Hogwarts House Laptop Decals To Make With Your Cricut! (Free Templates!)

John designed the BEST laptop decal for himself the other week, and I'm still not over it: 

 

Technically "the rest" should be in quotes, but he made this before I could nitpick his grammar. :D

In case you're unfamiliar with the reference: in the books, after each of the other House founders claims the students they want, Helga Hufflepuff proudly proclaims that she will take the rest. John has always loved that line, even convinced me to draw a badger so he could make this t-shirt for himself a few years ago:

Note the proper quotation marks. :p

(I can't find this shirt anywhere on Epbot! Have I really never shown it to you guys before??)

Getting back to the decal, John put the design together using free clip art - but it's his use of the glowing apple on his Mac that makes it so brilliant. PUN INTENDED.

BEHOLD!

Let us not speak of how many times John & I attempted the simple motion of LIFTING A LAPTOP LID to get this shot. 


No, please. WE SHALL NOT SPEAK OF IT.

Ahem.

Glowing badger eyes! EEEEE!

  

This is seriously the coolest.

We're still new to the world of Cricut, so I'm impressed how well it handled all the tiny cuts. Then we took the advice of some of you readers, and used dollar store shelf liner as transfer paper (after weeding the design):

 This is the trickiest part; you really have to coax the vinyl off its backing and onto the sticky shelf liner. You can see John had a craft blade handy to help get some of the smaller sections started.

After that it's easy-peasy to place on the laptop, and the shelf liner peels off the vinyl like a dream.

When I posted this on IG you guys (rightfully) went a little nuts for it, so of course John was happy to share his template! This is pretty big, so you can make whatever size you want:

 

 This is a .png file, ready to go for your Cricut. (Just crop off the words if you don't want them.) Click to embiggen, then right-click & save to your desktop.

But wait, THERE'S MORE.

John *also* made designs for you Gryffindors, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws! He modified each crest, giving them all new animal toppers & glowing center symbols:

 He used eagles for Ravenclaw, since most of our Ravenclaw friends are book purists.

Slytherin is my favorite - after Hufflepuff, of course:

I just love that lil' snek up top. 

SO CUTE.

(Er... I mean... SO CUNNING.)

If you have a Mac laptop then getting the sizing right for these decals is crucial. You want the center circle to just cover the apple, so I recommend printing a test paper off first to check. Again, these are pretty big files (set at 300 dpi), so remember to set your size first.

Of course, for non-Mac laptops you have more wiggle room on the size. Or use one for your tablet!

You could also use these to make House art: transfer your vinyl sticker to colored card stock, then frame it up. That would look especially pretty with metallic vinyls, oooh.

I'm also wondering if there's a way to use transfer paper to move over card stock designs that have lots of cut-outs. Anyone have any experience with that?

Welp, I hope these are helpful, gang! If you don't have a Cricut, just ask around; you may have a friend who does. And speaking as a new Cricut owner, I'm more than happy to cut stuff for friends. (Plus John loves weeding - who knew?)

If you do make something with these, please tag me on IG or share your pics on FB, so John and I can see. (It's embarrassing how much we love your photos. Seriously.)

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