Showing posts with label Dollar Tree Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dollar Tree Crafts. Show all posts

Personalizing Dollar Tree Night Lights - With Cricut


Cliff Notes:
  • Dollar Tree night lights
  • Remove the original design with acetone (nail polish - just make sure it's 100% acetone)
  • 651 vinyl 
  • Design to fit a 3.25 inch circle
These are very simple designs - but both are personal to our family.  The cow is a design inside a lampshade in our guest room, where my grandson stays when visiting.  This is now a little version he can have at his house.  Since our last name is Truckenmiller, our boys are often called "Truck" by their friends and coworkers.  I make "my daddy pours cement better than your Daddy" shirts for my grandson, this truck is the same one from his shirts... 

These are what I started with.  $1 each at the Dollar Tree.

I tried my daughters nail polish remover first, and although it's first ingredient is acetone, it was not 100% acetone, and it did not really work.  This container (made to dip your fingers into to remove the polish)  is 100% acetone, and it wiped the design right off.  I was curious, so I tried VLR (the best for removing vinyl from fabric!) and it worked well too.  But nail polish is cheaper! 

I say it all the time - this fabric tape measure is my most used tool for cricut projects! (See what other tools I recommend here)

I don't know where I found that Hay There cow - I've had it for awhile.
The cement truck was a simple silhouette that I cleaned up in Design Space
How To Convert Simple Free Clipart To Designs You Can Cut
The font is Chuck Noon - one of my favorite non script fonts.
Cheat Sheets For My Favorite Fonts Here.

Because the discs are flat - this is a pretty easy transfer!  I used Dollar Tree contact paper as my transfer tape.
How to Transfer A Vinyl Design Using Transfer Tape

They Hay There design, used inside of a lampshade in our guest room.

Adding Vinyl Designs To Lampshades, so the design appears when the light is turned on - https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/09/adding-vinyl-designs-to-lampshades.html

That's it!  Cheap, quick, and simple! 

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Tooth Fairy Luminary - With Free SVGs

Making Tooth Fairy Luminaries With Dollar Tree Tart Warmers
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Cricut & The Dollar Tree




The Dollar Tree is one of my favorite places for "blanks" - items to put cricut vinyl designs on - but it's also where I find some of my basic supplies and tools.  These are the the items I buy there, followed by some of my projects with Dollar Tree blanks. 

 If there is a link with the project, it usually includes the svgs and fonts I used, along with step by step instructions.  

Supplies To Buy At Dollar Tree
 
These are the two items I suggest everyone with a cricut buys first thing.  
The clear contact paper ($1 a roll!) is the only transfer tape I use for transfering vinyl.  It also works for stencils.
The fabric tape measure I use for every single project.  It's my most used tool.  That is what I use to figure out how large my design should be.  (I found the tape measure in the check out aisle)

 
These items are a little more craft related than specifically cricut - but I still recommend them!  I use those hooks to hold my cricut mats on the wall (storage) and the jute is nice for so many of my projects - either to hang them, decorate them, or wrap them.

Blanks from Dollar Tree Decorated With Vinyl

Dollar Tree Chargers Decorated With Cricut
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/painting-decorating-dollar-tree-chargers.html


Metal Flowers From Dollar Tree Foil Cookie Sheets
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/03/dollar-tree-cookie-sheet-metal-flowers.html

Layered Paper Shadow Box (Light Box)
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/10/layered-paper-shadow-boxes-dollar-tree.html


Dollar Tree Lanterns
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/11/decorating-dollar-tree-lanterns-with.html

Roll A Doodle Game
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/08/dollar-tree-roll-doodle-and-team-version.html

Decorating Dollar Tree Cake Carriers
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/03/decorating-dollar-tree-cake-carriers.html

Dollar Tree Cosmetic Bags Decorated with Cricut (With Free SVGS)
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/03/making-dollar-tree-make-up-bags.html


Dollar Tree Soap Dispensers
http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/decorating-soap-dispensers-with-cricut.html
Dollar Tree Night Lights Redone With  Cricut
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/01/personalizing-dollar-tree-night-lights.html

Tooth Fairy Luminaries from Dollar Tree Tart Warmers
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/01/tooth-fairy-luminary-with-free-svgs.html

Step By Step (With Links to The Free Font & SVG)
Travel "Lego" (Building Blocks From The Dollar Tree)
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/03/dollar-tree-travel-lego-building-blocks.html


Pot Holders 
These are one of my favorite items!
They are:  Home Collection Cotton/Neoprene Pot Holders 
I use a silicone baking sheet in the pocket before ironing on my design.
(The dish towels are from JoAnns)


Split Monogram On A Dollar Tree Tote


Copycat Starbucks Logo on a Dollar Tree Travel Mug

Easter Baskets


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Cricut Easter Baskets


Cliff Notes:
  • Baskets are from the Dollar Tree, Target, & DH Gate.  Details are below, for each.
  • Designs are from all over.  I've started this post with a list of places to find free bunny faces, then later in the post I describe each design I used and where I got the elements for it.
  • I used a regular iron for all of these.  It's what I always use, I never have any problem using an iron.  I use a silicone baking sheet inside (or behind) items when Ironing on my designs, I think it helps.  
  • Siser Easyweed HTV.  I buy it on Amazon, with prime free shipping, it's always the cheapest that way, for me.

Free Bunny Face SVG Files:

Fonts I liked for the names: Pharmacy, Twinable, Messy Marker, Moonlight, Chuck Noon


The Bags & Baskets:


Burlap Bunny Bags:
 
On Amazon, these are around $30 for 6.  Free Shipping with Prime, and a variety of additional colors, shapes, and designs are available. 
https://amzn.to/3SYWlnG

DH Gate has these at a lower price, but you have to buy a larger amount, and shipping may  take weeks - but it is also free.  
https://www.dhgate.com/product/2019-easter-bunny-bag-for-egg-hunts-burlap/447186032.html#ymlpd-1


Ironing  on them:

I used the silicone baking sheet inside the bags, as I do with most items, but because of the way the burlap and fabric are layered here, I'm not sure how much it helped.  I used it anyway.  :-)

 The seams and layers at the bottom made it a little more difficult to get the good pressure on the letters, but they have held up well.

Dollar Tree Baskets:
Find them online on the Dollar Tree Site Here -
 https://www.dollartree.com/easter-bunny-shaped-baskets/302822
  For $1.25 each, these are by far the quickest and easiest and cheapest to make!  Big Lots has similar baskets, but not nearly as cheap.

 Ironing Them On - 
You have 4 inches in length to work with on these ears.
I chose the font Moonlight - one of my current faves.  As much as I love beautiful scripty fonts, when making things for young children, I like to keep the letters clear and readable so they easily recognize their own name.



Target Baskets
In 208 these were inside the door, in the "Dollar Spot" aisles.  (Why is this called Dollar Spot?  Almost nothing there is just $1....)  They cost $3, and are sturdy - with a plastic bucket inside the layers of canvas material.  The ears have wire in them.

 Five Below has similar buckets, just a bit larger, with a bunny silhouette already on them, for $5 each.  They are 3 for $18 on amazon here - https://amzn.to/30OKGeP

 Ironing On Them:
This is the only time I have used my iron more like an iron than a "press" for htv.  Because of the curve of the bucket, I kind of ran the iron around over the design.  It attached quickly and easily - the htv seems to like this material!   I didn't put anything inside of the buckets, just my hand. I kind of held the bucket in the air with one hand, and moved the iron around the design with my other hand.  It sounds difficult, I know, but this was actually much easier than the burlap bags. 

 The Designs:

For the Bunny with the sunglasses:
I used the llama face with sunglasses from Caluya design, ungrouped, deleted the ears.
Selected both areas on the glasses, and sliced, so the cut outs are cut out, not layered.
Changed the circle behind the nose to pale blue
I added the whiskers from the printable cuttable creatables face
Font is chuck noon.

 Because I have a LOT of black scraps, rather than fuss with how to place everything to use up scraps, I just changed the whiskers & nose, sunglasses, and letters all to different colors and cut each one.  I put black on the mat each time, but because the software thought I was using different colors, it automatically prompted me to put in a new mat for each item.  It was a little more (but not much!) time consuming to do it this way, but I did almost all of these with just my scraps - and I found it quicker to put in a new mat than any other option.
This is the face I used for the girls burlap bags.  It was in my svg files names BunnyFace.svg - but there is no information in the properties for me to know where i downloaded it from.  I downloaded it in November of 2017...  The links above give similar faces, but if anyone knows where I got this particular svg (I'm positive it was free) I'd love to link to it.

The font I used for the girls burlap bags was DK Jambo.

Molly's basket was made with a photo of her.  I used graphics software to convert it to an svg, for Christmas ornaments last year.  For this, I simply had to make the graphic larger.  Font is Moonlight.  Here's a variety of software that will convert a photo to svg - 
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/programs-sites-for-converting-to-svg.html


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Dollar Tree Travel Coffee Mugs - Cricut

Cliff Notes:
 This is a Super CHEAP project.  50 cent travel coffee cups from Dollar tree, scrap vinyl.  It is a major pain in the butt to weed.  But I'm not strong on patience.  It would be easier if you use bigger cups, and make the design bigger.

Some have said you can remove the Take It To Go logo with acetate and a magic eraser.  I tried, it didn't go great for me.  (I ended up painting those cups).  I decided to just put the design on the blank side, and leave the take it to go on the opposite side.  

Step By Step How I Did This:

Find the free SVG here - https://all-free-download.com/free-vector/download/starbucks-coffee-0_111169.html

The Starbucks font is Gibson.  You can download it for free here:
http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/48928/Gibson

 (Do that now, before you open design space.  If you need to know how to install a font, try this post:  https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/all-about-fonts-text-in-cricut-design.html)

Adding Text
Open a text box, type in your text, Choose the Gibson font.


Use The Curve Feature to curve your text.  If it does not fit the way you would like, ungroup your text, and manually move your letters - but in most cases, the curve feature should work great for this!


Now you have two options.  You can cut the letters out of white, and layer them on the green, or you can slice the letters out and let the background of the cup show through.

To slice, select your letters and weld.  You can only slice with TWO items selected at a time.  If you do not weld your letters, you will have to cut one letter out at a time.  If you weld the letters, you can slice them all out of the circle at once.



For these cups, I want a 3 inch decal.  So Select All, Choose Group, then in that top toolbar where it shows the size, type in a 3 and hit enter.



The cups I am using are the 2 for $1 "Take It To Go" Cups from the Dollar Tree.  I am leaving the Take It To Go on one side, and decorating the other side..

For the vinyl, I'm using 651. I buy it on Amazon, because...  free shipping.  I love Amazon prime!  Here's a look at my favorite vinyl, and where to buy it, with price comparisons including shipping costs: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/cricut-which-vinyl-do-i-need-where-do-i.html

For transfer tape, I use contact paper from the Dollar Tree.


I like to transfer my designs all at once when possible.  So I transferred the green to the transfer tape, then added the black center to the transfer tape - putting the entire design together before it touches the cup.  When transferring the design, flip the design upside down, and run the scraper tool over the back, then pull the white backing up gently, starting at one corner and pulling diagonally.

Now to place on the cup, fold lightly in half, non sticky sides together.  Not enough to crease, just enough to find the middle. Stick the middle to the cup, then press down one just one side. Once the one side is down flat, flatten the other side.


That's it!  The longest part of this process for me was the weeding.  This really was a pain to weed.   

(yes, I did realize, after taking this pic, that I had put the green ring on the Daleck cup sideways..  I was able to remove it and put it back on correctly.  It takes about 48 hours for the 651 to seal permanently, so it was an easy fix - for the most part)

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