Coasters with Infusible Ink

Cricut Infusible Ink. I am so excited to share my first project using the brand new Infusible Ink from Cricut. What a great process! To make anything you want without the possibility of peeling, shrinking or flaking off! As soon as I heard about the new product line, I went to Michael’s to see what I could do with it. Oh my gosh, the possibilities are endless!

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For my first try at this infusible ink, I chose to make a set of customized round ceramic coasters. There is a whole line of ‘blanks’ that will accept the infusible ink. There are shirts, onesies, bags, hats, coasters and on and on. And the line of items is growing.

What You Will Need

The next choice is what type of infusible ink you want to use. There are pens, sheets of solid colors and sheets of patterned infusible ink. I chose pens for this try, since I can use them over and over.

If you do not choose the sheets of infusible ink, you will need to purchase high quality laser copy paper to use as your transfer medium. I purchased some Hammermill brand laser copy paper (one ream) and it worked fabulously! You will also need to purchase heat resistant tape – Cricut is also selling that!

Supplies
1. Cricut Blank of your choice
2. Cricut Infusible Ink – pens or sheets
3. Cricut Heat Resistant Tape
4. High quality laser copy paper
5. Cricut Machine (you can use any Cricut Machine for this)
6. Cricut EasyPress or an iron that can get up to 400 Degrees F

How to Make Infusible Ink Coasters

The Cricut website has some really adorable round coaster designs that they demonstrate how to make, but I really wanted to try something my own style and with my own tastes in mind. I seem to have this succulent obsession, so I chose some cute cacti that would make me happy!

In the Cricut DesignSpace, choose whatever images you want to transfer to your coasters and make sure to size them to fit the coaster. Then change from cut to draw (line type). I made all four designs (one for each coaster) the same color, so they can all be drawn at the same time. Attach a piece of that laser copy paper to your Cricut mat and follow the instructions on your machine. Then, cut the designs apart so that they can be applied to each coaster separately. After the Cricut did it’s drawing, I colored in the pots on my cacti with different colors. So, just a note that you can hand draw any designs as well, if you desire (I don’t have that talent)!

There are instructions on the Cricut website on how to use the infusible ink with the coasters and the Easypress. The Cricut Heat Guide is something you should save in your favorites – you just choose the Easypress machine you have, the the medium you are infusing onto. The basic process is to cover your Easypress mat with butcher paper, tape the design to your coaster and place it design side DOWN on the butcher paper. Then cover the coaster with butcher paper. Place the Easypress on top of the stack, according to the temperate and time indicated in the Cricut Heat Guide. My particular Easypress required the temperature to be 360 degrees and had to be on the coaster for 300 seconds!

Use caution, the coasters are HOT for quite a while after the Easypress step. Once they are completely cooled, remove the paper and the heat resistant tape and your coasters are done! I absolutely love how they came out and we will be using them for quite a while! The colors are bright and vibrant, not at all like you see on the Cricut mat. I hope you find an inspirational project to try the new Cricut Infusible Inks!