Share the love this holiday season with personalized gifts using the Cricut Maker!
The Cricut Maker cuts through just about every type of paper, felt, fabric, basswood and makes gift giving for the holidays a snap, especially with the fine tip blade, knife blade, and rotary cutter.
Cricut recently released the smallest member of the Easy Press family, the Easy Press Mini. The hottest little iron out there. With its compact size, the Easy Press Mini is ideal for unusually small heat transfer projects like hats, shoes, or stuffed animals. It also features three heat settings—hot, hotter, and hottest.
Infusible Ink is also a new material and delivers seamlessly smooth, professional-quality transfers. Infusible Ink heat transfers are permanently infused into your Cricut Blank. There is no flaking, no peeling, no cracking, and no wrinkling—ever! It’s really cool.
Using Lori Holt’s new home decor fabric collection, My Happy Place, for Riley Blake Designs, I decided to “hack” the Cricut tote bag blank. And since every creative needs tool storage, I made a Infusible Ink Pen/Marker holder.
Here’s what you need to make your own:
Cricut Maker Rotary Blade
Cricut Fabric Mat (12’’ x 24’’)
Home Decor Weight Fabric
Cricut Easy Press 2 or the Cricut Easy Press Mini
Small Piece of Ribbon for the Pen/Marker Holder
Misc. Sewing Supplies, including Thread, Iron, and Cricut Sewing Tools
Here’s how you can create your own tote bag hack:
Measure 8 1/2’’ inches away from the top of the tote bag. Using a rotary cutter and ruler, cut.
Using a seam ripper or small pair of scissors, unpick the tote bag bottom. See photo above.
Using the tote bag bottom as a template, cut out the new tote bag bottom with desired fabric.
Sew the new tote bag bottom together.
Sew the new tote bag bottom to the tote bag top.
Press seams and top stitch.
Use Cricut Design Space and Infusible Ink to create your own personalize saying. Have fun!
Here’s a link to my project.
Here’s how you can create your own pen/marker holder:
Using the shapes tool in Cricut Design Space, create an 13’’ x 11’’ rectangle.
Under ‘‘linetype’’ select cut.
Click Make it.
Under ‘‘prepare mats’’, click to add a second copy.
Place desired fabric on fabric mat and cut.
With right sides together, sew 1/4’’ around the two rectangles, leaving a 2’’ opening to turn.
Turn right sides out, press and close opening.
Fold one long section of the rectangle up 3 1/2’’ and press.
Mark desired “pockets’’ and stitch—backstitching at the start and finish.
Ta-da! You’ve just created a personalized gift for someone you love!
Handmade gifts are better than store bought because they come from your heart and creative hands!
Stay tuned for more personalized holiday gift ideas.
cut, sew, repeat…
the tattooed quilter
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.