Use Cricut to personalise your notebook or wedding planner with our step-by-step tutorial for faux leather and card notebooks.
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Our love for Cricut creations continues! Whether you’re a crafty bride to be wanting a special place to keep those most important notes, or a creative friend making an engagement gift for a friend – the latter being what actually inspired this latest tutorial, we are talking you through step-by-step, how to use your Cricut to add that personal touch to your notebook / planner.
We’re showing you how to create your design in Cricut Design Space – simply switch in your desired text, how to cut your design and then apply it to either faux leather or cardstock/paper notebook covers.
There’s a learning curve with Cricut and transferring vinyl to card / paper was one of the lessons I learnt the hard way, so I’m here with this tutorial to steer you around the pitfalls!
Tip! Whatever you do, don’t use transfer tape to move your vinyl onto card/paper, it will stick to the surface and tear it off! I’ve been there, done that, with extremely bad results. But we’ve got the solution for you in our latest video:
Materials we used (with product links if you need them!): (* = Affiliate links: we get a small amount of commission from the retailer for the referral at no additional cost to you.)
- Notebook – ours was faux leather from WHS, but can also use cardstock notebooks
- Cricut Maker (will work with all Cricut machines): https://amzn.to/46KqMT2*
- Cricut EasyPress2 (23cm²): https://amzn.to/3NRXucJ*
- Cricut EasyPress Mat: https://bit.ly/2YmUYDF
- Cricut Basic Tool Set: https://amzn.to/46PIxjC*
- Cricut Fine Point Blade (usually included with the Cricut Maker machine): https://bit.ly/2KONzF7
- Cricut Standard Grip Mat: https://amzn.to/3LiyZEA*
- Cricut Everyday Iron-On, Matte “White”: https://amzn.to/3uGYok0*
- Heat Resistant Sheet (/Baking Sheet)
If you’re in Canada, you can find the HTV here: https://amzn.to/3P0m3Uw* USA: https://amzn.to/3RtuMA9*
NB. This video is not made in association with Cricut. Some materials listed above are affiliate links, these are clearly marked by an asterisk* where applicable. This means we get a small amount of commission from the retailer for the referral at no additional cost to you.
Having a go? If you stumble into any problems & have questions, let us know in the comments, we’re happy to try to help you out! Don’t forget to tag us in your photos over on Instagram, we’d love to see how yours turned out!
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— Rebecca and Laura, Bride Society