How To Make Labels With a Cricut Cutting Machine – My 2 Favorite Methods

Creating customized labels with a Cricut is one in every of my favourite issues to make use of my machines for! On this publish, I am sharing my 2 favourite strategies for making labels with my Cricut slicing machines.

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In the event you’ve been round me for any size of time (or learn this weblog for some time) you understand I am a FAN of organizing all of the issues! And one factor I’ve discovered time and time once more is that issues usually solely keep organized once we: 1) give you a strong system for storing/utilizing issues and a couple of) label issues so that everybody is on the identical web page about the place issues go! Whereas we do have a extra conventional label maker that’s helpful for making very small labels, I often discover that I wish to make bigger labels which can be straightforward to learn. And for that, I flip to my Cricut slicing machines. So in case you’ve ever questioned, “Can a Cricut be used as a label maker?” the reply is ABSOLUTELY!

In the event you do not already personal a slicing, then please learn my unbiased overview of Silhouette vs. Cricut. I personally personal and use: the Cricut Discover Air 2, the Cricut Maker and the Cricut Pleasure. If you’re questioning which machine it’s best to select, try my publish that will help you select the very best Cricut machine for you.

Now, let’s check out the completely different choices for making labels with a Cricut slicing machine.

Option 1: Methods to make vinyl labels with a Cricut slicing machine

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Step 1: Create your design in Cricut Design Area.

I discover that sans serif fonts are the quickest to weed, so as a result of I used to be making so many labels I selected to make use of a quite simple font. I stood in my pantry and caught post-it-notes on every bin I needed to label and wrote down what the label ought to be. Then I took the stack of post-it-notes upstairs and labored my method via the stack of post-it-notes, including them to Design Area one by one. I measured my bins and made positive to measurement every label to suit the bin accurately. That meant every label was a barely completely different measurement for the reason that variety of characters assorted for every label. That is what my mission seemed like in Design Area.

Step 2: Reduce out your labels.

When you click on the “make it” button you will discover that the Cricut software program mechanically arranges the entire phrases in essentially the most space-efficient method, which ensures that burn up as little vinyl as potential if you make your minimize.

Step 3: Weed your vinyl design.

After you design is minimize out, “weed” it so that you’re left with solely the phrases on your labels. I all the time use the Cricut weeder software that appears type of like a dental software, lol. It really works nice.

Step 4: Switch your vinyl labels onto your floor utilizing the hinge methodology.

After you end weeding away the surplus vinyl, apply switch tape excessive of your complete sheet of labels. Use a scraper software to run excessive of the switch tape to make sure the vinyl letters stick nicely to the switch tape. Then minimize every label out into its personal rectangle form.

I extremely advocate utilizing the “hinge” methodology of making use of your vinyl label(s) to your floor. You may watch the video beneath to see the steps I describe. It is fast and makes it a lot simpler!

Select one label and place a strip of scotch tape or painter’s on the prime of it. Then tape it in place precisely the place you need the label to look in your floor. As soon as you might be pleased with the position, flip the label up and peel off the backing paper. Then flip it again down and use a scraper software to run excessive of the switch tape as soon as once more. It will guarantee your vinyl letters keep on with your floor as you peel the switch tape off. Coincidentally, that is what you do subsequent. Peel the switch tape off so that you’re left along with your vinyl label in your floor!

That is it! You may see how a number of the bins I labeled for our pantry turned out beneath. I like how massive and simple the labels are to learn for me and my kiddos. We could not make something like this with an everyday label maker!

Possibility 2: Methods to make labels utilizing a Cricut pen or marker & paper

Now let’s check out another choice for making labels along with your Cricut. Frankly, I believe it is essentially the most underutilized and missed possibility. It entails utilizing a Cricut pen or marker to write down no matter textual content you need on cardstock and having your Cricut minimize the cardstock out in no matter form you need. This can be a nice strategy to get the look of handwritten labels with out truly having to write down them (I do not love my very own handwriting, so this can be a nice possibility for me)!

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Step 1: Create your design in Cricut Design Area.

You could take into consideration 2 issues when creating labels utilizing this methodology. First, what form and measurement would you like your label to be? Second, what do you wish to truly write on the label along with your Cricut marker or pen?

I selected an oblong form and selected dimensions that will match completely into the basket bin labels I selected to label my women’ “take upstairs with you” water hyacinth baskets that we carry on our stairs. I selected the Cricut Font “BFC Flannel Shirt.” Make certain that the form of your label is about to “primary minimize” and that the writing is about to “pen” in order that your machine will know to write down and NOT minimize our your textual content.

Step 3: Ship your design to your Cricut machine.

When you click on “make it” within the prime proper nook of Design Area, you may be prompted to load your sensible materials. I LOVE that the sensible supplies can be utilized with out a slicing mat! Design Area may also immediate you when to load your pen/marker and when to load your blade. In my expertise, the writing all the time occurs earlier than the slicing.

That is how my two labels taken care of being written and minimize out by the machine. I used the silver marker to fill within the areas between the double-lines of the textual content, however that was only a private selection!

Step 4: Apply your label and revel in!

With the Cricut Good Paper Sticker Cardstock you’ll be able to simply peel off the backing paper and stick your label straight on no matter floor you need. However for the reason that water hyacinth baskets I needed to label are a tough, pure materials that wasn’t actually an possibility. As an alternative, I positioned them on these basket bin labels after which clipped the bin labels on the hampers. They turned out so cute!

So there you’ve got it! My two favourite strategies for making labels with my Cricut slicing machines. What’s your favourite methodology?

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