 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So today I have a really, really fun no sew project for you guys, which everyone's know why I like to bring to the channel because at heart I am really just a maker of all kinds. Happens to come through in my sewing a lot but I really love crafting too. And the lovely wonderful people at Cricut have come out with a brand new product that they sent to me so that I could make a couple projects and show you guys what it's all about. The product is the Mighty But Mini Cricut Easy Press Mini, which it is so cute. I mean look this is the product box so you can tell how many it really is going to be. Here she is. Seriously it's so cute. So the easy press, if you're not familiar, is Cricut's solution for at home iron on vinyl transfer, iron on paper transfer, the convenience of an iron, but it is a power house in terms of a heat source. No matter what size easy press you get, the plate is always super super hot and the heat is evenly distributed. For those of us that have really nice at home irons for our garment sewing, the other really great thing about the easy press is that there is no chance of any steam coming out at all. So as you know our garment irons have a steam function. You can turn that steam function off but sometimes it likes to just kind of steam up a little bit. Just can't help it. This runs no risk of that. There's no water here. There's no steam vents at all. So I really like to use this for my transferring. You cannot have any moisture at all whenever you're transferring. So that's why I just trust the easy press suite, the easy press family, to always make sure to get that done. It comes with this really cool silicone base. Has little breathable vents, fits right in. Super super cute. Okay so now you're wondering what did I make with all of this? Well I was talking to you in my September plans video about how I had plans to make something for NFL game days. I'm in an NFL city now. The Carolina Panthers go team. And I want to go to a couple games but I want to go like as a fan and kind of look the part. So I got some NFL licensed fabric. I'm going to be making a top out of that but I wanted some accessories to go with it as well. So using the easy press mini I came up with this cute little wristlet and shoes. Custom shoes which is super super cool. So neither of these projects would have been possible without the easy press mini. You really need a heat source that is super small and super hot so that it can get around all of these little nooks and crannies and curbs and just fiddly bits of stuff like shoes and a little itty bitty bag. So I'm going to show you just how easy it is to use the easy press mini. I'm also going to show you some things not to do. I had a test run with the bag. I'm sorry I have like a there we go. And I melted it so it is possible. That's just a testament to how hot this gets and how you have to kind of really be careful. So yeah I'm going to show you what not to do and then I'm going to show you how I got these super cute results. But I just wanted to show you the easy press mini and how great she was and how awesome the projects and how easy the projects are that you can make with this lovely new little product from Cricut. Alright so before I show you how I did it let me show you how not to do it. I was really kind of just playing around and experimenting and seeing what I could get away with in terms of where I could place all of these little decals. So it went on this part really well but as you can see I burnt a hole or melted the plastic of the bag whenever I tried to apply one to the um I don't know the plastic part the vinyl part. So that is not recommended you can't go with a hole in your bag all your stuff will fall out. So I'm going to do it again just using the top band here and going to try and avoid these like bulky sides. This is where this part got all kind of messed up as well. So this was a fun little like test just to see you know what it would look like and what I shouldn't do. However the shoe the test shoe came out really great. I am in love with how cute they are. I mean obviously they're very specific to just one thing but that's okay it'll be fun to wear them. So let me show you just how I did it. Let's start with the shoe itself. Using the Cricut mini press this little guy is such a powerhouse. It's on right now so I'm trying to be very careful of where I touch it but it comes with this little base and for reference this is how big it is. It is teeny tiny. I'm measuring maybe two inches long and at the at the widest the heel is another two inches and then it comes into a beautiful little teardrop shape. So you can use this point here to get very accurate get up in the corners up in the grooves and really press your iron on vinyl or your iron on transfer paper whatever it is that you are using. So the first thing that I did was just to make this a little bit more stable. I took some muslin or any scrap fabric and I just started stuffing it into the shoe like so nothing precise or pretty you just want to get a lot of it far far up into that toe box so that this is now all nice and stable and then you can just keep stuffing it into the back side. I have a lot of it so the whole thing is not going to be full but let me try and pull this away from the tripod so it's not so shaky on you guys as I'm pressing on the table. Is that better? Oh yeah a lot better. Okay that way no one's getting car sick video sick. Anyways all right you can tell I've got it really pressed up in there nice and good so that the sides are nice and sturdy the toe box is nice and sturdy and when we get to the heel part we'll stuff it really good into the heel. So for the toe box on this one I have decided on this little decal here that says Carolina Panthers so I'm just going to turn it upside down and kind of eyeball wherever the center is. This doesn't have to be perfect. That should do it. I've got my Cricut mini press set to the highest heat setting. You push this little thermostat button and that'll turn it off and then you've got one, two, three heat settings to choose from and then you just wait for them all to turn green and your mini press is ready to go. So this particular heat transfer paper requires three minutes of heat so I am going to constantly move the mini press all over this for two and a half or three minutes just to make sure it's on there really really well. All right and after you've pressed it that ended up being a little more than two minutes. You want to let it cool for at least one minute before you start to peel the paper back. You can tell this side of the paper is already peeling up a little bit on its own. That's totally fine. You just want to give it a second to like really soak into the fabric and I wanted to say also the shoe that I'm using is a canvas shoe so it's basically really thick cotton so I don't have to use a pressing cloth because I run no risk of this cotton melting but if you are using a fabric that is sensitive to high heat you would want to use a lower heat setting on the easy press and use a pressing cloth and do it a little bit at a time like 10 seconds on 10 seconds off 10 seconds on 10 seconds off just to prevent any melting at all. All right so we're about at a minute and we can peel it back very slowly and voila we have tagged our little shoe. Isn't that so cute? Again it's not perfect and I'm okay with that. I'm not looking for like NFL licensed shoes here. You can definitely tell what it is so I'm okay with that. So now I'm going to put something on the outside of the shoe here the outside while I'm walking and I think I'm going to use this Panthers. It's more like their logo and it's kind of small so it should fit in here pretty well and comparing it to the other one yeah I kind of want it to be up and at an angle a little bit. So same thing again apply the heat for two to three minutes. All right there we go I've had it on there for a little while and we're going to let it cool off for a minute. Perfection look how cute that one turned out. So you can tell the even heat over a long period of time is what is going to create the most perfect transfer. So let's see what we can do for the heel. I'm thinking for the heel that we're going to put our little Panther on the back heel like so. Isn't he cute? Although he's not supposed to be cute he's supposed to be ferocious so isn't he ferocious. Okay let's turn him upside down and get him somewhat centered. Again not really looking for perfection here. Yeah and then apply the heat again. This was such a fun project to kind of dream up being in an NFL city now. You know I have to really up my game. No pun intended. All right ready for the reveal. Peel him back and voila we've got our little Panther on the heel of our shoe. So cute. Okay so now you can remove all of your stuffing and I went ahead and got these super cute teal shoestrings from Amazon of course and we'll just lace them up and I will be ready to hit the streets on game day. Our cute little Carolina Panthers or whatever team you support uh custom shoes. I mean how cool is that? All right now let me show you what to do on the bag really quickly. So if you go to NFL games you know that you have to have one of these clear bags and it has to be a certain size and it's virtually impossible to find ones that are cute so we are going to make our own. I got this one from Amazon it was super affordable obviously I had no problem um pretty much wasting one of them but it was like you know trial and error I had to figure it out. Okay so the first thing you want to do is put your muslin or your scrap fabric whatever it is inside and you want it to extend past the um little band a little bit so that if any heat gets to this um uh vinyl part it won't mess that up either and then you flip it around and then you want to apply the muslin almost as a um pressing cloth over the vinyl part as well so we're going to be decorating this and no matter if the easy press gets on any of this vinyl it is not going to melt it or have it stick to itself at all. So the first thing I'm going to put on is our Carolina Panthers. All right there we go on that guy and I'm going to leave the paper backing on this while I apply the other ones. I am going to put on our hmm maybe this Carolina Panthers one right there and I mean I do like this and it's very kind of common but I'm afraid it won't show up so well so should we do the helmet or the paw print? Hmm paw prints too big so that's an easy no the helmet might be too big too. The helmet is just big enough okay this is what I'm going to go with let me make sure this is right side up Carolina Panthers okay and then I will be going over the stitching but according to my test that wasn't a problem before so let's get into it. Decorated you can see though what I was saying about this stupid vinyl it's very sensitive and it does melt it's not on the easy press though it melted actually through my pressing cloth so you just have to be super super careful with all of this area up here and maybe like I didn't have it doubled up enough I'm not exactly sure what happened but I'm going to just patch that up and it should be fine it's a very small hole like smaller than my pinky um okay so this thing also comes with a cross body strap and a little wristlet so you have a couple of options here you can obviously take um your decals and you can iron one on let me make sure I don't melt my cutting mat so you can take your little decal and place it on there and then just easy peasy press that on for three minutes just like we've been doing with all of the other stuff or you can take some licensed fabric like the one that I'm using to make my shirt and you can make your own straps you just kind of cut away the hardware and then make you know one big giant strap and then reapply the hardware like you would for any other cross body bag maybe you've made them in the past um so it's up to you how much like work and sewing you want to do but you can tell this one is literally just a strip of fabric uh fed through this little d-ring and then sewn on the back it's super super easy to do it's no reason why you couldn't do that at home and do it out of cute fabric but if you wanted to do it on this as well you can also see kind of what that would look like like so so now you have one that's kind of like cool and decorated um without doing any sewing at all so completely up to you how you want to do it where's our bag okay the bag is here and then you put all your stuff in hook it and now you've got your fun little bag and don't forget the shoes okay so super fun right i told you it was super simple to do i um have a link in the description box that will take you directly to where you can purchase your own easy press mini but if you're into crafting if you're into transferring um images whether it's through iron on paper or iron on vinyl or whatever i encourage you to check out the easy press mini um there's a ton of really great stuff that you can do with it i have a lot of other projects in my head um for how i can use this for stuff that isn't so like gimmicky and kitschy i think that you can do a really fun project and make it look like you bought it in a store like that so um that's where my mind is at next obviously the holidays are around the corner so this would be great for lots of little projects a little gifts if you wanted to monogram things little itty bitty things little coin purses little clutch bags you know whatever you wanted to do this little guy is great um so that's gonna do it for me today thank you so much for watching and i will see you all very soon bye