Monogram Plate

Welcome to March everyone – I don’t know about you but I am ready for spring. I just finished planning a surprise birthday bash for my sister I will share with you a little later but I promised in my post for my decorative plate that I had another plate design I wanted to share with you so here we go.

Like the other plate you will first start by cleaning the plate and ensuring it is completely dry.

Second is selecting the design for your plate. With the first plate having our last name I decided to do a monogram and used Silhouette design #26969 Wrought Iron Frame by Jennifer Wambach. I measured the inside of the plate to determine the size of the design which is 7.5” by 7.5”. Once I had the size of my design I selected the font for my monogram which is DaunPenh. I used brown vinyl for this plate as well.

Once all the designs were cut I used the transfer tape to position the designs and my scrapper to ensure all of the bubbles were removed. Remove the transfer tape and voila!

But wait my plate seems to be missing something. There was still too much white showing on the plate so I created a slim rectangle that was the length of my plate to go around each edge. I think it looks better with this little extra detail. Here is a picture of one of the edges and you can see the difference between the two above pictures (sorry the pictures are a little dark but I kept getting a bad glare off the white plate).

 

 

Tracey

Decorative Family Plate

Hello everyone – I hope you are having a good week. Today I want to share a simple project with you as I have a rather large project going on at the moment.

For this project I used a $0.99 plate I found at Goodwill that matches the color of my kitchen perfectly, brown vinyl, transfer tape, and my Silhouette.

First start by cleaning the plate and ensuring it is completely dry.

Second is the fun part of selecting the designs you want to use to decorate your plate. For this plate I used the Silhouette Scroll Tree ID#6981 and one of the scrolls from ID#13648 Flourish both are by Hero Arts. This scroll might look familiar as it is the same one I used for my Monogram Coasters. The font for the letters is Lucida Calligraphy and I selected a font size that would fit along the edge of the plate.

Once all the designs have been sized to fit and cut I used the transfer tape to position the designs and used my scrapper to ensure all of the bubbles were removed. Remove the transfer tape and voila!

I have one other decorative plate I will share with you next time.

 

Tracey

Monogram Coasters

One of the crafty gifts I gave this year for Christmas was monogrammed coasters. They were fairly inexpensive to make as I purchased a box of 100 white tiles from Home Depot and depending on how many you are making this can be a quick project. Due to the number of sets I was giving as gifts and each set containing four coasters it took me a little longer to finish them.

First I selected the font I wanted to use – which is Goudy Old Style and the font size is 266. I cut several different flourish designs to determine the one I wanted to use and decided to go with Design 13648 Flourish by Hero Arts. Then I put my poor Silhouette to work cutting all of the vinyl pieces for the coasters.

While my Silhouette was fast at work I cut the pads and adhered the felt pads to the bottom of each coaster. I found using adhesive backed black felt was the quickest and cheapest product to use.

Once some of the vinyl was cut I started prepping my designs and adding transfer paper. Then it was time to start adding the designs to the each coaster and finish them off with glossy Mod Podge. This is what my desk looked like while some of the coasters were drying.     

 

 

After I finished all the coasters I tied each set with black ribbon.

With my daughter being an Alabama fan I decided to make a different coaster for her since I found this really cute houndstooth paper. I cut the paper a little smaller than the coaster and used red vinyl for her monogram – she loved them me on the other hand would have preferred them to be a different color. J  

Tracey