They Don't Know That We Know They Know We Know

Now if you are a Friends fan you know exactly what that quote refers to.  If you aren't a Friends fan (shame on you) then you need to watch the Friends episode, the one where everybody finds out.  Every situation in life can be related back to a Friends episode.  I think you can find it on Netflix and if you haven't watched - you just don't know what you're missing.

A friend of mine texted me a shirt that she wants and this was saying.  I knew I too must have a shirt with this quote so I got to designing.  Or copying one I saw - however you want to say it.  This is my version.

They Don't Know That We Know They Know We Know T-shirt Recipe

Now originally I pictured this on a gray shirt.

That is my mock up of the shirt.  It looks real - doesn't it?!!!  But when I went to make the shirt, I didn't have a gray shirt in my size.  So I put it on the turquoise heather.  I also copied the logo from the internet and traced it in Silhouette Studio.  I made it small enough to fit on the sleeve.  I thought about putting it after the quote, but the quote is pretty 'tall' so I opted for the sleeve.  I've been wanting to put something on a sleeve anyway.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.

Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Galatians 1:  22   I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open

I often times tease that I've run out of hard drive space in my brain and that I need an upgrade.  Or when I have trouble remembering, I say that those memories are on a tape drive and have to be accessed remotely.  So when I found this in the Silhouette Design Store I knew I wanted it on a shirt.

Too Many Tabs T-shirt Recipe

For me the hardest part of making a shirt can be figuring out what colors to use.  I have a stash of t-shirts and HTV vinyl, so I went digging for some fun colors.  The offset is a light pink.  The flat vinyl is Siser Electric in Cherry.  And the Siser glitter is confetti which has a pink in it along with silver.  I also put together a video on how I used the Silhouette Design and added the offset along with using the colors to make it easier to cut out.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Galatians 1:  18   Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas[b]and stayed with him fifteen days. 

Peace Love and Flip Flops

Yep - another t-shirt.  This time I actually have 2 shirts to share.  One my size and one my granddaughter's size.

Peace Love and Flip Flops T-shirt Recipe

Flip flops are one of my faves.  I found this image in the Silhouette Design Store and did a few modifications.  The colors were perfect for a pink shirt that I had for my granddaughter so I cut it out in miniature.  I tried to balance the glitter so I only used glitter on the peace sign and the flip flops.  I used a Gildan shirt for mine and a Hanes t-shirt for my granddaughter.  Can't wait for summer!

Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

Here is the video tutorial on how I modified the Silhouette image for the shirt:

April

Galatians 1:  12   I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

Louisville Fleur De Lis T-Shirt

The symbol for the city of Louisville Kentucky is the Fleur De Lis.  I found a Fleur De Lis on the internet that had a city line of Louisville.  I brought it into my Silhouette Software, traced it and saved it.  I opened it in Cricut Design Space and used the Text feature along with the new curve feature for text to put Louisville along with the image.

I cut out the black using Siser Black Stretch vinyl.  The glitter is Siser Black Silver glitter.  My Cricut Maker was used to cut out the design and I used my Cricut Easy Press to press the shirt.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April 

Galatians 1:  9  As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

I Was Born With Glitter in My Veins

I have a small obsession with t-shirts since Sherry and I started making them and selling them through our business Crafty AS Can Bee.  Making shirts for myself allows me to explore different color combinations and new designs.  I find a lot of designs in the Silhouette Design Store and I like to modify them by adding an offset and mixing up the colors.  Many of the designs in the Silhouette Design store have the option of buying a commercial license which is nice if the design is popular and people want to buy it.

This is one of the designs I found in the Silhouette Design Store and modified.

I Was Born With Glitter in My Veins T-shirt Recipe

Siser Mermaid glitter is one of my new go to glitter colors.  This glitter has a mixture of green and blue which makes it look like the Caribbean Ocean or a Mermaid's tail.  I think that is how it got its name.  I paired that with a turquoise shirt from Gildan (woman's cut), offset it with flat silver and flat turquoise vinyl on the flat silver.  The initial saying wasn't offset, so I added the offset when I pulled it into Silhouette Studio.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 4:  15   He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

Crafting Makes Everything Better

I was working on my week's t-shirts, but couldn't find the sayings that I was planning on cutting out.  I was being lazy;  what can I say?  I flipped through the images in my library and found this fun saying.

Crafting Makes Everything Better

I've been trying to be more versatile with my vinyl colors so today I am using variations of purple and silver glitter from Siser on a heather gray shirt.  The shirt is by Time and Tru which has become one of my favorites recently.  It is a relaxed woman's fit, extremely soft and you can find it al Wal-mart.  As is my normal procedure - I pulled the image to my mat.  I offset the image using the default offset.  I cut the offset out in a dark purple.  The 'makes everything' is in a light purple and crafting and better in silver glitter.  The image was pressed using my heat press.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate. 

April

Ruth 4:  4   I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[b] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”   “I will redeem it,” he said.  

Let Me Adjust My Crown T-shirt

I have been working on t-shirts with fun sayings and Silhouette Design Store has a multitude of fun sayings that I can use.

Let Me Adjust My Crown T-shirt Recipe

Unfortunately getting a good picture of this shirt was really hard.  The Siser electric vinyl kept blending in with the white vinyl behind it.  I pulled the design in from Silhouette Design Store and created an offset.  Cut it out with the Silhouette Cameo and pressed it on a Gildan Navy Blue shirt.  

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 4:  2  Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

Glitter is My Signature Color

I try to make myself at least 2 t-shirts a week.  Why?  I guess I am obsessed.  I am actually trying to create more smaller shirts as I've lost some weight and Dana says the shirts I wear are too big.  I've discovered the woman's cut shirt which is cut differently and Dana is happy with the fit.  I do love me some glitter so here is one of the shirts I made last weekend.

Glitter is My Signature Color T-shirt Recipe

I again started with a t-shirt from Time and Tru found at Wal-mart.  It is a relaxed fit woman's cut t-shirt that is super soft.  I got some new glitter htv from Siser in the color mermaid.  It's like a mixture or blue and green and is gorgeous!  As you can see I played with the colors and coordinating.  I found the quote at the Silhouette Design Store.  Brought it into Silhouette Studio and offset it.  I cut it out of Siser htv using my new Silhouette Cameo 3 (I am in love). 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.  

April

Ruth 3:  18  Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”

Best Buddies 2018 Walk T-shirt

Since my friend Sherry and I started our t-shirt company, we have been making the official shirts for our Buddies R Forever walk team for the Best Buddies charity.  This year the shirt is my second favorite color.

Buddies R Forever T-shirt Recipe

The purple heather t-shirt is by Fruit of the Loom.  White Stretch HTV was used for the image.  Love the look and what a great cause.  Our walk is in April and this is our 2018 team shirt.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 3:  6  So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.

I'm Not Weird

I was surfing through the Silhouette Design Store and found this fun sentiment.  I've been trying to mix it up in the color department.  I actually made a mistake on this one, but it ended up turning out okay.

I'm Not Weird I am Limited Edition

As has been my habit lately, I bought the image from the Silhouette Design Store; pulled it into Silhouette Studio V4 and created an offset.  I didn't use any glitter on this one - can you believe it.  I did use one of my new favorite vinyls - electric red from Siser.  I actually intended for weird and edition to be in electric red, but it just didn't work out that way.  Another exciting thing about this shirt - I used my new Silhouette Cameo 3 to cut out the vinyl.  

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 3:  4   When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

Flying Monkeys

A lot of my cards and shirts are requests from customers.  And a lot of my customers are my friends from work.  I have a particularly high maintenance group of friends from work.  LOL . And I am not afraid they will see this post because I've made it no secret from them that they are high maintenance.

This shirt was requested by my friends from work for another friend at work.  It was a short notice request, but you know I work better under pressure anyway so it wasn't a big deal.  There were several iterations of the design, but the shirt ended up being adorable.  And my friend who received the shirt as a gift gave me a great big hug for the stress of working through the design with my high maintenance customers aka my friends from work.  ;-)

Flying Monkeys T-shirt Recipe

Like I said there were iterations of this design.  The skirt was my favorite and started with this design in the Silhouette Design Store.  This is what I was given to start with in coming up with a design:

This is the design without the skirt:

The group ended up liking the design with the skirt once the flying monkey quote what centered in the skirt.  And of course the red shoes had to be glitter.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 3:  1  One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[a] for you, where you will be well provided for. 

I Speak Fluent Sarcasm

What is unfortunate about that blog post title is that it is true.  Ask anyone who knows me.  I just can't help myself.  I think it is genetic - I got it from my Dad.  Not my Mom - she's just too nice to be sarcastic.  I on the other hand, am not.  So I decided to use one of my Wal-mart t-shirts to share that information with anyone who sees me.  No one will be able to say I didn't warn them.  And with glitter.

I Speak Fluent Sarcasm T-shirt Recipe

As is the norm for me I found this saying in the Silhouette Design Store and decided I must have it.  There are several 'sarcasm' sayings that you will eventually see on one of my shirts.  Sarcasm Loading, If Only Sarcasm Burned Calories and I Will See Your Sarcasm and Raise You Some Sass.  As always I use Siser HTV in Easyweed Stretch, Electric and Glitter.

I discovered something recently - my wardrobe comes from Wal-mart and Jiffy shirts.  I recently had to go shopping for some new pants.  In the last year I've lost 30 pounds and I have - had - no black pants.  I was volunteering for a charitable event last Friday and needed to wear something besides jeans and I don't like wearing skirts/dresses.  I just don't have the legs.  But I digress.  So I went shopping and not for craft supplies.  I love shopping for craft supplies.  I do NOT like shopping for clothes.  I don't mind grabbing a pair of jeans from Wal-mart or including an order for a shirt in my size in our jiffy shirt orders.  But having to try on clothes in a dressing room?  Ugh.  Pants off, pants on, pants off and pants back on.  Walk, walk, walk.  Pants off, pants on, pants off, pants on.  The only good thing was the size I am wearing.  I am happy to report I found 2 pairs of black pants, a pair of navy pants and a pair of jeans.   So I said all that to say - when you see my t-shirt blog posts - you are experiencing clothes shopping with me.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  21  Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”

I Get Distracted by Shiny Things!

I was shopping at Wal-mart for the normal stuff....bananas, grapes, butter, Swiffer and cat litter.  I always walk through the women's clothing to see if they have any t-shirts on sale and that's when I found some shirts I hadn't paid attention to before.  This shirt is really soft and it's cut for a woman but is a relaxed fit.  I am loving this color and this shirt.  I bought 4 different colors and here is what I did with the first one.

I Get Distracted By Shiny Things T-shirt Recipe

I started with this great new shirt.  It's soft and such a fun purple.  I purchased the saying from the Silhouette Design Store.  I opened it in the Silhouette Studio software and started working on the colors.  As always I used the offsite tool to create an offsite around the saying.  I usually use .075 around my words.  It gives the saying just a little mat to make the words pop.  Most of the time I will cut the mat out in the same color.  Then I make the words different colors depending on which word I want to emphasize.  In this case Shiny and the stars are in glitter.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  16  Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”

Crazy Doesn't Run In My Family

It Gallops.  LOL . I found this saying in the Silhouette Design Store and knew I must have it.  I also had some animal print pattern HTV that I thought would be perfect for this project.

Crazy Doesn't Run T-shirt Recipe

I brought the image into the Silhouette Studio V4 software and added an offset.  I really like the way the background vinyl allows the foreground vinyl to pop.  Although this animal print isn't quite the same as the horse to which the saying refers - I thought it was perfect.  I found some brown vinyl in my stash and thought that would make the perfect background vinyl . The foreground vinyl that isn't animal print is Siser Black Stretch.  The brown is Siser as well.  I don't know if the animal print is Siser or not.  I pressed the vinyl on a Gildan Ladies cut shirt in brown.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  13   “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”

Be the Change you Want to See

I worked on several t-shirts last weekend and this is one of my favorites.  I like shirts with a message especially when it is pretty.

Be the Change T-shirt Recipe

This Gildan t-shirt is one of my favorite colors.  I used a t-shirt this color to make one of my Christmas shirts and since I can only wear that for a limited time in the year, I decided to make another t-shirt using this color with a saying that I can wear year round.  I've told you how excited I am about the new electric vinyl that Siser has come out with.  I used the blue and red on this shirt and I love the way it turned out.  Siser is my favorite heat transfer vinyl and it pressed beautifully as always.  As is my normal mode of operation - I got the image from the Silhouette Design Store and I added the offset in Silhouette Studio V4.  And there you have it.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 2:  7   She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”