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EasyPress 2 Heats Things up with Cricut

Friday, September 21, 2018

EasyPress 2 Heats Things up with Cricut

Hello Darlin! This week Cricut provided me with a new EasyPress 2 Medium (9X9) to create a project within Design Space using their StrongBond Iron-on. One of my favorite ways to decorate during the colder months is snowflakes. Lets see how easy peasy this project will be for you to recreate.

Since the EasyPress 2 is heating up even faster than ever it had me thinking the opposite direction. Winter! My favorite gift or decor item for Winter is snowflakes or snowmen. These delicate one of a kind gems glisten through the sky making even the gloomiest of day sparkle. The snowflake pillow project material and directions are located here in Design Space.

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Supplies

Cricut StrongBond SportsFlex Iron-On Metallics Sampler

12X12 Green Cutting Mat

Fabric of your choice or pre-made Pillow Cover

(amount and size will vary with your pillow. This was 12X12)

EasyPress 2 9X9 or Medium

EasyPress Mat size?

Sparkling Snowflake Layered Card(#ME2F767) Anna's Christmas Card

Weeding Tools

While using Design Space from Cricut take it a step further to check your design by using the patterns for backgrounds even if you're not printing. Look at the realistic image that was created to assure your choices during the process.

Anna Griffith designed a beautiful snowflake layered card, a perfect way to show you how easy it was to adapt a Design Space project into a different project. With her design I used one layer sliced off the card, deleted the score line and changed the size into a square. Strongbond Iron-0n metallic is a the perfect way to add decor to a pillow. It is guaranteed for 50 washings when used as directed.

Cricut produced a new EasyPress 2 which heats up faster with the new ceramic coated plate creating even heat for perfect projects. Speaking of surface the holder has a new easy to rest shape and I haven't even shared the best part yet. The EasyPress 2 comes in three sizes, S (6 X 7 ), M (9X 9), L (12 X 10). It has a USB port for easy updating, a sweet raspberry color, and the temperature raises up to 400 F.

Come back each month for a new pillow cover design totalling 12 for the year. Storing 12 pillow covers is far easier than storing 12 different pillows. Keep reading to see what design is used for the next month. Also watch for a tutorial for easy to sew pillow covers out of your favorite fabrics, then you will be able to create right along with me. Please tag me on Instagram so when you create your pillow cover I will head over to comment on your project. Fly on over to follow Dragonfly & Lily Pads FaceBook Page where I will feature your pillows with credit to you.

I hope you enjoy the project please Pin, Pin, Pin!

The best part of this monthly post is all designs will be linked to the Cricut Design Space for easy access to create the project yourself. Join me in October for the next pillow cover creation.

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Karen Marie

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Start a Fire Pit in a Blink

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

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Hello darling! How have you been? I am thinking warmer weather and sunshine. I am guessing you are too. The HomeRight Electrolight Fire Starter was given to me to share my thoughts about this wonderful product. Of course my thoughts are my own but you can already see I loved the way the Electrolight Fire Starter works.

Spider Spun Candy Halloween Treat

Monday, October 17, 2016

Clever Gifts for your Guy

Friday, September 16, 2016

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Shopping for guys is as easy as pie with the categories to narrow down your selections at Uncommongoods. They have reasonable price points, trendy and traditional gifts. A few of the gift giving opportunities I brainstormed are bachelor, groomsmen, Fathers Day, anniversary and birthday gifts.. Since I have three men in my family I used my husband PC (Prince Charming), A is our oldest son and N is the youngest son in our family as personalities and interests to shop for gifts. Uncommongoods gave me a gift certificate to shop. I choose who I partner with very carefully while keeping all my opinions my own regardless of any compensation the company may have provided.

Shopping for Floor Cleaners at Groupon Goods

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

This is a sponsored post all opinions are mine.This post help support the blog.

Recently I was contacted by Groupon Goods to review shopping for floor cleaners. I found the site to be filled with items I buy normally at great prices. I found the site easy to navigate while I searched for the floor cleaning products. I am impressed with at least 113 choices to find the perfect product to save money and time cleaning my floors.

I have the most adorable dog who loves to fish in the lake. She brings in sand, seaweed and grass from drying off in the yard. This is Cricket Fishing! She is certainly a hot mess. The bamboo flooring, area rugs, tile and carpeting in our home need to be quickly cleaned. I want to have fun in the sun too.

Energy and Water Inspired Room Refresh

Thursday, February 11, 2016

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Darlin's this post has been inspired by the colors of Nautica at Home Paint. They provided me with a fabulous print of a picture I took this summer and a +Menards gift certificate to cover paint, rollers, tape, and tarps. Here are the colors Prince Charming and I chose for our son's room at our lake home. Nautica makes it so easy their designers choose colors they picked from the picture to create a color palette for us. We considered them while making our final selections.

These are the paint swatches from Nautica At Home Paint of the colors we chose for our Energy and Water inspired room Refresh. Stone Washed is a white with a base of gray and beige, Vessel gray which was perfect for the hit of 1959 boat. Dinghy is the blue color chosen for the style of the stripe on the boat. The Caspian Green captured the nature around us in our inspiration picture.

Stone Washed was our final choice for the main walls in an eggshell finish. The remainder of our paint colors Vessel, Dinghy, and Caspian Green are in Semi-gloss style finish to reflect light.

Boy's room at the lake house is needing a lift. Daybed, Nautical Nod Dresser, One small window

This plain Jane is how the room looked before. Notice the Daybed Knobs!

What do you do with a dark Loft and Three Strip lights? Brighten it up!

This corner and loft are so dark the picture of the 1959 Featherlite boat inspired me to step out of the darkness. Wait until you see the after picture of this space.

Antique Full bed found at Restore for $15.00. Desk hand made in Kansas City, Missouri, Boy's Room at the lake

The bed found at the local Restore. The handmade desk is all the way from Kansas City, Missouri. That is a long story.

Day bed and painting from the area in dark corner of the boy;s room at the lake.

This painting was sold to me by the woman who received from her family as a wedding gift for ten dollars. The Daybed needs some flower removal.
Now we have the reasons for changing some of these layers. It is time to show you how in less than two days Prince Charming and I painted this room with Stone Wash Nautica Eggshell Paint.

Energy and Water Room Refresh, Daybed corner is bright and full of new decor thanks to antique shops, Goodwill, and Menards

I bought a couple items from +Menards that I think will surprise you. The two tan pillows in this picture along with a deck chair cushion on the back of the daybed were all at the South Haven, MI Store. Do you see the Caspian Green in this picture used twice? I sanded the flowered knobs, taped them with frog painters tape and peeled off the tape. If I knew it would be that easy I would have done it a long time ago. The second place in on the box in the corner of the picture bought at a Goodwill.

Nautical Nod dresser fits right in all brightened up by a few items I picked up for free. Use what you have in new spaces. Print free from Images, Puppy plate a gift, cup has a history on the lake, Basket is an ice bucket but, but together they are decor.

To see the transformation this dresser made click on this link Here.

Refreshed decor from a puppy plate the looks like my Cricket and a cup given to me by a neighbor on the lake with the incredible patina. The cup was used for drinking out of the water pump in the yard.

Two of my favorite items in this room cost nothing. The cup came from a neighbor on who has lived on the lake for three generations. They used it to drink out of at the water pump. The plate my sister in law bought be at a garage sale as a surprise. The puppy looks just like my Cricket.

Pointing to the Lake a great sign for under $5.00 at Menards. The Green pillow with Fringe has a $1 scarf wrapped around a 2 buck pillow. Stone Washed is the Nautica At Home Paint color.

The paint went on smoothly and the coverage was great. I will absolutely use this paint again. This room is now a place I am proud to have added the layers of our life into Nautica at Home Paint inspired room. The Lake sign on this wall was found for under $5.00 at +Menards too.

Fish Bait Light changed out for a strip of lighting make the room brighter as the light bounces off the Semi-Gloss finish of Nautica At Home Paint Vessel and Dinghy.

The light dancing from the Edison bulb which is centered in the bait basket has electrical cords wrapped in the heavy rope. We purchased this from a vendor at +Randolph Street Market Chicago

The loft of the Boy's room at the lake is much brighter with a new light and three paint colors from Nautica At Home Paint. Vessel is Gray, Dinghy is Blue and Caspian Green is on the deck. All these paints are in a Semi-Gloss finish to reflect the light.

Nautica Semi-Gloss Vessel, Dinghy, and Caspian Green created a reflective surface which certainly brightened the darkest space. This part of the room has quite a bit of energy inspired by the picture below. The walls are the colors of the boat. The floor of the loft is inspired by the colors of nature in the picture. The old Fog Horn on the desk and the wool plaid blanket at the foot of the bed add more layers to the room. Prince Charming purchased them as a present for me on my birthday at +Randolph Street Market Chicago.

The Room Refresh is finished with its Energy and Water inspired room. Print of a picture of our 1959 Boat was the inspiration from Shutterfly.

Nautica At Home Paint truly inspired this room for our son's, from the maiden voyage of our 1959 boat in a lake filled with the energy of many people who have spent time at the lake over the years. The picture started and finished the room off perfectly. Nautica At Home Paint has amazing colors. I chose to make the stripes of the boat in the loft. The paint went on smoothly and the stripes came out crisp and clean with the use of Frog tape.

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Until Next Time Happy Creating,
Karen Marie