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My sweet niece is turning 4 at the end of August! She was born three months before my kiddo. When I held her for the first time, Reed was still in utero and he kept kicking her. Fast forward to today and not much has changed. LOL Addy loves all things girly! She is my little princess and I wanted to make her a special Princess Tote Bag from Aunt Jill!

Wanna make your own Princess Tote Bag?

Here’s what you need:

Cricut machine

Pink Iron On Glitter Vinyl

White canvas tote bag

Iron

Ironing board

{For this project, I used my Cricut Mini! The image is from the cartridge 3 Birds on Parade.}

This was my first time working with the Cricut iron on line. The iron on instructions recommend a blade depth and pressure of 3. I would back it off to 2. It should not cut through the clear liner. If it does, no worries! You can still work with it! Ideally, the clear liner should remain intact and you should weed out the extra vinyl from the image. DON’T FORGET TO MIRROR THE IMAGE! Otherwise, your vinyl with be backwards. Place the iron on vinyl on the cutting mat, liner side down and proceed.

Once your image is cut, you will want to prep your material. Iron the material on the highest setting to which you are transferring the iron on vinyl. Iron for 20-30 seconds.

Next, place your image on the bag, liner side up.

Place a light piece of fabric over the image and iron for 20-30 seconds. Because of how my image cut, I had to iron the pieces separately. If you liner remains intact, this can all be done in one fail swoop!

After the vinyl adheres to the bag, carefully remove the clear liner. It’s that simple!