Let me begin by saying I have a 13 year old, and like most 13 year olds, she has a difficult time knowing when to clean her room. Some days I feel like a broken record. So after thinking about it I came up with this solution; a door hanger that will tell her when her room is clean and when it needs to be looked after.
For this project I used three cricut cartridges: Tag, Bags Boxes and More and A Walk in My Garden, and Street Sign font cartridge.
For the CLEAN side:
For the door hanger I set my cricut to 10 1/2 inches and cut a basic door hanger from TBBM cartridge. The hanger has both a circle for the door knob to go thru as well as a slit in it (don't know what the slit is for but I covered it anyway so it doesn't matter). If you don't want the slit in it, cut the door hanger in blackout and then use the centerpointe function to cut a 2 34 inch hole at the top. But I think its easier to just cover the slit.
Then I took out the WIMG cartridge and cut flowers of varying sizes and shapes. I used cornflower, daisy and the pansy. For the pansy I punched out the center and then offset it over a one size larger center (shift key) using a pop dot. My daughter likes bright colors and prints so I mixed and matched papers and patterns. She really liked that I added a little bling to the flowers with some glitter paper.
For the lettering I used 1 1/2" letters in Street Sign Font.
For the DIRTY side:
I strictly used the Street Sign cartridge for this side.
For the lettering I used 2" letters (yes I know its bigger...easier to see it with my dear...hehehe)
Then I cut a blackout 3" railroad sign (a circle) and I cut out a colon and a parenthasis at the 2" setting for the eyes and the mouth.
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This project took all of about a half an hour once as I had already figured out what sizes to use prior to my starting. It was quick and easy and I am hoping it saves me from going stark raving mad and ending up in a rubber room (although if it was a room filled with rubba...ie stamps...it might not be so bad)
Enjoy!
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