Cricut Chronicles

So I am super excited about my cricut machine! I think I finally have all of my ducks in a row in order to become completely obsessed with making all things cricut (and by ducks I mean I have my vinyl, new software "Sure Cuts A Lot" that has hundreds of fonts and will keep me from buying cartridges, and the connector cable to hook it to my computer). Thanks to Whitney, who knows all things cricut, I am ready to be released into the world of cricut crafting because she has trained me well. She also goes by the names of Cricut Master, Cricut Ninja, and The Cricut Whisperer.

Last night, with my new software freshly downloaded, I decided to attack my car with some vinyl. I wanted to make a super cute monogram like everyone else in the free world has (that I refused to pay someone to make me, because doggone it I was going to do it myself once I had my ducks in a row; see above). And what's this, the software also has shapes! And it has a butterfly! Which, if you know me at all, made me really excited and I decided I was totally going to put one on my car. So, I begin cricuting (cricutting? cricut-ing?), with my little stalkers lurking nearby wondering what was making such a funny noise (and can't we play with/chew on those cords mommy?). I cut out my monogram in Curlz font and cut out my butterfly too. This is where the trouble began... I would like to tell you that I only put a "K" on my car because I drive a little car and there isn't much room for curly monograms and such on the hatchback. I would like to tell you that I consider myself an original, and I only put a "K" on my car because I wanted to be different than all the other ex-sorority stroller-toting soccer moms out there with curly monograms on their SUVs (no offense. I'm totally getting ready to make some for my sister, who is an ex-sorority stroller toting baseball mom who drives an SUV). But, that is not the case. Truth is, I put my full monogram on my car. And then I had to take it off. First, the transfer tape (if you can call it that, I prefer to call it pieceofcrap) that I have is obviously not the right kind and doesn't work worth a damn. Do you know how hard it is to pull letters up and stick them on the transfer tape when they are curly letters? That "M" gave me such a fit, but by the time I got it on the car it looked good. Until I noticed it was a bit crooked, and tried to pull up the right side and re-stick it. Which, in my 100+ degrees garage, made it stretch and end up looking warped. But, it was straight, so I left it. Then I put the "K" on, and all was right with the world. Now time for the "J". Here's where it gets ugly. Even though I kept the sizes proportional (the K was the same size as the J), when I put the "J" next to the "M" to line it up, it was ginormous. Plus the curly part of the "J" was so big that it needed to be a zip code away from the "M" in order to look semi-ok. But then it wouldn't match the distance away from the "M" that the "K" was. Dilemma! As I'm kneeling on the concrete in my garage and wiping sweat from my brow (seriously 100+ degrees in there) (I would have opened the garage door to let some air in/out but it was after 10pm and I didn't want to let in any scary bugs or scary murderers) I look up to notice that the "J" that I had been holding there with transfer tape mid-air is now stuck to the car. Well, I guess that's where I'm going to put it. After looking at the whole thing, it looks warped and not straight and not lined up with proper distance from the middle. So I took off the "M" and the "J". I shall now be known simply as "K".

The butterfly however, was flawless. And super cute I might add!