🚨VIRAL🚨 Keepsake Sweatshirt | Aplique with Your Cricut

y'all stop what you're doing because today I'm going to be teaching you how to make these viral Keepsake sweatshirts now I know that you've probably seen these sweatshirts all over Etsy probably all over your social media but today I'm going to be teaching you how you can recreate these using your Cricut if you are new to our Channel my name is Lauren I'm a craft producer here at makers going to learn and here we are a crafting membership where we strive to bring you inspiration education and motivation to get your Cricket out of the box and start using it if you are new to our Channel make sure you hit that subscribe button y'all every subscribe helps us so much it is free to you guys so make sure you hit that subscribe button and hit that notification Bell so that you can be notified every time we get crafty now let's talk about this super cute sweatshirt now this is one that we have already made and I don't know if you all can see it that well but let's go overhead and this is one that says Mama now I have seen so many super cute sweatshirts made like this where they have taken their baby's onesie and turned it into a sweatshirt that says mama and I am just obsessed with that and this is definitely something that you can do and I want to show you some makers going to learn fonts that you can use to recreate this however just because you may not be a mom I don't want you to think that this is the only one that you can recreate because the one that we're going to be making today I'm actually going to be making one out of my dad's old shirt so this can really be a Keepsake Memorial sweatshirt for so many people so just keep that in mind it doesn't have to be one that is just made out of a baby's onesie you can make this with so many different types of fabric and we're going to walk you through step by step how to do that now this is going to be a noo method you can see that we do have a Decora Stitch along here but this is going to be 100% no so and it's still going to be super super cute by the time that we're done while we're overhead let's go ahead and talk about the materials that you're going to need so of course you're going to need your blank your sweatshirt this is just a sweatshirt that we got off Amazon that we're going to be working with the next thing that you're going to need is going to be your fabric whether it be someone's shirt a onesie really anything that you are willing to cut up and put on a sweatshirt um today we're just using like I said one of my dad's old shirts um the material is just 100% cotton it's just a button up so really whatever um article of clothing that you want to work with you're going to need that we do have some fabric scissors I do have a fabric grip mat it's very important to have a uh measuring tape that way you can know exactly how big you want to cut your applique and then the noo method is going to be this right here this is going to be the star of the show this is the Heat and bond Ultra and I'm going to show you exactly how to work with this and how to make the applique with your Cricut so normally you would think if you are cutting fabric on your Cricut that you're going to have to use either a maker or a maker 3 Series machine well let me be the first to tell you that if you have an Explorer you can do this project as well the bonded fabric is really the key to this adding that heat and bond on top of a cotton fabric is really going to help you get that nice even cut and it's going to let that fine point blade just go so smoothly through that fabric so do not fret if you only have an explor series machine you can still do this project now today we are going to be using my maker so just know that when we go to the cut settings the cut settings that I'm going to be telling you we're going to be using medium cotton bonded but if you you do have an explore series make sure you use that denim bonded setting and it should cut beautifully with all of that being said let's go ahead and start the process of making this amazing Keepsake sweatshirt so the first thing that we are going to do today is we are going to size the area of the sweatshirt that we want to put our applique now the other sweatshirt we made did have Mama across this but because I'm using my dad's shirt I really just want to put a heart up here in the corner so it's going to be more like a pocket design so I'm going to go no larger than 6 in by you know six or seven in that's a very large estimate I just want to cut my fabric that big my applique is not going to be that big but I want to make sure my fabric will fit my applique in it so I'm going to cut my fabric we'll just go ahead and do an an 8 by8 square just to make sure we have plenty of room so I'm now going to bring in the article of clothing that I'm going to be using and we're just going to go ahead and grab our fabric scissors and we're just going to cut off an 8 by8 piece now one thing that is super that I do love about this is I can use these lines to make a a clean line but it's not necessary because like I said we're just cutting an area just so we can cut an applique out of it once we have the piece cut out I'm going to grab my mini easy press and I'm just going to iron out this bottom half cuz I did cut it out of the bottom of the shirt so I'm just going to iron out this bottom half real quick the next thing you're going to want to do is you're going to want to grab your heating Bond now this is the ultra hold and we're just going to cut a piece that is going to fit over this whole piece of fabric so once again with my scissors just going to cut off a piece of heat Bond here and what we are going to do before we even send this through to cut it is I'm going to add my heating Bond I'm going to iron my heating Bond onto my fabric from the shirt so I'm using a mini easy press with a heat setting of two and I'm just going to iron this with this Sticky Side face down on the fabric now I'm not going all the way to the edge just yet because I don't want to iron it down to my pillow underneath so I'm just going to the as close to the edge as I can and then here in just a second what I'm going to do is I'm going to flip this over and I'm going to trim off the edges that way I can go all the way to the edge and it not stick to my pillow underneath there once I have done that I'm just going to come back in with my mini easy press and I'm just going to make sure that those edges get down really nice one once you have done that we are not going to take this white piece off just yet that will be the very last thing we do before we apply it to our shirt so right now we're going to hop over into design space we're going to start designing and then we will cut out our applique getting it prepared to add on to our sweatshirt now that we're here in design space the design that I'm actually going to use today is very very simple I'm just going to use a heart because I want to place it over top of where I want to place the the applique over my heart on the sweatshirt but I did tell you guys if you were wanting to do like the mama across the chest let's go over to maker going to learn while we're here let's talk about this is the heart that I'm actually going to be using today it is a maker going to learn file now to download this all you have to do is click that arrow pointing down and then you will unzip the file make sure you open it up so that it is double click it so that you can unzip that but let's go to our fonts and I want to show you a font that would be great for this specific project if you are new to Makers going to learn and you want to try out our membership just know that we have an amazing dollar deal that you can click down below what that's going to do it's going to give you full unlimited access to our website for 7 days and you can download 20 either cut files or fonts that is yours forever so if you wanted to create this you could join us for a dollar for 7 days and you could download this beautiful Varsity font which would be a great great font if you wanted to do a mama across the chest dad whatever I love this Varsity font that would be one that would be amazing to download if you do want to join us for a dollar but really and truly any very blocky font for this project is going to be best you want it to have you want the font that use to be pretty substantial that way you can get more of the fabric in the shirt and it showcases more of the fabric you do not want a thin wispy font for this project you want something that's thick and pretty substantial so now that we have I've shown you the heart that we're going to be using we talked about some fonts that would be good if you wanted to create a mama or a dad or have a word across the front of your shirt like I said blocky fonts are going to be best so now that we've done that we're going to go back to to design space and I'm just going to pull in the heart that I wanted to use so after I downloaded that you can go to upload image you can browse it my favorite though is going to my finder and then pulling in the file that I need we are going to be using the SVG version of this file so I'm going to upload that I'm going to add this to my canvas and then from here we are going to size it according to how large you want it on your sweatshirt so I did cut a pretty big piece of fabric but let's go back overhead and really get a good idea on how large I want the heart to be so I think I want it to be about a 4 in heart I think would be pretty good so let's go back to design space the width on this one let's see how it if we go up to 4 in we're sitting at a little bit more than four let's go down to about 3 and a/4 beautiful now but the only thing is I do not want the middle cut out so what I'm going to do while this file is selected I'm going to come down here to contour and I'm going to hide all Contours and that's going to give me my basic shape okay that's going to make that middle it's going to make it all one solid image which is exact ly what I want now if you want to take it a step further you can add like text around the outside and then apply it with HTV I'm just trying to give you guys some ideas on things you can do um I think that would be super super cute let's go ahead and do that and see what it would look like and then we can decide if we like it or not so this is something that you can do a really pretty script font with if you are doing HTV like on the out outside of the applique so I do think I want to add a text so we're going to go back to our website and y'all one other thing that I absolutely love about the makers going to learn website is the fact that I can type in exactly what I want my font to say what I want it to say on the sweatshirt and then I can decide which font I like the best so I think I want to do forever in my heart like right along the side of the heart and then just scrolling down I can see what all of these fonts look like like Sierra love that one but I really think that I want to go with this last love I'm just obsessed with this font so I'm going to click the arrow pointing down to download it we're going to make sure that we unzip this font d by double clicking we're going to double click it again and then I'm going to install it onto my computer now just know that although you have installed it onto your computer Cricut design space is not going to recognize it so we're going to go back to design space I want to always save my project so we're going to type in Keepsake sweatshirt and then I'm going to go up here to view and I'm going to reload design space now from there it's going to pick up all of those new fonts and stuff that you have downloaded onto your computer so what I can do is I can now go to my fonts go to my system fonts because that's where it's going to be and we're going to type in last love and now I can Tope in what I wanted it to say and now I can start arranging it and sizing it around the heart as I see fit so I am going to size it down I'm going to turn it this way because I want it to kind of be around here and one thing I want to do first before I do this is I want to whoops I want to come in here and I want to make each one of these its own separate line and you can you're going to be able to see why here in just a second so I am going to go ahead and turn them this way and now I'm going to go to advance and ungroup to lines and the reason that I'm doing this is now I can come in here and really manually manipulate each individual word I can see that they are a little bit bigger than I need them to be so I'm going to select them all I'm going to size them down and now I can bring them in we'll zoom in so we can really work with them I can move forever and I think I might even curve it a little bit and you can really like manually manipulate these you know what I think I like it so now what we're going to do is I'm going to select all of these I'm going to unite them back together we have the heart the way that we want it and so now what I'm going to do is I am ready to make it from here what you're going to do is you are going to take your now we are using a fabric grip mat we're going to take our fabric that we do have the heat and bond on already and we're going to place it on our mat and I'm doing this with the heat and bond facing up I think it just gives a cleaner cut this way we are putting it like I said on a fabric grip mat making sure it gets stuck down very well and then I'm going to go to our second one here and I'm going to make sure that this is mirrored because I am going to be cutting this with vinyl but I'm going to just mirror that and then come back to mat number one and then we're going to press continue that we have our mattes exactly the way that we want them we're going to go to browse all material and we're just going to typ in bonded first because then it's going to pull up all of the different types of bonded fabric so it really depends on what type of fabric you are working with whether it be cotton a medium weight cotton a heavy cotton whatever um but we are going to be choosing the medium Fabrics like cotton bonded because I just feel like the shirt is more of a mediumweight shirt but you can just do cotton bonded whichever one you want but we're going to choose medium Fabrics like cotton bonded I'm going to click done we are doing this with our fine point blade on default pressure from here we're just going to load this into our machine and then once it has loaded we're going to press the Cricut [Music] [Applause] [Music] button now one thing I do want to do is I just want to make sure that this cut through before unloading it because if it doesn't what you can do is just press that Cricut button again and it will p pull it back through it cut through beautifully so we are just going to go ahead and unload our machine and you can see here once we pull it off how well that cut with the fine point blade love that once we have those cut I'm just going to gently remove them off of the mat and then I'm just going to place down some HTV and yes I am just going to go ahead and use the fabric grip mat because it's here on the table we're just going to place this down make sure it gets good and stuck we have already mirrored our HTV so we don't have to worry about that we are going to change our base material from The Medium bonded fabric we're going to change it to everyday ironon and then send it through our Cricut now while that is cutting I'm going to go ahead and get my sweatshirt kind of prepared and place my heart where I want it on the sweatshirt this is going to be the same if you are doing words just kind of get it ready now if you are unsure of where to place like a pocket design I love using a t-shirt ruler and using like this little corner here to kind of gauge where my pocket design would go so like I would place it more so like right here but you can decide whichever one you want so just kind of lay it and position it where you might want it but before we go on with that and lay it down I do want to weed our design so I can place it down as well so I'm just going to cut off the excess here so now I can kind of place my HTV and my applique down where I want it to go once I have it placed where I want it and I like using this Cher sheet to kind of keep it together I'm going to come back here on the back and we are going to remove the white backing and then once you have the white backing removed we're going to place it back down line it back up beautiful and then we're going to take our mini easy press with a heat setting of two and we're going to start the process of laying them both down together now if you're going to come in here with your mini easy press laying this applique down you want to make sure that you don't touch your HTV with it and that's it and look how cute it turned out guys I am obsessed with this you better believe you're going to be seeing me wearing this on the channel coming up it is such a good gift and such an easy gift for you all to make for someone and such a meaningful gift I am going to cherish this forever now one thing that I do want to make sure you guys know and understand if you wanted to go in and do like a hand Stitch around the outside that would really take this to the next level especially if you just did a really simple running Stitch along the outside of this it would take this from 0 to 100 super super quick so I'm probably going to add one personally I'm not going to show you how to do so here today um but you can just add a simple running Stitch with some embroidery floss would really really make this pop and it would be amazing so what do you guys think I'm so obsessed with how this turned out and I think that you all are going to be so amazed at how well your Cricut can cut bonded fabric using a fineo blade who would have known if you guys have enjoyed today's 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