Tis The Season To Sparkle | Tarrah McLean

Merry Christmas Cut Shoppe friends!

It's Tarrah McLean back today to share a festive project with you! I wanted to create my own top to wear to work on my last day for the year and the Tis the Season cut file set was perfect for it!

Tis the Season cut file set

Once I had traced the cut file, I wanted to see what the colours would look like in the software, so I filled the words and stars in to match with the green, red and gold glitter vinyl colours I had chosen. This is a great way to get an insight to how your finished product will look! See below a screenshot of the colours filled in.

You may notice that I moved the bigger star to the right hand side instead of the left where it was in the original design. I also moved the word 'season' so that it sat more in the centre. I released the compound path in the design software so that the words were separated and I could group and cut the same colours on the appropriate sheet of vinyl as you can see below. MAKE SURE YOU MIRROR YOUR DESIGN IN THE SOFTWARE for heat transfer vinyl as you have to load heat transfer vinyl upside down in the machine.

Once everything was cut, I weeded out the unwanted pieces of vinyl so that just the words and shapes that I wanted were left on the backing sheet. I laid them on to my shirt how I wanted the finished product to look being careful not to iron them onto themselves or onto backing sheet.

I then ironed them on using a hot setting on the iron with a thin tea towel in between the shirt and the iron. I checked if it had worked before I had finished by peeling up the corners of the backing sheet once it had cooled down a little bit.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!

Hello Love, Planner Bag

Aimee here, sharing my absolute favorite way to use The CutShoppe’s digital files: 

Heat Transfer!

I am so in love with the heat transfer material from Silhouette and Circut. I’m sure there are other brands available too. These 2 brands are the most available at Joann’s Michael's and Hobby Lobby. I have used both companies, and feel they are pretty equal.

*Note be sure to follow the packages directions and your machine’s suggested settings.

Here I used The Cut Shoppe's "In Stitches" red heat transfer from Circut, on a denim tote I bought at Hobby Lobby.

Number 1 thing about this project: remember to flip your image! I forgot to flip the image when I sent the image to my Silhouette. I didn’t even realize I had forgotten to flip it until I was done “weeding” the material. Instead of throwing the cut away {the material is not cheap} I thought I would rock a backwards design, doesn’t it look super trendy/hipsterish?

And of course I have to share my cute little photo bomber/prop modeling this bag!

Isn’t this the cutest planner bag?!

I just love the red “stitching” on the denim.

&  Jager