Two tote bags using the Cricut Explore!

It has been a while so I figured I’d better catch you all up on what’s been going on in my world! I made quite a few handmade gifts for Christmas, but in my haste I forgot to take pictures of many of them! Arrggh! However, I did take pictures of these super cute bags that I made for my secret santa and for my child’s teacher. They were both super easy to make with my Cricut Explore (it took me less than 20 minutes to make both bags)! I used the inexpensive tote bags from Hobby Lobby and Cricut heat transfer vinyl. You just iron it on when you are finished cutting and weeding (weeding is taking away the extra vinyl you don’t want to iron onto the finished product).

The first bag was made by using an existing graphic from the Cricut subscription library and then using a rectangle and the slice feature in Cricut design space to get rid of the words and graphics I didn’t want and then typing in the new words and inserting a basketball. I L.O.V.E. the slice feature!

The second bag was made by selecting a graphic from the library, typing the teacher’s name, overlapping the two just a little and then welding the graphic andd the letters together. It sounds complicated, but it is literally just a few clicks to make this happen.

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Toodles!