Cricut Word Collage Vinyl Scrapbooking Canvas Bag with Gypsy

I decorated this bag for little ‘ole me to carry around at the Creating Keepsakes Convention I attended in Charlotte, NC last weekend.  It was great to have a special bag to carry some of my purchases.  I’d be telling a tall tale if I said all my purchases fit in this bag.  I’d need some Harry Potter magic to make a bag that big.  LOL!

I’m using HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) to create this bag.

It’s true that I used the Cricut Word Collage Cartridge to help me make this, but I made it fit my specific interests.  Instead of keeping the words and lettering the way they were, I used the Gypsy to hide the word “Cricut” and I replaced it with the word “vinyl”. I love my Cricut, but I really wanted to showcase vinyl instead.  I used the Cricut Lite Carousel Cartridge to spell “vinyl”.  Why is it all backwards on my Gypsy?  You must FLIP lettering when using iron on vinyl or it will all be facing the wrong direction when you iron it on.

Once I used the Cricut Lite Carousel cartridge to decorate a car wash I made out of a Kleenex box.

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO: How to use the Gypsy Hide and Layers Functions (like I did in this project).

I cut some of the words apart and arranged them like I wanted them. I also made a mistake “had a learning opportunity”. Do you see what I’m about to do wrong? If you said, “Yes!”, then I blame you entirely for not speaking up earlier. If you said, “No.”, then I’ll explain it to you while we glare at the people who said yes. Do you see the little white line of vinyl near the “f” in “papercraft”? Well, I didn’t. This is why you shouldn’t iron late at night. I didn’t see it at all and I ironed it right onto my project. What’s worse is that I continued to iron down the other words before I noticed. Me needed sleep. Me talk and craft like Cookie Monster.

I watch tv while I craft, hence the remote.

I used white and gold iron on vinyl for this project.  I got that pink bag from a very exclusive store called…WalMart.  LOL!  This bag came in a pack of 3 which also included a blue and a green bag.  I was happy to find some fun colors, because I’ve been using plain ones.  This pink is a nice change!

Here’s a white Sewing / Quilting vinyl Canvas Bag I created using Cricut Word Collage.

Do you want to learn how to use vinyl with your Cricut?  Check out my Cricut Vinylology DVD!

Have a Crafty Day!!