As most of you know, I am huge fan of buried layers and treasures inside my Cricut cartridges. Over the last month or so I have shown several projects using Ribbons and Rosettes. One feature that I found once I opneded the cartridge was "Rhiniestone" layer feature. I relish the opportunity to add bling to anything I can and since I have 3 boys- that does not happen very often. I decided to try this feature on a gift for my neices- Michelle and Shyloh. They are 3 and love pink, hearts , and BLING. This gift has all 3!
I started by cutting contact paper (or vinyl) using Kiss Cutting- 3 Pressure, 3 Depth , and 3 Speed at 1.63 inches (if you are cutting from the cartridge, I would round this to 1.75). For some reason my E2 cuts a bit different than my Expression did- so I had to lower the Depth and Pressure to 2. I pressed the contact paper to my washed shirt. Next I began using a heat tool to set each rhinestone. I used my Tulip one for this project, but if you have an I Rock (I have both) you could use that too.
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Once I had all the rhinestones in place, I gently pulled the contact paper up and revealed my design. This project was super easy and under $5 to make. The Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge has several borders as well as a font that is set for adding rhinestones. Tomorrow I will have a couple glass etching projects that I made as gifts. I hope you have a crafty and creative day.
11 comments:
Hi Elizabeth,
What a great idea - will certainly try this one! thanks
Vee xx
this was a very nice project. I am going to try this. Yes I would love to see projects other than paper. Thanks for the insiration.
that's so neat :)
I love this idea. I got the Rossette cart for Christmas, but honestly did know what the rhinestone views were all about. This is darling and my granddaughter will love it. I will also be about to use the rhinestone setter I got years ago.
Though I love paper crafts, I also love using my Cricut for other things. Thanks so must for sharing these ideas.
Have a Beautiful and Blessed Year
That looks lovely. I love the cartridge too. But haven't used the rhinestone feature yet. Time to take irock out after seeing your lovely project. TFS
Ooooo...Love this! Haven't try this yet. I know some girls that love hearts, bling and pink too.
I would love to see crafty stuff! That's what I do mote of w/ my Cricut!
Very cute - I love this idea!! I didn't know that cart had a rhinestone feature. That will be really fun!! Thanks for sharing a non-paper idea!!
Beautiful. I just got that cart and didn't realize that it had that feature... I will have to try that. TFS
What a great idea. I've never tried the irock or a heat set tool of any sort for bling. Is it difficult? Does it use a special adhesive?
Wow. I'm always pleasantly surprised and delighted at "new layer" discoveries all the time.
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