If you’re a beginner, maybe you just bought a Cricut machine, you are overwhelmed and have no idea what to do or where to start, you’ve come to the right blog. I was new once and I was so overwhelmed and it took me weeks to even take out my Cricut machine and start working with it. It’s a trial and error type of thing but once you get the hang of it (which is pretty fast) you’ll be creating so much, you’ll forget you were ever a beginner.
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I tried many brands of vinyl, iron and even tools but absolutely nothing compared to Cricut. The quality of the products are just unbeatable.
When you are making a gift for someone or even just something for yourself, you want it to last forever. This mean you NEED quality products/materials. That’s a huge reason why I always stick to cricut and I’ll never NOT use cricut. especially if you are looking to start a business with your Cricut machine, you want THE HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCTS, which will always be cricut.
My favorite machine to use is the cricut maker, i’ve had the explore and I still have the maker 3 which is also amazing but for some reason I always reach for my cricut maker. No matter which of these machines you have, you’ll need some basics.
These are just the basics. When you really get into using your Cricut and explore, you will need more products depending on your project. I love to make shirts, cups, and stickers. Vinyl is used for cups, bins, etc. Iron on is something you will iron on to a shirt, hat, bag, pants, backpacks, shoes, etc. I love customizing clothes for my littles, especially birthdays, special events, etc.
Now let’s get into how you actually create. So I’m going to be using a glass coffee cup for this example because I love making personalized coffee cups. I drink coffee all day and nothing says me like a cup that I got to personalize to fit me.
For this project, I’ll need
First step is to create your design on design space. I chose a very simple design for this cup because I love simple!
(Use my design HERE)
Don’t forget to plug in and connect your cricut machine to your laptop/iPad/phone!
Once you have your design ready to go and machine turned on, you’ll go ahead and get your vinyl ready, use your portable trimmer to trim the vinyl to the length you will need. Pay attention to design space because it’ll tell you exactly where everything will cut so make sure you cut enough off but not too much!
Now you’ve got your vinyl all ready to cut, you’ll grab your cricut cutting mat (regular so green one) and lay your vinyl down flat. Use your scraper to get it to lay flat and make sure it has no air bubbles in it. If it does just pull it back up and redo it.
You can then go to design space and click next. It’ll pop up the different colors for your design or if you are doing one color it will all come up on one mat. Make sure if you use multiple colors, you pay attention to which one it’s going to cut and put that color on the mat to cut! Place shiny side up when using vinyl.
Now you are ready to cut your materials. You’ll click vinyl and then load mat and click the flashing c when it’s ready!
Boom, repeat that step until you’ve finished cutting all your design.
This next part is my absolute favorite part, weeding! Once your design is all cut out with your cricut machine, grab your scissors and cut off the access vinyl from your design. (around) Then grab that weeding tool, pull up on the vinyl. Be careful it doesn’t pull your design up (it doesn’t for me unless a line is very thin)
*make sure you don’t miss any pieces, so if you cut an a out make sure you get the center of the a out!
Now that you are finished weeding, grab that transfer tape and cut off the pieces you will need. Pull off the paper from the transfer tape and then grab your design/designs and lay them on the transfer tape. I love using my scraper to really make sure the design is on the transfer tape. Pull the paper that your design was on off so the design is now on the transfer tape.
Grab that glass, make sure it is cleaned off, no fingerprints (a lot of people us rubbing alcohol to make sure it’s clean before applying)
Line up your design on your cup and make sure it’s exactly where you want it. Grab that scraper again (comes in handy right?) and make sure the design has transferred to the cup, then pull back slowly on the transfer tape! Now your design is on the cup! Repeat that step until you have transferred all your designs to cup!
Now you have a gorgeous cup and you can get to creating other amazing projects!
There is truly a million reasons to grab a cricut and if you are a crafty person then hands down it’s a must. Don’t forget to grab all your cricut supplies to make the highest quality products for you or your loved ones!
Xoxo until next time, Cheyenne.
** this post is sponsored by Cricut but all opinions are my own **