Creative Cute Cups!

I'm kind of excited to share with you a recent craft project, for a couple reasons.  It was pretty inexpensive to put together and I think they are darling! I hope you do too!

I have come to really like the Dollar Tree store recently and found these cups while there this past weekend! I was actually searching for clear plastic cups with a lid and straw! Unfortunately they did not have those......

BUT I found these!

They are small cups that you can pull apart and a child could decorate the paper inside!  Well, this time I was the child! :)  When I saw them I thought, oh these would be a good practice item for my Cricut vinyl and the two "little girls" in my life would like them! So I snagged them up for $1 a piece! BARGAIN!

I had several colors of vinyl that I have actually had for quite awhile.  I bought up on some and then fell out of the Cricut making fun! Glad I'm back in it!  I came home and got right to work! I took the template of paper inside the cup and cut a new  piece from white cardstock.

Then I created the girl's name and polka dots on the Cricut Craft Room online.  It's free and is easy to use with my Cricut. 

Once I got the vinyl cut, I placed them on the cardstock template, and tada!

 A decorated cup! 

Now the cups will need to be disassembled to be washed, but I figure for $1, I can do that!  The "little girls" loved them and that was definitely worth the time and effort put into them!

You could use vinyl to decorate any sort of cup.  This vinyl was not the "outdoor" vinyl as is instructed to use on cups and items to be washed. But I figured I was safe since I was actually putting the design on cardstock and not the actual cup.  

I am still in search of clear cups with lid and straw, if you happen to know of where I can find some, please comment below!  

These are great gift ideas as well! You could decorate a cup and fill it with goodies for a teacher, friend, co-worker, appreciation gift, etc!  Or you could decorate smaller cups for children's groups such as students, vacation bible school attendees, Sunday school, etc!  

This is a great idea to make & sell too, if you happen to have a Cricut! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Julie

Word Collages

If you have been in a store lately or looked at Pinterest or happen to be crafty

you probably have seen various versions of word collages to decorate with.  

This particular one I found on Alicia's Delightful Designs.

I own a Cricut cutting machine just like this one. 

It's the original one, it's not the new fancy ones, but it works nicely.
Recently I have been using it more than I have in the past few years!

  I'd like to create a word collage with vinyl. 

 I've used vinyl before when I decorated my daughter's room with lady bugs.  

   Here I practiced one afternoon with cardstock.
It's not glued down, but thought this might be a good practice run!
Still have some kinks to work out!
I invested in a couple new fonts today and plan to play some more!

I am giving myself a challenge and I would like your help.

 I'd like you to inspire me! 

If you could have a word collage in your home or office,

 what would the words be?  

What word would you want to be the main one?
This one would be a different color possibly.

It doesn't have to have as many words as I did in this one!

Take a couple days to think on it, please comment here or on 

our Facebook page where I share this post. 

 You never know!  

If I get good at it, perhaps there will be one included 

in my 1 year anniversary giveaway in August!

 It's your turn to inspire me, I can't wait to see all your ideas!

Thanks for stopping by!

Julie