Michelle is originally from Southern California and moved to Arizona almost 7 years ago. She's a busy lady raising two beautiful little girls, 7 months old and a 4 1/2 year old. She is very lucky as she is married a to a wonderful man that is very supportive. She considers herself a very lucky lady.
Michelle has been crafting for about 5 years. She is like a lot of us as she sees a crafting item on sale, say like a Sizzix die. She loves the die, but....doesn't have the Big Shot or other cutter, so she's off to buy the Big Shot.
Michelle discovered the cricut while she was pregnant with her first daughter. She wanted to make scrapbooks. She found the Make-the-Cut forum and discovered vinyl shortly after. There is a ton of talent in that group and she was able to get a lot of inspiration from it. That wonderful supportive husband of hers, replaced her cricut with a Silhouette Cameo and she has never looked back. She loves the Cameo!
Michelle loves crafts of all types including stamping, scrapbooking, sewing and many others like a lot of us. She is finding out that weeding vinyl designs is relaxing to her. (I have heard this from several of our members and it boggles my mind as I hate weeding.) Her daughter asks for a cup, Michelle jumps online, finds a design, traces it, perfects it, then is cutting it out. She is obviously a Disney fan which shows in this fabulous cup.
Michelle loves Mexican Art, partly its her heritage and culture, the other is the bright bold colors seen commonly in Mexican Art. Most of the cups she makes with vinyl have a lot of colors. She found the sugar skull she liked, then started working on the tracing in MTC (Make-the-cut). It took her almost a week just to trace and split the design. The cutting, weeding and layering took 1 1/2 hours to do. She used registration marks to get it to line up this beautifully. She uses regular clear contact paper with no problems (very good to know tip!) She is going to attempt the wet method for layering her next cup.
Michelle isn't afraid to try something new. This cup should be an inspiration to any of our vinyl crafters out there including me. I have to admit, I have shied away at amounts of color..... I don't know why. I layer huge items on a regular basis, but something about this much detail is just scary. Michelle has proven, it can be done, you just have to try. She used Oracal 651 vinyl and clear contact paper for her transfer tape! Her cups come from where else.......SAVE A CUP!
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