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Happy Holidays everyone, I hope you had a safe and happy Merry Christmas.  I was able to have a little bit of fun today with my cricut.  After I cut the bird house out on my cricut and glued it together I knew that it needed a bird but I was not sure what to use.  I don’t have any bird embellishments.  A few months ago I bought computer printable Shrinky Dinks with a 40% off coupon from Michaels.  I decided to go ahead and make my own bird embellishment.

I bought some bird clipart from Country Graphics.  Trina Clark has some amazing clipart (digital stamps too!)  I imported the clipart that I wanted to use into inkscape.  I set up the document for an 8×10 sheet.  I followed the instructions included in the Shrinky Dink kit.  I had to reduce the opacity 50% on the clipart before printing and then printed the clipart out on the dull side of the sheet.

I then cut out the bird image. I used my Cutter Bee scissors from Joanns and they worked perfect.  I just took my time around the beak and tail.

I pre-heated the oven for 300 degrees.  The instructions said to cut a rectangle out of a brown paper grocery bag and place that on the cookie sheet and then put the Shrinky Dink on the paper to bake.  I just used a piece of card stock since I did not have a brown paper bag.  I baked the bird for about 3 minutes.  I watched it the whole time just like a little kid.  I thought that it was ruined in the beginning because it was bent and distorted but as the last minute completed it began to lay flat.  It turned out very nice.  I am extremely happy with this and know that I will be using this more often.  This is what it looked like when I took it out of the oven.  Amazing right?

Here is the birdhouse with a scalloped edge roof.

Sorry the picture is a little fuzzy.  I have tried every which way and color back drop to try and get this clear but with my light and camera, unfortunately this is the best that I am going to get tonight.  The little bird is really cute, and a crisp image and turned out very cute.  I don’t have the acrylic glaze that it recommends that you coat it with to protect it but I will pick some up later.

Okay, It is not all about Christmas on my blog.  I love Thanksgiving as well.  I am so excited thought because it is our holiday of the year that we get to close down and I don’t have to go to work.  Thanksgiving is going to be at my house this year.  My sister is an assistant manager at Wal-Mart and she has to go to work that night and get everything in line for the Black Friday sales.  I know it was wrong, but I tried to see if she knew of any cricut related deals….even a hint.  Nope, Nada, Nothing.

Wal-Mart is the cause of my cricut addiction.  A few years ago when the cricut baby bug first came out it was over $400 at Michaels and there was a waiting list for it.  I did not totally understand everything that it could do and kind of pushed it out of my mind because of cost.  Then one Thanksgiving we sat at the dinner table stuffed looking over the Black Friday ads and they had the cricut baby bug, (keystone and george cartridges include) for $129.00.  The next day we got up super early.  Had my coffee in my hand walking out the door and my sister called and told me that Wal-Mart was allowing the employee discount card to be used on the specials.  I got the baby bug for $129.00-10%.  Then last year the had the Cricut Expression bundle for $199.00 with Plantin Schoolbook and Home Decor.  The rest is history.  That lead to this.

Here is my take on Tom Turkey

Here is another butterfly.

Sorry for the broken link.  It is fixed now.

Here is a Halloween black cat.

Here is a bird perched on a wooden branch.

I can’t believe that it is already September.  I decided to make some Halloween SVG to share.  Here are some bats.

Here is a bird svg.

I love butterflies so here is another svg.

I love this fish SVG.  I think that I can use it for a lot of things.  I am getting an order of vinyl in and I can not wait to cut this out.