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This article is brought to you by Lizzsews. In todays article, I will guide you through how I made a set of Yippee Yappee Yahooey T-shirts using my Cricut. Follow along with this project and share your result in Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: - Blank 100% cotton T-Shirts - Everyday Iron-on - Cricut - EasyPress 2 + mat - Standardgrip mat The steps I took: I started out by looking for the right font to match the words 'yippee', 'yapee' and 'yahooey' for these 3 different shirts. Design on Cricut Design space here . The T-shirts that I used were all mens size XL,  I made them each 11" wide, with 'Yahooey' being 11.5" wide. Once the font was picked, the steps are as easy as... 1. Mirror the design, place iron-on on the standardgrip mat and cut. Recommended read: How to clean the cricut mat 2. Weed the design, place it o...

 This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a butterfly coaster set. Follow along with this project and share your result in Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: - Square coaster - Infusible ink lilac transfer sheets - butcher paper - Cricut - EasyPress 2 + mat - Cardstock - Standardgrip mat The steps I took: I started out by looking for butterfly designs . I added white squares to my Cricut design space canvas that were 3.75" x 3.75" so I could see how the different designs would look on the coasters. I narrowed my selection down to four designs that I liked and that matched. Cricut image ID: #M2AAB3D88- Square with rounded corners Cricut image ID: #M369F6A19 - Butterfly on a Flower Cricut image ID: #M249AOAFA - Butterflies Cricut image ID: #MCB3D6C9 - Butterfly Cricut image ID: #M33F...

  This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . April Fool's Day is a day of laughter and pranks. The best pranks are the ones that give your friends or family a little scare and you all can laugh together! This spider on a banana is the perfect harmless prank. What you need: Spiders (Cricut image IDs: #M3DA8A and #M402E2) Bananas Permanent Vinyl - black Transfer tape Scraper Weeder Brayer Standardgrip mat Cricut machine How to: Using the standard grip mat, place your vinyl liner side down. Cut out the spiders. Weed the design, weeding is when you remove negative pieces around a cut image. Next, apply the transfer tape. Cut it to size, peel off the backing and hold it by each side firmly. Burnish the design (vinyl) onto the transfer tape. Take your bunch of bananas and place your spider onto one of them. It's a little tricky, but using the scraper try to lightly burnish the spider onto the banana. Peel up the transfer tape and wait for the morning when someone goes to ge...

  This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a 'watercolour' purple bear mug with infusible ink without a mug press. Follow along with this project and share your result in Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: - Mug with sublimation coating - Infusible ink purple transfer sheets - Cricut - Standardgrip mat - EasyPress 2, mini + mat - Lint-free cloth How I made it: I started off by looking for a design that I wanted to go on the mug. I ended up finding a really cool bear paw mug design in cricut design space. Image ID: #M2636F1F9. I kept the design as is but sized it down a very small amount. I mirrored the design and placed my purple infusible ink onto the mat and cut. I weeded the design by peeling up the not needed pieces and wiped the mug with a lint-free cloth. I wrapped the des...

This article is brought to you by Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a Valentine's Day card. Follow along with this project and share your result in Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: Cardstock Glue Cricut   Lightgrip mat The steps I took: I started out by finding a project for a Valentine's Day card that I liked, I found a simple 'Love' card and thought it was perfect. Valentine Dinner Love Card . Less is more, a design is perfect not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. I don't know where I read that quote, but it has always stuck with me, even to this day. Recommended read: How I made: Birthday card I duplicated the light pink cardstock cut and resized it down, uniformly, to a height of 2.8" I wanted to use two different shades of red for the card, so I repla...

 This article is brought to you by Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a ski coaster. Follow along with this project and share your result in  Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: Ceramic coaster Infusible ink rainbow transfer sheets butcher paper/parchment paper Cricut EasyPress 2 + mat Cardstock Standardgrip mat The steps I took: I started out by looking for the design that I wanted, I was looking for a wintery ski design that would fit nicely on the coaster. I ended up finding the perfect skiing design in Cricut design space that was exactly what I was looking for. Although I didn't quite like the look of the snowflake on the bottom, I liked that there was a snowflake... just not that snowflake. I searched for other snowflakes on Cricut design space and found one I liked. Cricut image ID: #M21B5B156 - Ski letters with poles l...

 This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews .   In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a Christmas deer coaster.  Follow along with this project and share your result in Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: Ceramic coaster Infusible ink purple transfer sheets Parchment paper Cricut   Standardgrip mat EasyPress 2 + mat Cardstock The steps I took: I started out by looking for the design that I wanted, I was looking for a Christmas design that would fit nicely on the coaster. I ended up choosing the Christmas ornate deer design from the hungry JPEG . I downloaded the SVG and uploaded it into design space. I mirrored the design, sized it and placed the infusible ink onto my mat, inked side up. Once I cut out the design, I bent the transfer sheet to remove excess material.  Recommended read:  Cricut when to mirror (and how)...

This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a winter ski hoodie .  Follow along with this project and share your result in  Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series What I used: Iron-on vinyl Cotton-poly blend hoodie Cricut Standardgrip mat Easypress 2 + mat Parchment paper The steps I took: I started by looking for a wintery design. I was interested in a skiing design for this hoodie and ended up choosing ski goggles, Image ID: #M21B5B140 (In this photo: Skiing silhouette: #M21B5B20B /  Snow skis: #M127DC707) I sized the design up from 2.24" height to 2.35" height using uniform scaling. Before putting the design on the hoodie, I washed it as normal so that in the future it won't shrink with the design on. Recommended read: Where to get blanks I placed the iron-on vinyl shiny side down onto the standardgrip mat an...

This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . In today's article, I will guide you through how I made a pair of little lad socks .  Follow along with this project and share your result in  Lizzsews Facebook group . Recommended read: 10 Things You Need to Start Cricut Crafting Today Recommended read: How I made article series Remember that with infusible ink, you want to use white or light-coloured surfaces. I might’ve learned this the hard way… you also need to make sure that your surface is 100% polyester or a polyester-spandex mix.  What I used:      - White crew socks (98% polyester, 2% spandex)     - Purple infusible ink transfer sheets     - Cricut     - Easypress 2 + mat   - Lightgrip mat   - Cardstock   - Parchment paper or butcher paper How I made it: I started out by creating my design. I wanted to make a ‘little lad’ design. I took a picture of a little lad sticker I had seen online and loaded it...