Cricut Vinyl up your Kitchen Aid Mixer!

Today's project has been a long time in the making.  I've seen people use vinyl on their Kitchen Aid mixers and I wanted to give it a try.

 So, I designed some "cooking" type word art in the Cricut Craft Room using Nate's ABCs, From My Kitchen, Printing Press, Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art, Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art and Preserves.

Now, I never use that many cartridges on a project so please forgive me!  If you'd like to make something similar, there is a cute "cooking" word art set on the Cricut Word Collage Cartridge (see below):

Here's a quick picture tutorial on how to cut and apply the vinyl:

Steps 1) and 2): Cut out Cricut vinyl.  (shown above so you can read all the words) I had to try a few times to find the right settings.  Typically, the settings of blade at 3, speed and pressure at 3 work.  But, in this case, I had to use blade at 2, speed at 3 and pressure at 4.  If I didn't use those, the backing of the vinyl wanted to stick to the letters.

3) Apply the Cricut transfer tape by carefully rolling it onto the vinyl.

4) Using a brayer and the wood popsicle stick, make sure the transfer tape is on securely.  Remove vinyl backing so the words are stuck directly on the transfer tape.

5) Not shown: Using scissors, cut the words into rows for easier application to the mixer.  I figured this out after I did the first side.

I have to be honest and tell you this was much harder than I thought it would be.  An easier choice would have been to put damask shapes or dots all over it.  These words gave me fits.

In other news, today's my birthday!  

So, I made my favorite cake recipe - it's a chocolate cherry cake recipe which has only 5 ingredients (although I only show four above - forgot the eggs!).

Here's the recipe:
Preheat oven to 350.
Add 2 eggs, the devil's food cake mix, a can of cherry pie filling and 1 teaspoon of almond flavoring to the mixer bowl.  Mix on low for 1 minute until combined.  Pour into greased 9x13 pan and bake for 30-35 minutes.
Let cool and then frost with desired frosting.
So YUMMY!

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