{My Altered Circut!!!}

Sorry there is no 'before' picture here.....but I'm sure everyone knows what the cricut's original color is.  lol  :-) 

This took much longer to get posted that I thought it would.  Not only have I not had much craft time lately which has put a damper on things....but I really really wanted to put a cherry rhinestone on her.....

Here she is in all her RED lovely glorly!!!  :-D

I was able to put a red rhinestone on the 'I' of the cricut....I wanted to see what the red rhinestones looked like against the red paint.  I like it.  :-D
I wasn't able to get a very good picture of it though, so I don't think you can see it very well....sorry :-(
I really, really, really LOVE how this turned out!!!

LOL  Everytime I walk by my craft room I'm like...."I have a RED cricut!!!"  lol  and I'm still loving my cuttle bug too!  :-D 
My cricut sits out on my desk and is just so fun to see as I walk by.  :-D


I wasn't able to find a cherry rhinestone that I liked ready made to put on her, so I was going to make my own.  I have a bunch of rhinestones that I picked up at Michael's on clearance after Christmas...and I have cherries on From My Kitchen cart that Hubby got me for Christmas...hehe... :-D  I still plan on doing this.....sometime.....when I get the time to get it all pulled together.....lol.....SOOO since that is my plan.....and who KNOWS when it will ALL be put together.....I thought I would share this lovely red lady with ya'll!!!  :-D

{My Altered CuttleBug!!!}

*Edit to post:  This rhinestone girl skull that I got was for a tshirt, so I didn't really pick the size of her I just saw her and wanted to use her....it was the kind that you iron on. 
I forgot to mention this part of it....they were a HUGE pain to get on here....anyway on the part of the cuttlebug that opens up there is a curve and I didn't even think of it while picking the placement of the girl skull.....WELL now I have a BUNCH of rhinestones on the INSIDE of my cuttlebug and not a full girl skull on the outside because when you open it it knocked them off!  UGH!  Not too sure what I'm going to do to fix this....but working on it of course!  Thought I'd let ya know incase someone else didn't think of it like me.....sometimes I just get too carried away and don't see those little curves!  LOL


Please don't forget that I got my inspirations in my previous post I did here about altered cricuts....

Okay....well....I decided to go with the color red......which if you know me and my ideas for my craft room really is no suprize.....So I finally found the PERFECT color of red!  :-D 

It took me quite a while to take her up....lol...

and not quite as long to annoy my hubby with my 'tape, tape, tape it up' song that I was singing LOL.....yupp I really am that much of a dork lol.....but anyway onto my pics for ya'll......

Here she is in all her loverly glory...........

Yupp it's official....I'm in lurve!!!  lol  :-D

On a side note....I'm still working on my cricut....she will be making her debut soon though!  :-D

{Menu board}

At one of my trips to Jo-Anns (I was getting textile medium for the tshirts I made) I found a really cool material....it's peel and stick chalk board, it comes in green, black...AND BLUE!!! I was SO excited to see this is blue. lol And I knew EXACTLY what I could do with it! :-) I have this frame that use to have a mirror in it, but the mirror broke years ago....and my brother made it into a bulletin board for me when he was visiting me when I had Mr T...and he did a great job. BUT I've fallen in love with spray paint....lol....andI knew what I could do with this now. :-) Here is the before picture........

Before:

So before I get to my after picture I'll tell ya what I did. :-) I took apart the bulletin that my brother made for me....and I spray painted the frame part (this was my first spray paint job...I don't know why but spray paint has always intimidated me....but not anymore! lol) Then I took the peel and stick and put it on the piece of cardboard that my brother had already used for the bulletin board...it didn't quite cover the whole area, but I had some cardstock that was a real close match that I covered the area at the very top with...and you can hardly even tell. :-) I then took some wide ribbon from my stash and wrapped it around the frame and tied it. I put the backing back on and screwed the frame back together...then I took the ribbon and nailed it into the top of the door, wrapped it back down and tied a pretty bow. Now the boys don't have to ask what we're having for dinner! lol They can read it! :-) It's hanging on my pantry door in my kitchen.....doesn't it look pretty next to my pretty apron that my mommy got me? :-) I love it! :-D

After: