- Today, I am showing you how to customize your own travel mug with a roll of vinyl and your Cricut cutting
machine, but those same concepts can be applied to a coffee mug,
sports bottle, water bottle, really anything in between. Now, let's (claps) get crafty. (energetic music) (air whooshing) (cursor clicking) (bell dings) Hey, I'm Michael, and this
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the 15-day Crafty Challenge, where myself and a bunch of
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help flatten that curve. And we are doing that by putting up brand new crafting tutorials
every single day for 15 days, all the way up until April the 8th. And we are doing that because
we want to encourage you to stay home, to stay
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days, we'll drop you winners. Now, for today's project, we are leaning more on a simple
and quick side of things, because there are so many
people who are dying to know how to customize their
coffee mugs, travel, mugs, water bottles, et cetera, with
their Cricut cutting machine. So for today's illustration,
I'm be showing you how to do it on this mug right here. All right, so the first
thing that I'm doing is pulling up Cricut Design space, and I'm gonna come over here to the left-hand side of
the page and click on text. And just for today's example,
I want to type out Alyssa. Now, I am wanting this
to be a script font. So the way that I'm gonna change that is by coming up here towards
the top left-hand corner of the page, clicking on
font, and, if you'll notice the fonts are divided
into three categories, there are simply all the fonts, but then you can narrow it down to system versus Cricut fonts. Now, if you're gonna do a Cricut font, you do need to purchase them individually, or if you have a Cricut access membership you get free access to them. And as far as the system fonts
go, those are all the fonts that you have downloaded
onto your computer. Now, if you would like to learn how to download all kinds of free fonts that you can use in Cricut design space, I will link that video
for you right up here. So I think for today's illustration, I'm gonna use this
Clarista font right here. And I'm gonna come over here towards the bottom left
hand corner of the page and just zoom in a little bit on this. As you'll see all the letters inside this name are spread out apart. Now, I have seen some people whom must not have known
how to correct this, and they went ahead and
cut this out just like this and applied it to their
garment or to their cup, or to whatever it may be,
but I'm gonna show you how to avoid making
that mistake. (chuckle) So the way that you can fix
this is by selecting the name, and there really is two ways that you can go about doing this. The first way is by coming up here towards the top of the screen
where it says Letter Space, and then just clicking this down arrow, and as you'll see each time that you do, each of those letters come
closer and closer together. (energetic music) So the Y-S-S-A looks
good, but this A and L they're just kinda out here on their own. So we wanna fix this,
so I'm gonna show you the other way to go about doing this, which is personally my
favorite way to fix it. And what I'm gonna do is come back up here towards the top of the canvas, but this time I'm selecting the Advanced, and I'm gonna select Ungroup to Letters. And what that does is put each individual
letter onto its own layer, so I can literally click
the A, if I wanted to and move it anywhere on
the canvas I would like, I could also rotate it, I can make that A little bit
bigger, a little bit smaller, I could really do anything
that I wanted to with that A, or with any other letter inside this name. So I'm just gonna move it back over here. All right, so that looks good right there. So now, I'm gonna select this S right here and just move that in a
little bit closer as well. I think I might rotate
that a little bit this way. Maybe even make it just a
little bit bigger, there we go. And now, I'm gonna come
over here and grab this L and drag this over as
well, maybe even rotate it. Yeah, kinda like it
just like that actually. And now I'm gonna grab this A and bring it over here
closer to the bunch, except for I'm gonna rotate
this one a little bit as well, and maybe make that A a little bit bigger. All right, I think that,
that looks really good, but here's the issue, if I
clicked on Make It right now, all of these letters
that we just spent time putting right next to each other, they're all separated again, and that's because we didn't
attach them in any kinda way. So what I'm gonna do is come down here towards the bottom right hand
corner and select Cancel. I am simply just gonna
click and drag this blue box over this entire name, just like that. Now, each individual letter is selected. Now, what I want to do is come over here towards the bottom right-hand corner. And some people make the
mistake by selecting Attach. We don't wanna do that. If we selected attach, what would happen, is it would still cut it out
and it would still be lined up just like this, but there'll be cuts in between each of these letters, so they wouldn't be actually attached. So what we wanna do instead is actually welded these together. Now, when you select
weld all of these letters basically become one
single image of sorts. They're all fused or welded together, which makes it so much
easier and so much better, when it comes time to
weed out your design, and then apply it to your service. Now, that that is welded,
what we need to do now is decide how big to make this
name for our specific cup. And I'm gonna show you
how figure that out. What I'm doing first is just measuring out the height of the cup. (energetic music) All right, so it looks like it's pretty close to 6 1/2 inches. And the next thing that
we wanna do is figure out how much of the width of the
cup we want our decal to cover. Now, with this, we just wanna keep in mind that the cup is obviously curved, and we wanna make sure that whenever somebody
is looking at the cup, they can see the entire
decal at just one glance. Now, I personally think for
this specific travel mug that the max width I would
want is about two inches or so. We are now gonna use those measurements to create somewhat of a
template in Cricut design space to figure out how big to
make our actual decal. All right, so what I'm doing
is coming back over here to the left hand side of the page, and this time I'm clicking on shapes, and I'm gonna select a square. Now, the first thing that I want to do with this square is unlock
the proportions of it. So this little padlock
right here, it's main goal, its main purpose is to
keep the proportions of whatever image or
shape that is selected. Well, we don't wanna keep the
same proportions of a square, we wanna turn this more
into like a rectangle. So I am gonna unlock that
padlock just by clicking on it. And then I'm gonna come over here to width and I'm gonna type in two for two inches, and over here for height,
I'm gonna type in six, for six inches, there we go. And just so I can see
it a little bit better, I'm gonna change the color of the shape, by coming up here towards
the top left-hand corner and selecting this little
color swatch right here, and I'll just change that color to white. So now, I'm gonna take this name and drag it in front of this rectangle. And then when you use this
rotate handle right here to rotate the name around. And I'm gonna use this resize handle to make this image larger. And basically just use that to help determine the size of this decal. All right, so I think
that, that looks perfect. Now we don't need this template anymore, so I'm just gonna slip that
and then click this little, red X up here in the top left-hand corner. And now I can come up here
towards the top right-hand corner and select to make it. Teal is my best friend's favorite color, so I'm gonna use this
holographic vinyl right here that does have a lot of teal in it. Now, sometimes holographic
vinyl character, a little bit funny or
weird in a dishwasher. So if you are planning on
using a holographic vinyl, I would recommend washing by hand only, but if you're wanting a vinyl, that's gonna last a little
bit longer in a dishwasher. I would recommend like Oracal 651, or even a Cricut permanent vinyl. (scissors shearing) And for those who are
wondering, this is Cricut brand. (energetic music) All right, so now I'm gonna
load my mat into my machine. (energetic music) I am just gonna tap the
flashing arrow button to load the mat in,
(machine whirring) and then whenever the Cricut logo button starts flashing, I can
go ahead and press that for it to start cutting. (machine whirring) All right, so for weeding,
I'm just gonna turn the vinyl towards me and then we'll
start picking at a corner, just until I can get
that vinyl to lift up. Then at I'm gonna pull
it back very slowly, making sure that there are
no pieces of our design that's trying to come up with it. (energetic music) All right, so we have our decal all weeded out and ready to go. Now, what we need to
do is prep our surface. And since this is a hard surface, what I wanna do is wipe it
down with some rubbing alcohol. And I do recommend at
least a 90% or higher. What this will do is actually remove any type of dirt, grease, or grime and make the vinyl
application so much easier. And while we're waiting for that to dry, I'm gonna go ahead and get some transfer tape on this decal. And I am gonna use this
masking tape transfer tape that I got off of ShopAuntieTay.com, this stuff is truly amazing,
and if you're planning on getting any of this for yourself, you can use my code, which is 'Crafty', and that'll save you 10%. All right, so I'm just applying this transfer tape over this decal, and I'm just gonna use
my Cricut scraper tool to really just brunch
over top of this decal, just really wanting this decal to adhere to this transfer tape. All right, so I'm just gonna
start slowly peeling off this transfer tape, making
sure that everything is fully adhered to the transfer tape and make sure that nothing
is getting left behind. (energetic music) And now all I need to
do is line up the decal and apply it to the cup. (energetic music) Now, I'm just taking my scraper tool and just burnishing over top of the decal. And now I'm just slowly
peeling off this transfer tape. (energetic music) And here is our finished project. (energetic music) Please let me know what you
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