Growth Chart

I have been wanting to make one of these for a while now. 

We are a military family and we will be moving around for the rest of our lives. 

I really wanted to have a door or something to mark the growth of my kids but I know that we wont have a home like that so this was my solution. I can track my kids growth in every place we live. 

This is what I used:

Wood: I used a 1x6 that is 6ft tall. I got mine from Home Depot it was already finished. 

Numbers cut on Cricut.

Square

Tape measure

Sharpie

Hammer and something to hang it on the wall.

First I used my tape measure to make marks ever inch all the way up my board.

Once I have marks ever inch then I used my square and sharpie to make marks like this.

My mark lengths were in this order.

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/4 inch

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/2 inch

1 inch 

1 inch 

1 1/4 inch 

1 inch

1 inch

2 inches

I hope the make sense so at the half foot mark my line was an inch and a half long and at the foot line my mark was 2 inches long. 

Then I put my Cricut number next to the 2 inch lines.

With my numbers I did not start at 0 I started at 6 inches. So number 1 is only 6 inches from the bottom. When I hang it on the wall I want the bottom to be six inches from the floor.

I measured six inches from the floor and made a mark on my wall with a pencil. 

Then I put my metal piece to hang it up on the back and used the tooth paste technique to know where to put the nail in the wall to hang my board. 

Toothpaste Technique

Once it is hanging you can measure your kiddos!

Cool right! I think so :)

Heartfelt Wall Hangings

Over the weekend my mom and I visited our new favorite craft store! Heartfelt Wall Hangings is a cute little vinyl and craft shop in West Jordan Ut. Each month Heidi offers a free craft  related to the fallowing month. This month it is a Thanksgiving craft. She offers classes each day where you can come to her shop and work on your free craft and any other crafts you purchase. She offers all her paints, sander, glitter spray and help to make your vinyl craft.

This is her free craft for October. Is simple yet so cute to get your home ready for Thanksgiving!

While we were there we found these cute blocks too!

Each month the "O" changes to fit the season or holiday. I will be going back in November to make one with a ornament and snowflake for December and January. Here is an example of each month. 

 

We will be going back for more free crafts and all the other cute ideas they have at Heartfelt!

Holiday Crafting

 I couple of weeks ago my friends and I got together to make this found on none other than Pinterest. So when I went back to Utah I made something similar with my mom. It's super easy, cheap and turned out really well too.

 We bought a 4x4 at a hardware store for around $8 and had them cut 2 at 12", 2 at 10" and 2 at 8". Sanded and painted then added White vinyl cut with the Cricut machine at 1.5". I decided to take the craft from the link above and make it my own so I cut out a star from scrapbook paper using the Cricut and ModPodged it on. We made one for my mom and one for Makenna. I mine at home already.

 Since the 4x4 came in 8' pieces we had a ton left over, so we cut these. I think they are 9" and 7" in length. I like that each one turned out a little differently.

 

 Mom wanted crazy letters.

 We made Mak's just simple and cute.

The only difference in mine is capital letters.

We sure had fun making these together. Thanks mom for a great time and letting me make a mess of your kitchen table.

Missionary Metal Board

A few months ago I took some pictures of a missionary. That missionary was my brother and my mom wanted to make something for him with a missionary quote she found. She saw it on a tile and thought it was cute. Then we thought it would be fun to put pictures of him with the quote. We decided to put the quote on a metal board and use magnets to put current photos of him on it. 

We got our vinyl lettering at Vinyl 4 Decor

The metal board from "The Wood Connection"

We taped our vinyl down so that it would not move and it was center. 

We removed the back paper and pressed it down with a card.

Then pilled it off in small sections because the lettering was so small. 

We added the pictures and displayed it. 

I think it turned out super cute we are just going to add something to the magnets to add a pop of color!

Family Home Evening Board

A Family Home Evening Board is something that you may find in a Mormon home. We do something on monday nights called Family Home Evening. Its much like a family game night. We use monday night to teach our kids about religion, prayer and we play together. 

I got this metal board at the wood connection, but I was even thinking you could use a cookie sheet. I cut out my vinyl letters on a cricut.

I made a card for each member of my family and I have a few extra for the members to come. They are laminated so if we have visitors we can write them into the rotation with a dry erase marker.

Each week we take turns doing the activities of Family Home Evening.

The magnets I made and a tutorial can be found here. At the wood connection they used gemstones hot glued to magnets. I also made one for my Mom and Mother-in-law, I made theirs a little different I put grandkids in vinyl letters. They use the board to showcase their grandkids! 

Princess Sign

My little girls room is Purple and Yellow so I made this sign to go in her room. First I got the wood and painted two coats of purple. I then sanded the edges. I cut the letter out of vinyl on the cricket, I cut white out first then I cut purple one size smaller than the white. Using the contact paper I put the white letters on the board so that they would be evenly spaced then I put the purple letter on top one by one.   

The letters and the crown come from the alphalicious cartridge. 

Spring/Easter Blocks

As you might already know the words spring and easter both have 6 letters, so my Mom, sister and I thought why not make one set of blocks out of the two words. So we got six blocks each a different size, we painted them each a different color and on one side we put the word Spring and on the other we put Easter. 

We used a cricket to cut out the letters, each block is a different size so each letter is also a different size. To make sure that the letters fit the blocks the way we wanted to we cut the letters first out of paper then we cut them out of vinyl. For my blocks I cut Spring in yellow vinyl and kept the paint solid, then cut the letters of Easter out on white vinyl and sanded the edges of my blocks. 

The thing about doing crafts with other people is that you can do the same craft and have the ending creation look so much different than the others. These blocks have a hint of accent on the edges, as well as different order of sizes and colors.

Its also fun to mix it up by using different fonts for each block and deciding to use capital letters of lower case to make it look your own. Lets see what you can come up with.

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