Daycare sign using Zooballo

My daughter loves to work with me in my craft room. She has informed me that the craft room is OURS and not mine. She keeps me right in line. So we worked on this day care sign together. The hippo is from Zooballo and I used core card stock so I could sand it some. Then I put faux stitching around the hippo. We used the Gypsy to mess with the proportions of the letters to get them to fit in the space we wanted them in. For the font we used Cuttin' Up. So we put the day care name on the sign in vinyl to finish it off. What do you think?

Follow your dreams. They know the way. Pinterest inspired project

My aunt found this picture online:

One of her friends had posted in on Pinterest and she wanted it as a gift. 

I tried to make it exactly the same... yeah that didn't go over well at all.  Imagine cursing out your Cricut repeatedly and only making matters worse once you involve the canvas.  Yeah, not pretty, not fun, not gift worthy. 

Finally I admitted to myself that I couldn't make it exactly as the photo showed it.  This is what I came up with: