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After spending two days making earrings, out of all sorts of different faux leathers, I have a better idea of which settings work..  Although I admittedly still have a lot to learn!  These are all the things that worked, and did not work, for me as I made what feels like a zillion pairs this week. The Cliff Notes: Faux leather  from a local fabric surplus store .  (But you can buy it at any craft store, and many fabric stores.) Roughly $3 a sq foot appears normal,  I used the Cricut Air 2 , & the regular blade that came in the machine, & also a deep cut blade.  Almost always the regular fine point blade did MUCH better than the deep cut. I used the purple mat, and a brand new green mat.   A sticky mat is SO important, be prepared to wash it after every cut or at least every other. Long list of free svgs for faux leather earrings , here : http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/09/free-svgs-for-faux-leather-earrings.html How to make...

Last year I saw star maps made as signs for weddings.  I love them, but I don't have much empty wall space here. As I was making Christmas ornaments this year, I realized I could easily convert this idea into a Christmas ornament - and there's always room for more Christmas ornaments here.  :-) Cliff Notes: Star map from here:  https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky Printable Transparency paper from here:  Grafix brand 4 inch plastic disk ornaments, from Michaels (although you can use a variety of sizes!) Floating Ornament Svgs -  FREE svgs here This is a print and cut project, you will need a printer I use a Cricut Air 2, and I set it to cut on Custom, Foil Acetate for these Samantha is the font on the outside.  Free Alternatives To Samantha Write & Cut for the tag - I used the Matilde Font.  More free writing fonts here Step By Step: To Get Your Star Map Start at this link: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky Use this link to get the lon...

Cliff Notes: Finished size - varies greatly.  I'd suggest starting at 2.5 x 3.5 and figuring out what you like from there. Size for earring circles -  0.068 works well Free Earring Cards: https://www.craftchameleon.com/collections/all-freebies/products/earring-cards?variant=31750745542 Tips For Making Your Own: Finished sizes: (Suggestions only, I've seen so many variations!) 2.5 x4 3 x 3 They do not need to be larger than your earrings! Add 2 circles  I first sized them to  0.181   While this worked, it's really MUCH larger than they need to be. .068 works great!  I spaced them an inch apart, with the the outside edges being on the inch lines.   Use the "align" to make them perfectly across from each other - you can see one is slightly higher than the other in the photo above.  Align will fix that. Print and Cut For print and cut  (using your printer) you will need to slice the circles out of your tag.  Select both circles, c...

The shirt on the left is a halloween design, changed into a christmas design. The one on the right is a Christmas design, I just added the goat & llama silhouettes (google search) and the text (font is obelix pro)    https://cutthatdesign.com/2018/08/tractor-and-christmas-tree-design/ https://cutthatdesign.com/2018/04/tractor-and-trailer-design/ https://hellosvg.com/product/imdigginghalloween/ Remember that these are all svgs.  So if there is a holiday element you do not want, when you open the design, simply choose "ungroup" and remove it!  Then you have just the truck or tractor and can change them to whatever color you would like! https://apexembdesigns.com/cuttables/product/candy-truck-cuttable-design   https://lovesvg.com/2017/01/i-dig-you/ https://lovesvg.com/2018/03/cute-little-trucks-5483/ https://cutthatdesign.com/2018/08/truck-with-falling-footballs/ https://cutthatdesign.com/2018/04/dump-truck-design/ https://cutthatdesign.com/2018/02/free-svg-cut...