Cricut Easter Shirt

Spring is here and Easter is right around the corner! Time to get festive! Why not make a cute Easter shirt for your little ones with the Cricut?

Cutting fabric with the cricut can be a bit tricky. I got a lot of good tips from this video.

Supplies:
Plain t-shirt
Solid color fabric (I used purple)
Print fabric
Steam a Seam 2
Doodlecharms Cartridge (or other Easter image from your cartridges)
Buttons and ribbon (optional)

Begin by deciding how large you want your Easter basket to be. I decided to cut mine at 5 1/2" so I started with a 6" x 6" square of purple fabric and applied the Steam a Seam 2 to the back. Steam a Seam 2 is fusible web that comes in sheets with a paper backing on each side. You can buy it at your craft store.

Peel off one side of the paper backing, iron it onto your fabric, and leave the other paper backing on for cutting in your Cricut.

The Doolecharms cartridge has a basket and egg that are perfect for this project. Make sure your fabric is pressed securely to your cutting mat. Set your Cricut to multi cut, blade depth to 6, and pressure to max.  After my basket was cut, it looked like this.. not too pretty, but it still worked!

Next, apply the Steam a Seam 2 to the back of your printed fabric for the egg. I used a 3" x 3" square.

Then I cut the egg at 2 1/2". If you're using Doodlecharms, make sure you use the Real Dial Size button to get an egg cut at your desired size. Otherwise it was cut an egg much smaller but in proportion to a 2 1/2" basket.

Then I laid out my basket and egg on the shirt. I decided to add a little ribbon tied around the handle for an added cute detail! If you decide to do this, make sure you add it before you iron your fabric to your shirt.

Next step.. get your iron back out and start by ironing on the egg first..

Then add the basket!

I decided to sew on a few cute buttons to the front of the basket to give the shirt a little more detail. And here is the finished product!

Happy Easter everyone!

Springy Felt Headband

I love this project for the simplicity of it. From start to finish it took us about 30 minutes. As a busy mom I'm always looking for fun easy projects that I can complete with my kids for minimal cost and minimal mess.

Supplies:
Stiffened felt
Button
Headband
Needle and thread
Cricut cartridge of your choice
Hot Glue Gun

I started by letting my daughter pick out a shape to use as the decoration for the headband. She wanted a flower and chose the blossom off of the Walk in My Garden cartridge (page 87).

Next we placed a sheet of stiffened felt on our cricut mat. Stiffened felt works best because it has a starchy feel to it and stays in place better while being cut by the cricut.

We cut our first flower at 2". I had my blade depth set at 6, pressure on max, and speed on low. Also, be sure to use the muti cut button so that the shape is cut out twice and the blade passes through the felt completely.

Next we cut out another flower in a different color at 1 1/2".

Then we sewed the two flowers and a button together with needle and thread. This was a great opportunity for my daughter to work on her sewing skills.

The finished embellishment

And lastly, we hot glued the flower onto a headband! The options are endless with this project. You could attach these felt flowers to barrettes, key chains, even your Cricut cards or scrapbook pages. My other daughter is excited about making one too and I'm sure hers will turn out totally different since the options are endless!