Glass etching!

I have been dying to get my hands on Armour etch for a long time since I bought my vinyl and I had to wait for it to get to me after I ordered from Amazon. FYI, this stuff is highly dangerous and can only be shipped via ground. Be careful when using it!!

I also bought the mugs a few weeks ago from the dollar tree with the intention to etch something cute for a couple and I was so excited when I had time over the weekend to do it!

First I cut out a stencil using some vinyl and placed it onto the glass. Then I took a big glob of the cream and left it on the glass for about 20 minutes.

After the 20 minutes, I washed the mason jar mugs under water and peeled the vinyl right off to reveal the designs! It's not original but I thought it was cute =)

I also tried etching pyrex and this one took me a lot longer to finish since the stencil was very detailed. For pyrex items, I have found that etching for 20 minutes was not long enough and it should be closer to 45 minutes to get a good etch out of the material.

I now have a few orders now to personalize glassware! If you are interested let me know =)

Etsy Launched!

I finally launched my Etsy store after a few weeks of preparation! When looking back at my account with Etsy, I had opened it up back in August 2014 with hopes of selling something one day. As of two days ago, I am open!

Currently I am selling digital cut files for the Silhouette Cameo and other cutters but will eventually move onto physical products. I have already sold some of my Valentines day cards on there and if there is enough interest from the general public, I'll eventually list them =).

I have more products that I will be selling soon, I just need to take photos of them! For now, I would just like to thank those who have been supporting me all this time, you know who you are!


Here are some of the cards that I have available right now! If you want the listings, contact me @ papermementos@gmail.com

Custom Harry Potter shirts

In about a month I will be flying down to Florida to visit Universal Studios and I am super excited since I am a huge Harry Potter fan. I will be there for 3 full days so I thought, why not make shirts for each day while I'm there?

I looked online at first to buy shirts but a lot of them weren't in the colors I wanted and since joining a facebook group for the cameo, I found that I can make it for myself! I started to shop for some heat transfer vinyl and bought them from Expressions Vinyl which arrived very quickly. Next I found my shirts from Jiffy Shirts which had decent prices and waited for all them to arrive at my house!

I have to say that the Siser Easyweed was so easy to work with! I test cut the vinyl and on the second try I had the right settings and it was really easy to weed out the extra vinyl.

Picture of the vinyl on the shirt before weeding.

I didn't start working on them till a few days later because I was afraid to mess up the vinyl since I had to iron them onto the shirt so I did a lot of research before I tried. Below are my results, not so bad eh?

Vinyl stenciling using my Cameo

So while looking for ideas on what to give my husband for Christmas I stumbled upon a cup that was painted using oil based sharpies on Pinterest. The saying on the cup was "Home is where the Ho & Me come together". If you know my husband, everyone calls him by 'Ho' and I thought it couldn't be anymore perfect as a gift to him!

Materials needed:

• Ceramic mug
• Oil Based Sharpies
• Stencil material - either vinyl or contact paper (see second mug in post)
• Something to cut the stencil, either a die cutter or by hand

Step 1:
I followed the pinterest idea and created a stencil using vinyl that was cut on my silhouette cameo. I changed the font a little from the original mug I found because I liked the way this looked instead.

Step 2: 

I placed transferred the vinyl onto the cup and started to fill in the letters using the sharpies!

Step 3.

Peel off the vinyl/stencil and clean up the sharpie. My vinyl didn't stick on that well and the sharpie ran in some parts. Use acetone and a small tiny paint brush to clean up the lines!

Step 4:

Put your mug in the oven and start a timer for 30mins with the temperature set to 360 degrees. Make sure your mug is in the oven while it preheats to prevent cracking! After 30minutes, turn off the oven and let the mug cool inside the oven. After it's at room temperature, it's ready to be used!!

I have also made a second cup for myself using contact paper from the dollar tree instead of vinyl. The contact paper was a lot harder for me to work with and I had a lot of clean up to do. I think the next cup I make will be made using vinyl instead. 

(text reads "I love you more than a hobbit loves second breakfast"

Game of Thrones inspired gift wrapping

For those who don't know, I am a huge Game of Thrones fan and for Christmas I wanted to find a way to wrap a gift for my husband who is also loves the show. I started off with brown packaging paper to wrap the gift which is very popular nowadays. Then I found an image of the map of Westeros and cut it out in red using the Silhouette Cameo. 

After staring at it for a few days, I found that it was a little plain if I left it just like that so I added the red tag with Lannister sigil and tied it with red bakers twine. The second tiny present was wrapped in red with a matching gold sigil to tie in the theme. 

Hope you love it, and don't hate us for loving the Lannisters! Tyrion is the best character ever!