Birthday Plate

I have wanted to make a birthday plate for my kids for at least 2 years.   My Mother-in-law had a "You are Special" plate and I thought that was cool.  Birthdays are big in my family.  My husband thinks I am crazy, but birthdays are my favorite holiday.  My kids don't get many gifts, but they sure get the decorations and fun.
Ok, to the fun stuff! I found this awesome paint called  "Pebeo Porecelaine 150 Ceramic Paint".  You can paint it on tile, porcelain, metal... and then you bake it on and it stays forever.  You can even dishwasher it.  It is a little pricey.  (about $5.00 a jar plus shipping for each color) I could not decide on a color.  That is why it has taken me 2 years to do this.  Not kidding.  I am a penny pincher.  So the other day I found this cool stuff in marker form, ( HURRAY!!!)  and it was less money.  I found it here. They have great prices, and their shipping is amazing.  My kids saw my plate, and they are all excited to make their own for dinner time.  I really didn't plan on that, but why not. 

Items needed:
*Plate- Glass, porcelain.. (I found mine at the dollar store)
*Porecelaine 150 paint or makers
*Vinyl Stencil
*Oven

How to:
I made a stencil with vinyl and placed it on my plate.  I just painted the plate and then removed the vinyl.  Try to remove the vinyl when it is wet, because when it dries the vinyl will take some of the paint with it. I had to touch up my letters.  I added extra touches to my plate like sprinkles on my cupcake, and outlining everything.  I think I went a little overboard with polka dots.  You don't even need a stencil, but I am not that good free handing it, so it was a must for me. After you are done with the design, you let it set for 24 hours. Than you bake it in a oven.  The directions are right on the pen.  Really simple, and the crafts are endless with these cool pens. 

Graphics Graphics Graphics

Can I just say I LOVE making graphics.  My mom loves cutting the vinyl so we are a perfect team.  We now have graphics on our website Vinylgiftsandmore.com.  We are slowly getting some on, and at this time they will be emailed to you when purchased.  Maybe someday we can open a new site just for graphics so you can download them from the site.  We have 3 different formats:  AI (Adobe Illustrator), EPS (for most big vinyl cutting machines) and SVG (for all those cricut users). 

CopyRight

It has come to my attention, that people are using my pictures as their own.  When I started this blog I did not watermark my pictures.  I guess I didn't think people would steal my pictures.  I am ok if you use my pictures, but please post that you got it from our site or blog.  We spend A LOT of TIME coming up with ideas for our blog.  I am actually really sad that I have to even post this.

New Graphic

I have had a few emails about our graphics, and how they are not up for sale yet on our site.  I am really sorry about that.  We have been doing lots of orders (Thank you all) and have been really busy.  I am also in the process of moving.  We have moved 7 times in 10 years so I am really excited to own a home and stay put for awhile.  This is a new graphic that will be for sale.  All the trees are separate, so you can use them for all different designs.

Winner of the Glass Block and Vinyl

We had 2 winners of the glass blocks and vinyl.  Thank you to all that participated.  We picked randomly with a cool nifty blog comment picker.  There are so many fun gadgets out there. The winners are:

1. Karen 
I LOVE the idea of these lighter weight (and less breakable!) blocks. I hope I win!!!!!!

2. Celese
I have never seen these before! I love them. It's fantastic that you can change them with the holiday or season. I absolutely love it! It was great looking through the pictures of the ideas too.



I became a follower. :)

New Wise Men Still Seek HIm

We have a new Wise Men Still Seek Him Design for a 12 inch tile. 

Graphics to Buy

I am really excited to let you know that starting next week, we will start selling some of our graphics.  It will be on our website, under graphics.  We will have our graphics in a few different formats.  AI, EPS and SVG (for all of you cricut users).  This graphic will be one of them.  We are still in business to cut vinyl, but we have had lots of emails to buy our graphics, so we decided why not.  This graphic will also be on our site next week for purchase in vinyl.

Giveaway!!!

The Give Away is now CLOSED  

I am really excited to tell you that we are having a GIVEAWAY!  I think it is pretty awesome! We have had lots of people email us where to find the glass blocks with the hole in it.  I had a friend that shared with me a great site that sold craft blocks made with plastic that pulled apart and had a place for lights.  They look just like glass, but not so breakable and heavy. LOVE IT!  I contacted them and they said they were willing to give 2 blocks away.  That means 2 Winners! I wanted to give away something too, so I will be giving a Christmas vinyl away to those people lucky enough to get these blocks. 

I also wanted to let you know they are have a special right now on their blocks.  If you type in the number 10 in the promo code, you will get 10% off your order.  Also they are having another deal where you buy 7 and get 1 free. http://www.artsandcraftsbyrayson.com/create_a_block.html

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 How to Enter to Win a Block and Vinyl:

1.  Go Check out the Create-A-Block Site and tell me what you think.http://www.artsandcraftsbyrayson.com/create_a_block.html then come back and leave a comment on this blog.

2. Become a follower and Enter to win (Make sure you leave an email address or something we can contact you if you win.

That is all. We will be picking a winner randomly in 2 weeks from today.  October 22.

Merry Christmas

We are excited to have a fun new Christmas graphic.  It should be on our website soon.  I don't know about you, but I can already feel the Christmas spirit in the air.  Maybe it's all the Christmas vinyl I am cutting.  In my town it is over 100 degrees, but I still feel like snuggling under a blanket and drink hot chocolate watching a great movie.

Fun New Graphics

 We have had lots of requests for a fall or Thanksgiving graphic.  I decided to to put them together to make this.  This graphic should be on our website soon. 

We had a customer that sent us this graphic for their craft day.  We made this up to show them, and we loved it so much that we added it to our site for others to enjoy.  This comes in 2 different colors.