Blog Swap with Ginger of Ginger Snap Crafts

Today I want to welcome Ginger of Ginger Snaps Crafts.

Hi. I’m Ginger

from over at Ginger Snaps Crafts.

It’s a place to share ideas I’ve found, &

inspire you to create along with me.

I’m a wife to one awesome guy &

a busy mom of

5 wild & crazy kiddos.

I love to blog, garden,

craft, organize

& most of all be with my family.

I’ve been blogging for almost 4 years.

I love keeping a journal of my family,

but I thought our family blog was getting

a little overrun with all my craftiness.

So, that’s when I decided it was time to part ways

& start my very own craft blog.

So that’s how Ginger Snap Crafts started.

{Would love, love, love to have you stop by!}

One of the wonderful things about blogging

is the wonderful people you get to meet.

I am so excited to be blog swapping today with

Amy from {The Happy Scraps}.

We had a HUGE problem at our house

…by the end of the day every single cup

in the house would be used! Ugh!

Don’t you hate that?

So our solution was to give

each family member

their own personalized cup!

We were to use that cup

all.day.long.

Guess what?

It worked! 🙂

If you know me you know that

I’ve had a little obsession

with vinyl for a while now,

but let me introduce you

to my new favorite: cast vinyl.

It’s awesome!

Cast vinyl is a durable vinyl.

It can be run through a dishwasher,

& it doesn’t come off.

(Cool, huh?)

So, here’s how I made our cups!

First you need some cups.
I got my cups from Walmart
4 for $1.00.
{You can’t beat that!}

Then you need to cut
your family’s names in cast vinyl.
Cast vinyl is cut just like regular vinyl
It’s a little thicker, so on my Silhouette
I had to adjust the setting to a
little thicker than my regular vinyl.
{I get my cast vinyl from
signwarehouse.com.}
Love those guys!
I’m sure you can use just
about any craft cutter to make these, too.
{I also sale labels in my etsy shop.}

Vinyl(including cast vinyl)comes in 3 layers:
The transfer tape, the vinyl & the backing paper.
Gently rub on the back of your backing paper.
Flip over & then slowly peel back the transfer paper.
You vinyl should stick to it.
If not put it back down, rub the back & try again.

Now you’ve got your cast vinyl ready to apply.

I always start in the middle.
Then I work my way
toward the end on both sides.
Gently rubbing the letters
& allowing them to follow the curve.
Rub over the entire surface with your fingers.

Gently lift off the transfer tape.
Take it nice & slow.
If the letters don’t want to stick to the cup,
lay your transfer tape back down & rub some more.
TIP: I noticed that if I put my letters on my cup
& just let it sit a couple of minutes
before removing my transfer tape
the letters tend to “stick” better.

Here’s our cups!

Yes, these are the ones we use everyday

& they have been washed a bunch.

The vinyl is still there!

Love it! 🙂

Amy,

thanks so much for
having me over today.

I really enjoyed it.

Don’t forget to drop by

Ginger Snap Crafts

today to see

{The Happy Scraps}.

Thanks so much Ginger for swapping with me today! How cool is it to put names on cups. Man, this just makes me think of the dishes that I wouldn’t have to be hand-washing. And who knew there was vinyl out there like that, that could go through the dishwasher?! Awesome!

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