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How to Create Signs for Wreaths using Cricut Explore | Step by Step Tutorial in Design Space

Feb 27, 2020
Hello everyone, I'm Tracy. Today I'm sharing how to

create

some small wooden

signs

using

vinyl and cut them out on your die cutting machine. I'm

using

a Cricut scan in this video, but I wanted to show how quick it would be to mass produce. these

signs

because these

wreaths

are very popular and we are always looking for cute little signs to put on our wreath so let me show you how I put them all together. I'm using these little wooden signs that come in a pack of four. Like this one at Hobby Lobby, you may be able to get them elsewhere as well, but you may have seen them on some of my hauls.
how to create signs for wreaths using cricut explore step by step tutorial in design space
Now this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to paint the wood sign and then I'm going to cut the vinyl on my Cricut Explore and we're going to

create

a cute sign. I like to basecoat and prep a lot of signs so I can mass produce them, so I'm using this buttermilk color paint from Americana. I will have a link in the description below if you would like to use, find or purchase any of the products I currently used in this video. I painted the signs with a coat of buttermilk paint, now I'm going to add a little bit of to do that, I use a flat brush, I dip half of my brush in half of the paint in clean, clear water and mix it with a paper towel and then I'll shade around the sign.
how to create signs for wreaths using cricut explore step by step tutorial in design space

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how to create signs for wreaths using cricut explore step by step tutorial in design space...

I love using Sharpie markers on my projects because that's my signature, that's my

design

, that's my kind of doodle, so my favorite markers to use are the fine tip Sharpie marker and the ultra fine Sharpie marker. Now, on this fine tip Sharpie marker, you can see that I have some yellow washi tape. there and I discovered that that's a way to recognize which markers are the latest memos because I have so many Sharpie markers that I forget, you know which ones are new and which ones aren't, so I'll give you a little tip: put some washi tape on.
how to create signs for wreaths using cricut explore step by step tutorial in design space
Just remember which one it was and those will be marked as your newest bookmarks. Okay, here in

design

space

, I'm going to insert a shape and that's going to be my board for the size. I need to unlock this because I want to put it up. my own size is 10 10 inches by 3 point 4 7 those are the measurements that I got on the outside of the package okay and I'm going to change this color so it looks pretty much the same color that I have for my sign. Okay, now I want to insert the text and I'll write Welcome by default.
how to create signs for wreaths using cricut explore step by step tutorial in design space
Mine is listed with Cricut fans, but I'll click on that and go to the system point and the funk I'm using is Magnolia, guys. It is a free download. I'll put a link in the description below so you can check it out if you don't currently have this one, so you can see how it appears and all the letters have a little

space

, you know, they have a little bit. space I want to get rid of that so I need to unlock it right here and it kind of puts bubbles around it so I'm going to unlock it and then I went to ungroup here on the right side so I can then move each letter individually so I want to do it that way, that's how I do it, you can do what's best for you, okay, cool, so I like the little location of that.
I'm going to group all of these together and Group them again by holding down the shift key on my keyboard and then clicking on all the individual letters and then coming back here and on the right side and selecting group so they all become one word again, okay? ? I can recite the word. I can change the size of the word by doing so. Now when I drag this diagonal, it resizes, but I want to manipulate it so that I can resize it myself. I can make it taller instead of thicker if I pull it. Diagonally, it will only be proportionally sized.
The way I do it is I come here to the lock button, I click on it and then it locks it. Put this little green button right here, so I know it's unlocked, so now I can make it thinner. I can do better. I can do it. You know, I can manipulate it the way I want for my board. Okay, so I want to leave a little bit of space at the top, on the sides, and at the bottom. When I like it. I look at it and I really like it, so I'm going to go ahead and select down here, I'm not sure if this is showing on my screen, but down here on the right.
On the bottom side I'm going to click well and then it becomes one piece, all soldered together, they are not individual pieces, the difference between soldering and joining is that they are accessories that are placed on the mat where they do not move. but soldering means they are like curses, they are like joined together, they won't separate even if they are overlapped, they still will if they are cut individually, you will see the individual like where the W meets the e and where the e meets the L, but now that they're soldered, they're all joined together and they're just a p, just soldered really well, so now I'm going to select do it now. it gives me Matt because I have the black one up here and then I have this brown color.
I'm not going to cut it. In fact, I can delete it if I want. I choose not to delete the square or the rectangle because I may want to resize it again in the future and I want to have it, so now this one is here ready to use and I can cut out these welcomes and make my signs. I also wanted to share an idea on how to get the most out of it. of my vinyl and when I mass produce signs that's how I say sometime so I'm just copying and pasting. I copied and pasted the welcome here, okay, so I don't have a 12 by 24 sheet vinyl, but I'm I'm going to get as many welcomes here as I can, so I'll see here, so I'm just going to select "Do it now." It automatically defaults to twelve by twelve, so I want to change that and see it set to Matt I.
I want to change this right here to 12 by 24. I'm going to use my total of 24 Matt, so like you can see here, all my welcomes are put here on my mat, okay, so it looks like maybe I can get one more. I'm going to cancel that and I'm going to edit and paste again, so I have two, four, six, yes, I have six, welcome, just save some time instead of having to go back, let's do it right, select 12 by 24 again, right? OK? So I put all those six welcomes here on my stuff Matt, so if you're okay with this, you can go ahead and trim it, but if you want to save some of the vinyl and take the time to do it, look.
In this second welcome, I click on it and little bubbles appear around it and it's this one here. I can't, if I control it with the mouse, I can rotate it so I can move it a little bit closer to the top. welcome and then that helps conserve, see all this vinyl that I have, so this third welcome I'm going to bring it a little bit closer, I'm just going to make sure I don't overlap any of the other welcome, how to mention it and they want. to flip that one I want to bring it over here and the way I'm doing this is I'm grabbing this little spin thing right here and then I take my mouth and I make a circle and then that shift Chara turns to My project is okay as you can see here, this gives me a lot more space.
I'm missing about three inches of black vinyl because I got into another project, so I can add one more welcome down here so I can get the most out of my piece of vinyl and my Cricut can cut it all at once, here's how it cut me off on my machine. I already removed the weeds and to remove all the little excess between the O's and the ease, and I just love how it cuts everything at once and also saves the vinyl. Okay, this is what my signs will look like once I cut the vinyl, remove it, and then transfer it to this little sign, so I wanted to show it to you. that I have, it works better if I cut them and then I have this transfer tape.
I'll leave a link in the description below to share exactly what I use because not all transfer tapes are created equal. I'm not kidding, that's why I like this. I transfer the ribbon so what I do is the purpose of the transfer flange is to transfer it to the ribbon so you can then transfer it to your project so I just cut a piece that I already made that I just cut. piece that is, you know, long enough and wide enough for my project for my vinyl cutout and then I just take a scraper. I have this one, you can use a credit card or you can use, you know, one of those popsicle stick tongue depressors that you get or they have at the doctor's office anything to polish it off or place it where it sticks to this tape because I wanted to transfer it as smoothly as possible so I'm going back and forth just trying to go over it because I want it to come up very easily like this like this okay sometimes when you work with vinyl it doesn't come up very easily so I would go back back.
You know, take it. slow and if it doesn't rise like that on the tape, you know, go back down and polish it a little more, then also when we weld our word, everything is welded together as one, it's all one word, sometimes I do forget something. solder my word and I have a cursive word like this, yeah, you made a wake letter, Spica, you know, it builds up and I'm like, oh damn, I forgot to solder, but it's okay once you do it, once you start working with a good one a little bit more you learn those tricks of the trade okay so I'm going to put my sign here in front of me so before I just stick it there I look at it to see you know what I do.
I don't want it to be crooked I don't want it to be, you know, make sure the L has enough space at the top and at the bottom. I want it to be centered enough like the W and then the e, the last letter, so I'm going to go ahead and leave it kind of soft that it likes that twist again. Personal preference. I want to polish it more because now I want it to fit my side. I wanted to transfer it from the tight spots on my side and so I promise you I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to vinyl.
Vinyl is not my favorite thing to work with, but it is beautiful. Once you know how to do your project, you can get a project that you can't paint on. of letters that kind of thing, so slowly, what I'm going to do is make sure that it's attached to my sign, if it hadn't been, I would take this tape and fold it down and I whispered and said a little bit. a little bit more slowly, slowly, slowly, you'll be able to feel it, you know, make sure the belt goes up and it stops running, okay, there you go, that's how quick and easy it is to get our products into mass production. small welcome signs using paint wood wax and Hobby Lobby vinyl.
I varnish or stamp all my signs, so I use this Delta varnish. It is a shiny finish. They also have a matte finish, but I prefer the glossy one because I like my signs. so they're a little shiny so I just lay them all out on my table and I just put a little coat on the signs at once and it dries really quickly and we're ready to put the signs on the wreath. You can staple pipe cleaners to the back, you can drill a small hole and you can attach it to the wire frame with wire, just make sure it is stable enough so the sign will fall off your reading.
Thank you so much for watching guys, I appreciate your comments I appreciate your thumbs up and if you're new here go ahead and subscribe. I would love to have you and thank you for watching and God bless you.

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