4th of July

For the 4th of July, JB and I went up to Utah to visit family. The kids went on a treasure hunt and got a bunch of glow sticks. I had a blast playing with the shutter speed on my camera, and they were good sports trying to hold still for the shots!

Welcome to the Jungle!

I have been noticing a lot of cute jungle themed baby bedding lately. Because of that (and because my sister-in-law is having a baby TODAY and her nursery is jungle themed) I have a new baby mobile in my etsy shop.

Vinyl Designs

I have had a great week... two trips to the pool in this 100+ weather we have had down here (and will have for quite a while). Not to mention I did some vinyl wall designs for a company called Devinyl in Austrailia. I had to post one so you could see, I am happy with how it turned out!

While I was working on the vinyl designs, I doodled this flower and am uploading some free cut files for it!


click here for an svg file.

click here for a gsd file (robomaster software compatible, just unzip it first).

Father's Day Gift Idea (Free Download)

Is your dad as hard to shop for as mine is? It seems as if anything he really needs or wants, he just goes and buys it for himself. So, for Father's Day this year I finally decided on baking him one of his favorite treats from his childhood, peanut patties. To make it an extra little bit special, I designed some vintage style labels to go on the top of the treat bag.



As a gift to you (man, I have been feeling so generous these days!), here is a generic copy of the file. It is 7 inches wide and fits perfectly across the top of a quart size ziplock bag.


click here to download the file.

Indian Mendhi Design + Free Download

My designs in the Silhouette Online Store this week are inspired by Indian Mehndi designs. I would have never thought of doing that, but it was on the list of designs suggested by a customer. I love how intricate and beautiful the artwork of this Indian custom is.


I am offering a free download from of this design that matches the rest of the designs in store:


click here for an .svg cut file of this design.

click here for a .gsd cut file (just un-zip the file and then it can be opened in the robomaster software).

Have a happy day!

Just do your best

Just dropping in to post some of the new stuff in my Etsy store!

Paper Corsage and FREE DOWNLOAD!

I was doing my daily google reader stop, trying to clear out some of the 1,000's of unread blog posts that I never seem to catch up on, when I came across this beautiful flower on holidash.com! I instantly fell in love and had to try it. ONLY I didn't want to sit and cut them out all by hand. That's what my Silhouette is for, right? :) So, I looked at the tutorial there, set up some cut files, and came out with this:



I followed her instructions pretty closely, as far as construction goes, with the following changes:
-I used paper instead of felt (obviously!)
-I glued the pieces together with hot glue
- I didn't bother with the cardboard and different color of felt for the base-- I just glued everything to a 2 inch diameter circle.
-After I got the petals all glued on, i put the 1" diameter circle on top, then took a 12"x1/4" piece of paper and curled it, then hot glued it in the center!

Like I said before, I don't take credit for the design or idea of this flower, all instructions came from this blog post and the designer is Megan Reardon. You can also find this corsage at notmartha.org. However, if you do want to make them from paper, I am uploading free cut files that you can download and use!


.svg cut file (for any cricut/ SCAL users that may happen upon my blog)

Good Luck and I would love to hear from you if you use the file!