Monday, December 13, 2010

Fantabulous Cricut Deck the Halls Crawl!!!

Howdy Friends! Welcome to the third (and MY first!!) Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...Fantabulous Cricut's version of a blog hop!

In honor of the approaching Christmas holiday, we're having a "Deck The Halls" Crawl...each Design Team member will be featuring an original Christmas/Holiday-themed project that could be used to decorate and spruce up their homes for the Holiday Season!

If you've come from visiting Jean at http://jeanscraftycorner.blogspot.com/ you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE!

Make sure to check out each DT member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be PRIZES along the way at our DT members' blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Deck The Halls" project at FCCB!

How fun is that?

Now for my project - here is what I made!




I made this for my daughter's teacher for her Christmas present.  I was in a store one day and saw something like this that was a child's chair and was so stinkin' cute!  BUT it had a crazy price tag on it and I knew I could do something similar.  So I went to Michaels and bought a stool in the unfinished wood department (using a coupon of course!) and then used supplies I already had at home.  I spent less than $5.00!!  Here's how I did it:

I started by tracing the top on patterned paper.

Then I painted the sides and bottom (oh yeah, make sure you PRIME the wood first otherwise you'll be  painting several coats).  I used acrylic paint I had in my supplies.

After the paint dries - get out the Mod Podge!  I used the matte finish for this project.  Tip: put Mod Podge onto the backside of the PAPER (like glue) and then put it onto the wood.  It will help with the air bubbles by gluing the paper first instead of putting it on the stool.  Use a brayer or old card to brush out any bubbles that may be there.

Cut off excess paper with craft knife.

Ink the edges with Distress Ink.  I used Brushed Corduroy.

Tear a second piece of paper to coordinate with pattered paper.  Santa is actually fuzzy or flocked!

I then added paper trim to the bottom of the stool as an accent.

Finally, I cut the word 'BELIEVE' using the Hello Kitty Font Cartridge and the Holly image using the Winter Woodland Cartridge, then Mod Podged them to the stool after I inked the edges.

I put 2 coats of Mod Podge all over the stool as a sealer.  Now the stool is ready for little ones to wait for Santa's visit!



SO - for the PRIZE on my blog!  I am going to give away at least 1 prize - how about some lovely Prima flowers!  All you need to do is leave me a comment telling me if you have a special collection of some sort.  Mine is snowmen!  I love snowmen and they reside on my stairs from the day after Thanksgiving until the end of January (but the other decorations come down after New Year's Day!)

AND I'll give away a 2nd prize if I reach 60 followers by Friday, Dec. 17th! 

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LEAVE ME A COMMENT AND A WAY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU IF YOU WIN!!!!


Now it's your turn! Let's see your Christmas/Holiday-Themed Decor projects! Make sure to include a Cricut cut somewhere on your project!


Next stop... Jill's blog! Go see what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!


Happy Crawling!

Jennifer

63 comments:

  1. oh wow one lucky teacher. great job and so pretty

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  2. Wow, I love this idea. I am always looking for ideas for teachers gifts...its soo cute and your work is beautiful...thanx for the inspiration. I have a collection of santas throughout my home..:)

    mkramer06@roadrunner.com

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  3. Wow!How cute! I have two girls under 2 who would LOVE a stool like this to climb on for the bathroom or something. Such a great idea. I am a teacher and my special collection is of teacher gifts I get every year that I try to display. I also have a collection of red decore items that coordinate well with my red wall in my house.

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  4. Wow, what a clever and useful idea. I love this idea. I am always looking for ideas for teachers gifts...its so cute and your work is beautiful...thanks for the inspiration.

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  5. WOW! Your project is amazing. Great job on making it yourself with little expense. I love working with Mod Podge too.

    Angela
    Simple Creations
    simplecreations @ live.com

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  6. This is absolutely amazing!!!! I love it...\I wish I was the teacher...
    lauraleed48atlivedotca

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  7. I love this idea!! I've been trying to find a little rocking chair to put in our playroom. However, i think one of these stools decorated would look much better and more personal then a rocking chair!!!

    thefurners0704@yahoo.com

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  8. What a super cute stool. Thanks for the great tips. TFS!

    Christel
    onescrappinsista.blogspot.com

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  9. That is SO BEAUTIFUL! I love the santa and the torn paper look! TFS! I became a new follower!
    booger1 at tds.net

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  10. What a beautiful stool & great idea! What a lucky teacher. TFS!
    My special collection during Christmas time is snowglobes!

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  11. Jennifer! This beautiful! I really love this and may have to try it in the future. Great job! I also have a collection of snowmen. In fact, for years that was all my children would give me for Christmas. I love them but I have plenty so I am encouraging them to give me Cricut gifts!

    ~Saundra
    luvscrappingtogether@gmail.com

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  12. Love this idea! The stool is beautiful! I collect wall crosses and have them all over the house!

    clworkman4 at gmail dot com

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  13. great project i am now a follower.

    wheatley_jan@hotmail.com

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  14. wow, awesome gift! You did a beautiful job! As for my collections, let me narrow it down to my glass art roosters! I just love em!

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  15. My collection is bunnies. Love the stool you made.

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  16. Fantabulous! Fantabulous! Fantabulous! Love it!:)
    Jill (aka The Scrapoholic) FCCB DT Member

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  17. WOW! That turned out so professionally!! Great job. Love the paper colors!

    calbekah@aol.com

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  18. I have a collection of German hand blowen christmas ortemnets
    I'm a follower come and visit me
    http://buzzybeedesigns.blogspot.com
    Rebecca Minor
    buzzybeedesigns(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

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  19. I collect snow globes. Whenever we travel I try to find one, that way during the holidays I can remember all the places I have traveled to (or my husband has). It can be a year round collection too! My mom collects trees. She has a HUGE collection. Thanks for sharing your project with us I LOVE how the stool turned out!

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  20. No really special collections...unless you count all of my scrapbook and card making supplies LOL. Thanks for the great ideas!! Happy Holidays!
    Laura at cmclaura@woh.rr.com

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  21. I have a small collection of penguins. They are so cute! :) I love your stool, it is adorable, I read and re-read the "how-to's" and I think I may have to try it. It is ADORABLE! I think I will make mine with penguins on it...

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  22. This is amazing!! What a fabulous gift - and for under $5! Wow!! It's turned out just wonderfully. You must be so pleased!
    I have a collection of nativity sets. This way, my house is only cluttered one month of the year! I do like to collect sets from over the world and have quite a variety.

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  23. what a beautiful table. it's cute. i also liked your tags. I have some snowmean. wish I had more!

    Angie
    scrappin_diva28@yahoo.com

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  24. How precious, you dod a great great job on this! I love it!
    Thank you fo sharing!
    Contact Info: incase I get lucky enought to win the amazing blog candy! Happy Holiday's! arebori0204@gmail.com

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  25. What a wonderful gift. I love Santas and each year add one or two to my collection.
    motherloves3 at hotmail dot com

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  26. Adorable idea! I don't have any special collections that I can display at this time, but I'd love to collect snow globes someday!

    rebirthcandles@yahoo.com

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  27. This project is absolutely amazing! It sounds so simple but looks like it took you forever to make! Awesome job! My special collection is my Cherished Teddies. They are Teddy Bear figurines and I have hundreds of them for all year long! My email is jennro7781@yahoo.com. Merry Christmas!

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  28. Lovely gift, thanks for sharing. I have a special collection of puffins, my favorite animal! I can never have too many...

    puffinliz@yahoo.com

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  29. this is really nice, i love those papers and the price is AWESOME!

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  30. This stool turned out really cute! I used to have a lot of collections growing up... horses, porcelain dolls, stuffed animals.... now I have Scrapbook Supplies!

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  31. This is the cutest stool:) Wow, you did an amazing job! I love it. Thanks for all the detailed info. on how you did this. You ROCKED it. As for my collection, well, I don't really have a collection of anything just yet. I do love painting and I have a lot of paint but I wouldn't say I collect paint:)
    Happy holidays.
    ~Madison www.funkycards.blogspot.com

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  32. WOW!! This is totally awesome!

    Fellow FCCB DT :)

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  33. What a great project, just love it. I have a wonderful collection of snowmen also. I am follower number 66 so I think you have made it to 60.
    ginnieg3@gmail.com

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  34. That stool is a work of art - beautiful! My collection is also snowmen and I generally have one out all year, hiding somewhere :)

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  35. Great job on the stool!! I do not have a collection, other than scrapbooking stuff :P

    Thanks,
    Tanya
    phenis2031 at yahoo dot com

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  36. Wow...very pretty. I know one teacher that is going to love this gift. I collect Santa Claus and snowmen!
    lfuchs1 at wi. rr. com

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  37. Very beautiful.

    My favorite collection is PAPER....lol

    TFS,
    Erin
    Spantastikreations@yahoo.com

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  38. What a wonderful and industrious project! Can't believe you spent less that $5, Way To Go!!! As for collecting, I guess mine would have to be old glass Christmas ornaments. I have some that are over 70 years old and love them!

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  39. Awww, your stool is so cute. Very nice job on it.
    I have a small collection of Zebras and a big collection of crafting supplies!
    reneeleeak at yahoo dot com

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  40. I would love a gift like this.

    I have several collections. I collect angels, nativity's, santas, and snowmen. We have one Christmas Tree that is all angels. We have another tree that is all sports related.

    vndlewis at rocketmail dot com

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  41. This is such a neat idea. I love it.

    Fellow FCCB DT

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  42. OMGoodnes!!! I love snowmen also. I have a vary wide collection of snowman. They are just so adorable aren't they!! Great project!!

    simplycricutting@gmail.com

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  43. WOW!!! This project is AMAZING! You did such a great job! I love gingerbread men (and women!), my kitchen is covered with them during the holidays!.

    Olivia
    ojdorman@gmail.com

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  44. Great project! Great inspiring for other holidays and gifts!
    As far as collections go... i have a paper and sticker collection that is really just an addiction... lol... can't help myself...
    Looking around though, I guess I have a dragon collection of various things I've gotten at RenFest.
    Thanx for sharing your creativeness. Whoop! :)

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  45. This is sooo cute, can't believe you spent less than $5 on it, awesome gift!!! As for collections of all things it's figural salt & pepper shakers!! Not sure why I started but they're really cute. Happy Holidays!!
    miller896042atbellsouth.net

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  46. love this stool....my collection...polar bears...i just love them and they are out all year long


    cathie
    scraphappycat@gmail.com

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  47. your stool is absolutely stunning!!!!!
    my collection is of Russian Dolls:)

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  48. This looks great! I love it! I collect old coins.
    ra6352 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  49. Beautiful bench! I collect old world santas!

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  50. It is a beautiful bench!
    I collect Hallmark Christmas ornaments and I love Angles
    Perderg@q.com

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  51. omgosh i love this.. just adorable!
    -jamie
    babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com

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  52. This is fabulous. What a fantastic idea. I love it. I have snowmen of all kinds around my house and would love to make a snowman bench like this for my house. Add to my collection :)
    Lisa
    dpeeples1@hotmail.com

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  53. This is just adorable! I love the look of the torn paper on the top of the stool!

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  54. OMG. I absolutely love your stool! Love how it looks like an antique. I love antiques. I am a new follower. TFS

    stacy at mycraftingtime dot com

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  55. This is really cute!! You are so crafty and this is just adorable!!
    Fellow FCCB DT

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  56. Wonderful project! Will the paper stay on the stoo? Love this ideal! TFS

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  57. This is totally adorable and the single word with those delightful papers was all that was needed. For me my only collection is Disney Characters but they have to be the Christmas ones. I started to collect them in 2000 as we had travelled to Florida as a parting gift from a deceased relative and I wanted to buy something to remember them by, now each year I have either brought more myself when in Florida or my mother in law buys them for me when she is there. Thanks for the chance to win.
    kimthompson68(at)sky(dot)com
    Kim xXx

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  58. jennyplace2 - thank you! yes, the paper will stay on - it has been Mod Podge to within an inch of its life!! I have about 5 coats on the top of the paper.

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  59. What a lucky teacher. Great stool. I collect lighthouses due to my love of the ocean. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win. I am a new follower. patnbobcuddy at gmail dot com

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  60. That is beautiful, and I love the step by step directions thank you!
    Lisa
    summer_sunset54@hotmail.com

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