Vinyl Tutorials

This is a list of all my vinyl tutorials.  This includes all the basic techniques for vinyl on my site.  I don’t do much vinyl work and sometimes post the file for download with no specific tutorial so check my download pages if you see something in these basic technique tutorials and don’t see a specific tutorial for that project.

Just click on the read more button to see the whole tutorial.  Download links are included inside each project.  I have lots of vinyl projects where there is no tutorial so check the download pages for more vinyl projects

So pick what vinyl technique you need help with  and enjoy.  If you have any questions you can post a comment below, email me, or post the question at my Facebook Group, The Crazy Cricut Lady Group.

Using Sublimation on Dark Fabrics - It's Easy!

Using Sublimation on Dark Fabrics – It’s Easy!

I know that you were taught that sublimation (infusible ink) only works on light, polyester fabrics. Well, they were so wrong!!! I will show you ...
Heart Design Vinyl Using The Knockout Method

Heart Design Vinyl Using The Knockout Method

This heart design vinyl shirt looks good and works using the knockout method of layering vinyl. But there are a few tricks that make it ...
Organize Vinyl with this great product

The Most Wonderful Way To Organize Vinyl

I don't often find a product that I love enough to write a whole post about.  But this hanging vinyl organizer is a game changer ...
Comparing vinyl layering methods The straight layering method

How To And Comparing Vinyl Layering Techniques

When comparing vinyl layering methods, there are two different ways to do it: the straight layering method and the knock out method.  Each has its ...
Football Flour Sack Towels

Flour Sack Towel Make Great Gifts and Are Easy

Flour Sack Towels make great gifts. And they are easy to make, I show you how to make all of them! I also teach you ...
Make This Versatile Thanksgiving Vinyl Sign

Make This Versatile Thanksgiving Vinyl Sign

This Thanksgiving Vinyl Sign can be fit to any size board you have. The board I used was an old closet shelf that was in ...
Easy Elmo Drink Cup to Make

Easy Elmo Drink Cup to Make

I have more of the "fish tank" cups so I decided to make an Elmo Drink Cup since this cup is red. When Cordelia was ...
How to Use Your EasyPress Video Tutorials

How to Use Your EasyPress Video Tutorials

This video series teaches using your EasyPress. The EasyPress Video Tutorials show you how to use your EasyPress on one and two color HTV, Sublimation ...
September Challenge winner

September Challenge Award Winner

The Crazy Cricut Lady Facebook Group ran a challenge last month with one of the prize being a guest post.  This is the September Challenge ...
Front of Snow Days Card using Dollar Store vinyl

Snow Days Card and Review of Dollar Store Vinyl

I found vinyl at the Dollar Store. But is it worth $1? I designed this Snow Days Card to be done with vinyl and try ...
Glitter Vinyl Star of Wonder HTV Shirt to Make

Glitter Vinyl Star of Wonder HTV Shirt to Make

This Star of Wonder Glitter HTV Shirt using glitter vinyl post serves two purposes. This is first of all a tutorial on how to make ...
Make This Lizard Terrarium Drink Cup With Vinyl

Make This Lizard Terrarium Drink Cup With Vinyl

The shape of this drink cup lends it self to an aquarium or terrarium. So I made this lizard terrarium drink cup! I made the ...
Colorful Flower Messy Canvas Project

Colorful Flower Messy Canvas Project

I love doing messy canvas. This Flower Messy Canvas picture is a twist on the usual messy canvas. I used graphics instead of words. This ...
Layering vinyl flower project

Create This Vinyl Layering Flower Project Easily

Layering vinyl, whether it is regular vinyl or HTV, there are some tricks that can help.  With this tutorial you will see how to create this ...
Dinosaur Drink Cup for a Special Kid

Dinosaur Drink Cup for a Special Kid

I made this Dinosaur Drink Cup for a special kid. He was coming over for a picnic and the last time he was over kept ...
Have A Student Driver?  You Need These Magnets!

Have A Student Driver? You Need These Magnets!

Cordelia is a Student Driver. She sits extra long at stop signs, turns a little wide and drives slower than I would but these are ...
Rainbow Flag Shirt for Pride Month

Celebrate Pride Month with a Rainbow Flag Shirt

Celebrate Pride Month with this Rainbow Flag Shirt vinyl project. My Daughter is part of the LGBTQ community and wanted a unique shirt for the ...
Decorated Fish Tank Drink Cup

Decorated Fish Tank Drink Cup

I found this fish tank drink cup (at least that is what I thought it looked like) at Walmart for under $3. Cordelia agreed that ...
Make a Spiral Betty Shirt.  It's Amazing!

Make a Spiral Betty Shirt. It’s Amazing!

I saw a Spiral Betty in my Facebook group and had to try it! It is AMAZING! I will show you how and some mistakes ...
Lightbulb drink cup

Get this Light Bulb Drink Cup and Decorate It

I got this light bulb drink cup at Walmart and am decorating it with lightbulbs! This is going to be a general tutorial for using ...
Butterfly Subway Sign Made with HTVRontvinyl

Butterfly Subway Sign Made with HTVRontvinyl

I loved doing this Butterfly Subway Sign.  This subway sign is a twist on the usual.  This project uses graphics along with words.  I used ...
HTVRontvinyl review

HTVRontVinyl Review: Weeding

HTVRontvinyl Review They sent me a HTV sample pack and asked me to review it. I will be completely honest. That said I really like the ...
Making Personalized Gifts With Vinyl and Cricut

Making Personalized Gifts With Vinyl and Cricut

Everyone loves personalized gifts With a name like Carmel, I can never find gifts with my name on them. I can't even find gifts with ...
Decorating your Arabesque ornaments - Large sized

Decorating Your Arabesque Ornaments

Decorating your Arabesque ornaments can be hard.  They are everywhere across the web.  And they look so beautiful!  I will make it simple for you.  ...
Santa Christmas Flour Sack Towels

Make Christmas Flour Sack Towels For Gifts

These 6 Christmas Flour Sack Towel make a great  gift.  Youi can never have enough towels in the kitchen.  These designs celebrate the season and ...
Resting Grinch Face T shirt

This is My Resting Grinch Face Shirt

Christmas crafters love to make homemade gifts.  I made this Resting Grinch Face T shirt for Cordelia.  Don't worry she knows.  I used a set ...
Make These Customized  Ear Muffs

Make These Customized Ear Muffs

Christmas gifts, like these customized ear muffs, can be made better with your Cricut. Add HTV and humor and they will thrill anyone on your ...
Cut out Christmas Ornament

Make These Easy Cut Out Christmas Ornaments

These cut out Christmas ornaments are simple to make and are a wonderful starter project.  You just need a wooden disk that I got at ...
Masks save lives t shirt design

Mask Save Lives Shirts and My Rant

Masks save lives.  Any of you that are members got this story with the newsletter today.  Those of you that didn't should read this.My RantToday ...
Halloween Picture Messy Canvas

Make This Halloween Picture Messy Canvas

I love doing messy canvas.  This Halloween picture messy canvas is a twist on the usual messy canvas.  I used graphics instead of words.  This makes ...
Make a Stylish Mask So You Can Do Your Part

Make a Stylish Mask So You Can Do Your Part

Everyone should be protecting the people they love by wearing a mask! But don't wear a plain ordinary mask. Make a stylish mask and wear ...
4th of July Messy Canvas

4th of July Messy Canvas

I love doing this 4th of July Messy Canvas. And Red white and Blue make the perfect color combination! But what is a Messy Canvas? ...
Super Dad Father's Day Card Front

Super Dad Father’s Day Card

I think my Dad was Super Dad. I bet you do too. This Super Dad Father's Day card will tell him that too. The center ...
Working with Adhesive Foil

Working with Adhesive Foil

Working with adhesive foil is easy. I bought this Cricut brand adhesive foil at Hobby Lobby during one of their big clearance events. I thought ...
Removable and Permanent Vinyl

Removable and Permanent Vinyl

Vinyl, either permanent or removable is an amazingly versatile material.  You can use it to decorate, label, make subway art, make cards,  etc.  The advantages ...
Working With HTV Vinyl Hints and Hacks

Working With HTV Vinyl Hints and Hacks

Working with HTV vinyl doesn't need to be difficult. HTV vinyl or Iron on vinyl is for making iron ons for shirts, signs etc. It ...
The outside of the graduate card made with permanent vinyl

The Basics of Using Vinyl

This page covers the basics of using vinyl.  Working with vinly is scary at first.  There are so many question.  What kind of vinyl do ...
I make mistakes too! Really!

I make mistakes too! Really!

Mistakes happen. We all are learning and sometimes the best way to learn is to make mistakes. Do you know how many times I cut ...
Unicorn acetate pop up

Acetate Pop Up St Patrick’s Day Card

This St Patrick's Day Card was made with an acetate pop up in the center.  The unicorn is made from vinyl which makes it easy ...
Honor Society Leftover

My Leftover Projects That Maybe You Like

We all have those leftover projects.  Ones that didn't look the way we pictured, or took too long to make and the situation no longer ...
Treat Boxes for Valentine's Day

Treat Boxes for Valentine’s Day

I found these heart treat boxes at Walmart and the Dollar Store. I thought they would be perfect for kids for treat boxes for Valentine's ...
Vinyl Bleach Shirts Made Simple

Vinyl Bleach Shirts Made Simple

The vinyl bleach shirts are awesome. I saw Jennifer Maker make on during her 25 days of Christmas and had to try it. I learned ...
Two Harry Potter Shirts for Gifts

Two Harry Potter Shirts for Gifts

Cordelia wanted some new Harry Potter shirts for Christmas. I designed her these two shirts. One is a Christmas shirt designed in the Christmas sweater ...
Flour sack towel using layered vinyl

Layering Vinyl-The Ins and Outs

Layering vinyl, whether it is regular vinyl or HTV, there are some tricks that can help. Flour sack towel using layered vinyl Another Flour sack ...
Snowball Fight Filled Bulb Ornament

Filled Bulb Ornaments for Your Tree

Wednesday, with these Filled Bulb Ornaments I want to show how simple these ornaments can be.  Ornaments don't have to be complicated.  Sometimes just filling ...
Big Santa Paint Ornaments

Homemade Bulb Paint Ornaments

Bulb paint ornaments are just as easy as glitter ornaments.  I will show you how to make the basic ornament and then some fancy variations ...
How to Make Glitter Ornaments

How to Make Glitter Ornaments

Glitter ornaments are all the rage at Christmas time. I will show you how to make the basic ornament and then some fancy variations on ...
What you Need to Make Bulb Ornaments

What you Need to Make Bulb Ornaments

Glass or plastic bulb ornaments are all the rage at Christmas. They can be beautiful but difficult to make sometimes. There are a few supplies ...
Red Halloween Puzzles

Simple Halloween Puzzles

These Halloween Puzzles are soooo cute!  They are small enough and simple enough to give to little kids.  They can be trick or treat gifts ...
Arrow fold Sympathy Card

Sympathy Arrow Fold Card

I hate doing sympathy cards.  It means someone I care about is gone or hurting.  But they are a fact of life.  Hopefully this Arrow ...
Page 1 Crazy Horse Memoral Scrapbook Page

Crazy Horse Scrapbook Page

This Crazy Horse Scrapbook page is about our vacation again.  It also serves as another tutorial on creating scrapbook  pages in Design Space. Crazy Horse ...
Printable HTV - Tried 3 Types for last 2 Onsies

Printable HTV – Tried 3 Types for last 2 Onsies

I used Printable HTV for the last two panda onesies for the baby shower. I used three different brands. The First I tried Walmart's Pen ...
Panda Onesie done with metalic Vinyl to teach using metallic HTV

Using Metallic HTV for a Baby Shower Onesie

This using metallic HTV tutorial serves two purposes.  As promised here is another one of the onesies I did for the baby shower I went ...
Panda Onesie using glitter vinyl in purple

Panda Onesie Done Using Glitter Vinyl

This using glitter vinyl post serves two purposes. It is one of the onesies I did for the baby shower I went to Saturday.  Her ...
Dad no ATM Shirt close up

Dad is NOT an ATM

This Dad is not an ATM shirt was requested by Ken.  He wanted this shirt after our vacation. Cordelia bugged him constantly for money or ...
Common Questions and Answers to Them

Common Questions and Answers to Them

As I look at the Facebook groups there are a lot of common questions.  I will try to answer some of the big ones here.Basic  ...
Knock out Vinyl Indians Baseball Project

Knock out Vinyl Indians Baseball Project

It is baseball season so I did this Knock out vinyl project for my favorite team Cleaveland Indians. Go Tribe! Oh and I also did ...
What Is A Messy Canvas Exactly?

What Is A Messy Canvas Exactly?

What is a Messy Canvas? A messy canvas is done the same way as a Subway sign in that you apply vinyl to canvas. See ...
Bronx Messy Canvas made with removable vinyl

How to Make Subway Signs and Messy Canvas

Subway signs showed up a few months ago as a fun project and use a lot of fonts.  You all know fonts are on of ...
The outside of the graduate card made with permanent vinyl

Graduation Card made with Vinyl

This graduation card has lots of little parts which make it hard to keep straight and glue.  I fixed that by using vinyl.  It holds ...

5 thoughts on “Vinyl Tutorials

  1. i am having problems transferring my vinyl project to woos, i have used permanent vinyl and strong grip transfer but i cant get it to adhere to the wood after I have in on the transfer, it will not come off the transfer . what am i doing wrong

    1. You aren’t doing anything wrong. It is difficult to do. Some tips: Try ironing the vinyl with a warm iron. Be sure to put a towel between the transfer paper and the iron. Sometimes that helps. Also remove the transfer paper at a 180 degree angle with a pick in hand to pull the vinyl from the transfer sheet as you go.

  2. Is this the type of vinyl that can be used to refurbish kitchen counter tops? How thick is it? Is it a permanent adhesive?
    Thanks
    Deni

    1. No that is a different kind of vinyl. This vinyl can be used to decorate or put images on surfaces depending on the type of vinyl used.

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