Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video,
we're making lollipop holders for Valentine's Day. I've created five free svgs and you can see them
all here. Let's find out how to make them! You can download the free cutting file for
this project at craftwithsarah.com/free-svgs or follow the link in the description of this video
to go straight to the download page. The download comes in a zip folder
and you need to unzip this before you can upload the files into Cricut Design Space.
Once you've downloaded and unzipped the folder, it's time to get the
SVG files into Cricut Design Space. Open up Design Space and start a new
project. Go into Upload over on the left and then Upload Image. You can see I've already uploaded
four of the lollipop holders so I'm just going to do the last one to show you how to do it.
I'll click Upload Image and then you can either click browse to find a file on your computer or
you can drag and drop it in. Make sure you choose the unzipped version of your folder and then
within there is another folder called SVG files. Double-click into there and you can see all the
SVG files for the lollipop holders. You know that these are the correct ones to
choose because they start SVG in the file name. The one I have left to do is the butterfly,
so let's click and drag that in and then it will look like this when you upload it.
Go ahead and press Upload and then it will appear in your recent uploads, then you can simply click
it to add it to your canvas or if you want to upload any of the other ones, click Upload Image
and go through the process again for the others. Let's do a couple of different ones onto my
canvas. I'll go for the butterfly, the rose bud and the heart.
I've clicked all of those three and now I can press Add to Canvas. It might take
a little while to load if you've selected multiples because it's got a lot to process.
Here are my three lollipop holders and they should load in at the correct size but it's always a good
idea just to check. If you're using a different sized lollipop then you may need to make them
bigger or smaller, but you can check the size by clicking on them and then looking at the width
and the height in the top the screen here. This shows the sizes that the designs have
been made to be, at so I recommend changing them to match the size if they aren't automatically
coming in at those specific sizes. These designs come all ready to cut
so there's really nothing else you need to do in Design Space.
Now, you'll notice that some of them have these little cutouts on them. That's to make
them easier to know exactly where to fold and these are actually cut - they're not using any
of the scoring tools that come with the Cricut which means that you can use this on any of the
Cricut machines, including the Cricut Joy. I'm just going to check my colors on here,
so let's go to Color Sync and then that's looking good, apart from if you see here, the pink on my
butterfly is slightly different to the pink on the heart, and actually I'd probably use the
same piece of card for that one so I can just drag the butterfly one onto the hearts and then that'll
make it a little bit easier when I come to cut it. When you're ready to cut, click on Make It
and it will separate out everything into the colors. You can change the paper size in here
and you will need to do that for every single color and then you can also rotate which can
be great for using up less of your cardstock. So by doing that and cutting it that direction
instead, it means I'll have all of this piece of the card ready to use
for a different project, another day. Go ahead, get everything cut out from
cardstock and then I'll show you how to stick the Valentine's Day lollipop holders together.
Here is my love heart lollipop holder all ready to stick together. You can see I've
already stuck together the cupcake, the butterfly and the rose bud, so for this video I'll show you
how to stick together the heart and also the full rose as that one's a little bit different.
Here are my little lollipops that I'm using. They're a little bit smaller than
the normal ones I get, but you can see they still fit in really nicely
and it really is just as simple as gluing everything together.
I'm going to start with my bottom heart and put my glue around,
stick it over, make sure you're careful when you're lining up pieces that go
over the hole for the lollipop just to make sure it lines up exactly,
otherwise your lolly might not fit. Then these ones just go on top,
and then I need to do the other side.
You can see just how quickly these come together. They're simple and quick to cut because all the
shapes are fairly simple. There's nothing really intricate here, and the reason I did that and made
them quite simple was that if you want to make lots of them, for example maybe for everyone
in your child's class at school, then they won't take a really, really long time to make.
They're also great for using up your scraps of cards because you just need a little bit of color
for most of them. I'm going to let the
glue dry on that one and start gluing the rose one. Here's my rose one and the only
reason this one's different is that the bottom bits of the rose need to be stuck
on afterwards because they go over the little bit that we're going to fold.
So I'm going to start actually on this one just by folding it. I’m just gonna fold upwards on the
little dashed lines so that it folds in half and then you've got a little ridge along the bottom
and then my lolly just slides in that hole. And then it will need to wiggle it about so
it fits in the gap and then we're going to use some double-sided tape to close this up.
Where's my tape? Okay. I'm using a tape runner but you could just glue it or use
normal double-sided tape. I've also seen people do them with sort of Velcro so they can be reused.
I'm putting quite a bit on so that it definitely sticks
and then close that up so the front and back should line up exactly.
Okay. This is the
only one that you need to stick the bits on after it's folded. All of the other ones work sort of
before it's done and the reason for that is that I just wanted to have a little overlap at the bottom
to show the bottom of the rose. So now I can add my glue on the rose,
and don't put glue right at the bottom because that's not got anything there to stick to.
Mine isn't lighting up properly. I think I put glue on the wrong side. Oh dear,
that always happens on video, doesn't it! That should line up perfectly against the
edges of the lighter color. Mine isn't, I think I've just done the wrong one,
yeah, it should have been that side. Never mind, I’ll make sure I get it right on this one.
The side I want to glue is this one. I'm sure you won't even
notice it’s not aligned when it's all finished and actually given to someone.
I'm gonna hold this in place for a minute for my glue to dry because of the curve of where we
folded it around the lolly just needs to be held in place a little bit to stop it popping off.
You see that one, the rose actually perfectly lines up
there. And then, there's my rose one finished.
We can just put together the heart just like we did with the rose. We're going
to turn it over and fold it upwards along those little rectangle lines.
Fold it so that our hearts line up along the front and the back then slide the lollipop in,
check it all fits, which it does (perfect!) and then a bit more tape along the top.
Then all you need to do is push it together
and get it stuck. These lollipops
aren't actually circular so they're not the best, but I couldn't find the normal ones
that are traditionally used in these but I'm really happy with how they've turned out.
It's a lovely cute little lollipop collection just in time for Valentine's Day!
I hope you enjoyed this video on how to make these lollipop holders for Valentine's Day.
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more Valentine's Day crafts and Cricut tutorials. Thank you for watching, bye!