Welcome to a wonderful holiday season of diys! We are starting my holiday season playlist on a high
today. I have a diy holiday decor in partnership with cricut. We're going to do some really really
cool personalized gifts. So our holiday schedule for this month, today is diy holiday gifts,
next week is a small business gift guide,
the week after is a holiday decorate with me and then after that is diy holiday decor.
Look out for my christmas rex. So be sure to subscribe to this channel so
you can stay tuned for all the new holiday content that's coming up. Let's get into it!
It’s one thing to DIY a gift for someone, but to DIY a personalized gift
realllllly ices that fruitcake and makes a person feel special.
Wreaths these days come in all sorts of styles, and I’ve been loving the ones made
from untraditional holiday greenery. I have gold embroidery hoops and some dried pampas
grass here that I’m going to wrap with gold wire, keeping them pinched to stay in place.
On design space, I selected this very cute Merry & Bright design, and customized it with the family
name below. I’m going to be cutting it on Cricut’s maple veneer, a thin but stiff sheet of real wood.
You’ll need the strong grip mat and deep point blade, and have it secured with tape on all
sides. This was truly a feat to behold. It was slicing through the material like butter.
Then ever so gently and slowly, peel the excess away from the mat.
You can see I’m very impressed. Hold onto the negatives because there’s more coming.
With fishing wire, I’m tying a cross the wreath to hold the wood plate. I found clear tape and
hot glue were both effective. I do this every time, but I get bedazzled by the font choices and
forget that some fonts have centres like this B, g, and e. It would be ok left alone, but I decided
to go an extra step and tie some more support line to add the centres back into the type.
I had a house cut out and used a couple of the negative stars to add to a second
smaller wreath. You can use all of the negatives and glue it to something
like a piece of plexiglass and you have three gifts from one sheet of material.
To cover up the wrapped wire, I experimented with little styrofoam balls that I sprayed
with fake snow. It was very tricky to work with, and I’d recommend just
getting felt balls which would have a nice texture without the powder donut residue.
Hang this behind the window, or floating from the ceiling,
and you’ve got a sweet entryway present for a loved one
I have leftover fleecy fabric from DIY-ing a pet snood for Reid this year, and thought these would
make greatttt stockings. Instead of gifting tired old socks yet again, why not give your loved one,
one giant sock. There’s a surprise for this one too. Cut out two sides of a boot,
and a cuff wide enough to go around. We’re going to make our own custom fabric next.
You’ll need laser copy paper, and Cricut Infusible ink markers.
Draw on whatever design you wish. You can use Cricut’s infusible ink sheets if you
don’t like the look of hand drawn, but I like that this is going to look shaded in.
I literally hemmed these jeans for this, and any scrap natural fabric you have can work well. Now
with Cricut’s easy press, I’m going to press just my denim fabric first, after lint rolling.
Keep your materials between parchment paper to prevent any ink transfer onto your equipment.
Then taking your paper, this is where your magic begins.
Lay it face down onto the fabric and follow the recommended time and temperature for your
transfer. Since mine was a longer piece, I did two passes split up and down. And just like that,
you just made your own custom printed fabric. This is such advancement in the world of iron ons.
Now on design space, add your monogram of choice.
Using a fabric grip mat and fabric cutter, cut out your desired shapes.
First you’re going to need to stitch your monogram onto the top layer.
I used pink stitches and zig zag stitched all around the letter. Keep in mind if you
choose a finer or serif font, this can be tricky. Then sew around the boot, right sides together.
For the cuff, roll in the raw edge and zig zag stitch before closing the sides right
sides together. Then with everything right side out, stuff the cuff into the boot,
matching sides seams, and stitch all around.
Surprise I made a teeny tiny one for the little one.
Stuff it with their favourite things, before gifting this wonderfully plush stocking
I love miniature anything, and have a few mini collections of minis,
including my favourite tiny dollar store santa. This is a great upcycle idea, and I’m going to
make it only temporarily holiday. There are some people that love holiday themed things,
and some that only want to keep decor up in December, so I want to give them that option.
With stencil vinyl, I’m cutting out my label. I think Cricut’s utility vinyls like stencil and
transfer vinyls are my favourites. They’ve clearly done their homework because the stencil is just
stiff enough to hold sharp lines, and transfer vinyl just sticky enough to pickup what you need,
all while leaving your material undamaged. Nevertheless you want to burnish like mad,
and triple check all the air bubbles are smoothed out, especially if your surface isn’t flat.
This lavender goop is corrosive so be safe when using.
I left it on for about 20 minutes before wiping off.
Then with tiny santa, we’re giving him a tiny flag to stake his claim on this cookie jar. I stuck
him on with glue gun glue, a good sturdy hold that can easily be pulled off without residue.
Give this jar to your foodie friend, or as a housewarming holiday present.
It’s a holiday present that can go year round.
If you enjoyed this holiday video, you're not going to want to miss out on my holiday
decorate with me because this tree is very cute.
I'll let you know where I sourced all my cute holiday decor. If you want to
watch more right now you can click on my holiday playlist in the description below!