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Cricut Doorhanger

Instructions

Make your text

  • Measure the surface space and divide it by the letters that you want to use.
  • Open up your cricut software.
  • Open a blank screen.
  • Select “text” and create your letters separately.
  • Select your font for the letters.
  • Change the font size to what you want it to be.
  • Group your letters.
  • Take your smart vinyl and load it into the cricut machine.
  • Print your letters.
  • Release your vinyl from the machine and unload it.
  • Peel off the area around the letters.
  • Take the middle of the letters out.
  • Add your transfer tape on top of the letters, making sure there are no air bubbles.
  • Peel off the transfer tape from the vinyl.
  • Add the transfer tape to your sign.
  • Remove the transfer tape.

Make your door hanger

  • Take 2 pipe cleaners and twist them together.
  • Add the twist ties to the back of the sign using staples.

Make and add your bow

  • Take a bunch of ribbons and cut a 12” piece of each.
  • Layer the ribbon pieces on top of each other.
  • Pinch the ribbons in the center to make a bow and secure it with a zip tie.
  • Hide the zip tie using another ribbon piece by using glue.
  • Dovetail the ends.
  • Fluff out your bow.
  • Add the bow to the top of the sign using a staple gun.
  • Add a firecracker pick to the center of the bow using glue.