Lemon Thistle

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Knock any name or word out of your shape with this simple Cricut Design Space tutorial. I made kids waterbottles with their names cut out of animal silhouettes… what will you make?

It’s almost back to school time, somehow (seriously, summer went SO QUICK!) and as we’re getting ready, we’re putting names on all the things. The amount of water bottles, tupperware and everything else that our kids lost last year was way too high. To make it a little bit more fun, I cut their names out of some of their fave animal shapes and am sharing a tutorial on how to do just that using your Cricut and Cricut Design Space (no other software needed). I’m also sharing some tips on applying adhesive vinyl to curved surfaces like water bottles because it took me a bit of practice. 

Have you ever wanted to cut words out of an image? I love the idea of silhouette or even a simple circle for a label but when you lay everything on top of each other in Cricut Design Space, things have a tendency to jump a round a little when you go ‘Make it’. You could ‘attach’ it all, but then you end up with all the extra cuts when something overlaps on the edge. This tutorial is perfect if you want to be able to make your cut more than once or share your project with another user. It also gets rid of all those extra cuts outside of your shape if you have your letters fall off the sides (like my designs!).

I created the tutorial with screen shots of the process while making the pencil case designs (a mermaid tail and a dinosaur). You can grab both those finished designs here on Cricut Design Space. Then, I went ahead and used this tutorial to make my kids labels for their water bottles. The options are really endless with this one, you can cut any words or shapes out of another image. Ready for the tutorial?

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