Made stickers with a Cricut. It went okay!

With apologies to Icona Pop

The first thing I need everyone to know, is that it’s pronounced “cricket”.

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The Cricut is scientifically defined as a fancy cutting machine. There are multiple versions at varying costs.

My city library held a workshop to make stickers with their Cricut. We created free accounts on the Cricut proprietary program and created designs using the free shapes and fonts available in the program.

This was my first creation. I could not arrange the letters in a way that allowed them to be cut out, but I like the design:

Tea bag with string and tag that say “bag hag”

My second attempt worked. I used the free heart and wheat shapes and a free font, though I did not use “Cricut Sans”, the program’s default font.

Design - Heart with wheat and “prairie bitch” inside

I selected orange for the sticker colour. This Cricut prints the cut-out patterns on its proprietary sheets, and then you remove the cut-outs with your fingers or tweezers or a proprietary poking tool. The wheat piece was large enough to remove in one piece and use, but the letters were not. You may notice that I inadvertently removed the tiny bits of material that were inside the rounded letters. Don’t worry about it!

How the sticker looks placed in my office:

I don’t think I would buy a Cricut, but it’s an interesting crafting tool. The more expensive ones can print full-colour stickers, which seems like a way more useful feature.

A friend recently asked if I had any “live laugh love” in my house and I don’t, but I do have “Patterns and Mess”. Stay weird, friends.

Substack author’s bulletin board