Use the Cricut Easy Press to make fun Christmas Tea Towels for the holidays. These are great gift ideas!
Welcome back to year 6 of our Festive Christmas Event where we team up with a bunch of talented blogging friends to bring you a plethora of creative ways to celebrate your holiday season.
We will be baking some cookie recipes for you, sharing some party games, making some handmade gifts, doing some ornament crafting, and sharing our Christmas movies family fun. There will be breakfast recipes and as always our decorated Christmas Trees which is always a fun tour of homes.
New this year is Gift Guides. We are right there with you shopping from home due to Covid 19 and we understand how hard that can be so we have been busy little Elves doing tons of research to create fabulous Gift Guides to help you with your holiday shopping.
I shared Gift Guides for Farmhouse Kitchen Accessories and another for Bar Cart Essentials to help make your holiday shopping easier!
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Giving handmade gifts is often something we think of as being old fashioned. It’s wonderful to see that there has been a resurgence in handmade gift giving in recent years. It’s also great to have the right tools to make creating them easier!
DIY Christmas Tea Towels
For my birthday in August, my husband gave me the Cricut Easy Press to go with my Air Explore 2 that I’ve had a couple of years. I’ve been practicing making simple items with the Easy Press for the last couple of months.
While I’m still very much a novice, I’m having fun learning and creating projects with it. I’m going to share with you how easy it is to make Christmas tea towels with it.
Using Design Space, I searched for images that I wanted to use. From my basic subscription, I found a Holly design (#M10BE5A85), Merry & Bright (#M8B37160) Deck the Halls Y’all (#MC76B582) and Christmas Tree Swirl (#M110FB7C7).
Once you have found a design you want in Design Space, resize it to fit the section of the towel you want use. Set it to cut and turn on the Mirror Image button.
Place the heat transfer vinyl shiny side down on a cutting mat. Set your Cricut cutting machine to Heat Transfer Vinyl before cutting.
Once it’s cut, use a weeding tool to remove the parts of the design that should be blank. Next, starting in a corner, pull back the excess vinyl, leaving your design on the transfer tape.
Follow the instructions that came with your Easy Press to get started with the transfer. Place your design on the tea towel and make sure you have it positioned correctly. Use the Heat Guide from Cricut to determine the correct settings for the material you’re using.
I transferred the words first and then added the holly sprig. I added the berries and then each of the green sprigs.
For the second towel, I added the spiral tree first and then added the words.
I love how these turned out and how easy they were to make. Once you get the basic instructions of using the Easy Press down, it’s a breeze to make these in minutes.
Whether or not they know it, lots of people on my Christmas list will be receiving gifts I’ve made using the Easy Press this year! I think they’ll love them. The best part is that I can personalize them for each recipient.
Supply List for DIY Christmas Tea Towels
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- Plain Tea Towels
- Cricut Cutting Machine
- Cricut Easy Press
- Heat Transfer Vinyl
- Weeding Tools
- Easy Press Mat
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Christmas Tea Towels DIY Using Cricut Easy Press
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Marie-Interior Frugalista says
These are so pretty, Bev! I would be thrilled to get homemade Christmas tea towels. I’m a Cricut newbie so I appreciate your tutorial. I think I might make some of these for my daughter and for our house too!
Beverly says
Thank you, Marie! I hope my tutorial will be helpful to you!
Gail @Purple Hues and Me says
Now don’t you have the best husband to give you a Cricut Easy Press! I’ve been looking into Cricuts but have resisted getting one. But every time I see something made by one of my blogging friends I get envious! You can create so many lovely items! And I Love your tea towels.They are quite Christmasy and pretty! They brought back memories of my mom and her collection of holiday tea towels!
Beverly says
Thanks, Gail! I do have the best husband! Of course, it helps when I point him in the right direction! I think you would love creating with a Cricut!
joy says
Love the tea towels! I think i need the press n go!
Beverly says
Thanks, Joy! I’m enjoying learning to use my Easy Press for fun projects like these.
Lauren | Mom Home Guide says
Very cute! Your sweet tea towels are adorable! I am just learning how to use my silhouette. I’d love to make these tea towels!
Beverly says
Thanks, Lauren! They are a lot easier to make than I thought they might be. The Easy Press is great!
Anita Holland says
What a great Christmas gift these would make. Thanks for sharing.
Beverly says
Thanks, Anita. I’m looking forward to giving them for gifts.
Joanne says
These turned out great! I used my Circut for lots of my Chrsitmas gifts last year too; everything from htv to stenciling to regular vinyl. It’s just so versatile. Pinned.
Beverly says
Thanks! It’s so fun to find different ways to use Cricut products! Thanks for pinning, Joanne.
Tania says
I just love these, they are so pretty!
Beverly says
Thanks, Tania! I was happy with how they turned out.
Erlene says
I would love getting something like this as a gift. I can never seem to have enough tea towels in the kitchen.
Beverly says
I’m keeping this set for myself and making more for others. Can’t have too many of them in the kitchen.
Wanda says
Your tea towels are beautiful, Beverly! I’ve been looking for an excuse to get an easy press and I think you’ve given me one 🙂
Beverly says
Thanks so much, Wanda. I’m having such fun with the Easy Press. I definitely recommend it!
Simply Inspired Meals says
These are really great, I guess I better add cricut to my wish list this christmas.
Beverly says
Thank you. There are so many things you can create with a Cricut. I recommend it!
Marie | Craft Rocker says
I love my EasyPress! These are such a great gift idea and I love that tree design. I have a die cut plate with that design but have never seen it with my cricut. Definitely going to find that.
Beverly says
Thanks, Marie. I’m having such fun learning how to use it. I love that swirl tree, too.
Debra Jerry says
Oh, my gosh, Beverly! These are so cute! Gonna have to try this! Pinned!
Beverly says
Thanks, Debra! The best part is how easy they are to make!
Emily says
These are really cute. I have a stack of tea towels waiting for me to do something with!
Cherryl Ehlenburg says
These are so festive and adorable! I will have to add this to my list of things to try with my cricut!