Zebra Wall Art

During my excursion to Hobby Lobby to pick up the ornaments... I happened upon a few "artist boards".  These beauties were on clearance for less than $4!  My creative mind was brainstorming away just "knowing" these would be necessary in a future project.  I could only imagine what my Cameo could do with something like this.   

Well, it didn't take long.  After making a sign for my daughters door with her new Zebra craze she is going through, I couldn't help but wonder how hard it would be to make some wall art for her room.  So looking for pictures we could convert to vinyl art we went.  One of the pictures she picked out was this one.

  Pretty simple, black and white with clean lines.  I didn't think it would be too hard to trace - WRONG... Especially when you haven't done it before.  It was still easy, once I figured it out.

If you know me... you know I dive into everything.  Without reading directions.  I just do it.  Then, when something doesn't work right..  I pull out the owners manual!  Brahaahaa... just a little FYI for you.  Anyway, after deciding vinyl was just too precious to waste, I read up on how to trace designs in both Silhouette Studio Designer and Make a Cut.  To be honest.. there is a VERY detailed and wonderful tutorial on Youtube for Studio, but the program really lacked what I want... EASE! I honestly think I spent several hours reading and watching videos, just to find out what is what.  Make a cut is SO much easier!!  Especially, if you're like me and are only using black and white.

 

 

Once I had the design traced, I cut it out and voila!  Not hard at all.  She LOVED it!  I was pretty proud of it too. 

Personalized Ornaments

I'm still lovin' my Cameo!  I just wished I had more time to play around with it.  Since I'm home for a few weeks, I called my TRUSTY side kick over (My wonderful Mom!) and we tinkered around with making ornaments.

Super Duper Easy Peasy!  These are the easiest things to do.

We got the 2 5/8 balls and ribbon at Hobby Lobby (as always, I used my 40% coupon) and I had the vinyl that I purchased from H&H.  We started out using clear ornaments with the thoughts of putting in the metallic gift shred, but it drowned out the lettering on the ornament, so we changed our minds.

We created the design in the Silhouette Studio Designer and cut, then transferred them to the ornaments.  The biggest thing we had to be careful about was the dot on the "i" pulling up.  It would sometime catch on the Silhouette and other times it would stick when weeding.


There are several blogs and posts about using two colors and putting them on at the same time, but I was too chicken.  The vinyl ain't expensive,  but it ain't free so I opted for a chicken route! LOL!  One at a time... and it worked perfectly for us chickens.




I think they turned out wonderful!