Friday Football

WooHoo!  It's Friday today.  And not only does that mean the end to a grueling work week for most of us, but it also means it's Friday Night High School Football.  I'm sure that most - if not all of you - have just as much football spirit in your town as we do in our little town of Niceville, Florida.

 

Admittedly I haven't been to a game yet this year, but in my defense I've been babysitting a less than three month old grandbaby every Friday night.  But the really good football rival games have yet to occur so I still have time.

 

  

In the meantime, I'd like to share some football night lights that I created using the recently released Football Player file from Cuttable Designs.  When I made these I gave thought to adding the local football team letters but then I realized that our rival teams are really just a stone throw away and since I didn't want to disenfranchise anyone I thought it best to just leave these as they were with the cut out.

 

 

To create my nightlights I used the lights purchased from the Dollar Tree, removed the printed design with some acetone, washed, dried, and applied my own design.  The vinyl used on my nightlights is Oracle 651 glossy.  It's my favorite vinyl and I personally prefer the glossy to matte finish.

 

 

The football player file was a great one to use.  I really needed some more masculine files and this one fit the bill perfectly.  Now if only my boys were younger or actually liked watching football.......not sure where I went wrong on that one.  But hey one daughter out of six kids is better than none at all.  :)

Happy Crafting everyone.

Breast Cancer Awareness Night Lights

I was at my new favorite shopping spot yesterday (yep, the Dollar Tree) looking for a couple of things - that I didn't find by the way.  So instead of leaving empty handed I decided to pick up a couple of these touch sensor night light lamps.  I wasn't really sure what I'd put on them but knew I could come up with something.

 

 

 

When I got home I remembered a Pink Ribbon freebie I saw on Apex Cuttables website so I downloaded that and chose to use two of the different designs on my lamps.  After applying the designs I set the lamps to the side and as I kept looking over I'd think about needing to do something with the base so it didn't look unfinished.

 

 

 

At first I thought about the word Hope, but then I thought that while it's an encouraging word it just wasn't the one I wanted.  And then I thought Survivor.  Since I didn't like the way any of the fonts I have on my computer looked I went in search of a font I liked and found this one on dafont dot com.  It's called Ribbon of Hope.

 

And by the way, these little lamps put off more light than you'd think.

Dumbo Inspired Night Lights

 

Today I have a Dumbo inspired night light to share with you.  A lady in one of my Disney FB groups shared this image and I fell in love.  So of course I had to save it.  Using my Silhouette Studio software I traced the image and created a cut file.

I still had some night lights from the Dollar Tree sitting in my stash waiting to be used so I cleaned them up and applied the design to them. 

These will be perfect for a baby's room don't you think?

And now I'm off to enter my night lights into the following challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - Baby Safety Month - Ends September 18th

DL Art - September Linky Challenge - Ends September 30th

I'm So Fly Night Light

Happy Wednesday crafty friends.  I had a day of PTO that had to get used before I lost it so yesterday I took the day off from work.  And what better way to spend a day off than sitting in my craft room with no interruptions (everyone else was at work while I played).

 

After months of trying to find these switch operated night lights at the Dollar Tree I finally found them in one of my local stores.  Much to my hubby's chagrin I bought a dozen or so.  But hey, they're only a dollar - right?  And for this obsessed crafter it doesn't get much better - well unless it's free.  LOL 

 

With night lights in hand I tried to decide what I wanted to create with them, and it really didn't take that long to decide.  There were a couple projects I remember seeing in the past and I knew they were ideal for these night lights.  But then another idea struck me.  Lately I've been seeing these "I'm so fly I Neverland" t-shirts.  Well I don't have a heat press - YET - so I can't make shirts but surely I can take that inspiration and turn it into a night light.  And that's just what I did.

 

I took a few pieces from different files for my silhouettes and stars.  The verbiage is just a regular font installed with Microsoft Office called Cooper Black. 

 

Using scraps of vinyl I cut everything to size and then just adhere to night light and viola.  Now we have a fun night light.

 

Now I'm off to enter my night light in the following challenges:

 

DL Art - September Linky Challenge - Ends September 30th

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Super Scraps Saturday - Ends September 17th