Star Wars Tic Tac Toe Drinking Game

I spent several days searching for images that I liked and thought were perfect for creating this game set.  (Believe it or not I did begin this project before the untimely death of the beloved Princess Leia.) I love the look of the double light saber for the board face and the mash up of the rebel and alliance symbols was perfect for the center space.

 

Then of course you have to have the original and iconic characters of Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker.  Although I did give thought to other characters like Storm Troopers vs. C3PO or something but I'm not familiar enough with the story lines for that.  I even gave thought to the different ships that are used by each side but I didn't think that would be as fun.  Or perhaps as recognizable as these two iconic characters.

 

 

I also settled on the round playing board because it is Star Wars and because some of the symbols and ships and such are round in nature.  I just thought it would work.  Plus it makes it stand out more since most of the game boards are square.

 

To make this set a glass cutting board that's about 7.75" in diameter and three sets of dessert glasses - all from Dollar Tree.  As always the vinyl design was cut from Oracle 651 vinyl.

Love You Onesie

My husband surprised me with a heat press for Christmas!!!  I've only been wanting one for over a year and dropped quite a few hints last year.  I guess it's best that he waited because we had a new sewing store come in to town and we were able to learn more about the difference in heat presses so we could make a more informed decision about which one to buy.

 

When all was said and done I had my eye on a digital clamshell press (I've seen this model go by different names when I looked it up on the net.  And we bought ours locally - for a little less - but this link will at least give you needed information.)  This model has a digital read out for the temperature and the press time, a 15 x 15 inch heated platen surface and an over the center pressure adjustment to allow for a smoother more evenly distributed pressure, etc.

 

 

Since I didn't realize I was getting this jewel for Christmas and since hubby wasn't sure what designs I'd be making there was no HTV in the house to play with.  Except, some of the inexpensive Cricut iron-on material I used for t-shirt I made my son over a year ago (which peeled up).  But since were playing with a first press we thought what the heck it's not like we'd be losing anything.

 

The vinyl was red and I thought it would be perfect for a Valentine's Day kinda project so I turned to the Silhouette Design Store and found this cute I Love You Teddy Bear file by Jamie Koay.  Not only is it perfect for Valentine's Day but it's also perfect for anytime so I did buy the commercial license because I see other onesie's in my future.  😉

Java Jingle

Didn't I say no more Christmas cards?  I mean, I guess this one could be a "winter" card.  After all who doesn't love a good cup of coffee - especially when it's cold outside.  This particular card would be perfect card slip a gift card in for Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts or whatever local coffee shop is in your area.

The card is from the SVG Cuts file titled Christmas Cheer.  There are several shaped Christmas cards in this file and while I've made one or two, I can't wait to make some of the others. 

To create this card I decided to run the coffee sleeve shape through my paper crimper to give a bit of texture and 'realism' to the card.  I also used a soft, silver glitter paper for the snowflake to help it stand out a bit more.  I also cut an extra peppermint swirl to use on the inside of the card along with the sentiment.

Speaking of sentiments, this one is from the stamp set Winter Wonderland by My Craft Spot.  I just hate that they are no longer doing business.  But we still have a lot of other great stamp companies out there so that's a plus.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the Cut it Up Holiday Shape Cards Challenge (which ends at noon today - talk about last minute 😉 )

 

I hope that you've enjoyed today's card as much as I enjoyed piecing it together.  But seriously this is the last Christmas card - until next July....

 

 

Sippy Cups

My daughter loves wine.  So I thought I'd take a set of the stemless wine glasses from the Dollar Tree and 'dress them up' as part of a Christmas present.  And I gotta tell you that these wine glasses are a sturdier glass than I thought they'd be.  So much so that I had to go back for a couple more - just to have on hand.

 

For my daughter's set though I decided to put the phrases Mommy's sippy cup and Daddy's sippy cup on each of the glasses.  I've seen a lot of nice phrases being done in a thick script type font so I turned to dafont dot com in search of one that I liked.  After looking at several I settled on the Bromello script.  The beauty of this one is that it is free for personal and commercial use.

 

When my daughter opened her gift she was pretty pleased and was sure to let me know that I did well since the stemless wine glasses are her favorite. 

 

Go me!

Checking the List

Happy Friday everyone.  There are two crafting days left before Christmas (if you count today) and I am almost ready.  How about you?  Are you ready?

 

Last Friday I told you I was sharing my last Christmas card of the season but I was wrong.  I squeaked out one more Christmas card for today's Cardz TV Anything Goes Challenge #7.   For my card today I used the Just Elfing Around file from Marjorie Ann Designs. 

 

Instead of using all the traditional red, green and white colors for her outfit I decided to do something a bit different and I used shades of grey.  I thought the grey and white snowflake print along with the light green for the hat went well together and gave her a beautiful touch.

 

For the bells on the toes of her shoes I opted for green gems and then finished off the card with a Grinch Green colored skittle from DoubleClick Connections.

 

The stamped sentiment on my card is from the Merry Everything stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps