Dear Readers on the Upper East Coast, please don’t hate me.
The weather in St. George this week has been freaking amazing, T shirts at the park kind of amazing. I was planning on saving this tutorial until things warmed up everywhere, but I thought the survivors of #blizzard2015 would appreciate the irony? Maybe?
Tell me that is not the cutest vintage cooler that you have ever laid eyes on. (2 secrets! Its not actually vintage, and you can totally make it!!)
Does anyone recognize that font? Possibly from this project? Jamie the Amazing designed an entire font (by hand!??!) and this is just one of the projects that we are using it on! Its so good right? We are in the process of turning it into a downloadable real life font as we speak, so creating with it will be snap!
Those of you with a Cricut Explore are the luckiest ones that don’t have to wait! This project is available right now as a Make It Now project!
So here is how it goes down. The cooler is completely adorable and currently for sale at World Market. Once you have your cooler (or art, or pillow, etc.) all you have to do is load the materials into the Explore and click Make It Now.
Once the Explore has expertly cut the materials (vinyl in my case) you weed it (take out all of the bits that are not part of the final design) and you are left with something like this:
Then you cover it with a piece of transfer tape:
Line it up on the cooler so that it is level:
Lift up the bottom of the transfer tape (don’t peel it all the way off or else it wont stay level!) and remove the vinyl paper.
The press it down and smooth it out with a scraper tool or a credit card.
Pretty cute right?
Hope you have a cool day! (Har har har)
I can’t believe this weather we’ve been having in STG. I turned on the A/C last night.
How totally rad! I’ve never shopped at world market before. Apparently they’re pretty epic. Especially when paired with an epic font. Great job gals!
I just got a Cricut Explore and am SO excited…love world market so might make this one of my first project…oh that font!
What is this transfer tape you speak of? While I read and re-read the tutorial having never used said tape I don’t understand how it works and how you magically remove the piece of paper from between the transfer tape and the vinyl letters.
Why don’t you use clear transfer tape? I’m the only person I know who uses it. I guess it isn’t used often because they don’t sell it at the craft store. I never cut vinyl anymore but years ago when it was really popular I used to do it all the time with a small commercial machine. Clear transfer tape is low tack & you can easily see where you are placing the vinyl & line up with guide marks.
This is so cool! I adore the results!
I LOVE IT! good thing I just got a Cricut Explore for christmas!
That cooler! Oh my… I will ignore the fact you live somewhere that actually requires a cooler this time of year and say this would be perfect for our summer weather! Love it. <3
One of these days your Cricut posts are going to break me and I will buy one and then do EVERY project you’ve suggested. One day. 🙂
we totally have this cooler! but we live in australia so we call it an esky! also i think we won it? I’m not sure. it’s so awesome/trendy/hipster (only when my husband carries it ahah) the only problem is it doesn’t actually keep things cool for long, the metal lets all the cold out!
First of all you are lucky to be in a place that is still warm this time of the year.
I love the cooler idea. I am having a hard time finding the transfer paper though. Is there another name for it or something. I would love to try this same concept with other items, like a toaster to give for a gift. The options are endless, thanks for sharing this great idea.