Unicorn Birthday Party Favors Bag, 18" Doll Shirt, Unicorn Bag Tag and FREE cut file! (2018)

Our guest blogger this week is Darci Slager and she has a fabulous project for the perfect unicorn lover birthday party! Plus all the files are free. So let's get started!

SuppliesItems listed with an * are clickable links to the products

* 3" Unicorn acrylic bag tag blank

* Silvertone Ball Chain

* Light Pink Doll Shirt

* Canvas Drawstring Bag
* Oil Slick Vinyl
* Purple and Cherry Glitter Siser HTV

* Diamond Tip Reamer
Electronic Cutting Equipment   

Transfer tape

Cutting Mat and weeding tools

Heat Press or Iron - Cricut EasyPress Used

SVG or other digital design

Part 1 – Acrylic Unicorn Bag Tag

Open the unicorn SVG (provided by CC when the acrylic blank is shipped) in your electronic cutting machine’s design program and place it where you want it to cut. 

Place the Oil Slick vinyl on your mat (paper side down, shiny side up) load your machine and cut the vinyl on the default metallic vinyl settings.  It’s a good idea to do a test cut first though. 

When your machine is finished cutting, remove the whole sheet of vinyl from the mat and cut a square around your design so you can save the remaining sheet of vinyl for another use.  Then weed the unicorn design by removing the excess vinyl that is not part of the design.  

Place a piece of transfer tape (slightly larger than your design) over your vinyl unicorn and burnish.  Peel back the white paper backing leaving the vinyl unicorn on the transfer tape. 

Remove the brown protective cover from the acrylic blank.  Line up your cut vinyl very carefully over the acrylic blank and then place the transfer tape with vinyl onto the acrylic. 

Burnish well and slowly pull off the transfer tape leaving the vinyl on the acrylic.

You will need to punch a hole in the vinyl with either a diamond tip reamer or an Exacto knife.  

Loop the ball chain through the hole in the acrylic and fasten it.  I did not, but you could personalize a bag tag for each child attending the party if you like by adding a vinyl name or monogram after adding the unicorn design.  Your bag tag is done! 

Part 2 – HTV Doll Shirt

Now we’ll work on the doll shirt party favor.  You’ll use the same unicorn design provided by CC again and you don’t even have to resize it!  It’s already the perfect size for the doll shirts. 

First, open the unicorn design but this time you will mirror (flip horizontally) the image in your program.  

Place the purple HTV on your mat shiny side down, load your machine and cut on the default glitter HTV settings.  Feel free to do a test cut first to be safe though.  When you are finished cutting, remove the sheet of HTV from the mat and cut a square around your cut design so you can save your extra HTV for later. 

Weed your design by removing the excess HTV from the clear carrier sheet that is not part of the unicorn design.  

Place the HTV unicorn shiny side up on the front and center of the doll shirt.  

Press with an iron or heat press for 15 seconds at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Remove the carrier sheet right after pressing.  Your doll shirt favor is done!

Part 3 – HTV Favor Bag

Lastly, we will create a favor bag to tie everything together and to package the doll shirt and bag tag beautifully.  First, find a design you love and open in your design program.  I used Silhouette Design Store Design #211952.

Craft Chameleon is offering this design for free! Click here or on the image to download.

I personalized the bag on the back, so I created a text box and added the name in a font I liked.  Then I mirrored the name and the purchased unicorn design.

I used both purple and cherry HTV, so I separated the design by color and cut the purple and then the cherry using the method outlined in the doll shirt section.  

After both colors are cut and weeded, you will press them one at a time onto the canvas bag.  I pressed the purple design on the front for just a few seconds at 320 degrees Fahrenheit, removed the clear carrier sheet, and then lined up and pressed the cherry portion for 15 seconds at the same temperature.

Lastly, I flipped the bag over and pressed the name on the back of the bag for 15 seconds at 320 degrees, and then removed the carrier sheet.

Now that the bag is complete, it’s time to pull everything together.  Start by folding up the doll shirt showcasing the unicorn design on it and tuck it inside of the canvas bag. 

Add the unicorn bag tag to the bag by fastening the ball chain around the bag’s loop closures and pull tight to close the bag.  That’s it, and now you have a beautiful unicorn party favor that can be used for years to come!

This party favor can be altered for almost any theme by selecting any one of the many CC acrylic blanks as the base (princess, mermaid, pirate, sports, animals, luau, holidays, etc).

Thank you, Darci, for another outstanding blog post! Comment below with the theme you would use for your party favors!

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