once you decide you head over to the ticket counter and buy tickets for $5 each then go sit down and do whatever craft you want. Kinda like a carnival. We have people that come and do every craft and stay for the full ten hours – feel free to join them in the fun. Stay at each table as long as you’d like working on your craft. Also, each teaching artist will be selling kits of their crafts so if you like what you made – buy a kit as a gift!

We’ll have food menus for you to order meals, plus coffee, pastries and hourly raffles. We’ll also have a sound system set up for crafty storytelling, holiday carols and a fun music playlist!

Thank you to our sponsors; iLoveToCreate, Michaels, ProvoCraft, Fiskars, Westcott, Duck Tape, DecoArt, Spellbinders and more!!

Come craft with us!

I am excited to show this project I made using an new Cricut Cartridge called Snow Days that I paired with vintage holiday wrapping paper.

I first wrapped a plain white box top that I picked up at a paper supply store, with red holiday ribbon to give it more texture. I then used the Snow Days cart to cut a cute little bundled up kid shape out of the vintage paper. I cut several of them and glued them to the box.

I also made a coordinating card because really how could I resist?

Happy Holiday Crafting xoxo

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I used the Imagine Cartridge called Santas Village to create this project. I like the Abominable snow monster type character available on this cartridge,  the odd little bunny that looks like it has to pee and the penguin that looks lost our in the snow.

I paired this with a very cool paper called Lazertran Inkjet Waterslide Decal Paper. You can print right onto this paper using your Imagine or any color printer or color copier.

The next step is to cut around the image you want to use, dip it into a bowl of water and the decal front peels away from the paper backing. You can then place the decal onto any ceramic surface and once it drys it is attached. So I used this method to create three cool ceramic wall tiles.

I also added Japanese Washi Tape at the bottom and sealed the whole tile with a clear acrylic varnish. This really gets me excited for Christmas decorating.

 

I used Scandinavian Christmas Cards Cartridge to create a Scandinavian Christmas Tree Skirt. I used my Cricut and the Scandinavian Christmas Cards Cartridge to cut fabric, that I back with heat and bond. I changed the direction of the reindeer so that I had one facing left and one facing right and in the center I place the holiday tree. I ironed it on to a large piece of ochre yellow wool felt that I cut into two half rounds and sewed together, it closes with pieces of velcro. I finished it off by adding green cotton ribbon to the edge and a few bows. Now I just need all my holiday goodies down from the attic. Where’s the ladder?!

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I am selling T-shirt yarn items and Twist-It T-shirt kits at Crafteria tonight.

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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.

November 1, 2011 to November 30, 2011 I wrote 50, 368 words. December 2011 I will rest!

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