 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreateCrafts and today's tutorial I'll be showing you how to create your own DIY custom cash envelope budget binder. This project I'm starting in design space with a new project. I will be creating vinyl stickers for my plastic inserts to keep my money in. You can create them for any budget but the ones I'm going to be creating today are grocery, amazon, savings, miscellaneous, phone, beauty and gas. There's so many out there that you can create but these are the ones I'm going to be starting with. So to start you want to start with the text box over here and you just want to type in what you're going to be writing. So my first one is going to be grocery. So with this one I want all of my fonts to stay the same so I'm just going to find the font that I want every time I go to the text box it's going to change the font for me automatically. Instead if I do it now and then I change the text font I'm going to have to go in and change it so I'm just going to do it now and save myself time. So with this selected I just go to the font box up here and some of you may or may not have the Cricut access I actually gave in and bought the yearly access. I will tell you I love it. It was so worth the money not only with the fonts that you get for free but also with a lot of the images and the shapes that you get. So if you don't have it I would definitely look into it. But again going back to here you can see there's an A here so this is the ones that I get for free because I have the access and other ones are priced for you unfortunately they don't come with the access but if you go into system here these are the ones that they gave you for free or also ones that I have downloaded from defont.com. If you're not sure on how to do that or where to go I did a video on that a while ago so go back and check them out and it'll show you how to download and find free fonts at defont.com. So I'm actually gonna go back into the all here and I'm going to find a font that I like and I don't have anything picked out right now I'm just looking for something that kind of jumps at me that's thick and that will be able to see easily so I'm just gonna look at this one. That's not too bad so what I like to do instead of going back and finding a font and trying to remember which one I liked best I actually go up to the duplicate button up here so that I know what the font was previously so I can just keep looking for another font. I'm gonna try this announcement one you may have one in you know in mine that you want to use but I'm just kind of going as I go along in kind of seeing what hits me so again I really like this because it's nice and thick but I'm gonna go up to the duplicate button and just look for maybe one more this is just even starting out this is just the a's you got hundreds and hundreds of fonts in here that you can choose from so let's just find oops I don't want to pay for that one find another one really quick here let's see what this one might look like oh no thank you really care for that one here let's try this one so again I like it when it's thick like this but I don't like how it has the extra whatever jumps out at you go ahead and grab but that's the fun part about it it's it's your so you can do it however you want so I'm just gonna look for one more really quick just kind of scrolling through this one's kind of neat but you know I don't really like this too much so I think I'm gonna stick with this one so this is where it comes in handy where I said that you can kind of visualize it here so I'm gonna get rid of this one and I'm gonna get rid of this one now what was this one called I don't remember but if you click on it it tells you right up here announcement so if you go to the text box and you start writing in the next one you're gonna know what your font you were using so the next one is Amazon and don't tell my husband but I spend way too much on Amazon so I'm trying to make up some stuff and this will be a good budget for me so I can see I can actually physically see how much I'm spending on Amazon even though on Amazon you pay online you can always just kind of take it out of your budget and put your money away and have like a starting point and just know how much you're spending this one you know what I didn't pick this font but I kind of like it but just for the visualization and the video here I'm just gonna go back here so this one was called announcement so I'm gonna click on this one and I'm gonna go into here I'm gonna go into search font and I'm just gonna type it in and then here it is right here so I want them to be I want them all to be the same exact font and this is up to you if you want to do that or not but it's just how I like to do it so I'm just gonna go to the text box and then just type the next one which is savings and as you can see here it's already the same font so I can just keep going to the next one and you can do whatever you want however many you want I bought this book off of Amazon and I think they give you 14 or 15 plastic pieces you can use in here and store money in but I'm just hitting just the tip of the iceberg on what I really need to start budgeting so I'm gonna do the next one as beauty and then I think I'm gonna do one more that just says gas because I have a big truck and it takes a lot of gas and honestly I don't know how much I've been spending on it with the gas and all that so it would be good to see and visualize actually how much you're using so I'm gonna start with these ones and I'm gonna move them over just a little bit so we can see them a little bit better and this is up to you if you want to change the color you can go ahead and do it now but when I cut mine out they're gonna be all in the holographic vinyl I think that would be so awesome with this little binder so the next thing you want to do is figure out the size so I actually went back on Amazon and I found out where I I purchased it from and it told me the sizes of the little plastic insert so it's 6.9 by 4.1 so I'm gonna start with this first one the grocery I'm gonna go up here to online box I'm gonna type that in 6.9 by 4.1 so this is as big as the little plastic insert is but I don't want it as big as the insert you might or you might not so I'm actually gonna take it it's already unlocked and I'm just gonna make it just a little bit smaller I want it to be able to fill up the whole plastic parts so when you flip through it you can see it so I really like how this is um so I'm just gonna do the next one so I'm gonna try to stay about the same size as this so just for visually visualization again I'm just gonna change this just to a 6.0 and then change this to 3 and then we're gonna do the same with this so we're just gonna unlock it up here and then change it to a 6 by 3 and kind of see how it looks and even though they're the same size because the letters are so a few here and so much more here it's gonna be a little bit bigger so you can play around it with it and make it a little bit smaller if you want but I like it to be as close as possible so again I'm gonna change this one to a 6 by 3 and this one's going to be huge because it's only four letters but again you can see it's about the same size but I'm just gonna take it and drag it a little bit just to make it a little bit smaller and then again 6 by 3 and again by no means do you have to do this you don't have to make it this size or however I'm just showing you with for the video purposes how to do it one more thing I want to do is for the front of the binder I wanted to say Jen's budget binder so that everybody knows whose it is like if my kids take it or something they see you know they would know it's mine so I'm just gonna put Jen's and then I'm gonna push enter and then I'm gonna put budget and I'll bring it over so you guys can see it here we go shrink my screen a little bit and there it is but I don't like it how it's got not much space in between and because the font that it is it's not letting me put extra spaces in here so I'll show you how to do that so you select this go to align and you center it and to fix this because the font the way it is it won't let me add extra spaces in between you want it selected you want to go to ungroup what I do is I select this part just the name the last part and then I'll just pull it over a little bit and then I'll go back in select these two and then I'll attach it because if you don't do that and do the next part it'll all smush together so I'm gonna take all three parts go to arrange up here whoops go to align sorry and then said whoops see that's what I meant before when it would do that so that was not what I meant to do so I'm gonna go back and click the little arrow and I'm going to do the same thing with this attach it and then now I'm going to go to the line and center it I tell you guys if I make a mistake I'm always gonna be honest with you and tell you so I'm glad it showed it that way so here it is one last thing is you want to attach everything together otherwise it's gonna kind of Jen's budget and then binder separately so I'm gonna attach it and I'm just gonna make it a little bit smaller maybe like this you want to look at your the size of your binder and kind of go from there I'm taking the little plastic piece and I'm putting it over my binder and I'm seeing it's a little bit wider than the plastic part so I know I can go a little bit larger than seven so I'm okay here so I'm actually gonna leave it the way that it is make it a little bit taller and it'll cut out just this way so I'm just gonna do the same thing go to make it save all this how I want to do it to try to cut on one mat and I'll cut it out weed it out and I'll show you the next step okay so I just want to show you guys really quick I cut this out I don't know how well you can see this but this is the holographic vinyl and it cut out really awesome so I'm gonna see how it weeds out but I love these colors this one just is the Jen's budget binder and then these are the other ones that I'm going to be using unfortunately I got one cut off here the beauty one so I'm gonna have to redo that one but um yeah I love the colors on this I just wanted to show you really quick this is what comes in the binder so I love these they have the little zipper on it that you can put your money into it and while I was creating these I'm like they'd be perfect for couponing I used to be a couponer before I moved to this country so we don't really get newspapers here so I don't really coupon anymore and here is the book that I purchased oh my gosh I love it it comes in so many colors but I really like this minty green color and you just open it up in their spots here put your credit cards or even store cards or anything um but it's really awesome here you can just flip through them and this is where I'm going to be putting the names on them so you can kind of flip through and see but I wanted to show you where I got my inspiration from so I don't know if you guys ever heard of Dave Ramsey but he's awesome I'm following his book trying to save some money this one let's see if I can read it um financial peace university this is a Dave Ramsey one but this is where I got my inspiration from so this is almost the same as the one that I have you just open it up and there's a spot on here for you can write stuff there's a pen here and then here's his envelope system I love it but the only thing I really wasn't happy about is you just stick your money right in here and just in the piece of paper so it could easily just come out so I wasn't really too happy with that I wanted something with a zip on it maybe but I do like this one how you can write out on it you guys can see it if it comes in um so yeah I'm really excited about this to finish this up but I just wanted to show you guys what it looked like before I went and cut it out so I don't know if you can see it while in here but um I'm gonna weed this out really quick and then I'll show you the next step all right guys so here for the fun part we're gonna put it all together so I have them all cut out and weeded um these bigger ones were much easier to weed out as you can see they're a lot bigger than my other one um so the next part is to put them on these little plastic things um one thing I did mess up on I'm always truthful with you guys you know that about me if you watch my channel I made this a little bit too big so I'm gonna have to put it on three lines um but that's okay I kind of like it that way having three of them but just always measure your stuff first I was kind of going off about how big this was um but obviously I didn't do it correctly so I'm always honest with you guys so I'm gonna have to fix that one but then you just want to take your little plastic things I absolutely love these and I think this is really gonna help me with my spending this year um so the next thing you want to do is just take some transfer tape I don't always use my really expensive transfer tape I just have this contact paper that I bought from the dollar store and it works about just as well um if I'm not using it for like a really big project so you just want to take the end of it and peel it off sometimes it gives me troubles here we go and gonna use a dog hair on here I'm gonna make it free of that and then you just want to put it on here the next you just want to take one of your scrapers that you have and just scrape it down really well so it sticks to the transfer tape and then I always like to work backwards and make sure everything comes off so I'm just gonna flip it upside down and then just peel backwards all right oh my gosh guys I'm so excited for this so before I start I want to make sure that I'm going to put it in the correct way so if I would do it this way like let's say I put it on this way it would be backwards so I always want to check and make sure and see which way it's going to be going so see I would have been wrong so you want to do it this way with the zipper side down so I'm just gonna take it find the center of it get all my stuff out of the way find the center and put it on guys I'm so excited about this like I said I love my Dave Ramsey one but I think this is going to be more personalized it's going to be you know fun to kind of carry around and to see how much money I'm spending and like I said before even if it's online spending like Amazon is obviously online spending I can still have a piece of paper in there and write down how much I want to spend on it or just kind of have cash in there and take it out as I spend it but it's all up to you it's just a way of saving money but I'm just using my scraper now and I'm just scraping it on here and so you want to make sure all the bubbles and everything are out and then just lightly peel back your transfer tape oh my gosh guys I'm so excited and I absolutely love this holographic vinyl I've never worked with it before it was a little bit of a pain trying to weed it but look at that isn't that beautiful oh my gosh am I the only one excited so as I was doing this I was thinking I'm gonna do a giveaway for one of these I'm gonna do a giveaway for the whole binder itself um not the part that it's gonna be written you guys can do that it by yourselves um but I think I'm gonna do a giveaway for this whole binder to help somebody out with this new year with the budget if you're interested so I'm thinking that I'll leave a link below to the rafflecopter for this um and we'll get it started as soon as I publish this video so stay tuned for that and make sure you enter because this is amazing and it will definitely help you save money so watch out for that so keep going with the video here's my first one amazon I still have my transfer tape I don't I don't really ever use another piece unless it gets really not sticky or gets some stuff on it so I'm just gonna use it for the next one so the next one's gonna be phone so I'm just gonna do the same thing just lay it down use my squeegee and scrape it really well just make sure you get all the bubbles out make sure it sticks and then again I like to work upside down just to make sure everything comes up as it should perfect and then again take your piece make sure that the zipper is down and then again find the center piece the center of it lay it down use your squeegee again and just squeegee it on making sure that no bubbles are in it or anything and then you can just peel off the transfer tape and you just have your vinyl leftover perfect I love it what do you guys think do you like this do you like the holographic vinyl I love that that's beautiful so I'm gonna finish these up I just have a few leftover here and I'll finish it up and I'll show you what it looks like when it's all done but basically that's all you have to do is just take this take your transfer tape and put it onto there and it's beautifully done so I'm gonna skip this since you guys know how to do it now and I'll come back when I'm all finished with it all right so I am finished putting all these together I love how they turned out there so I have a gas one miscellaneous one a savings one which is really important to me a phone one amazon which is really huge for me and then also a grocery one for when we go grocery shopping there's obviously so many more that I need to do but I just wanted to show you that and I did put the gens budget binder on here I love how it turned out but I just wanted to show you the last thing and something that I just noticed when I put my thumb here was they have a little pen spot so how cool is that you can stick a pen in here and you can write down stuff if you want but I love this binder it's getting more awesome I actually see there's another one up here so how cool is that so the last part to do is just put the things in here so I'm gonna put them all together and I'm just gonna put them all right in here but this is just a fun and easy project it'll hopefully help you save money if you budget I'm hoping that it's going to definitely help me out this year but if you like this tutorial please give me a thumbs up and leave a comment below but look at how easy that was and you just put your money in here and if you have coupons you can put your coupons in here if you have like your store cards you can put them on the side here so it makes it so much easier you got the pen and then it just sticks right there so I suppose really easy it was a fun project I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this but leave a comment below if you're interested in one of these I'll leave the all the information below and I'm going to start a raffle copter for this if you guys are interested in winning one of these to design and make for yourself so stick around for that and good luck everybody happy crafting hope you enjoyed this video