How To Make A Keychain With Cricut [DIY Guide]

Are you planning to make great gifts for your closed or loved ones? Cricut key chains can be the best ones. After all, you can do it on your own. This post will teach you how to make a keychain with a Cricut machine. Just by using your Cricut machine and Smart Vinyl, you can create acrylic keychains effortlessly and effectively. Moreover, you can use other vinyl products if you need a machine that uses smart materials.

 Keychains can be a wonderful gift. You can easily make key chains using Cricut Explore 3 and permanent smart Vinyl. The only thing to make sure of is the use of permanent Vinyl. Keychains are something to be handled most often, and removal viny won't last long.

Supplies Used in Making Keychains

●     A Cricut machine

●     Smart Vinyl or you can choose regular Permanent Vinyl

●     Scraper

●     Transfer tape and weeding tools

●     Acrylic Keychain bundle.

●     UV Resin (Both clear and white)

●     UV light

Easy Procedures to Make a Keychain with Cricut Machine

Before proceeding with making keychains, the first thing to decide is to select the image you want to add. You can use brushstroke images as a background.

 

●     Go to Design Space and search brush stroke there. There you'll see a variety of images.

●     Select the ones you want to add first. And then add them to your canvas.

●     In the next step, resize them to fit your acrylic blank.

●     Once resizing has been done appropriately, go through each image and change each image to the vinyl colors you're using. (This will help in ensuring that the pieces that are of one color are cut at the same time).

Types of Keychains You can Make with Cricut

 Just by using only Vinyl, you can have keychains with a different look.

Single Layer Vinyl Keychain

 This is one of the simplest and quickest ways of making a keychain. You can make a customized acrylic keychain easily. just with a single image cut out from one door. Proceed by cutting out the Vinyl via your Cricut machine and weed out all excesses. Now, use an appropriate transfer tape and apply it to your blank. Use the scraper tool and make sure it's stuck perfectly. And then remove the Transfer Tape. If you want to avoid sealing the Vinyl, wait for at least 72 hours to sit the adhesive.

Layered Vinyl Keychain

 To make a beautiful Layered Vinyl Keychain, you must layer Vinyl on a keychain. Your loved ones will definitely like the keychain; it will turn out. Literally, different colors of Vinyl with the brush stroke behind them will look extremely great.

 

Brush Stroke Keychain with Cricut

 You have two different ways to use the brush stroke images for acrylic keychain customization. When you for the first option, you need to apply the brush stroke to one side of the keychain. Design should be added to the other. This will give your keychain a very fantastic 3D look. And in the second option, you need to place the vinyl image right on top of the vinyl brush stroke. Also, this will be a great alternative if your Vinyl's back is different from the front.

 Steps on How to Seal Cricut Keychains

 You can seal Cricut keychains using UV resin and give them a professional finish. The process is quick and easy too.

 Make use of UV Resin

 This requires no mixing; you can find it all in one bottle. You only need to ensure that you put something under the keychain, so the resin doesn't get on your table. Wear a glove and use a popsicle stick to move the resin around. Once the entire surface gets covered, pop all the bubbles.

 Cure the UV Resin

 Use your UV light to cure the resin. It will take almost 2 minutes. After 2 minutes is over, check the keychain and make sure it is hard. If not, put it back under the light.

 To complete the keychains, you can make use of your jewelry-making tools.

 In a Nutshell

 The Cricut machine is so easy to use. You can utilize it for making many crafts without employing much effort. In the post above, we have covered how to make a keychain with Cricut (different types of keychains) in an effortless manner. So, all you can do to make a keychain is go through the steps provided.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Buy Cricut Keychain Online?

Definitely, you can buy it. There are many websites where you can shop for the best Cricutchains of your choice. Prices are reasonable too.

 

What Can I Make with Cricut?

When you have a Cricut machine, you can make infinity crafting things. From impressive greeting cards to stickers, T-shirts, bookmarks, keychains, and tote bags, there are so many things you can craft from this wonderful machine.

Can I Make Personalized Photo Keychains with Cricut?

Yes, you can do it easily using Cricut Maker or explore models. Making personalized photo keychains with these machines can be fun too.

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