All Things Hello Kitty! SASL DT Project

Hey Krafters,

It's my day over at She's a Sassy Lady!! I decided to take the week off from the Store it Mondays..but come back next week for storage solutions!

As a mom to five children, celebrating birthdays can be very expensive! However, I learned my die cutting machines, imagination, and the gift to be crafty has been a godsend and it saves money. My second daughter just celebrated her ninth birthday last week and we had a surprise party for her the weekend. She is a Hello Kitty fanatic! If you've been following me for a while, you already know my past struggles LOL! Honestly, I have gotten my money’s worth from the HK Greetings and Font cartridges. I am secretly happy she still loves Hello Kitty because it takes the guess work out of a theme. 

Today is all things Hello Kitty! I made everything from HK tattoos to prizes. It took some time (which was limited too) but it was worth the effort and the party did not cost a fortune. The Explore had a work out! I am not sharing everything, but here’s a few projects from the party!

HK Note Pads:

Although there is only one pictured, I altered a few of these as game prizes. I purchased the notepad from the Dollar Tree. Three came in a pack. I partially covered the front with scrap pieces of card stocks. The pieces measured 2.5x4.5”. I did a print and cut on HK. Of course I forgot to change the setting on the printer and she came on in b&w. Since time was of the essence, I went with it. It worked out. Under her, I decided to stamp hello from a stamp set by CTMH. I believe it coordinates with the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge. The girls who received one LOVED them and asked if I could make them more….we shall see!

Pin My Nose:

This was one of many party games we played. One thing that drives me crazy about Design Space is if you want to print an image, it can't be larger than a certain size. The joy of having a large format printer is the ability to print…large! I needed Hello Kitty’s face to be BIG! So to achieve this, I did a screen capture, and placed the image in Photoshop. **DISCLOSURE- I own the Hello Kitty Greetings and Font cartridges. I am in no way encouraging anyone do this!!** I enlarged her, added “Pin My Nose” and printed it on a large piece of material. 

For the nose pieces, I resized a circle from the basic shapes and added numbers using the Cricut Alphabet cartridge. I am so happy I added numbers as identifiers. I added a little adhesive to the back. One thing I forgot to do was cut them on colored card stock, but it still worked out. As you can see, most of the “noses” never touched the game LOL. Easy Peasy!!

Piñata:

This is my most proudest project for this party!! It never occurred to me, none of my children ever had a piñata! One of the girls mentioned they should have one. After going on Amazon and to the store to price out some out, I couldn't bring myself to spend $20ish for something they were going to beat and destroy…so I decided to have at it! The only thing was, how was I going to make it? I remember as a child, making one as the balloon being the form of it and adding newspaper, paste and water mixture to it. We let it harden and added tissue paper to it. I admit, it was the ugliest thing but we had fun hitting it for the candy. I didn't want to do that though! I thought to cut out HK’s shape and add masking tape and the whole nine yards. Then I realized I don't have that kind of time. While I was asleep, the Lord showed me exactly what to do! I used the largest cereal box I could find (Giant Corn Pops box). I filled it with candies and taped the top. I added white tissue paper to mute the colors on the cereal box. Then I took pink streamers, slit the pieces (wish I had fringe scissors) and glued them in place. After that dried, I placed the HK image to it…a HK piñata!! The best thing is it costed me $5 ($3.48 for the cereal and 50¢ for the streamer) to make plus the cost of candy!! I love the way it turned out!! My daughter was super excited too!

They needed something to hold the candy right? HK image, Wild Card (thanks) and brown lunch bag…

Here are a few additional photos of the girls wacking the piñata…of course I was so caught up, I forgot to take a picture of the aftermath….it was not pretty!

After calculating the decor, cupcakes (of course they were HK) and food, it cost me approximately $50! Who says you have to spend a lot to have FUN? Everyone had a great time!

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects! Remember to stop by to check out the wonderful talent on She’s a Sassy Lady…thanks for stopping by, Krafthead~

Day 21-OCTC

What’s Going Down Krafters?

For day 21, I would like to share another inexpensive gift. We invest a lot of money into our electronic cutting machines! Why not put them to work J? Not only is my daughter a Hello Kitty fan, so is my SIL! Since SIL is a fanatic, I decided to give vinyl another go (that stuff can be addicting)! I used three layers of vinyl for HK. It was actually easier to layer her than I expected. On the opposite side, I just put a letter “K” for her first initial.

 Here is another, quick, easy but cute customized gift a teenager would love!

Thanks for stopping by, Krafthead~

Materials:

Vinyl-purple (lilac), black, white

Cricut Expression 2

Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge-“Hello Kitty”

Hello Kitty Font Cricut Cartridge-HK Image

Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes Cartridge- “K”-not pictured

Double Wall Insulated Acrylic Cup

½” Circle Punch

Ribbon

Hello Kitty!

Happy Monday Krafters!

Hope everyone had a good and productive weekend! I was really busy! My second oldest turned five years old Saturday so we had a very small party for her. The weather was beautiful by the way LOL. I have to admit, I like hello Kitty as well, but I can stand to wait until the next time I see anything Hello Kitty LOL.!

I made the cake (from scratch and the frosting-love to bake, not a master at it…yet). After months of waiting, I finally pulled out the Cricut Cake Machine to help decorate my baby’s cake. Now I have to confess, it really isn’t as easy as the advertisements made it out to be. I am sure some of it was user error since it was my first attempt. However, you would think it would be pretty cut (no pun intended) and dry..right? WRONG! I used the frosting sheets for the cuts (Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge-silhouette feature). Just to cut out the design at 4.25”, I wasted approximately 2.5 sheets of frosting (3 comes in a pack). The machine ripped the poor frosting sheets to shreds. After much discouragement, frustration and adjustments, I used a less intricate design (really wasn’t that detailed, but whatever) and it cut out nicely.

Then I attempted to cut out the wording…..letters were cut at 1” using the Hello Kitty Font Cartridge. If I had to do all over again, I would have used the round letter feature on this cartridge instead because it cut out better. I learned this after the fact. The font I used I had to have a pressure of 3 and a speed of two for the best cut. Even with that, it did not cut out the y well. It took several attempts until I just scored it and cut the outline with a knife. Once I had all of the die cuts on the cake, I added a design to the cake using my star decorating cake tip. I also added pink gel to the bow. The cake didn’t turn out how I imagined it, but my daughter was happy with it J

Now that I have a feel for the machine and with more practice, I think the red machine and I will get along just nicely. I have plenty of ideas and opportunities (I have four children) to use the machine to the max.

 I will bore you any further; here is the finished product (my first attempt):

Materials:

Cricut Cake Machine

Hello Kitty Font Cartridge

Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge

Frosting Sheets (chocolate  brown and primary colors)

Wilton’s Sparkling Gel (pink)

Pastry Tube with #6 tip

Birthday Dinosaur!

Happy Friday Krafters!

Today I would like to share a card I made using my Imagine, Gypsy, Hello Kitty Font and Dino Tracks Cricut Cartridges. It was so easy and fun to make!

First, I printed the patterns from the Imagine More Cricut Cartridge. I love the patterns on that cartridge especially for boy cards! Using my Gypsy, I simply took an image of a dinosaur from the Dinosaur Tracks Cartridge and welded two of them together (shadow feature) on kraft cardstock. Once my pieces were welded together, I took the same layered imagines and made them smaller than the card base. Then I welded the words” happy birthday” from the HK font cartridge where the spikes are. Next, I used the Mosaic Cuttlebug Folder to add a “realistic” texture to the dino. I inked the edges and then assembled the card.

To finish the card off, I added faux stitching around the card and added a cute little button with floss going through it. This card will fit in a standard A2 sized envelope.

Here is the final project. Sorry the picture is SOOO blurry L hopefully you can see it well enough to enjoy J

*NOTE* you cannot weld images on the gypsy using the imagine app as of now so all of the welding was done on the regular app which is why I printed the patterns first.

Supplies:

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Expression

Gypsy Handheld Design Studio

Imagine More Cartridge

Hello Kitty Font Cartridge

Dinosaur Tracks Cartridge

Cuttlebug

Mosaic Cuttlebug Folder

TH Distress Ink-Black Soot

White Gel Pen

Button

Floss

Paper Trey Ink Kraft Cardstock

Recollections Cardstock –white (for printed patterns)