Five Ways to Make Labels with Cricut Joy

Want to organize everything in your house? Cricut Joy is the answer! This tiny cutting machine can make all sorts of labels. Here are five mini Cricut Joy label tutorials that will help get you organized.

Cricut Joy is officially launched out into the world! Today I’ve partnered with my favorite craft store JOANN to share one of my favorite crafts using Cricut Joy—labels!

You can organize just about everything in your house with Cricut Joy. I wanted to share five mini tutorials for labels you can make with your Cricut Joy using five different materials from JOANN. This post will not only give you a bunch of ideas for organizing your home, it will also give you an overview of just how versatile this tiny cutting machine is!

You can also check out these Cricut Joy posts for more information:

• What is Cricut Joy and What Can It Do?
• How to Cut Cards with Cricut Joy Card Mat
• Matless Cutting with Cricut Joy
• Writable Labels with Cricut Joy
• 5 Ways to Make Labels with Cricut Joy
• Cutting Adhesive Paper with Cricut Joy
• Must-Have Cricut Joy Accessories

I’ve created these projects for my craft room, but they will translate easily to other areas of your home that need organizing.

Start by plugging in your Cricut Joy to turn it on. In Cricut Design Space, make sure you have Cricut Joy selected as your machine in the upper right. Throughout this post, I’ve linked other helpful tutorials and I’m always happy to answer questions in the comments!

Writable Vinyl Labels

Plastic bins hold all sorts of odds and ends in my craft room. Writable vinyl labels help me know what’s in each box. Check out my full Writable Labels with Cricut Joy tutorial for more in-depth information.

Supplies

• Cricut Joy
• Cricut Joy Smart Label Writable Vinyl
• Cricut Joy 0.4 Pens

Instructions

Open the label project in Cricut Design Space. For this project, I have already created the square label and draw outline. Resize your labels if needed.

Use the writing style text tool to type your label name (I used the Cricut writing font Close To My Heart), and center in the label. Use the Attach tool to connect your text to your label. Repeat with your other labels.

Once you’re done designing your labels, click Make It in the upper left. You will be taken to the Prepare Screen. Here it will ask you to choose your mat style. Since we’re using the Cricut Joy Smart Label Writable Vinyl, choose “Without Mat”—we’ll load the material directly into Cricut Joy! Learn more about Matless cutting.

In the Make screen, choose Smart Label Writable Vinyl. Then load your material into Cricut Joy. Click Go in Cricut Design Space to write and cut your project. Cricut Design Space will prompt you to change out your pens and blades when needed.

Once you’re done, just apply your labels to your bins like stickers!

Vinyl Labels and Matless Cutting

Store all your pens and pencils in cute buckets! These vinyl labels are a cute way to tell what goes in each cup.

Supplies

• Cricut Joy
• Cricut Joy Removable Smart Vinyl
• Weeding Tool
• Scraper
• Cricut Joy Transfer Tape

Instructions

Open the project in Cricut Design Space. Resize to fit your project.

Click Make It in the upper left. You will be taken to the Prepare Screen. We’re using Permanent Smart Vinyl, so choose Without Mat. Learn more about Matless cutting.

In the Make screen, choose Permanent Smart Vinyl. Then load your material into Cricut Joy. Click Go in Cricut Design Space to cut your project.

Then weed the negative space from your decaks and adhere to your buckets using transfer tape.

Writable Paper Labels

Cricut Joy Writable Paper is similar to the writable vinyl, but is thicker and comes in a kraft finish. I’m using them to label my many many many jars of pom poms!

Supplies

• Cricut Joy
• Cricut Joy Adhesive Backed Smart Label Writable Paper
• Cricut Joy 0.4 Pens

Instructions

Open the label project in Cricut Design Space. For this project, I have already created the square label and draw outline. Resize your labels if needed.

Use the writing style text tool to type your label name (I used the Cricut writing font Dear John), and center in the label. Use the Attach tool to connect your text to your label. Repeat with your other labels.

Once you’re done designing your labels, click Make It in the upper left. You will be taken to the Prepare Screen. Here it will ask you to choose your mat style. Since we’re using Adhesive Backed Smart Label Writable Paper, choose “Without Mat”—we’ll load the material directly into Cricut Joy! Learn more about Matless cutting.

In the Make screen, choose Smart Label Writable Paper. Then load your material into Cricut Joy. Click Go in Cricut Design Space to write and cut your project. Cricut Design Space will prompt you to change out your pen and blade when needed.

Once you’re done, just apply your labels to your jars like stickers!

Paper Tags with Iron On Vinyl

Fabric bins can be a bit tricky to label, since there’s nowhere to “stick” a label. So here I’m using cardstock and iron on vinyl to create tags that I can put on my fabric bins using clips. You can use Smart Iron On Vinyl or regular iron on vinyl on a mat—whichever you have on hand.

Supplies

• Cricut Joy
• Cardstock
• Iron On Vinyl or Smart Iron On Vinyl
• Cricut Joy Blue LightGrip mat (if using regular Iron On Vinyl)
• Weeding Tool
• Cricut EasyPress Mini or other heat source
• Mini Clothespins

Instructions

To match the labels I made above, I used the Cricut font Normande Roman and typed my labels. I used the text tools to change my alignment and spacing. For this project I’m using a teal iron on vinyl, so I changed my color. I also used the Shapes tool to add a rectangle behind each label—these will be cut in cardstock.

Once you’re done designing your labels, click Make It in the upper left. You will be taken to the Prepare Screen. For this project, I’m using my materials on a mat instead of using a Smart material, so I selected On Mat.

In the prepare screen, choose cardstock for your first material. Then place your cardstock onto the mat and insert into Cricut Joy. Click Go in Cricut Design Space to cut your project. Do the same for the iron on vinyl label, making sure to place your iron on vinyl shiny side down on your mat, and change your material to iron on vinyl before you cut it.

Once your cut is done, weed your iron on vinyl. Then use your EasyPress or other heat source to adhere your iron on vinyl to your cardstock cards. See my post Using Iron On on Cardstock for tips and tricks. Attach to your wire bins using mini clothespins.

Adhesive Paper Labels

Whenever I travel to different conferences, I take notes in these cute little journals. It’s easy to use Cricut Joy Adhesive Paper to create simple labels for projects like this.

Supplies

• Cricut Joy
• Cricut Joy Deluxe Adhesive Backed Paper
• Cricut Joy Blue LightGrip mat

Instructions

For the Adhesive Backed Paper, you’ll want to stick to simpler projects because you cannot use transfer tape—something that works like a sticker. For this project, I just typed 123 in Cricut Design Space and changed the font to Headline News. That’s it!

Once you’re done designing your numbers, click Make It in the upper left. You will be taken to the Prepare Screen. For this project, I’m using Adhesive Backed Paper, so I selected On Mat.

In the prepare screen, choose Adhesive Backed Paper for first material. Then place your paper onto the mat and insert into Cricut Joy. Click Go in Cricut Design Space to cut your project.

Pick up each label like a sticker and apply your project. This would also be a great project for labeling bins!

As you can see, there are so my easy ways to organize everything in your life using Cricut Joy. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, make sure to check out the JOANN Build Your Own Cricut Joy Bundle deal—it’s a great way to get started crafting with Cricut Joy!

Also check out my round up of 20+ Home Organization Ideas with the Cricut!