Whit, HELP! I've never used a cutting machine, I purchased a manual dye machine and a ton of dyes, I tried it and hated it! Then around seven mns ago I purchased the Cricut Maker 3 maybe it's too much of a machine for a bigginer? It took me like four-five mns to take it out of the box! I'm a visual learner so I've watched tons of Cricut videos, I tried the couple beginner projects they went well... I was really good at making flyers, signs, websites so the Cricut design center I've found easy to use, the one problem I'm having I figuring out size and thickness of the font. I made my first sign "Believe In The Magic" it was a 11x24 wood sign that I purchased on sale at Michael's, then I put the transfer tape on, removed the decal and went to put it on my sign and I could not get the decal off the transfer tape! I couldn't understand how you and other youtubers made it look so easy! I used the tools I purchased for the Cricut and took each letter off one at a time inch by inch, it was so difficult I just could not believe how hard it was! About two hours of slowly removing the decal and placing it on my sign I noticed the translucent water marking on the transfer tape and saw the words "Extra Strong Transfer Tape! I went and looked at the box and sure enough that's what it said! In all the Cricut videos I've watched (mainly decals for signs or hard flat smoth surfaces, I've never heard anyone mention different transfer tapes I just assumed they were all the same! I'm not even sure what you would use that extra strong transfer tape for! I could hardly get the decals off by hand! So that was my first project, the sign looks amazing for what I went through making it, although two or three letters did rip so I had to piece them together the best I could! Second project, what I'm currently working on it a huge built-in spice rack with three different sizes of spice jars, I did search the design space for an already completed project where I would just have to size it but was unable to find one that were word decals the only one's I could find were a sticker with the spice name written on to it and I just wanted the spice names... OK, sorry for the lengthy post, there are things I have learnt from you tips, because you talk about those things like in this video using the hair dryer I wonder if that would have helped me with that first project? Anyway, I cut and pasted most of my spice names from a list I had been collecting, I chose a font, tried to figure out how large/small to make it and then cut it, I then went to weed it and not understanding font size when I went to weed it I lost all the i's all the dots for the i's I lost parts of M's and N's etc. You get what I'm saying, the size of the font was way to thin and elongated, as I tried to weed it I realized it wasn't going to work as word decals but as word stencils! I then tried one spice jar and hated it... so, back to the drawing board, I changed the font to one that wasnt so delicate, adjusted the size, I will say that I was working on 4 lists of about 8 words, I could not figure out how to separate the individual words when I tried it split it up in columns so I only had a list of the first letter of each word! Omg! I'm sorry this is so long and I really hope you or someone else sees this and can advise me... I adjusted the size of the entire list to fit each word into a 2"×1.5" area, cut it and weeded it, was moving along OK, but I'm just not crazy about the size of the words I think they are too big and in some cases only one word instead of two fit (Greek Spice to just Greek) my OCD has now kicked in and I can't look at all my spices names shortened! Like Everything Bagel Spice to EVRYTHNG.... Nope I can't do it! So, after that long story! In short, can you suggest or recommend anything? What am I doing wrong? Should I only work with one word at a time? Sizing them all individually? Will that mean that every name will be a different size? How do I do names like DILL then 5-CHINESE SPICE OR GARLIC AND RED PEPPER ? Do I do them all one size the smallest that will fit two lines of words for the longer names? What about the different size bottles I've used the smallest bottle that is round except for the area to put a word which is 2"×1.5" the second size is exactly the same jar but bigger its flat area it 3"×2.5" then the third bottle is tall and square it's 2.5"×6" tall... can the names be a different size for each bottle or will that look weird? I'll use the same font for all of them but I just wonder if each bottle should have its own size that fits the same way on each bottle? Also, can you remove permanent vinyl off of glass? I already made six bottles but I just don't like that they are not the full names! Any help I can get would be amazing!

When you etch do you use removable vinyl or permanent?

@@laceyfontenot186 I've never tried etching yet...

@Jenna Bella Expectation Vs Reality I just read your comment to Whit.. the only time that you may need the extra strong transfer tape is for glitter vinyl and from what I was told the Cricut brand extra strong is sometimes still to strong. As for as signs, if you painted(or stained) them yourself, stick the transfer tape on something else first to get some of stickiness off. That way it won't pull the paint off. I hope I helped you some 😊

@@laceyfontenot186 thank you!

Oh gosh thank you! ❤️ That is something I say all the time when I'm concepting videos so I really appreciate that it shines through. Have an AWESOME day, friend!

Yes! Here you go: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpaWbMKG0buyZIU.html That will jump you right to a project where I break it down.

That is awesome!

You are so welcome!

Yay thank you! Makers gonna learn is another awesome channel!

Yay! I’m so happy to hear that!!

Good luck with your move!

Thank you so much friend! ❤️

Hi Candy! Here's another video with a deeper dive into slice: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpaWbMKG0buyZIU.html

Glad it was helpful!

That's awesome! As an FYI I like most (if not all) of my supplies in the description for easy searching 🥰

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it 🥰

Angie - THANK YOU for sharing this. This made my heart SO HAPPY! This is why I love creating and sharing so others can do it too. I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much - so sorry to hear about your health issues. 💔

Thanks so much! 😊

You are so welcome! I'm so happy to hear that!

Glad it was helpful!

You are so welcome! Thank you!

Brenda, that's wonderful! Congrats on your new house, we're moving into a new home later this summer, so I'll have plenty more projects coming up. - THANK YOU for sharing this. I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed it!

Thank you! 😊 Courtney from Creative on the Cheap gave it to me :)

You are so welcome! So glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! You too!

@@Whiskeyandwhit you are so welcome and thank you ♥️

Thank you! I'm not looking forward to the snow coming today :/

Hi Jenny! You're in luck - I filmed the process when I organized my garage last spring :) Here's that video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nN6Vf5Bhlb7Mgnk.html

Thanks Kerry! I just love etching!!

Aw thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear that ❤️

Hi Mary! Yes, I show how you can do that using slice in this video. This link will jump you right to the project, you'll want to use this technique to cut the items down to the size of your Joy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpaWbMKG0buyZIU.html

Me too!!!! Enjoy yours!!

@@AmyHarrison125 definitely! Got some crafting to do!

Yay! So glad you enjoyed it!!

You will love it, and one you get going it’s pretty simple to use. Along the same lines as a printer

Yay!!

That's awesome - so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! I have some other fun Cricut projects in this video too: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orJlkqmC1923Z5c.html

Thank you! The great news is there are a ton of places to get vinyl and transfer tape :)

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! 🥰