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Personalized Hostess Gift with Cricut Permanent Vinyl

By Lydia

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Create a fun personalized hostess gift serving plate in 2 easy steps to take to your next party or cookout!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.

 

Personalized Serving Platter Hostess Gift Idea

I don’t know about you, but I’m often stumped when it comes to hostess gift ideas. I usually end up toting the standard bottle of vino and call it a day. And I also don’t know about you, but I have lost/forgotten my fair share of serving plates that I have taken to parties/cookouts, especially this time of year! These 2 quandaries gave me the best idea for my latest project with my Cricut® Explore Air™ 2 Special Edition, Martha Stewart Machine Bundle! Instead of worrying about remembering to take back the plate that you used to take your favorite appetizer to a party or BBQ, turn it into double duty and make it a personalized hostess gift!

Personalized Hostess Gift with Cricut Permanent Vinyl

Supplies

Cricut Martha Stewart machine

Supplies for serving tray hostess gift

  • Cricut® Explore Air™ 2 Special Edition, Martha Stewart Machine Bundle
  • Personalized Hostess Gift Plate cut file
  • Cricut Premium Permanent Vinyl (I used orange and black but it comes in a zillion colors!)
  • Cricut Transfer Tape
  • Weeder tool (included in the Cricut Martha machine bundle)
  • Plate

Directions

Open the Personalized Hostess Gift Plate cut file in Cricut Design Space. This adorable “Kiss the Cook” cut file is one of the 25 exclusive images that’s included with the Cricut Martha Machine that’s exclusive to Michael’s. Customize image for personalized platter hostess gift in Cricut Design Space

You can adjust the size of your image to fit the size of your plate. I love that Design Space has templates to help with that, so I selected round dinner plate from the templates to appropriately size my image and to create the personalization. Of course you can also add any of your own images as well.

Use templates in Cricut Design Space to customize a personalized hostess gift plate

To add the name, I entered the text and then used the curve feature to curve the text to the shape of the plate. Can I get an amen for the curve tool?! Looooove!

Curve text to fit personalized plate

Load the Cricut Premium Vinyl onto a standard grip cutting mat. You’ll be in love with how easy this material is unroll and how flat it lays! Turn the knob on your Cricut Martha Machine to Vinyl and proceed with cutting the “Kiss the Cook” image.

Cricut Explore Air 2 Martha Stewart makes great hostess gifts!

Remove the design from the cutting mat and weed away the negative space. The Premium Vinyl has a smooth release technology that makes it a breeze to weed and transfer! Repeat with your personalized text.

Weeding vinyl for personalized plate hostess gift

Cut a piece of transfer tape to fit over the design and cut. Place transfer tape over the design and smooth. Peel the transfer tape away from the backing.

Transfer tape makes using Cricut permanent vinyl a breeze!

Position the design onto the plate and gently press around the design to adhere to the plate. Peel back transfer tape.

Peel back transfer tape onto itself to avoid pulling material up from personalized plate.

Repeat steps to apply the personalization to the serving plate.

Now your personalized hostess gift is ready to load with your favorite appetizer or dessert to tote to your next party and you don’t have to worry about getting it back (just place a piece of parchment or cling wrap underneath so that the vinyl doesn’t come into direct contact with the food). 😉 I loaded up on these plates from the dollar store so I’m ready for any upcoming parties.

Personalized Hostess Gift Serving Plate

I’m sure you’re wondering about washing… that was my first question! The new Cricut Permanent Vinyl is water resistant! They don’t claim “dishwasher safe” since every dishwasher is different with different settings, but I washed mine in the dishwasher on the top shelf at regular temperature and it held up like a champ.

What kind of design would you want to receive as a personalized hostess gift serving plate?

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  1. Jill says

    July 12, 2018 at 1:40 pm

    This is a great gift idea.

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    • Lydia says

      July 16, 2018 at 4:06 pm

      Thanks so much Jill!

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