 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreateCrafts. In today's video, I'll be showing you how to create these light of friendship ornaments. I created a few of these already and put them in one of the stores I'm selling in. And within 20 minutes, they all sold. So stay tuned and I will show you step by step how to create these light of friendship ornaments. All right, so here is the light of friendship that I'm going to be using with my bulbs that I already had glittered. If you're new at this and you have never glittered a Christmas bulb before, go back to my other video or I show you how to easily glitter an ornament. I will leave the link below. I will also leave all of my supplies I use in the description box below as well. So I found this light of friendship here in design space. You have to be subscribed to either the yearly or the monthly subscription to get this. I actually took the time and created my own, but it did not look as nice as this one. So I actually bought the yearly subscription because it was a little bit cheaper than the monthly and that's where I got this one from. So a few things on this that I just wanna do is change the size. And I also wanna change the color of the wording here. You can leave it all black if you want, but if you have different colored Cricut markers, it would make it look a little bit neater. So all you gotta do here is just, well, all I'm gonna do is just change the size. I'm like mine to be, I think about six by six. So with this selected, I'm gonna go to the unlock box up here and then just change this to six by six. And you can change it to whatever size you want. It's just the size that I'm choosing to use is just the six by six. Okay, so the other thing that I wanted to do is just change the color a little bit. You can choose to do this if you want, you don't have to, but with that already selected, I'm gonna go down here to the detach button and that's just gonna allow me to be able to change the color on my lettering. So the first one I wanna do is the light of friendship. I'm thinking that a few of them I wanna do red and green and maybe a couple different colors for each of them depending on what color my bulbs are. So this one, I'm just gonna change this to red. So with this selected, I'm gonna go up to this little color box up here and it's gonna ask me what color pen I'm going to be using. So I'm gonna choose something as close to red as possible for right now. So when I go to cut it, I know what color I'm going to be using. So this one I think is gonna be green. So I'm just gonna do the same thing, go to the little box up here and then just look for like a green color. Ooh, it's kinda hard to see so we'll do as we can see it maybe. There we go. So the last thing I wanna do is just make sure that I attach everything because I detached it, it's going to cut it separately which means that it will print out the writing on a different paper and then also cut it out on a different paper. So I wanna make sure it does everything all together. So I'm gonna go up to this select all button and then I'm just gonna go down here to the attach button and that's just gonna make sure that everything gets done on the same piece of paper. It's going to cut out the design for me and it's also going to cut or print the letters for me as well. As you can see here, this is line type and it means it's saying multiples. That's telling me that it's going to cut and draw. You can see it on the side here, this all says draw so I don't have to do anything with that except for put my marker in and then this piece is going to cut for me, so the blue. So I'm not gonna change the blue color because I'm just gonna use different kinds of cardstock for this so I'm just gonna go up to make it because that's all you have to do if you wanna change the color, if you wanna keep it all black, that's okay too. However you wanna do it, if you wanna change the size to a different like doesn't have to be six by six, I actually think I'm gonna do it a little bit longer now that I'm looking at it. So I'm gonna push the cancel button, I'm gonna go back and make it just a little bit longer I think to make it a little bit stronger maybe because the ornaments are pretty heavy themselves. So I'm just gonna select it here, click the unlock box and just drag it down and make it a little bit bigger, here we go. Then you can see the letters and the words a little bit better so I'm gonna go back to make it. And the only thing I have to do is put my cardstock on my mat and I'm going to be using a blue mat. I don't want my cardstock to be stuck to my mat so I'm going to use a blue color mat and I'm going to put, I think it's gonna ask me for the red color first and then when that's done printing with the red it's gonna ask me for the green. So I like this much better how it looks. It looks to be about a little over six by almost eight so you can do it however what size you want but I just want to mine a little bit larger. So it's just asking me to connect to my machine and the one that I found out that works for me is my base materials is I found this cardstock, this heavy cardstock and you kind of have to pick and choose what works for you. So I'm gonna click this heavy cardstock but then I also go up to the pressure and I put less, it just works for me better that way. So as you can see here it's telling me to load my pen and I have a red color and then I also have my fine point blade in. So it's gonna cut it out and it's gonna do the red and then once the red color's finished it's gonna stop, your machine's gonna flash and it's gonna tell you to change it to whatever color you have. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that. I'm gonna cut this out, I'll have it right it out for me. I'll show you what it looks like and then I'll show you the next part of putting your ornament onto the piece of paper. So stay tuned guys. Okay so I finished cutting these out. They turned out really cool. I did different sizes and I had a little problem with the Cricut cutting these out. So it took me a little bit to get the settings correct so you might have to play around with that for a little bit but this is how they turned out. I love it and I'm definitely going to be making some more and here are the ornaments that I had made for them. If you do not know how to do glitter ornaments you wanna check back at my previous video. I show you how to do these but this is how they turned out. I love them and you can personalize these if you have like a name in mind and you can put the name on here. Like I'm gonna make one for my daughter's friend so I'm gonna put her name on here and it's just cute for them to hang on the Christmas tree and know every year that their friend gave it to them so it's kinda neat. So I'm just gonna show you how to package these really quick. So I bought these little hangers from Hobby Lobby and I also bought these ones. They're a little bit thicker and it has a little bit of a jewel on it. I bought it at 50% off. Everything was 50% off. So I got a really great deal. I think these ones, these littler ones they come with 25 in each and I think it was like a dollar 50 for them so not bad at all. When I do find deals I will leave them in the community section of my YouTube channel. I told you guys about this so I hope it's still available right now. Every Christmas item was 50% off. I also bought these which comes in handy for tying the bag afterwards too but always check out my stuff cause when the Amazon Prime Day was too I left all the really awesome deals below and I actually bought a bunch of stuff from there and I bought a bunch of new mats because mine were getting kind of old. So always look up for that. So let's get started with this. So when you cut this out it'll give you this little section here so you can hang. That's where these guys come in or you can use ribbon if you want but I thought this would look kind of neat. Okay so all you wanna do is take your piece if it's too long, mine were too long so I just took it, put a knot in it and then cut off the top because you don't want these hanging all the way down here so I just cut it so it's shorter up here. So what you wanna do is just take your little piece here and then put it in and kinda like go around the maze I guess and get to the bottom part so it looks like that and then you just put it into your paper. And you have to watch out what cardstock you use. I'm using really thick cardstock here. I've tried other cardstock and it just doesn't work. I'm not sure the poundage on this but it's thicker. So this is what it looks like afterwards. That's why I said if you wanna cut the top off so it doesn't hang so far or you can just use ribbon if you want. You don't have to go out and buy these but I thought that looked kinda cute. So then I just have some dollar store bags here just a little gift bag and I'm just gonna put it in here just to make it look a little bit neater. I mean you can put it in a box or you know whatever you want. I just thought it'd be kinda cool just to have it in a little package. So there it is like that and then I just take the top and kinda clump it up a little bit and then I have the string that I just showed you and I just make a nice bow on it just to make sure it's secured. So there, so that is so cute. I would absolutely love to get this as a gift. I'm going to be selling these at our local store. I'll let you guys know how it goes. My ornaments last year, the glitter ornaments last year sold really, really well. So I did make some more. Like I said, I have a video prior to this one if you don't know how to do these. I show you how to make them. I show you how to attach your decals to it and then I show you how to make the decals for it as well. So if you're interested in that, go back to the previous video and watch that one. But I love how these turned out. I'm gonna finish these ones and just put the rest of these guys on here. But I'll show you what it looks like when it's all finished but this was a really quick and easy project to do and I think anybody would love to receive these. And like I said, you can personalize it any way you want with these. So yeah, I'm gonna have fun finishing packaging these up and then I'll show you what they look like when they're all done. So how do you guys think these turned out? I absolutely love them myself. You can customize them any way you want and change the ornament color and the paper color as well. They sold really well for me so I need to go ahead and make some more and take to the stores that I sell in. I hope this tutorial helps you out and you go out and create your own light of friendship ornaments as they were so easy to create. Happy crafting everyone and happy holidays.