Express Yourself!

When one of the girls I work with was starting Middle School she wanted something special to wear for school and her Mom was broke. She found this way to earn the money herself and deck out her and her classmates lockers and bedroom doors as well.

This I'ble is being submitted on behalf of Karry H., age 13. grade 8. All designs shown here are her personal creations.

Step 1 Materials

You will need:

2 pieces of Glitter Foam with an adhesive backing

Scissors, Exacta Knife or Die Cutter

Mounting Materials, i.e. stick on magnets, double sided poster tape or just peel the backing off the bottom sheet of foam.

Marking Pen if cutting by hand

Comments

[juvinurse]

Lots of hard work. Very talented young lady!!!

[Donaldhrtc]

Looks very nice!

[hsmomof2]

Tell her she did a great job on this!

[Judith756]

Love the crafts, can't figure out how to rate it though....sigh.

[ChrysN]

Nice, we never had cool stuff like this when I was a kid!

[DebH57]

LOL Yeah I know, all we had were bell bottoms, love beads and water buffaloes and thought we were so hot. ROFL

[tcharmed1247]

really neat!

[DebH57]

Thanks Charmed!

[depotdevoid]

Hey cool! I'd never seen a die cutting machine before, I didn't even know they were made. That's some pretty neat stuff you can make with it. I googled it and saw from the website that it is "No computer necessary," but can you attach it to a computer and extend the range of things you can make with it? I once got a tour of a facility that used several different high power laser CNC machines to cut steel into various shapes. The day I was there they were cutting blanks for those little barcode scanning machines in the supermarket, and the guy who was giving the tour said that with the proper knowledge of computer aided 3D design, you could program these machines to make pretty much anything. Anyway, I kind of got off on a tangent there. These are some very nice items, I'm quite impressed. 5 stars!

[DebH57]

Yes you can attach it to a PC, they also sell software for it so you can make your designs on the PC without being hooked up to the Cricut and then cut them whenever you want later. I have used it to cut fabric for quilts, appliqués, made vinyl lettering to hang a phrase on the wall. The machine does just about everything you can think up. It's the best crafting investment I have ever made.

[Creativeman]

Way cool Deb! Good job. re the ? from dd: there is a program called "sure cuts alot" (scal) that allows you to connect a computer to the cricut...google it, or see youtube. Cman.

[DebH57]

I checked it out CMan thanks, and thanks for commenting!