Fields Of Heather: Decorating Dollar Tree Cake Carriers With Cricut

The Cake Carrier Inspiration, from Girl With a Glue Gun

https://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2018/08/47295.html

I thought this would be a really quick and easy project this morning.. I thought i could knock something off my list right away, in a few minutes time. I found cake carriers at Dollar Tree on Monday - I was all set!

HA! The free svg does not include the gorgeous flowers. Apparently she hand cut them from a patterned vinyl? Uhm, no. Although I appreciate her idea and her beautiful execution - I own a cricut because I suck at cutting things with scissors.

So my next idea was to use print then cut for something similar - and then I looked at my printable vinyl, and it says it cannot be washed. Well that's probably not a very good choice for this project then. (It's probably also why that vinyl has sat in the drawer for over a year.. I should look for ideas to use it on something!)

Now I'm on to browsing LoveSVG to find some flowers. (Lots of great options - free svgs.) and that prompts me to go look at what colors of vinyl I own.

In 651, I have an entire, deep, dresser drawer FULL of colors. And not a single pastel in there. A deep purple is the closest I have. Could I do this in other colors? Yes! But that teal blue... (which I happen to have in htv, just not in 651, by the way)

So now I'm on Amazon trying to decide which other colors I should have on hand.. and what else I should order while I am at it.. and while it's MUCH cheaper to just buy it on Amazon, I'm wondering if I really want this much pastel vinyl (I'm looking at 6 rolls, each 5 ft long, with free shipping for $25 --https://amzn.to/2Tm0MXI - these deals are why I already have a deep drawer full of 651) and wondering if maybe I should just run to Michael's and buy a few sheets, if they even have the pastel colors in stock, our Michael's doesn't have a large selection...

An hour later I have not a single project complete, and I'm contemplating driving 20 minutes to go shopping. It's been that kind of week. :-)

The Cake Carrier is from Girl With a Glue Gun,

and the svg can be found (minus the flowers) here - https://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2018/08/47295.html

Love svg has some pretty flower svgs here:

https://lovesvg.com/2017/12/flowers-5031/

here: https://lovesvg.com/2018/04/flowers-6217/

and here: https://lovesvg.com/2018/06/flowers-6855/

Orcal Vinyl is $2,09 a sheet at Michaels now. Remember when it used to be $1? If I buy 6 sheets, - 6 feet - that would be about half the cost of 30 feet purchased on Amazon. 30 feet on Amazon costs roughly $25 (free shipping) working out to .83 cents a sheet. Less than half price. I think I'm going to just order way more vinyl than I need, once again...

And that prompted me to go update my post on which vinyl to buy and where to buy it, because there are new price options... https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/cricut-which-vinyl-do-i-need-where-do-i.html

So ordering on Amazon it is. Hopefully I'll get to this project next week, I'll update with results when/if I do. :-)

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Update - it's amazing I ever got this project done.

After cutting it out, I sat it on my footstool and went to the kitchen for coffee.

We have a puppy.