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Craft Lightning – DIY Halloween Tote in 15 Minutes with Cricut

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Who doesn’t love a Halloween Craft that you can complete in less time than it takes to do a load of laundry? Today we are sharing a DIY Halloween Trick-or-Treat tote for Craft Lightning that you can make in just 15 quick minutes (Check out all of the awesome crafts in this round of Craft Lightning at the end of the post). Of course, it doesn’t look like it was made in 15 minutes! How can you make such an awesome Halloween tote in such a short amount of time? By using two of our favorite Cricut products–the Cricut Maker and the Cricut BrightPad!

Fall is the best time of year–with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas-prep all in one season, we are constantly crafting and designing for customers (and ourselves!) Although we are deep into Halloween projects, we can’t wait to share more of our holiday projects with you!

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How to Make a DIY Trick or Treat Tote with your Cricut

DIY Halloween Tote Bag

Materials Used:

-Blank Black Tote Bag (This one was purchased at JoAnn Fabrics)
-Cricut Maker (or Cricut Explore Series) BUY A CRICUT MAKER HERE and also, the CRICUT EXPLORE series is currently 10% off (9/1-9/30/17)
-Cricut BrightPad (optional, but truly what makes this project as quick as 15 minutes!) BUY ONE HERE
Cricut Accessories: (All Cricut orders have FREE shipping until 9/30/17 with code: FREESHIP)
-Standard Grip Cricut Mat
-Iron-On Cricut Vinyl in White and Gold Foil
-Cricut Tool Kit
-Iron/Heat Press/Cricut EasyPress (GET AN EASYPRESS HERE)

We designed this Halloween graphic using a cobweb/bat graphic found in Cricut Design Space, and it’s available on Cricut Access! (If you don’t have Cricut Access, you’re missing out! THOUSANDS of free designs to make on your Cricut, 10% off purchases in the Cricut online store, and more!) GET CRICUT ACCESS HERE.
We added the “Trick or Treat” text on top of the graphic, and saved the file so you don’t have to do the work! CLICK HERE to open the design in Cricut Design Space.

Size your design to fit the size of your tote (for ours, it was as big as would fit on a 12×12″ Cricut Mat). Then click “Make It” at the top right hand corner of your screen, and Design Space does the rest of the tricky work for you! It separates the cobweb graphic from the text so that you can cut each graphic set our on separate materials (in our case we used White Cricut Iron-On and Gold Foil Cricut Iron-On Vinyl.) MAKE SURE you click the little “Mirror” slider anytime you are using Iron-On Vinyl. If you don’t, you’ll have a backwards design when you iron it on!

In this picture, the first mat has been cut, and the Maker is prompting me to cut the second mat. Because I used Gold Foil Iron-On Vinyl, I had to make sure to change my material setting for the second mat. Also, Design Space gives you a little reminder message to turn on “Mirror.”

If you have your mats prepped and ready to go, the Maker cuts them out in just a few minutes!

How to Weed Vinyl with the Cricut BrightPad

Here is my favorite part about this project, and what makes this DIY only 15 minutes–the Cricut BrightPad! An ingenious product recently released by Cricut, it makes the tiresome and usually lengthy process of weeding out the vinyl you don’t need SO fast, because you can see all of the cut lines! Normally this cobweb design would take close to 15 minutes to just weed! I peeled off the outer edge vinyl that I didn’t need for the design, and then taped the vinyl cobweb to the BrightPad using a couple of pieces of scotch tape on the edges. If you look really close at the picture, you can see the cut lines shining through the vinyl. Don’t worry, it’s 10 times more visible in person!

I timed myself (and I’m not the fastest weeder to begin with), and getting all of the extra vinyl out only took between 3-4 minutes! Amazing!

You’ll follow the same procedure for the foil “Trick or Treat,” but it is a much simpler design so it only takes a few seconds.

Next, you need to head to your preheated iron, heat press, or Cricut EasyPress and iron on the vinyl–first the white cobweb graphic, then the “Trick or Treat” on top. Follow the instructions that apply to the heating element you are using (obviously a regular iron requires a few more minutes than the others.)

After about 15 brief minutes of work time, you’re done! It’s Craft Lightning!

DIY Trick or Treat Tote Bag by Pineapple Paper Co.

 

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ABOUT CHARYNN

Hi, y’all! I’m Charynn, the owner and designer of Pineapple Paper Co. I’m a mom of four kids (two girls and two boys) living in Pittsburgh. I love hand lettering, anything southern, cocktails, and of course, pineapples! I am excited to share my SVG files, printables, and craft projects with you! The pineapple is a symbol of hospitality, and I welcome y’all to my little corner of the internet. Read more…

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7 Comments

  1. That black tote is a great find. I really like the white vinyl on the black tote. (fellow craft lightning crafter)

  2. Judith Goebig says:

    I couldn’t find the svg for the apider web with bats and trick or treat bag. I wanted to make for my great grandchildren