 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreate Crafts. Happy holidays everyone! In today's video I'll be showing you how to create these adorable and personalized hotpads. I used Dollar Tree hotpads and some HTV, such an easy craft So let's get started Okay guys, so I'm starting in design space and I already uploaded my images I'm going to be using. I purchased these images from Etsy. So if you're interested in them I will leave the link below. One thing though I will tell you about this is it comes already attached and welded So you really can't do anything else with this unless you were going to go into the contour button and Kind of get rid of something that you want to make a different color But I'm not gonna do that in this video. I'm just gonna take all mine and change them to White they are going on red pat holders. So I'm gonna change all this to white But if you did want to change the colors I'm just gonna warn you ahead of time that it's going to be take you a little bit to Contour any of this stuff. So that would be another video if you're interested in that So the only thing I'm gonna do for these is actually change the size My pot holders are about five by five five and a half by five and a half. So I'm gonna go with four So the only thing I'm gonna do with this is change the size and change the colors All right, so to do that All you have to do is select the first one you're gonna be working with go up here Do not unlock it. I do not want to have it four by four and I'm gonna show you why in a second I'm just gonna change this first one to four and then it's automatically gonna change it to resize it to A better size. So if I do four by four, it's gonna look a little skewed. So I normally don't Unlock it up here anymore to change it to be a certain width and height I always let design space figure it out for me. So it's not gonna look skewed. So this one is finished I'm gonna grab the next one and do the same thing. I'm not gonna unlock it Almond is is push four and then enter and then it will automatically Change the height for me. So I'm just gonna do that with this next couple of them I'll show you one more. I'm gonna do is four and then enter and then it's gonna change it for me I always just want to make sure up here that it's not gonna go any higher than four for the height I do not want it to be any higher or Longer higher or wider than four by four. So again, it's gonna select this and then change it to be four So I'm gonna do these finish last ones really quick just to kind of be finished with them So just I'll fast forward this part All right, so I'm finished with these so the last thing I want to do is just change the color Like I said, it would just change the whole color itself It won't let you go in and change like if you want to do the hat red You can't do that with this particular file unless I like I said you go in the contour button All right So the last thing I want to do on here is actually select everything and then change the color to white Mine are just going to be a regular white. So I'm just gonna select white here You can change it to be any color you want like if you wanted this one to be let's say Green you can change it to be green, you know, it's whatever color you want But it will change the whole image itself So if you want to go up here and again change it to a different green You can do that as well, but I want mine to cut out all white So as you see a I have to green and a white So if you go back up here and you're like, oh, what is question mark for it's just telling you that there's more than one Color selected. So everything else is gonna change to whatever color you change it to So all these are finished. They are four by, you know, three a little bit 3.75 3.4, but it's gonna fit perfectly on my File you can do it a little bigger if you want like four and a half or four and a quarter, you know Something like that But I just I like the size that these come out to so I'm just gonna click make it I'm just gonna show you which setting I like to use Using HTV. So here it is. I have so many files on here that it's only on a 12 by 12 I actually have a roll of HTV So I'm gonna change my material size over here to be 12 by 24 So that's gonna fit every single one of these on my roll that I'm going to be using Another thing I do is just move these just a little bit that I can get my scissors in between each one easily and Not waste any HTV here. So it's just like that. So all of these are on one Piece of HTV. Another thing very important You want to change your button here that says mirror on it You want to have all of your images mirrored when you're using HTV heat transfer vinyl So I'm gonna click continue and I'm gonna show you what setting I use to cut this out in so for me Normally if I'm using regular vinyl I use this stencil vinyl But when I'm using the HTV I go over here to this heat transfer non-cricket when I don't use cricket brand I use this one the heat transfer non-cricket so I'm gonna click on that one and you always want to make sure that you have a Very sharp blade in your cricket. I actually did just change my blade But sometimes I like to go to this pressure and just click more that just seems to make it cut out a little bit better for me I don't know. Maybe it's just me if yours is not cutting out I always check your blade and then you can always just do more pressure like I did here But just make sure that your HTV is on or actually your matte is your mirror is on and make sure that when you put your HTV on your Green matte you want to make sure that the iron side Material the plastic material of it or the transfer is on the bottom. So it's always shiny side down So I'm gonna go ahead and cut this out. I'm gonna weed it out and then I'll show you the next step Okay, so I'm at my heat press now. I have it all set up It is at 280 degrees for 24 seconds If you're gonna use an iron, please look up to see how you use an iron I switched from my iron to an easy press to this. I could not stand the easy press I know some of you are gonna say why not why not? But I really did not like the easy press This is an ultimate easy press. You set it You don't have to push on it and it just works for you and it counts on the time And you're not constantly sitting there and trying to push it enough pressure on it. So I Highly suggest a Heat press like this. Yes, they are a little bit more expensive Not too much more expensive than the easy presses are so I would definitely look into that So here's one of my files. I'm gonna be putting on here So the first thing you want to do is actually give this a quick press Just to get it warm and to get any wrinkles out that you may have in there So I'm just gonna give it a good, you know, 10-second press or so To get it nice and warm and then get some of the wrinkles out Then I'm just gonna put my file on it. You just want to find whoops. Sorry guys You want to find the center part of your? Oven mitt and I'm just using plain old Dollar Tree oven mitts I bought these a while ago and then they have the little spot on the inside here that you could put something in But these are the ones that I use so I put the image on it I'm just making sure it's nice and center and then I'm just gonna put my protective covering over it And I could do more than one right now But I'm just gonna do one for now to show you guys, but I have it set for 280 for 20 seconds So I'm gonna fast forward this you don't have to sit through this All right, so now it's done. You just lift up Take your covering off and then carefully peel back The plastic transfer part and that is finished. It is so easy to do here. You go. It's all done ready to go one other thing is Sometimes if you cannot get the wrinkles out of these is to just take a piece of cardboard And your mitt and just stick a piece of cardboard inside here And then this will help get out some of the wrinkles on the pre-press So I'm just gonna put that down for just a couple seconds get it nice and warm again and I'm trying to get some of those wrinkles out I have a quite a few more of these files that I had cut out This should be good and you can also leave this in here if you wanted it's not gonna do anything It's just nice. It's just hot. So here's another one life is what you bake it I think that's really cute again. Just find the center and Then take your tough on paper or whatever you have on hand and then just press it A little bit more difficult now that I have the Cardboard on it, but again heat press does it all for you. I don't have to hold anything I can do the pressure on it the time is going for me This is so much easier to use than an easy press if you have an easy press and you're looking for something else I will leave the link to this below. I absolutely love this guy had on a couple of years already and he works wonderfully Okay, so it's done just want to pull up and Then carefully peel back and your cardboard is going to be hot when you pull it out So just be careful. There's a tag. So there that one is finished as well So that was really easy to do you can also use, you know any kind of color HTV you want heat transfer vinyl I've done a few of glitter ones and that turn out really awesome I've seen black out seeing people use black oven mitts with white or even red and that looked really pretty I've had my eye on these oven mitts for quite a while. I can't find them anymore So maybe if you can't find them just look on dollar tree comm and see if you can get them Unfortunately, you do have to buy a bundle of like 25. I think But I plan on selling these I'm gonna put some cookie mix in it and then also a whisk in it So I think I'm gonna sell it for $10 all together or if I'm just gonna leave it the way it is I will sell it for $5. I make $4 on each one So I'm gonna finish these up and then I'll show you what they look like after they're all finished I really love how these turned out and they will make great Christmas gifts And they will be really good sellers for me as well I hope you enjoyed this video Please give me a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button if you're not already happy holidays everyone