Wall Letters

Have I mentioned I love my Silhouette SD machine? If not, I HEART IT!

In no time at all, I was able to make letters for my son’s room and officially put his ‘stamp’ on the nursery… at 8 months old. Bless his heart. Second child gets hosed and I can’t imagine what a third would get!  Regardless, my first son's name hung in the nursery for 2 years and once his letters were down, the blue painted dots needed some love.

Still a few holes to cover up from my oldest son’s wooden letters that used to be here. 

I used brown vinyl and used the transfer paper to get the letters reasonably straight on the wall. Now, don't mind the bronze light switch plate. It's hideous and that will be replaced shortly. And yes, kind of odd that it's smack dab in the center of the wall, but there used to be a door there and we sealed it up to close off the nursery and just have one door instead of two. Now we need to get an electrician to move the switch. Easy, right? Not so much so it's been on the back burner!

Regardless, I'm happy with the way Luke's letters came out and now if I can just get his room decorated!  Need. More. Time.

Another Silhouette project is happening this weekend so be sure to check in next week!



Katie

I Love My Silhouette!

After a wonderful Thanksgiving (‘ful’ like, I’m so full from Thanksgiving I had to find a project I could do sitting down), it was fun to start thinking about Christmas and tackle the first project of the season! Yeah, so maybe we ate ourselves into oblivion for 3 days but it was SO worth it! I hope all of you had awesome weekends with friends and family, food and laughter and all that really matters! We sure did.

Today was my Silhouette’s maiden voyage and it was such fun! Love her! Tons of projects are lining up in my head and I can’t WAIT to use this clever little tool again. After seeing Thrifty Décor Chick’s “Give Thanks” letters and also My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia’s, I really wanted a lovely Christmas message to create with the Silhouette. Did I mention I love this thing? Thank you my dear in-laws for making my dorky craft dreams come true!

A quick trip to Michael's today and $7 later, an array of cute paper choices lined up our dining room table. I picked a great black & white damask pattern,

red and white stripes and a linen steel blue.

 

Made my design in the software and then started cutting!

I organized my piles of cut paper, then laid out my design

 I used a hole punch at the top of each letter and used some string we had to string up all the letters together. I hung them in one of the dining room windows (p.s. I love blue).

Now I just need a little garland and some more Christmas decorations to complete the window. All in all, the Silhouette proved to be a rock star in the paper cutting arena. 

Katie