Fields Of Heather

Christmas Craft Challenge Week Five - HTV On A Dishtowel

Step By Step How To Use HTV, Including How To Layer It

So far in this 12 week Christmas Craft Challenge, we've covered how to cut paper, how to use the pens to write, how to transfer vinyl, how to layer vinyl with registration marks, and last week we tackled Print Then Cut. You can find an index of the past projects here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-12-week-christmas-craft-challenge.html

This week we're learning about HTV - Heat Transfer Vinyl. When you are applying vinyl to fabric, it always needs to be HTV. Regular vinyl with rarely hold up for more than a few days on fabric.

For "Choose Your Own Adventure" section this week, there's a section of free svgs for making dish towels. These make great, quick, Christmas gifts!

Grinch Stink Stank Stunk 2020, Using Free SVGS

If you are trying to make these ornaments this year with a photo you saved from a facebook post, that is not an svg. Yes, it can be made into a cut file. But you can also just download two separate free svgs, which are scalable vector graphics already sorted into layers, add some text, and customize your own version - with a little less frustration than trying to use a jpg.

Here's a step by step how to.

Ceramic Floor Tiles, Painted, and decorated with vinyl

Tips For Making Them, and Free SVGS

Vertical Christmas Signs on Ceramic Floor Tiles

Vertical Halloween Signs Made with ceramic floor tiles and free svgs from Design Hippo

Tips & Reference:

I used 6x24 ceramic floor tiles. You can sometimes find boxes really cheap at Lowes, often a discontinued pattern, or an odd box. You can sometimes find white ones that would save you some painting too.
TIP - Paint the tiles the day before. The paint is much more likely to peel up if you do not let them dry thoroughly.
I used a variety of paints on the different tiles I made. Surprisingly, Rustoleum spray paint did NOT work well for me. But that may have been because it was too cold outside, or because I didn't let it dry long enough. Martha Stewart Chalk Paint & cheap Apple barrel craft paint both worked well. I tried modge podge over the paint, but I think that made the paint peel more, not less. The key was to make sure the tiles were room temperature when I painted them (not left in the cold garage overnight...) and then let them dry for at least a day. You could also try using Press & Seal as your transfer tape, but once I let them dry long enough, I didn't have any problems with the paint lifting.
Find Free Vertical Sign SVGS here

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The Free SVGS are from Design Hippo & can be found here:
https://www.thedesignhippo.com/free-halloween-vertical-porch-signs-svg-cut-files-for-cricut/

This is now a very ad intensive, and slightly confusing, site. The download is NOT any of the blue buttons. It will be near the bottom of the page, under an ad, and will look like this, as of August 2023:

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https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/10/change-for-seasons-home-sign.html

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Find me On Facebook At Crafting With Fields Of Heather

Where I post LOTS Of Free svgs each day, and more tips and tutorials

https://www.facebook.com/fieldsofheathercrafts/posts/

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Find more step by step tutorials here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/04 /cricut-step-by-step-project-tutorials.html

Change For The Seasons HOME Sign

Interchangeable Vertical HOME Sign, using a ceramic floor tile and wooden tiles attached by velcro

Some later tiles... More and more, I've been using paper designs for the center, since this sign is inside, beside my craft desk.

Tips & Reference:

I used 6x24 ceramic floor tiles. You can sometimes find boxes really cheap at Lowes, often a discontinued pattern, or an odd box. You can sometimes find white ones that would save you some painting too.
TIP - Paint the tiles the day before. The paint is much more likely to peel up if you do not let them dry thoroughly.
I used a variety of paints on the different tiles I made. Surprisingly, Rustoleum spray paint did NOT work well for me. But that may have been because it was too cold outside, or because I didn't let it dry long enough. Martha Stewart Chalk Paint & cheap Apple barrel craft paint from Wal-Mart both worked well. I tried modge podge over the paint, but I think that made the paint peel more, not less. The key was to make sure the tiles were room temperature when I painted them (not left in the cold garage overnight...) and then let them dry for at least a day. You could also try using Press & Seal as your transfer tape, but once I let them dry long enough, I didn't have any problems with the paint lifting.
You can find the thin wood tiles at Wal-mart, or on Amazon here. I happened to have a few of these Plaid Wood Tile Boards that I picked up at the Dollar Tree a year or so ago. I can't find them on their website, and don't know if you can still find them in any of the stores.
I used velcro on the back of the wooden tiles. I used what I already had on hand in my sewing cabinet, and attached it with hot glue - but you can buy it with adhesive already on it.
See the Halloween Signs I made here
See the Christmas Vertical Signs I made here
Find Free Vertical Sign SVGS here

The Home svg I used - FREE -

I started with this free svg

https://crafthousesvg.com/products/free-fall-home-sign-svg-fb4?ref=6959505

(I made the pumpkin orange for my September option)

Halloween Lampshade with Cricut

I love decorating lampshades with vinyl. The vinyl is on the inside, so the design is only seen when the light is turned on.

The free svg I used can be found here:

https://cuttingforbusiness.com/free-halloween-witch-svg-cut-file/

I ungrouped the design and removed the top and bottom parts. If you are using those, make sure to flip your design. Even though you use regular (Not HTV) vinyl to make these , you reverse the design as if you were using HTV. That's because the design is applied to the inside, the sticky side will be facing out. For black vinyl, Frisco Matte is my favorite brand - and it's the cheapest I've found too!

Find it here: https://amzn.to/32Yneel