Another Pair of Disney Decorated Shoes

This is another pair of shoes made using the cheap but comfy Walmart shoes that I found earlier this year. They seem to run a bit small, so if you find them, definitely try them on before buying them.

These shoes were inspired by shoes my daughter made for her trip to Disneyland earlier this year. I used clip art from the internet, and turned the designs into cutting files. I used Siser HTV and a mini Cricut heat press.

I've Had Fun Making HTV Disney Projects Again

Yes, I know that sublimination is the latest and greatest, but I really don't feel like I need to get into that just yet, especially since there is another machine and process that claims to be even better. I just saw an ad for it. Besides, I still love heat transfer vinyl (HTV) projects.

Our daughter visited us recently for a family wedding. After we got back from the wedding, we had plans for a project she has been working to get done. She and her husband are going to Disneyland a.k.a. California Adventure this fall, and she designed shirts to make, but she doesn't have a heat press. I have a heat press and a ton of vinyl, so she had sent me the designs ahead of time. We cut the vinyl here and used my heat press to make the shirts. Sadly, I forgot to take photos, but her shirts turned out very fun and cute.

After she left, as therapy for having to see my sweet daughter fly back to her own home, I decided to work on my shirts I had planned for a vacation that is still in the "hope to do at some point" category. My husband will need to have recovered enough from his heart attack. 

I spent a fair amount of my free time this week cutting the vinyl and heat pressing shirts. I still have a few shirts to go. I'm not ready to post the photos yet, but I'll post pictures of them later.

Creating an unusual design in Silhouette

Someone at Two Peas needed help creating an unusual shape in the Silhouette software. They needed help figuring out to use the software to make a shape that looks like this:

Their problem was that they were trying to weld non-compound shapes, which cannot be welded. Below are the directions that I gave to create the above shape. They haven't responded since I posted, so they may have figured it out, but sometimes even as experienced as I am, I forget how to do certain things, and get frustrated when something doesn't weld, when I expect it to weld. In most, if not all instances, the problem is that it needs to be changed to a compound shape.

Create a single triangle. I chose the regular polygon, which automatically gave me five sides, but with a slider bar inside. I used the slider to reduce the sides to 3.

Offset the triangle. When I do this, the second triangle is rounded by default. (Sometimes I don’t want it rounded, so I would change this to the sharp corner option in the Offset command.)

Offset the rounded rectangle. Delete the pointy corner triangle which is now at the center.

Select the two rounded triangles and then “Make compound path.”

Create two thin rectangles, and turn them diagonally to match the angle of the left side of your triangle. Move the thin rectangle into your triangle and shorten it to just fit within the inside and outside lines of the double triangle. Duplicate the tilted rectangle, move it to the right of the first one, and shorten as needed. Once it looks the way you want, select all the shapes, then choose weld. That will give you the [above] shape.

 

I posted here to be able to show an image of the end result, but I am leaving this post here, in case I need a reminder later, or perhaps it helps someone else.