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After I got the kids to bed I was able to try and work with the Yudu.  My first few attempts were washed down the sink.  The first time I did not have the screen wet enough.  The second time it was to wet.  The third time I said however ever it turns out, I am going to print it.

I am almost embarrassed to show you this but I worked hard on this and I can’t believe that it did not turn out.  It is a black t-shirt and hot pink paint.  It was a pre made Yudu design.  The first ink pass was very very faded, the second pass was still faded but some parts became blotched.

It does look horrible.  Like a bleached t-shirt or something.  It was a t-shirt that I made for myself.  It took me about 4 hours or so to get to this point.  I was very frustrated.

I decided to try the vinyl method that I posted about earlier.  I am so in love with this method.  I made a t-shirt for my niece (Bubbles).

I used my Gypsy and created the vinyl design and it took about 2 seconds.  I used a 12×12 piece of black vinyl.  The vinyl cut perfect on my cricut.  I forgot to take a picture of the before, so here is a picture of the after.  I had just finished printing the t-shirt.  This is the vinyl adhered to the inner side of the screen.

I left the vinly on my cricut mat.  I removed the parts that I wanted to be inked from the design.  I then took a large sheet of contact paper and covered the entire vinyl cut.  I had about 1 inch all the way around the design of extra contact paper.  I used a brayer and rolled over the contact paper to help it adhere to the vinyl.  I flipped the entire design over and pealed off the backing of the vinyl.  Once it was pealed off I took it over to my Yudu machine and decided where I wanted it on my screen and adhered it.  I pealed the corner of the contact paper slowly and removed it from the vinyl.  I basically adhered the vinyl to the mesh screen like it was my wall.  I covered the parts of the mesh screen still exposed with tape.  Screen printed the t-shirt.  With one ink pass, this is how it turned out.

The letter are from the Lyrical Letters cricut cartridge and the heart is from the Indie cricut cartridge.  Clean up was a snap.  I washed the screen with warm water.  Pealed off the tape and vinyl.  Wiped it down again and put the screen in the Yudu machine to dry.  From start to finish with the vinyl method it was about 30 minutes.  I love how this shirt turned out.  I have some hot-fix rhinestones that I am going to add to it.  I know that my niece will love it.  I would rather use vinly then the emulsion.  I am not going to give up on emulsion though, we are going to learn how to use the liquid stuff.  I share more info about that on a later post.

****update***

I was able to finally get the emulsion to work.  I wet the screen with a spray bottle.  Applied the emulsion and the used the squeegee to get all the air bubbles out.  **per a wonderful suggestion from someone on the cricut message board** Flip the screen over and wipe the emulsion with a wet sponge to get it totally wet and get the air bubbles out.  It took 2 drying cycles to get totaly dry but it worked perfect.  Thank you “14across” from the cricut message board for your help.

Here is a picture of the shirt that I made for my daughter using emulsion.  I cut the pop star out from the Hannah Montana Cartridge.  I cut in out in black vinyl and it adhered perfectly to the glass and stayed in place to properly burn the into the emulsion.  The guitar was a pre-made stencil that you can purchase for the Yudu.

My daughter started running a high fever this weekend on Father’s Day. We ended up going to the emergency room with a 104.1 fever. The doctors don’t know why. The chest x-ray and blood test were all fine. Even though she does not have any cold or flue signs they figure she picked up a virus. I just got her down for awhile. I am hoping her fever breaks soon or the doctor can figure out what is causing it when we go for another follow up in the morning.

I love the lyrical letters cricut cartridge. I put this little cut file together with welded letters so I thought I would share it.  I made it in two different sizes.

I am working on a Tinkerbell scrapbook for my daughter and a Mickey Mouse scrapbook for my son.  I made this little cut file to put with some pictures of my husband and I.

I included them all on 1 cut file.

I went to Michael’s first thing Sunday to get the Lyrical Letters cricut cartridge since they have cricut cartridges on sale this week.  I made my first word book with this cartridge and I am soooo frustrated.  I did not think that the font update for Design Studio changed anything but my DS is acting up.  I can not copy and paste a letter and then try and hide the contour.  I changed the order of pages and when I save the cut file and open it again the pages are back the way they were before I saved them.  I had to save the book with a different name, then open and correct the page order and then save it again before the changes stayed.  I made the book using the square from the Plantin School cartridge and when I went to cut the book I would not cut the pages with the letters welded to the square.  I gave up and made the book again with the Storybook cricut cartridge and Lyrical Letters.  It cut fine so I have no idea what the problem was.  I love how it turned out.

I was able to get everything to stay on this cut file except the center of the A page.  You will have to right click on the center of the A and hide the contour in order to cut the page properly.  I tried to cover it with a rectangle and weld it to the page but it would not work no matter what I tried, oddly the rectangle a the bottom of the page worked fine.  If there is anyone that knows the secret or a trick to this please let me know.  I would really appreciate it.

I ordered Hannah Montana and Sponge Bob from www.ohmycrafts.com on Sunday.  I was a little bummed, first I was busy with the kids and by the time I got them down for the night on Sunday and did what I needed to do, I realized I forgot to order the cartridges.  I had meant to do it on Saturday but I kept debating about ordering some other things.  I ran down at 11:45 p.m. to order the cartridge with the 15% discount code and it had already expired.  I found a 10% code on google search so it did not end up so bad.  I got an e-mail today that they are back ordered on Sponge Bob, with any luck though I should have Hannah Montana by the end of the week.  I can’t wait to get it and make something with it.  I have been neglecting my cricut cartridges lately but I plan on dusting them off and putting them to work in the next couple of weeks.  My son is going to be turning one at the end of August and I really need to start the birthday invitations now.

I have exciting news!  The new cartridges are finally added to Design Studio.  I installed the latest font pack here.  You have to log in and download the update.  I did not download the program update.  I will do that later, I just updated the font pack so I can see what they are all about.  It includes the following cartridges.

Oh gosh, I am so excited.  Hannah Montana, Jubilee, Life Is A Beach, Lyrical Letters, Simply Sweet, Sponge Bob, Stamping and Stand and Salute!!!!!

I have been waiting for Life Is A Beach!

I am so glad that I am off tomorrow, I am going to play.  My husband did not buy me a birthday present yet because I kept telling him I wanted something online but I was not sure exactly what I wanted.  He said to order whatever I wanted.  Now I know what I want.  I am going to order, Hannah Montana, Sponge Bob and Lyrical Letters from www.ohmycrafts.com.  They have a 15% coupon code valid towards any purchase.  Just enter the code summer15 at check out.  My e-mail said that the code is only valid until this Sunday.

**** I know that some people who use SCAL (Sure Cut’s Alot) are afraid (rightly so, we don’t want to loose SCAL)  that updating the Design Studio software will block SCAL as it has in the past.  The font pack update that I completed did not do anything to block SCAL on my cricut expression.

Here is the new Michael’s 40% off coupon that expires 04-25-09.  This week they have cricut cartridges on sale for $39.99!  I was there when they opened at 10:00 a.m. and they have the new cartridges Lyrical Letters and Life’s a Beach.  I ended up getting Life’s a Beach and Animal Kingdom.  I love the lighthouse on Life’s A Beach and the cow on Animal Kingdom.  My daughter Paige loves everything cow and can’t wait until the farmer next door starts letting the cows out for the spring.  In fact, her favorite YouTube video is who let the cows out.  We watch this at least 10 times a day so I thought you may want to as well )

Download:  Michaels 40% off Coupon Expires 04-25

A free cricut cartridge offer is also available.  All you have to do is buy any 4 cricut cartridges at Michael’s from 04-01-09 to 04-30-09 and then you get a free cartridge.  The catch is you only get to choose from three.  Mini Monograms, Faboulous Finds or Teardrop. 

You can read more about it here.  The details:   The cartridge is not really free.  You have to pay a $14.95 processing fee and then you will receive a cartridge.  The form also has a little note that reads “Due to limited availability of stock, you will receive the most preferred cartridge in stock.”  I take that to mean that you may ask for Mini Monograms on the form but you may receive Teardrop or Fabulous Finds instead.   Overall it is still not a bad deal if you need one of these cartridges.