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The holidays are quickly approaching and this year I wanted to do something special for gifts. I chose to make my aunt customized make up bags for her nail business. Here is a quick “How to” in case you want to get crafty as well.

I used the Cricut Maker to create the makeup bags. The maker was intimidating at first but the more I play with it, the more comfortable I am and the more I love the machine.

Step One: Create the design you want to make in Cricut Design Space. You can customize the fonts, size of the design, and many more things in Design Space.

Step Two: Cut the vinyl. I had to do this in two steps because I used two different colors of vinyl. Design Space automatically sorted what color to cut for which design based on the colors I had set in Design Space.

Remember: When you are going to apply HTV you will want to make sure you click the “mirror” option before cutting the design.

Step Three: Cut down and Weed the Vinyl. Weeding the vinyl means removing all the extra vinyl around the design that you cut. I like to place the vinyl on my Bright Pad to make sure I’m getting all the tiny pieces that are hard to see.

Step Four: Once the vinyl is weeded and you only have the design left, find the placement of where you want it to be on the fabric. I laid the palm trees down first and used the Easy Press for the heat transfer.

Step Five: Once the palm trees were on the fabric, I used the Easy Press to apply the text, dragon fly, and the turtle. The text overlapped the palm trees so I had to be careful to not burn the vinyl that I used for the palm trees.

Step Six: My design was complete!

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