Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Take me out...

It is high baseball season at out house.  I've got two boys, who are each on two teams (league and an all stars traveling teams).  Because they are a year  apart, they are on different teams.  It's pretty much baseball 24/7!  So when my office bought a chair for an auction benifiting a local Retirement Home Foundation - I knew it had to be baseball themed!  The chairs are clear pine when we get them and we have free reign to decorate them however we want.  Here is what I came up with!

After I painted it,  I used the Gypsy font & Pooh font for the "lil' Slugger in white vinyl. 

I used brown and white vinyl for the diamond which I cut from the Baseball cartridge. I did alter the diamond a bit on my gypsy.  I used the new "hide contours" feature, because the original cut had base lines and I didn't want them to show. I had to cut the vinyl (in between the slats) after I put it on the chair.  A bit tricky but it worked perfectly.

The decals on the back are actually images I found on the internet, which I printed (mirror image) on to tranparencies.  I then just "rubbed" them on to the wood and clear coated the to make them stay put. 

I am quite pleased with how this turned out. I am going to hang a little tiny glove on the arm of the chair and a tiny little baseball cap on the top. I hope it gets lots of bids and makes lots of money for the foundation! 

Oh and I also cut out vinyl base balls with my boys names and numbers for the back of my van.  Gotta be representin', right?  My daughter is in choir and band, so I gotta show her  some love too!  I did all of these with my gypsy.  The balls are from the Sports Mania cartridge and the font is the Pooh font. Sarahs is from the Hannah Montana cartridge.  Man, I love my cricut!

I Don't Garden...

I admit, I hate to get my hands dirty, but I love, love, love any thing with fruits and veggies on it!  Botanical prints, dishes, teapots, aprons, you name it ~ I have it!  So when I got this 6x6 Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety Pad and Ready Set Chip Sticker Sheet from Lil Lamb's Boutique I couldn't wait to dig in!  First, I made this super simple card.  The base of this card is Bo Bunny Double Dot, but the rest is Cosmo Cricut.

I also created this cute, simple layout! So may times we think we have to go over the top with super fancy layouts, but with this adorable paper you dont need to. 

A 12 x 12 piece of Bazzill Swiss Dot embossed cardstock and a red band of Bo Bunny Double Dot is the only other paper I used in this layout.  The strawberry is cut at 6 inches from the Cricut Paisley Cartridge.  The title is from the Pooh Font Cartridge.  The Chipboard stickers are so adorable and you get so many on this sheet. I think they are the perfect finishing touch to set off the sweet picutes of my daughter in her first bikini.  Well gotta run and get busy in my "paper" garden!

Bazzill Basics Embossed Cardstock ~ Amazing!

I've had this cardstock for a few months just waiting for the right photo to come along and I am so glad I waited!  This picture of my darling daughter sporting her new haircut was perfect!

I cut the opening on the beautiful embossed red paper with my Cricut George & Basic Shapes.  I pop dotted the entire sheet on a piece of black Bazzill Swiss Dots (which is embossed also) and floated the photo in the middle. The title is cut from the Pooh  Font cartridgeand shaddowed in white to make it pop off the page! I cut a 1.5" strip from the black Swiss dot paper, stiched it in white heavy duty thread and added a big black button to mimic the sleeve detail on her favorite black pea-coat!  She loves this layout and so do I!