DIY Personalized Doormat [with Cricut Martha Stewart]

Learn how to construct your ain personalized doormat alongside this quick together with piece of cake video tutorial!

These are the best days of the entire year. I tell that inwards the early on days of every Spring, together with every Spring its truthful again. when the snowfall melts away together with the birds initiatory of all singing together with the kids tin finally play exterior again. Those are the best days. So I’ve whipped all of my Spring shoes out of hiding (even though all I tin piece of job correct similar a shot are security boots), together with I’m crafting upwards about Spring projects – the ones that proceed me exterior are at the transcend of my to-do list! Including this personalized doormat that I’ve been wanting to construct for ages now!

*This shipping service was sponsored past times Cricut. As always, opinions are 100% my own. For to a greater extent than information, delight run into my disclosure page.*

You’ve in all likelihood seen mats similar this before! But the personalized mats tin toll a pretty penny, together with since I’ve already got a Martha Stewart Cricut Explore Air 2, there’s genuinely no ask to buy one, lol. In instance you lot haven’t heard it mentioned hither before, I piece of job my Martha Stewart for everything. It cuts a TON of dissimilar materials, from Fe on vinyl to cardstock, together with vinyl. If you’ve never used vinyl before, it’s 1 of the most versatile crafting tools you lot tin use! Today I’ll endure using it to construct a stencil for my novel personalized doormat, but if you lot banking venture check out my create gallery, you’ll run into a ton of other uses for it!

When you lot know how to piece of job the Cricut Design Space, it’s therefore piece of cake to customize designs for anything you lot want. Adding names or monograms to things is such a fun matter to do. Pillowcases, backpacks, napkins, the options are endless. And the matter almost monograms, is that they are always inwards style! I could bring pose a monogram on our doormat, but I genuinely wanted to exercise our total finally hollo this time, since nosotros don’t acquire to run into it written out all that often!

I’m going to demo you lot just how I made it, from adjusting the fonts, to playing alongside shapes together with images inwards the Design Space.

Materials for Making DIY Doormats:

Blank Doormat

Martha Stewart Cricut Explore Air 2

Martha Stewart Vinyl

Martha Stewart Paint (Black Belt)

Martha Stewart Bottle Toppers

How to Make Your Personalized Doormats:

If you lot desire to initiatory of all alongside the video tutorial, it volition become through everything from creating your blueprint to prototype the blueprint onto your mat.

If you lot desire to peek at my design, or piece of job it equally a starting point, you lot tin opened upwards it HERE.

The argue I chose to part a video for this tutorial is because my personalized blueprint volition endure dissimilar from yours together with the side past times side persons. I wanted to compass you lot the skills to personalize your blueprint instead.

If you lot didn’t acquire a gamble to become through the video, hither are a few of the points I learn almost when using the Cricut Design Space to construct your custom doormat design:

• How to create your ain background or template to assistance you lot visualize your design


• How to search together with select fonts


• How to manipulate text (style, size, together with curves inwards text)


• How to add together shapes, lines, together with images to your designs


• How to weld everything together therefore that your images impress together

Once you lot know how to exercise all of that inwards the blueprint space, together with then you lot tin cutting your blueprint out on the Cricut Machine using vinyl.

There are a few tricks to adding the vinyl to your mat, which you lot tin lookout adult man inwards the video equally well. You can’t piece of job Transfer Tape because you lot are moving a slice of vinyl that is likewise large, together with won’t endure able to adhere nicely to the surface. Instead, initiatory of all past times peeling a modest border of the blueprint off of its base, together with placing it correct onto the mat. Then piece of cake describe the balance of the base of operations out from underneath. If you lot describe likewise fast it volition probable rip your design. You volition bring to banking venture check equally you lot become to construct certain that all of the blueprint elements are released from the paper.

Once it was all released, I had record ready to assistance stick the vinyl to my mat, but I was surprised that the vinyl adhered genuinely well, fifty-fifty on this texture.

I knew that prototype could displace my vinyl stencil to shift, therefore I opted to piece of job these Martha Stewart bottle toppers. They are basically spongy dabbers that jibe on transcend of your Martha Stewart pigment bottles, together with they were perfect for this project! By dabbing my blueprint instead of brushing it, I was able to construct certain that the vinyl was staying inwards place.

Because I’m a fan of all things monochrome, it volition come upwards equally no surprise to you lot that I chose dark for the writing on my mat!

When nosotros finally peeled dorsum the stencil, the writing was perfect. I was genuinely shocked past times how crisp all of the lines were. Seeing this beautiful mat makes me desire to run out together with purchase about to a greater extent than therefore that I tin construct 1 for every season!

This is a sponsored conversation written past times me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions together with text are all mine.