Weekend Crafting Adventures

After 46 weeks of sharing my crafting projects on Weekend Crafting Adventures with you, I am stepping back and taking a break from this weekly podcast. In this episode, I wrap up my experience learning to use my Cricut machine one crafting project at a time and I share what is next for me.

Did you know that there is sublimation heat transfer vinyl? You can use sublimation vinyl to add beautiful vibrant sublimation ink designs onto cotton and dark colors. In this crafting project, I use HTVRONT Sublimation HTV for Dark Fabric to put infusible ink tie dye designs on black cotton t-shirts. The HTVRONT sublimation heat transfer vinyl I used is matt white so adding colorful sublimation designs to any color fabric is now an option! 

Inspiration:

Quick project, new kind of vinyl, sublimation on dark color fabrics!

Crafting Keepers:

1. Cooling down my heat press fast by simply changing how I place it in the heat stand

2. Always read the specific instructions for the specific materials and brands. I use a lot of different materials, so taking the time to read the specifics is so important! - For example the heat temp and peel temp for the vinyl versus the infusible ink… added a few extra minutes but is very important to the outcome of the design and project

Satiscraftion: 3

Infusible ink can be tricky - the heat and pressure are very important in bringing out the best of the ink sheets… Using vinyl is not a new skill or project

I will use the sublimation vinyl again

Cricut Design Space Link:

Cricut Design Space Designs:

Materials:

Sublimation Heat Transfer Vinyl

T-Shirt or base material

Infusible ink sheets

Standard grip mat

Fine point blade

Brayer

Cricut Easy Heat Press

Cricut EasyPress® 3 - 9 in x 9 in

Teflon sheets

Lint Roller (to clean off shirt surface)

T-shirt guide

I can't wait to share this fun and unique way to use the Cricut Maker! I could not get enough of learning about embroidery from my last crafting adventure, so I took it to the next level in this project. I had my Cricut draw and embroidery design on Stick 'N Stitch and created a custom mandala monogram for a jute and canvas summer tote. I had so much fun learning about embroidery stitches that I used to create a beautiful summer accessory! I love finding more ways to ensure that I can be creative even when I am not in my crafting corner! This is a great make-and-take crafting project!

I have been looking forward to cutting felt with my Cricut, but I have been waiting for just the right project! I am a hat girl, and I love creating one-of-a-kind hats, so I decided to combine my love of hats with a fun felt applique project! I found some great designs that my Cricut is cutting the felt for, and I am learning how to attach the felt designs to the hats with some simple embroidery stitches. I can’t wait to share my experience doing this crafting project with you!

In this crafting project I am cutting natural wood veneers into layered boho style earrings with my Cricut Maker and the Deep-point Blade. After my experience with cutting basswood for my seasonal HOME sign I have waited a long time to try cutting wood again with my Cricut. I found two beautiful boho style earring designs on Creative Fabrica that I am using for this crafting adventure. I chose to layer light colored maple on top of the darker walnut veneer to create a beautiful natural layered look to my earrings. Find out if my experience cutting the wood veneer was more enjoyable than cutting the basswood in this weekend crafting adventure.

Summer is here and I am excited to create a farmhouse-style “Welcome” door hanger to freshen up our front door! This is one of my favorite projects that I have done in a long time. I did need to make a choice between using heat transfer vinyl and permanent vinyl…find out which one I chose and why it was the wrong choice. I found the perfect SVG Welcome design for my project on Creative Fabrica. I am so excited to share with all of you that Creative Fabrica is giving us the opportunity to access over 7 million fonts, graphics, and digital resources in an All Access Subscription Free Trial! I have already started my all-access subscription free trial and I am excited by all the crafting possibilities!

I am going back to the 90’s and customizing neon colored vintage motel keychains. In this quick and easy little scrap vinyl project I am crafting some fun vintage motel keychains. I have talked about it before and I will say it again, our family loves music, and that includes my extended family as well. These little retro motel keychains are perfect for adding a short song lyric to. I have many Taylor Swift fans in my family and Taylor Swift has lots of songs that reference cars and driving so I put some of her car lyrics on a few keychains. These keychains are perfect for a stand alone house key, decoration for a backpack, or to add to your car key fob for some added personality or fun. Using scrap vinyl and reusing some transfer tape from my subway sign project I had a lot of fun with this crafting adventure!

My family is heading to Virginia this week for my niece and nephew's B'Nai Mitzvah. I wanted to make each of them a special one-of-a-kind card for the special occasion. I decided to try the Cricut Foil Transfer System to add a sparkly bulldog dog design to each of their cards. I chose the bulldog designs to represent their Mitzvah Project of volunteering at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington and their bulldogs, Moose and Maisel. The cards came out beautiful, and in doing this project, I learned a lot and have some great tips for using the foil transfer system that I can't wait to share with you.

In part two of making wire word knitted wall decor to put over my desk in my preschool classroom I share my experience finding the best kind of yarn to use with the Tulip i-cord Knitter Machine to cover the wire words and shapes that I made last week, the process of making the i-cord and putting it all together. I also learned that bending the wire before adding the knitted i-cord does not always work out well!

We are spring cleaning and creating a new look in my preschool classroom. I teach autistic preschoolers and my team and I have been talking about the infinity symbol for neurodiversity and bringing that into our classroom decor. I saw a reel on Instagram from Isla Sierra doing knitted wire art and I thought that I could make the infinity symbol, a couple of words, and a few shapes crafting the knitted wire wall decor.  I used my Cricut for creating two templates for the infinity symbol and the heart shape. In part one of this crafting adventure I am learning to bend crafting wire into shapes and words.