 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCrateCrafts. In today's video, I'm going to show you how to make these Libby cups using some new vinyl that I got from a Techwrap. It's absolutely amazing. This one says mom life and it's really awesome. I love these Libby cups or they're also known as beer cups as well. But I thought this would be a really fun tutorial to show you guys. It took only a couple of minutes to do this and it was so much fun to do. So stay tuned. All right guys. So I'm starting in design space and I'm going to be using these two files here. I purchased both of these off of Etsy. So in case you're interested, I will leave the links down below. So for this first one, there's really not much you can do with this. It's already layered for you and you can't group it and you can't unattach it. So there's nothing really you can do with this except for change the color. In case you wanted to change the color, all you got to do is select it and go up to the color box and change it to whatever color you would like. So I'm actually going to leave it this blue color. I'm not really sure which color I'm going to be using. A company called Tech Wrap actually sent me some vinyl to try out. So that's what I'm going to be doing today in this video is showing you how to create these Libby or these beer cups and using their vinyl. I actually am excited to use this vinyl. I have not used it before. It seems a lot thicker than the 651 I'm normally used to. So we're gonna see together how this weeds out and how it cuts out with the Cricut machine. So with that being said, the last thing I want to do with this first one is actually change the size. You want to make sure that you have the correct dimensions to your cup when you're cutting something out. So this is the size that it came with but I found out with some research on Google that the size that you really want to have for these is the width is supposed to be 9.425 and then I'm gonna change the height here as well. So I'm gonna unlock it up here and I'm gonna change it to be 4.137. So I'm gonna change it 4.137 and then that is supposed to be the size that you're going to want to use for these kind of cups. But again you can print this out on a regular printer and kind of wrap it around your cup to see if it fits. That would be a good suggestion rather than cutting this out and finding out it doesn't actually fit. The next thing I want to do with this one is actually change the width and height of this one before I show you the next step. And I wanted to change the width and the height of this before I show you the next step because once you ungroup this it's going to be hard to get it all together if that makes sense. So you always want to make sure you resize everything first. I'm gonna go up here and I'm actually gonna lock it because I do not want to change the size of this. So on this side here you can see that these are all attached together. So what I want to do is I want to have two different colors on this. I want to have the open hearts here one color and then the black ones a different color. So the way to do that is you're gonna want it to go to ungroup up here up at the top and it's gonna ungroup every one of these. So now they are individual and if you would go to cut these out all these open ones here will all cut right next to each other and then you got to physically go ahead and manually put them on your cup. So I'm gonna show you an easier way than that. So I'm gonna show you really quick these black ones same thing. They're just gonna be a total disaster if you cut it out the way it is. So I want to get all the open ones to be selected and attached to each other. The way that I do that is I'm gonna select the first one here and I'm really sorry guys I have a Mac computer so mine might be different than yours. You might push like the shift button but for me I have a Mac so I'm gonna push the command button so I have the first one selected here. I'm gonna hold down the command button and I'm gonna click on each one of these hearts. So you can see the box is going over it. I'm still gonna click this one because you want to get every single one of these and it's only grabbing the ones that you're clicking. So I'm just getting these right here. So I clicked on every single one of those and you saw on the side here they all changed to this darker gray color. It used to be lighter gray and now it's the darker gray. I'm gonna go ahead and push attach. See so now I can show you that they are all actually attached to each other. Now to make this one even simpler because it's all gonna be one piece I'm just gonna go ahead and grab all of those and click attach. Here we go. Now it doesn't matter where I put this I've already resized it to the size that we want so I don't have to worry about that. Now I just want to change the color so in order for me to use to use them different colors I'm actually gonna select this first one go up to the color box and change it. Honestly it doesn't really matter what color I'm going to change it I just want these three to be a different color so when I cut them out it's not gonna cut it on the same mat. So that was the only thing you have to do here go to make it and then I'm gonna show you which setting I use. So it's just showing you a preview of what they're gonna look like so that is it. I'm gonna go to continue and then it's gonna pop up and show me or ask me rather what setting I want to put it on. So when I normally cut out vinyl I either use a stencil vinyl here or the washi tape here but this is this vinyl is a little bit thicker than the 651 that I'm used to so I'm actually gonna use this premium vinyl one here and we're gonna see how this cuts out. So I'm just gonna go ahead and put the colors on my mat I'm just using a simple green mat. Alright so I finished cutting these out I know you can't really see it right now but there's the pink one here's the pink that goes to white and then the holographic one but the first thing I want to show you that you need to do is you need to clean your cup so this is a Libby cup or a beer mug cup however you want to call it but that is this you want to take some alcohol and then just like a rubbing pad or a piece of paper towel or something to clean your surface really well and I like to do this before I get started so that it dries in time you want to make sure it's clean and very dry before you start putting your vinyl on. There is that and I'm gonna show you guys this. So this is just a little heart that we cut out and like I said I've never used this before I've never tried it so I'm gonna see how it goes it looks like a pen but it's actually a weeder so we're gonna see how this goes oh wow okay it picks up pretty good alright so here it comes the moment of truth we're gonna start peeling this back like I said this vinyl does seem a lot thicker than regular vinyl that I've been using the Oracle 651 so we'll see okay alright guys so this is definitely cutting out it cut out really well and it's actually weeding really really well I am surprised because normally when I cut out smaller pieces I have a heck of a time trying to weed these out but these little guys are really coming off well some of them I do have to use my finger to push it down but maybe I didn't put enough pressure on the cutting because I've never used this before I didn't know what pressure to put it on if I should add some so maybe if you're gonna use this tech wrap maybe use instead of the default pressure you want to add a little bit more maybe I don't know but this I'm having no problems whatsoever getting this vinyl off and it's beautiful thick paper I mean it's I wish you guys could see but it's really nice and thick it's not like flimsy it's very thick I feel sad throwing this out I really do I wish there was something else I could do with it but we're gonna put that aside for now so this is the first one that cut out absolutely beautiful and then we have this one where my hand was still warm on it with the extra hearts you can kind of see the hearts up here so we're gonna do the same thing really quick use this pen wow it really does pick up pretty nice okay and peel this back so this is the heat transfer wow guys oh my gosh that is weeding amazing and it's a very pretty yeah wow I'm super super super impressed with this again it's called tech wrap I would definitely look them up the prices are pretty comparable to you know the oracles 651 that I normally use and I like this a lot better because it's it's very thick I mean I can't describe it any more than it's just a nice thick material so I am definitely impressed by this I'm just using my finger for these pieces that want to come up but otherwise it did a really great job cutting out wow so again here's the color it's gonna change from the pink to white when it's colder hot we'll put that on the side wow look at that all right so now we're gonna use this weeder again and get these guys out and kind of see I've never used this before so I'm not sure the proper way of holding it okay so that one is finished wow I really whoops I missed one guys I really like how easy this is to weed and how it sticks nicely to the backing and I'm really excited to see what it's gonna look like on the mug and how it changes colors and then we have this last one here alright so here we go here's this one and then these two go together you can see the pink is definitely showing and then once it gets warm again it's showing the pink again so now that we already did our cups we clean them we just need to take a piece of transfer tape and go over this I just see a bump here that I'm gonna fix really quick probably my mistake in there but here there just like that so I'm just gonna take a piece of transfer tape and put it over here here we go so I'm just using a clear piece of transfer tape I love the Fisker transfer tape I love that you can see right through it and it doesn't have the lines like Cricut normally does and then I'm going to use this first of all it's a little roller from Cricut and I like to roll it on and then I have another one that I really like so this is two pieces actually is one piece together but then it comes with this part at the bottom so you can scrape it on here so if you normally scrape with plastic and you're scraping on your transfer tape onto your backing it kind of rips it sometimes so I really like this how they put the backing on here where I can scrape it and it's not gonna scratch into anything all right so we're gonna see how that looks so I'm gonna pick it up what I like to do is flip it upside down and then work upside down to make sure none of my vinyl comes back up perfect all right all right all right guys I'm getting excited and depending on how you guys want to do this I'm thinking you can use even use parchment paper behind this so you're not you know going out of the way but I'm gonna just start I'm gonna skip that I'm just gonna start at the top here there's a little lip on here you can see that so I'm gonna kind of go right under the lip and just lay down my first pieces here okay wow guys I'm really excited oh my gosh this is so exciting all right so then I'm just gonna let gravity pretty much do its job and I'm just letting it fall over I don't know if there's a right or wrong way to do this but this is how I'm going to try it and if you guys know any other way let me know but I'm just letting gravity do its job all right so now I'm at the edge you guys can see I'm gonna push these down and pull this end of the transfer tape trying to show you guys what I'm doing so that I can get the other hearts on maybe there's an easier way to do this I don't know this is my first time trying this so there so then I'm just going to use my thumb and push this on and then I'll pull back my transfer tape wow so look at that can you guys see that with the background and here's my mat maybe and show you guys there does that help at all look at that that is beautiful so yeah it's not too bad um I don't know if there's a better way to kind of figure out where the top and bottom is I was kind of going off the lip at the top and it looks pretty you know even at the bottom here so I think I really like that I think it turned out well so there's the first one with the rose gold that is beautiful and then we're gonna do the other one with the white and the pink get me substituated here guys all right so I think what I want to do is make the little guys think about this make the little guys go on top yeah I'm gonna take the pink ones first and then lay it over the top you kind of see through the paper you know what either way I think is okay I might start with the lighter ones first I like this trans this vinyl too because the paper is thin and you can see right through it look at that can you guys see that I see the pink right through there which is amazing if you're using like regular 651 the Oracle or however brand whatever brand you buy you can't see behind these I hope that's showing up on camera you can see right behind it so what I'm gonna do is take that same piece of transfer tape that I just used all right guys I was gonna use the same piece transfer tape then this happened oh my gosh I do love using my transfer tape over but I have to unfortunately use another piece and I will show you guys what my transfer tape looks like so here it is I buy this huge roll it's from Fiskars I believe it's called I'll leave a link down below but it goes a long long way so I'm gonna lay this down put this right over it and then cut the back off so what I'm going to do is line my little guys up and I can tell that the three of them need to go right in the middle so I'm doing the best I can just to visualize these three one two three going in the middle I'm gonna lay it down flat get the bubbles out and then use my little scraper again scrape those on there so they all stick together flip it over get lucky with that edge there all right beautiful oh my gosh this is turning out so well all right so for the second one already clean this one right now I see where the parchment paper would really come in handy because I want to make sure I get this directly in the center starting with my guy that already coming off can you as my guide here get these guys on quick I'm really excited to put some hot and cold in here to see you know the full effect of this but this is the color transfer their color vinyl and I have a little piece of green on there I'm not sure where that's from but I'm excited to see what this looks like with the hot and cold guys I'm in love I'm absolutely in love look at how this turned out I absolutely love it the vinyl cut really well and we did really well and it's sticking on here extremely well so let's see if I can show you the back of it again with some weight behind it but you guys think you guys like this did it turn out okay have you guys use tech wrap before I have so many questions for you guys have you used tech wrap before have you used these Libby or beer cups before have you use one of these weeders I don't know lots of questions but I want to know I want to know for my my viewers have you guys use this stuff before I love it I definitely give it a thumbs up and then there's this other one I love it I think it turned out amazing so give me a thumbs up hit the subscribe button if you guys aren't already subscribed and hit 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