 Hey guys, it's Jen from I Create Crafts. Today I'm gonna show you how to make this kind of funny sign for your bathroom using wood, a Cricut machine, and some vinyl. It was so easy to make and so much fun to make, and I hope that my kids will listen and know what the times that are going on today that it's very hard to come by toilet paper. So I thought this was kind of funny. I'm gonna hang it up on my bathroom, but I'm gonna show you step by step how I do it. So I'm gonna make a sign like this, and I have my board here. I'm just trying to figure out how big to do it because I'm not putting a border around my sign, but instead I'm going to put like rope around it. So I'm trying to figure out how wide, obviously it's gonna stay this wide, but I need to figure out how big I want my words. I want them a little bit bigger so you could read it. So I'm thinking about 10 inches by, I think this board's nine. And then add two inches on each side on the top and the bottom with the rope. So it would be 14 inches for the whole board. So I'm gonna cut this board out at 14 inches, and I'm gonna sand it and get it really smooth because when you apply vinyl, you need it to be smooth and nothing attached to it. So I'm gonna cut it out at 14, and then I'll sand it. Just because you put the vinyl just on one side, I like to do both sides, and I like to do the edges as well. So I'm just gonna sand this up really quick for both sides and all the edges. One thing with sanding is you might or might not know, but when you sand it, you wanna make sure you go with the grain. And then also, like I said, I do the edges because I don't like the rough edges. I like it to have a nice curved edge on it. So another thing is, is look at this board and you can see how nice and clean it is to what it was before. The more prep time you take, the better the vinyl's gonna stick and the longer your piece is gonna last. So I was hunting and I found some stain that I'm going to use. I'm cheap. It was $7. I got it on sale for a dollar. I like this way. It's called Jacobine. Jacobine, I don't know how to say it, but I'm gonna do it really lightly. My board is nicely sanded. I did the edges really well. I did the back as well. So I'm gonna stain the whole thing. So this next part is gonna be a lot easier. I'm in design space and I just need to write in my text to make my vinyl decal for my sign. So the first thing I'm going to do is click on shapes here and click on a square. And I'm gonna change the width and the height to be 12 by eight. So I'm gonna do that quick. I'm just gonna click on the unlock box and then change it to 12 by eight. And the reason I did this is because now I can see how large my board is and it's gonna make it much easier for me to center and make my words big enough for this sign. So I'm gonna change the color quickly of this just to white. So this gives you a black outline, which is much better. So I'm gonna move this just for a second and I'm gonna go in the text box and I'm going to type in the first couple of words. I'm gonna move this up, whoops, I don't want both of them. So I'm just gonna move this, turn this again. And I'm gonna change the font on this because if I continue going, it's not gonna change the font. So with this selected, I'm gonna go to font and I'm gonna click on system. The reason I click on the system is because I don't pay for the Cricut access so I do not get all the fonts for free. These are the ones that Cricut gives you for free or these are the ones that I downloaded from DeFont and put into design space. If you're interested in learning how to do that, a few videos back, I teach you how to do, take the font from defont.com and put it into your design space. So I'm just gonna click on one that's a little bit thicker. And I kinda like how this looks. So I'm gonna leave that and I'm just gonna continue to work with the wording. So I'm gonna double click on this so it brings the box up again and finish writing it. So here we go. You never know what you have until it's gone. So I wanna align this. I'm gonna, with it already selected, I'm gonna go to the alignment and I'm gonna click center. And then I can bring my box back and kinda eyeball it and see how big it is. So again, if I didn't know the size or have the box behind it, I would think this would be just fine. So I'm gonna work with this. I'm gonna unlock it and I'm just gonna move it over a little bit more to get the most out of the space up here. And the 12 by eight is not the size of my board. My board is a little bit bigger than this. So I know that I can reach out to a 12 by eight. I'm gonna shrink it up just a little bit. And in between here, I had a little, I don't even know what you would call it. I just looked up on Google leads. I found this one. So I'm just gonna click on this and insert image. And here it is, just a little something to kinda break them up. So I want two of these. So with this selected, I'm just gonna hit duplicate. And then there's the other one. So I definitely don't want it to look like that. So I'm gonna go up to flip and I'm gonna flip it horizontally and kinda work with it and leave it maybe like that. Right now I'm just gonna leave that. I'm gonna go to the next writing part. So I'm gonna click on text and write the next part. But I don't want both of these fonts to be the same. So I'm gonna click on this and do the same thing. Go back to the font and then just search for something else that I like. That's a little bit bold still, but not the same kind of font. Now I like this one, but I don't like how it has the little holes in it. So I'm just gonna keep looking. So this one's kinda cool. It's kinda like funny looking, I guess. So I'm just gonna do the same things before I double click on this and then just finish it. And then again, I want it centered. So it's already selected. I'm gonna go to alignment and then center it. There we go. And again, I'm gonna make this a little bit bigger. I don't want it as big as the one up top, but I want it big enough that you can read it. And then I can work with these guys a little bit. Maybe I'll make them a little bit small. Whoops, I moved the box instead of the image. There you go. Make them a little bit smaller, maybe. Just something to break them up in between. I'm gonna make this guy a little bit smaller. Move them over here. So I like how these look. So if I click on this, it's gonna give me the box. So I'm gonna click out of that and I'm gonna hold down the control button and I'm gonna click on this one. And I'm also gonna hold it down again and click on that one. So it gives me that image. So right now I'm gonna attach those together. I do not want those to move away from each other for the next part. So since this is all selected together and this is all together, the last thing I wanna do is actually align everything. So I'm gonna click away. I'm gonna hit select all and then I'm gonna go to the align button and center horizontally. So that makes everything right directly in the middle. So here it is. I really like how it looks. The only thing I'm going to actually change is the font color. I think I'm gonna leave the font white and then maybe make these little leaves brown. So I'm gonna click away again and then I'm gonna do the same thing. Hold down the control button and click on the first part. I still have the control button down and I'm gonna click on the second part here. So it looks like it's selected everything but it only selected the wording. So I'm gonna go up and change the color to that, to white. And then the same thing with these. Since I already attached these together, they are one piece. So I'm gonna go in and change it to a brown color. And there we go. So this is all gonna be white. My background of my sign is a stained brown color. So I think that will go really good together. I think one last thing is I maybe wanna make this just a little bit bigger. You don't have to use this as just something to break them up from each other. So I like how it looks. So I'm actually gonna go to make it and I'm just gonna cut it out really quick. So since I did not attach my two words, they are gonna be separate if you can see these. Whoops, one thing I forgot to do was erase the text box or the box here. So I'm gonna cancel this and I'm glad it told me. So I'm gonna click on this and I'm gonna get rid of that since that was just to know how everything was gonna look together. So again, I'm gonna click make it. And here we go, that's much better. So this is how it's gonna print, this is how it's gonna cut out. And because I don't want all this space here to go to waste, so I'm gonna click on this, move it over and then I'm gonna take this little circle button and then just kind of turn the whole thing so I get it centered. And lined up with my line and then I can move it up here. It's closed together as this other one that I can get my scissors in between these and now I can cut it out as all one piece so I can save all this part and all this part. So just for next time, it gives me a little bit of a better, a bigger area for me to use next time. So I'm gonna cut this out the way it is. Here's my brown one and it's gonna cut it out exactly how you see it. So I'm gonna go ahead and push, okay, on that one, push continue on this one. And then it's gonna ask me to connect my machine. I have the Cricut Maker, so my screen might look a little bit different than yours. So I'm gonna finish this up. I'm gonna push, these are my favorites that I use all the time, stencil vinyl, copy paper, heat transfer vinyl. So I normally use this one, the stencil vinyl here and it just cuts it out much better than any of the other programs ones on here. So I'm gonna go ahead and cut this out and then I will show you the next step. Okay, so I have it all cut out already and I had weeded this out. So here's the first part, but I wanted to show you this really cool light. I bought this off of Amazon. It's called a Cricut Bright Pad and it works really well, especially if you have light stuff that you can't see. But I weeded this one out. I don't know where the other one just went. Oh, this one I weeded out as well and I'm just gonna do this one. And the first thing I'd like to do is take out the little spots that you don't need like from the E's and the O's. I'd like to take those out first. Just makes it easier when I peel the whole thing off. But I'm just gonna quickly take these out. So now I have all those off and I'm just gonna take the side of it and just start pulling it back there. So I have it all finished, here it is. And then this is gonna go in the middle. I'm gonna grab my board really quick and then I'm gonna put some transfer tape on it. I'm gonna put it all on here, spread it out really well, use my scraper that I have and scrape it on really well and then I'll show you how to apply it to the board. So I have my transfer tape on here already and I used my squeegee and I squeegee it really on really tight. And here is my board that I had created. It's nice and smooth, it's really dry. You wanna make sure that it's smooth to the touch and that it's dry, that nothing's gonna come off. So then you wanna take your transfer tape and your vinyl and peel off carefully the back of the vinyl and then place it on your board. But I wanna make sure, I'm not gonna put it on yet, I wanna make sure that it's even on both sides and also at the top. So I'm gonna put this down here at the bottom so I have a little room for this little thing to go in as well. But you wanna measure the sides. I like to just take a Cricut mat and just kinda go that way since I already have it here. So it's like a two on this side and we'll just measure this side and make sure. So it's actually perfect where I have it. And then you just kinda wanna look at the top to see if it's even on every side before you go ahead and lay this down. So I'm just gonna peel it up and look at the top and make sure that it is lined up perfectly. So I like how it is. And again, I have the sides here that I'm going to put rope around here. So just to give it a little bit more depth. So I'm just gonna use my scraper, scrape it on really well. And this is why you want a dry and smooth so that it will stick to it, you won't get any bubbles. And it will stay on forever. So once you've got it on, you just take a edge of your transfer tape, if I can find mine, and peel back slowly. And the reason I really like stain over paint is if you mess up on your paint, it will come up with your transfer tape. So I love using stain because you know it's gonna stay there. And I'm just pushing down on the letters that are peeling up. It's just the top for some reason that they're coming up on. Perfect, I love it already. So it's on, I'm just gonna use my fingers and make sure that there's no parts coming up and it's very flat to me. So then I'm gonna do the same thing for the next part. I have this one. So I'm just gonna do the same thing, just peel it back slowly, making sure that it's stuck on. I already scraped it on. And then again, find the center of your spot. I just put it down gently and not push it in, just use my mat. You can use, you know, a tape measure, whatever you want. I just have this and I already see the lines and stuff and have the numbers on it. So it looks like it's three on the edge here. So I just wanna make sure the same side looks pretty good. So once you get it where you want it, again, just push down really well. Use your Trista scraper. Or if you don't have a scraper, you can use a credit card, whatever you have. I just have a bunch of scraps stuck on here. I've never really cleaned off, but it works really well. I would suggest getting one, if you do not have one, and just scrape it on really well. Get all those bubbles out and then just do the same thing. I can find it, peel back the transfer tape. Perfect. So again, I just use my fingers, go over it lightly, make sure it's not sticking up anywhere. And then I'm just gonna do the same with the last part. There we go. So this part is all finished, it's on really well. If you have any parts that actually come up or anything on it, you wanna push your fingers on it, or you can even take a hairdryer and lightly put it on here and just kinda push it as you go and that will help stick on better. And also make sure that none of your pieces are gonna come up, but these are sticking really well, so I won't have to do that. So I'm gonna set up my next part to put the twine around it. All right, so here's my finished board. I really like how it turned out. I'm gonna put it up on my wall and hopefully my kids will figure out what it's supposed to say. And take care of the toilet paper. I did put some twine around it. I just secured it on the back and I put a hook on the back as well so I can hang it up on the wall. But here's the finished product. It didn't take me very long to do. You can follow the same procedure and make your own kind of sign. It doesn't have to say this, but that again, for the time that we're going through right now, it'd be kinda funny to hang this up in the bathroom. So I'm just gonna hang it up really quick.