October 31 Sign

I saw this idea for a halloween sign on a blog somewhere... forgive me for not knowing where I saw it. (I'm so bad about that) If you know, please let me know so I can give credit!

If you remember, I bought a MILLION of these ugly wooden plaques at Target on clearance a while back... so I was excited to be able to use another one for a craft idea...

I took it outside and covered it with black spraypaint...
Let it dry... meanwhile, I cut OCTOBER 31 out of some white vinyl with my cricut.
Then placed them just so on my black plaque...
LOVE IT!

Fun With Vinyl - A No Sew Project

My daughter and I watched Martha Stewart the other day and saw one of her guests make a tote out of staples and duct tape. I thought, good grief! But if you use the right material and not that tacky grey tape, (it comes in other colors) then it is a cute concept!
Click here for the link to the tutorial.

I believe on Martha she laminated fabric, but I just went and got some vinyl items, shower curtains, vinyl tablecloth pad... the cute patterned ones!

So my daughter and I tried it out!

It was so much fun to make. I think you could do just as much good using a sewing machine, but my daughter, who is 10, thinks that the stapling is fun.

You can embellish them with whatever you please. My daughter sewed buttons all over hers. I left mine plain and simple. They will make great beach bags!

Here is what our bags looked like: