Teacups and Things – Canadian lifestyle blog

Easy DIY customized shoes with the Cricut Maker and the new Easy Press Mini

October 6, 2019

Cricut’s iron-on material has always been my favourite material to work with and I love my 9×9 EasyPress, but sometimes it is a little too large for those small designs and tough to reach spaces. Cue the EasyPress Mini, which was created with that in mind!

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know just how excited I was when I found out that Cricut was releasing a mini EasyPress. The plate itself is just under 3.5″ x 2″. It’s great for when you’re working with tight spaces, over curves and to avoid seams.

It has three different temperature levels and the highest setting will work with Cricut’s Infusibile Ink (another one of my favourite materials to work with). Just like the other EasyPresses, the heat is even across the entire plate and it has an auto-off feature.

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Meet the new Cricut Maker Tools: debossing, engraving, perforation and wavy blade

September 18, 2019

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one of my favourite things about the Cricut Maker is how versatile it is – and just when I thought it couldn’t get any better they go ahead and release 4 new maker tools to take your DIYs to the next level!

I was so excited when I first heard about the new tools for the Maker machine. Between its ability to cut fabric and thicker materials like chipboard, leather and balsa wood the Maker already was the ultimate personal cutting machine.

The addition of the new tools open up a whole whack-load of new projects and materials, so I thought I would take some time to walk you through each of them and what they can do and show you some examples. The new tools are the debossing tip, perforation tip, wavy blade and the engraving tool.

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Canning for the first time with Bernardin – my grandmother’s red pepper jelly recipe!

August 13, 2019

This summer marks the 4th year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing. I wrote a little bit about her and our relationship back when it happened as a form of self-therapy, but one thing I left out was her love for canning.

Growing up, my grandparents owned a farm out in Creemore, Ontario which was treated sort of like the family cottage. We would spend all of our summers and each holiday up there with the entire family – all 16 of us!

One of my most vivid memories of my grandmother is her spending hours and hours in the kitchen, slaving away at making everyone jars and jars of their favourite jams and jellies.

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Testing out Cricut’s NEW Infusible Ink™ – Easy DIY tote bag and coasters

August 7, 2019

If you follow me on Instagram, you might remember that I posted about a brand new product from Cricut in my stories a few months ago. Well, I finally got the chance to test it out and I’m so excited to share the results and two easy DIYs with you!

In case you missed the memo, I’m talking about Cricut’s brand new Infusible Ink™ material!

It comes in two different formats: transfer sheets, which you can use your Cricut Maker to cut out the design like you would with vinyl or iron-on; and as markers. The colours are SO vibrate. It’s similar to the iron-on material in the sense that it is heat activated, but has a few different key features.