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Peace Out 5th Grade Shirt featuring Cricut Products

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The end of the school year is near for us and it’s hard to believe that I have a 5th grader going in to 6th grade.  While my oldest has loved his teachers this year, he is ready to be done with 5th grade!  With that said, I made this Peace Out 5th Grade shirt for him to wear on his last day!!!  Cricut makes it super easy to make fun shirts at home!

Materials used:

Cricut Explore and cutting mat
Cricut Iron-On HTV in white
Cricut Weeding Tool
Cricut Easy Press
Cricut Design Space and a Computer
T-shirt
Towel

How to make it:

Using my laptop and Cricut Design Space, I laid out my design.  

With my Cricut Explore, I cut my design out.  Before cutting, I remembered to mirror my image!  I have forgotten to do this once in the past.  Not good.

After it was finished cutting, I weeded the excess iron-on HTV using my Cricut weeding tool.

The Cricut Easy Press is super easy to use and takes up very little space for storage.   I have also found that using the Easy Press works best on my granite counter top with a towel under the shirt. Cricut has a list of heating settings on their website.  I love it!

 
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Now it’s ready to wear!

Landon loves this shirt and is super excited to wear it.   Hope you like it!  

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Until next time……

End of the School Year Banner

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Before we know it, this school year will be ending and it will be Summer time!!!!  It’s hard to believe, but it’s true!   At our house, we are super excited about our summer vacation and the fun things that we get to do!   In honor of the End of the School Year, I made this adorable little “Happy Summer” banner using Laura Kelly’s Peep and Lemonade Alphabet Dies from Sizzix! 
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My friend Laura Kelly is such a creative lady and she has a great collection of dies with Sizzix.   These particular dies are a part of the Ellison Classroom Series.  Click the picture below to find the link to where you can get your own.
Girl and Boy Peeps
Alright, now on to how I made this adorable little banner.  Using my Sizzix BigShot, Boy and Girl Peep dies, and an extended cutting pad I cut the peeps using different flesh tones.  Using bright colors, I cut out all of the different clothes.  For the feet, I just cut out part of the legs and cut the feet part off.   For the hair of the girls, I just cut out extra heads and then cut the hair off of them.  

Once everything was cut out and organized (who was getting what clothes), I used Tombow Liquid Glue to glue all of the parts together.   Once they were all dried, I laid them out so that it looked like they were holding hands and then I glued them together.
glue
Once everyone was glued together, I used Laura Kelly’s Lemonade Upper Case and Lower Case Alphabets to add the words “Happy Spring”.   Click the photo below to go to the link where you can get your own!
alphabets
Again, using the Tombow Liquid Glue, I added the letters to each of my peeps.  I also added a dot between the words “Happy” and “Summer” just so that one of them wouldn’t be lonely!!!
adding letters
Once everyone was completely dry, I punched a hole in the first and last hand.  Then I tied baker’s twine to each hand so that I could hang it up! string
Hope you like my End of the Year – Happy Summer Banner!  
individual letters
Until next time……….

Disclosure:  I received product from Sizzix as a member of the Laura Kelly Design Team.  Laura Kelly is a licensed designer for Sizzix.  All opinions are that of Katie Berry.

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