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A wooden crate filled with personalized tumblers, popcorn buckets, snack tray, snacks and a blanket with milk and cookies on it.
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Movie Night Gift Basket Idea

A Movie Night Gift Basket filled with personalized tumblers, popcorn buckets, and a snack tray made using a Cricut Machine! Add in a new blanket, snacks, and a new movie and it is sure to create a fun and memorable movie night with your loved ones!
Prep Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour
Servings: 1 Basket
Author: Over The Big Moon

Equipment

  • Cricut Explore Air 2
  • Standard Green Mat
  • Weeding Tool
  • Brayer

Ingredients

  • Permanent Premium Vinyl You choose the color
  • Transfer Tape
  • Clear Tumblers
  • Popcorn Buckets
  • Snack Tray
  • Movie Night Design Space File

Instructions

  • Pull up the Movie Night Design Space File. The design has 3 different areas of the designs -- cup names, butter/no butter popcorn bucket words, and Snack Tray.
    At this time you'll want to edit any of the names/words to work for the pieces you'll be customizing.
    You'll also want to resize the designs to fit the cups, popcorn buckets, and snack tray you purchased.
    Once the design is ready to go, make sure you've got the correct machine selected in the top right-hand corner. As you can see in the screenshot, I have it set for the Cricut Explore Air 2. Then hit 'MAKE IT' in the very top right-hand corner
    A screenshot of Design Space showing the personalized designs for the Movie Night Gift Basket.
  • It will then show you a preview of the cutting mat. At this time you can rearrange or space out your designs if needed. I did spread them out a little more, so I had plenty of room around each word to cut them out with scissors.
    A screenshot of the cutting mat preview in Design Space.
  • Then let's get the Permanent Premium Vinyl on your Standard Green Mat! I love to use my Brayer to make sure the vinyl is on the mat well. You should most likely be able to fit everything on a 12x12 mat. Use any type of Permanent Premium Vinyl. Just make sure if you use any kind of textured Perm Vinyl to set your dial to custom and choose the type of Perm PremiumVinyl on the computer screen
    Once that mat is ready, load it into the machine and hit the green 'CONTINUE' button in the bottom right-hand corner! It will then cut your design using the Fine Point Blade in the machine!
    A black Cricut Explore Air 2, with a mat loaded with black vinyl into the machine.
  • After it's cut, use the weeding tool to remove all the excess vinyl from around your designs.
    Words cut out vinyl that are being weeded using a weeding tool.
  • When you're done weeding, apply transfer tape to your design carefully. Use the scraper tool to ensure that the transfer tape adheres well to the design.
    Vinyl cutouts of the names Scott, Pamela, Shmeff with transfer tape being applied.
  • Before applying the designs, make sure and clean the surfaces thoroughly and dry them well. Then pull the paper backing off the design and place your design onto the surface. When working with items like cups, popcorn buckets, and plates I like to use my fingers to push the design on good.
    A close up pictures of a Popcorn Bucket with the word Buttered being applied.
  • Then carefully remove the transfer tape from the design. Make sure the designs aren't coming up with the transfer tape. If they are, place it back down and press it down even more.
    Washable Popcorn buckets with the words Buttered and No Butter on them and boxes of microwave popcorn in them.