Baby Shower Game

Here’s a great baby shower game that any guest can play. I bought a whole container of pink jellybeans from the Party City along with this super cute large pink plastic baby bottle (which is actually a change container). I filled the baby bottle with jellybeans and counted them (the whole container fits into the baby bottle).

I created the sign using my Cricut Explore Air 2 and the KidSharpProduction pen adapters to use the Gel Writer pen and a pink Sharpie for the word “Jellybeans”. It was super simple and turned out great. You can color in the letters if you want but I just left them. I set out a blank sheet where people could put their name’s and guesses.

Then give the winner a bottle of rose wine or whatever kind of wine you would like!

Cute Baby Shower Favors

Hello! So to follow up on my previous post I wanted to share the final super cute baby shower popcorn favors.

So I created the tags with my new Cricut Explore Air 2. I cut circles out of light pink and then the text out of dark pink. I used transfer paper on the dark pink and then added glue to the back and glued the light pink circle onto the back and peeled the transfer paper off. Then I cut the pink popcorn boxes with the Cricut and also used it to (at the same time) write the “pink chocolate popcorn” logo onto the boxes. Then I simply assembled them together.

I made the chocolate covered popcorn by buying pink chocolate wafers at Bulk Barn, melting them and pouring them over the popped popcorn. Mixed it all in and voila!

Filled the custom popcorn boxes and placed them into tall plastic bags I bought at Michaels. Used some pink twine to tie them up and added the tags.

So a little bit of effort and created some super cute baby shower favors. You can create them in blue for boys or use a neutral color for unknown.

Customized Baby Bodysuits with Cricut

I have been having lots of fun with my new Cricut Explore Air 2 and recently lots of my family members are having babies so what a great combination to create some customized baby iron on images. I LOVE my pets and my family members also LOVE their pets especially their dogs so to add a customized touch I created these personalized baby bodysuits with posterized images of their dogs on them. Here’s how I did it;

1. Took an image of their dogs as a jpeg. It’s best to find images that are on a neutral background or a background without lots of distractions. This will make it easier to eliminate the background. I used this image of my cousin’s three Portuguese Water Dogs taken in my studio.
2. I used Photoshop for posterizing the image. Bring the jpeg into Photoshop and convert it to Grayscale (Image>Mode>Grayscale) then in the bottom right click on the circle icon and pick “Levels” adjustment layer. Adjust the image to it has more contrast from lights to dark. Then use the quick selection tool from the left hand tool bar to select the dogs out from the background. 
   

   

3. Double click on the background layer to the right and rename it to layer 0. You can create a new layer under it but make sure the layer with the dog image is selected afterwards. Click on Select>Inverse and this will make the dancing ants pick the entire background then click on Edit>Cut to eliminate the background.

 

4. Now click on the circle icon bottom right and pick “Posterize” to add this new adjustment layer (make sure this layer is at the top of all layers). Make sure that Posterize levels is at 2 – this will be in it’s property window.

 

5. You can use the Levels adjustment layer to add more dark areas or lighter areas to your image as you like. Then I will zoom in and paint the really small pixels either black or white. You want detail but remember this is a superficial posterized image of your picture so you don’t want the really tiny pixels as this is hard for the Cricut to cut. That’s why I color them in. Then use the magic wand tool to select all the black areas.

6. Once you have all the posterized black areas selected click File>Save As>PNG

You want to save the selection as a PNG file which is what you can then import into Cricut Design Space. When I upload the PNG file I pick Moderately Complex and save as a Cut file. Then create a new project and insert your new posterized dogs PNG file. I added “Partners in Crime” under the dogs and cut this out of Cricut Heat Transfer Vinyl.

Even though this is a complex image the Cricut did cut it really well. It did take a bit of effort to weed all the negative space but was well worth it! Here’s the finished project after ironing it onto the baby bodysuit! Makes for a SUPER cute personalized baby bodysuit for any pet lover!

 

Here’s another example with two pit bulls and one Pomeranian;