Summer Tumblers

I am entering this project in the Cricut Circle Blog Monthly Challenge with the theme"On The Road Again."  No long road trips for us this summer but a lot of summer activities are in store for the kids.  This summer I decided to decorate freezable tumblers I got from Walmart for my kids and my nieces and nephews (ages 3-9 years old) whom I'm driving around to their different summer activities.  I always joke to my husband that I should change the color of my minivan to bright yellow as I feel like a bus driver sometimes LOL!  Who says being a SAHM is not tough?! 

I've seen these kind of tumblers in the Cricut MBs in different versions with the use of vinyl.  I've decided to keep the slip-on tumbler jackets cuz I find the tumblers easier to hold this way, especially with little hands. 

Here are a few close-ups:

for the taekwondo kids

for the basketball player and swimmer

for the cute one (ok, that's NOT an activity, I know but this

 is for the 3 year old one) and the hula dancer

I even decorated above the tumbler jackets:

Details of the project:

* boy and girl martial arts - Car Decals

* martial arts borders - Sports Mania

* basketball - Basketball cart

* basketball border - Sports Mania

* swimmer - Sports Mania

* waves border - Life is a Beach

* girl with flower - Car Decals

* flower - Luau

* flower border - Paper Lace

* letters for the kids' names - Paper Lace & Life is a Beach

This was a fairly easy project to do once you get the coordinating vinyls.  I've almost forgotten how easy working with vinyls was!  Thanks for looking and have a wonderful Fourth of July weekend! 

First Degree Blackbelt

A good friend's 11 year old son just had his taekwondo black belt graduation last Saturday so I made him a card to help celebrate this milestone.  We are so proud of this sweet boy!  This card was 5.5 x 5.5.  I seem to be liking this size card lately since I can put more Cricut cuts in it. 

The martial arts image was from Car Decals cart.  I added a small strip of white cardstock to highlight the first degree strip on his black belt as you can see here.

The blue background was embossed with one of the Asian Bundle CB folders (I think it was called Lanterns) and I just added faux stitching around with white Sakura gel pen.  I used the same pen to doodle on the "Ayah!" (Lyrical Letters cart) to make it stand out a bit.

The wood cut was from Old West cart and embossed with Branches CB folder and inked and then cut in half in zigzag fashion via scissors to simulate a board broken in half.

Here's a pic of the inside, "Way to go!" sentiment was cut using 3 Birds on Parade cart.

Simple envelope was cut using Sweethearts cart.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful week!