Cricut and felt project Hack: make cute eyes simple technique!

I love making felt projects. Plushies, keychain plushies, hanging decors and all that. Before i had my cricut all i do was dream about making felt projects because it was difficult for me to cut up the shapes perfectly, taking measurements of each and every piece. this is why every day i wake UPI just can't wait to start crafting! But I'm not someone who knows how to sew. This became a problem when i had to make faces for my plushies. The best option out there was to sew the mouth and eyes. But it's difficult for me. So i thought of something else that would help me not only get around my problem, but also make my plushie so much cuter. I thought of sharing this idea so that anyone could benefit from it. Without further ado, let's get right into it. 

Materials Required:

Iron on vinyl-small piece

Iron/heat press machine

Cricut (joy/maker/explore)

I used canva to search for the kind of eyes i was looking for. 

I searched for ones that have only black and white so that i only needed one colour iron on vinyl. 

as you can see, there are lot of options. 

i chose this one. It looked cute. So why not. Plus this only required one colour iron on. 

i used the transparent background option so that there would be less to clean up later

this is the eyes that i downloaded.

Now onto cricut design space.

went for the new project option

Chose select from photo Library

the background was already cleared up but the eyes still had specks of white. 

So i cleaned it up using the eraser tool. And went ahead and saved it as a cut file. 

opened it up on my cricut design space.  

Checked the size to match my project.

And went ahead to make it.

I laid the piece of vinyl on the standard mat and loaded it on my cricut explore. 

Got it cut,

Weeded it,

Transferred it using the transfer tape,

Placed a small piece of paper over the transferred vinyl and ironed it!

And it was done. I wasn't able to click project photos in my rush and excitement to make it. But I'll surely give it a try again next time so that i can upload a process video on YouTube where you can easily watch and learn! 

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