HOT TAKE: These are the only Craft Supplies for 2026

You will have to pry this out of my cold, dead hands. I love this thing. It really hurts my heart, but they are not coming into 2026 with us. Do you see any glitter on my hand? And these colors are so good and so yummy. Hey, I didn't see you there. I was just cleaning up the craft room and thought that I would bring you all a video that I feel like you all have been asking for. Now, I don't know if you saw the video that Tanner posted a couple months ago where he gave you all of the supplies that we are breaking up with in 2026, but we left them behind, they're in 2025, and you all have been asking, so if you're breaking up with those, what are you bringing into 2026? And that's what I'm here to give you. Like I said, I was just cleaning up some supplies and thought, why not go ahead and give the people what they want? And in today's video, I'm going to give you every single craft supply that we are bringing into 2026 that we are adoring. If you are new here, my name is Lauren, and I'm a craft producer here at Makers Gonna Learn where we strive to bring you inspiration, education, and motivation to get crafty, no matter what type of craft you do, whether it's sublimation, cricket, advanced crafting, Etsy selling, all kinds of things, we are here for you. But today, we're gonna be specifically talking about craft supplies. So if you are ready, make sure you hit that thumbs up button and stick around to the end because I think the last one is going to be a game changer for you in your craft room. So let's go ahead and get started and let's walk around the craft room and let me tell you which supplies we are bringing into 2026. Now, starting off strong, the first one that I'm going to talk to you all about is our new heat press that we got from Heat Press Nation. We adore this machine. So far, we've just gotten it not too long ago. So we're still, it's still fairly new to us, but y'all, this is a workhorse of a heat press. Now, if you've been around the channel, you know that we loved our StarCraft and we still do, we still have it. It's not like we got rid of it, but that thing stays sold out all the time. So we decided we wanted to find a new heat press that was not always out of stock and we stumbled upon this one at Heat Press Nation. So one of the things that we absolutely adore about this, number one is this right here. Let me move my butcher's paper. This pullout drawer. Oh my goodness. I no longer have to try, let me put this down. I no longer have to try to be very careful. Placing my shirt in here so that I don't get burnt. Pullout drawer. Oh, love that. Also, I love how easy it is to close. Literally one-handed. And it kind of just has like a spring action. I love that. It has actual buttons, so you don't have to just hold your mouth right and your finger right on the button. You can actually boop, boop, boop, up and down. Love this thing. So this is for sure coming with us into 2026. Now, the next thing that is for sure a must-have in your craft room is going to be paper and not just any paper, Celebration Warehouse paper. Y'all, this stuff, it cuts like actual butter on your machine. And these colors are so good and so yummy. And hold up, let me just, you're not ready for this. I mean, look at these neon glitters. And not only does she have a phenomenal, I say she. Our good friend, Ashley Falco, is the owner of Celebration Warehouse. And we only knew, we only got to know her because we loved her paper so much. Y'all, game changer. But I want to show you something. Hold on just one second. I had to put my mic on my shirt so that I can use both my hands to talk. But, because I'm so excited. Look, you see the beautiful glitter. Do you see any glitter on my hand? This is shed-free glitter cardstock. Look at this pink and green. Neon blue, cool, yellow. Y'all, it doesn't even stop there. Look here, it doesn't even stop there. I want you to look at all of these beautiful colors. Hold on, look at all of these colors. Here is just all of her glitter cardstock colors. These are all of her plain cardstock colors. I mean, I love them all. And not only that, she has mirrored. Look at all the mirrored. I'm just absolutely obsessed. I think that Celebration Warehouse is hands down some of the best cardstock on the market. It's color core. It cuts like butter on your Cricut. It doesn't tear or snag. It is the best. So, Celebration Warehouse cardstock, coming with us in 2026. While we are talking about paper, let's go ahead and have a conversation about adhesives and which ones we are keeping in 2026. So, number one, dry adhesive wise, you know that they quit selling the Scotch HEG gun, which was our favorite, but we did find a replacement that we are loving, and that is the Scrapbook Adhesives Easy Runner Grands. Now, they have it in two different colors. They have a red one and a clear one. Actually, both of ours are out right now because we have used it so much, but I want to show you how easy it is. Once we get the refills finally in, I want to show you how easy it is to switch out these refills. So, this front part opens up like this. Literally, this comes out in one piece, and you just take a new one, you line that up there, you pop it back in, and you close the lid. It's like, no longer is it like doing surgery to try to change out your adhesives. Now, I know Tanner loves his Scotch ATG gun, and trust me, I do too, but the ease of changing this out and how it works, you better believe this is coming with us in 2026. So, number one, Scrapbook Adhesives Tape Runner. Now, when we're talking wet adhesives, I think for everyone, if you love a good wet adhesive, the one that we have found that we love the most is going to be the Barely Art Glue, and this was actually a suggestion from you all. You are the ones that told us about it, and we tried it, and we love this as a really good liquid glue. If you are a wet glue person, this is definitely the one that we are bringing into 2026. Now, staying on the paper trend, I'm gonna bring you over here, and what's funny is a lot of these supplies that we're gonna be talking to you all about are literally out in our craft room because we use them. So, let me turn you around. Right here, obviously, we still have this guy out. We're using both of them, but anyway, this guy right here, and it doesn't have to be this brand. We actually just got this one at Hobby Lobby because we needed one, but we are loving our guillotine paper cutter. Now, if you have never used one of these, how you use this, and I'll bring it, let's just, let me just bring it over here to the craft table so that you guys can see. I said I was cleaning up the craft room, but I swear I think I'm making a bigger mess talking to you guys. So, we are loving this guillotine paper cutter. If you've never used one, just so you know, you line it up here, you measure how large you need your piece to be, and then you just chop that off. It has been so handy for us. We're using it, I'll just go ahead and let you guys know. We have been planning a lot of in-person events for Makers Gonna Learn, Passive Earners Society, so we've been using it to make so many things, but we do love this guillotine paper trimmer. Once again, it may not be necessary for the types of projects that you are creating, but if you are a paper crafter and you don't have one, I highly suggest you go ahead and grab one. Now, the next thing that we are bringing into 2026 is going to be this guy right here, and that is our Canon TS9500 series printer. Y'all, this guy is a workhorse. We love this printer. We use it all the time. This is gonna be linked down below for y'all. If you are wanting a good inkjet printer for design space, print and cut, anything, any kind of project, the Canon TS9500 series is hands down our favorite. As you can see, we have a lot of printers on our table, but that is the one that we go to time and time and time again. So, if you are in the market for an inkjet printer for your crafts, I definitely think you need to go ahead and invest and get a Canon PIXMA TS9500 series. Now, if you don't have it in your budget to get the 9500 series, in all honesty, any of the PIXMA line is going to be a fan favorite of us here on the channel. It just tends to give us really, really good prints every single time, and it seems like the PIXMA line does so well with color prints. So, that one is our favorite, and definitely one that is coming into 2026. Now, while I'm over here at the printer, let's just go ahead and come down here into our little supply cabinet, and let's talk about sticker paper. Because if we're being honest, here, this guy has been our go-to. Zicoto sticker paper has been our go-to for the past few years. It really hurts my heart to break up with them, but they are not coming into 2026 with us. I have used Zicoto sticker papers the last few years for, there's a specific event that I have to create like thousands of stickers for, for a friend, and it's just not been the quality, and I noticed it around the end of last year, and I really got to do a deep dive into, hold please, Cricut sticker paper! Listen, Cricut sticker paper has 100% blown us away, and this is one that we are bringing into 2026. We adore Cricut sticker paper, number one, but our hands-down favorite is going to be the Cricut sticker paper, specifically the waterproof sticker set. If you are wanting to create stickers at home that are going to last and are a very good quality, I definitely think the Cricut waterproof sticker set is the way to go, but make sure that you get the version that you want. They have a white version, and they have a transparent version. The transparent version stickers, they're pretty, but you do have to put them on something white. You cannot put a transparent sticker on something black, or you can put it on a glass that is also transparent, but the colors are just not gonna be as vibrant, so make sure if you are getting it and you want a solid background to get the white version. They also have a holographic and a glitter-look laminate sticker set, so if you want shiny, glittery holographic stickers, you can do that with the Cricut waterproof sticker set as well, just make sure you are looking at the specifics. So for this one, it just says, it is the white with the transparent, not the foil or the glitter, so just make sure that you check which one you are ordering before you place the order, but Cricut sticker paper, give it to me because I love it. Now, while I'm down here, there are a couple other things that we have been grabbing and going toward so much here recently, so let me just show you. Number one, WaterSlide decal. Y'all, if you haven't been using WaterSlide decal for your projects, it truly elevates just about anything that you are creating. Now, it is a little bit of a different type of material to work with. If you've never worked with WaterSlide, I highly suggest getting, number one, the Sunny Scopa brand. Sunny Scopa is our favorite. We have used other brands. This is a very good, thick material, but not too thick. With WaterSlide decal, it is thin, and you want it to be thin, but there is a very fine line that it can get too thin and rip easy. We have tested a couple. We do like the Sunny Scopa brand the best. Now, once again, if you haven't tried this out, I highly suggest you challenge yourself and try it out. We have a couple different tutorials here on our channel. I will link those down below for you if you want to learn how to use WaterSlide decal. You can check out that tutorial, but y'all, this is definitely something that needs to be added to your craft room if it isn't already. Now, the last one that is also here in our little material drawer down here, printable magnet sheets. We love the Stone City brand, but we love printable magnet sheets, and it's just one of those unexpecting materials that you may not have thought that you could use with your Cricut machine. I love the capabilities of this material to work with. There's just so many things that you can do with this. Obviously, magnets for your refrigerator, for your car, so many different things, but I do love we're bringing this one. Give it to me, we're bringing it into 2026 because we love printable magnet sheets. Now, let's talk about maybe machines that we're bringing into 2026 because that has been a hot topic here recently, and if you want my honest opinion, I do enjoy the new Cricut Explore 5. So, obviously, that one is coming into 2026. If you need a new machine, it is a good option, but I think, personally speaking, the one that I would get if I needed a new machine would be none other than the Cricut Maker 4. Now, once again, we've also speculated here on the channel, are they coming out with a Maker 5? We don't know. It's possible that they are, so you may want to hold off, but if you need a new Cricut machine right now at this moment, in my opinion, you're not gonna be able to beat the Maker 4. I love, I think, the speed on this. It flies through the cuts. The cuts have been phenomenal. We've really never had any issues. We did, at one point, we were having connectivity issues, but if you want my honest opinion, it definitely could have been a user error and maybe not the machine. I don't know, but the Maker 4 is definitely coming into 2026. If there is a Maker 5 coming out, we'll keep you updated, but for right now, our recommendations are gonna be this bad boy right here. Now, there are a couple other materials that are very, very important when it comes to a Cricut that we've not talked about, and that is going to be, da-da-da, vinyl and HTV. Let me move this guy out of the way so that you all can see. I just decided to get down here on the floor with you guys, so let's talk about HTV. So our favorite HTV is still the exact same as it's always been. It's hands down gonna be Siser EasyWeed Heat Transfer Vinyl. Y'all, the formula that they have on this stuff has been flawless from the beginning. They've not changed it. It's still flawless, and if you want my honest opinion, I don't think Siser EasyWeed HTV is going anywhere. I don't think, and I say that, and I'll probably eat my words, and there will be some kind of other company that comes out with HTV, but as of right now, I don't see Siser HTV ever being anything but our favorite. We've tried other brands, Hobby Lobby brand, whatever you get at Michael's, Siser is literally the only HTV that I will ever use. Don't come at me with some off-brand HTV and get me to try to put it on something. It's not gonna happen. It's Siser or bust when it comes to heat transfer vinyl. Now, when it comes to regular vinyl, our favorite has been and will continue to be, we've still not necessarily found anything better, but that is StarCraft. We do love our StarCraft vinyl. It is still very, very good to us. Now, one thing I do wanna let you guys know, if you didn't know already, vinyl does have a shelf life, so if for some reason you are having issues with let's say StarCraft vinyl, there's a good chance that it's probably out of date, meaning the adhesive only has a shelf life. I think typically three to four years is your typical shelf life for permanent vinyl, so if it is not sticking or you're having issues with it, there may be a good chance that it is what we call out of date. I would only ever throw permanent vinyl away if I was having issues. If I had had permanent vinyl for 10 years and was having no issues, guess what? I would still use it. They just have to put a use by date or whatever on the adhesive just because there is a chance of it going bad or losing its tackiness, so just to keep you all aware, like I said, if you're having issues, it may be out of date, but still, our favorite brand is definitely going to be StarCraft. Now, while I am down here, there is another material that I want to talk to you guys about, and I don't know that I see it anywhere, but I shall find it. Give me two seconds. Actually, I'll talk about that material that I'm looking for here in a minute, but I just found another material that I definitely wanna talk to you guys about. That is our favorite, and it looks the same, maybe a little bit different, but that is going to be Puff Vinyl. Now, our favorite Puff Vinyl actually comes from Vinyl Tool Supply, and that is their, it is Vinyl Tool Supply Super Puff Vinyl, hands down our favorite. If you are looking, if you wanna complete a Puff Vinyl project, definitely go check out Vinyl Tool Supply. Their Puff Vinyl is phenomenal, and we are bringing it into 2026. We've not been doing as many Puff Vinyl projects, but we still absolutely adore it. This is their orange metallic. You can't really see. It looks kind of darker on camera, but it's a beautiful color. They have so many different beautiful colors. I can't even find, they're all throughout here, but Vinyl Tool Supply Puff Vinyl is top-notch. Now it's time to go on a hunt to find this other supply that I wanna talk to you guys about, and I know we have it, but where was the last place I put it? Let's try here. Give me just a second. Mm-hmm-hmm. Nope. I didn't find what I was looking for, which was the box, but I did find some, so the last supply that we craft supply that we are for sure, maybe not the last. You know what? This ain't the last. We're gonna keep going because I'm thinking of some other ones. I need to take you all in the craft room. We'll get there. So right here, Siser DTF. Now this is different from Siser Heat Transfer Vinyl or Siser HTV. This is Siser Easy Color DTF, so this is printable heat transfer vinyl, but it is the Siser brand, and let me tell you, it is hands down the best. It wears so well on a shirt. It prints flawlessly, and it does not feel super heavy when you press this on a shirt. Mm, I love it. Siser Easy Color DTF. Now, if you do work with this, just know you are also gonna have to get, this is what they call Siser TTD. This is the transfer tape, okay? This is transfer tape for the Easy Color DTF because how this works is you print this off normally, so you're gonna have to print this off normally. You don't flip it around, but you are going to need something to pick your design up off the back and transfer it over to your shirt. So you do have to have the Easy Color DTF, but you also have to have the transfer tape or heat transfer transfer tape. Siser TTD, same thing. You have to use these two together, okay? So, love the Siser Easy Color DTV. Did I say DTF earlier? DTF, TTD, ABCD, EFG, I don't know. Let's try this again. It is Siser Easy Color DTV, not DTF. It's direct to vinyl. It's printing direct to the vinyl. So sorry about that. Now, let's go in the craft room because there are a couple other things that I want to talk about craft supply-wise that we are definitely bringing into 2026. Number one, this tried and true guy right here. You will have to pry this out of my cold, dead hands. I love this thing. If you don't have one of these, I don't know what you're doing. If you are a Cricut crafter and you do not have a Cricut True Control Knife, this thing, I just, I bought one literally to keep it in my drunk drawer so that I can open up boxes. I love it that much. I never, I don't even craft with it. I just have it there. Y'all, the best X-Acto knife I think I've ever used in my life. Definitely coming into 2026. And then the last thing that I want to talk to you guys about that is coming into 2026 is definitely gonna be a something, a game changer for paper crafters. And y'all, this is the one that you've been waiting for that you probably would never think about. And that is a wax tip pen. Y'all, this is a game changer when it comes to picking up those little tiny pieces as you are paper crafting. If you don't have one of these, this is probably one of the most inexpensive supplies on this list, but will change the game for you when it comes to little tiny pieces, especially if you have issues like dexterity issues or you can't never, where'd they go? There they are. Or you can never figure out how to use your reverse tweezers. Some people have issues with reverse tweezers and y'all, I get it, 100% I get it. But this right here is gonna change the game. Oh my goodness, guys. This has been such an extensive list of supplies that we are keeping in 2026. We did not break up with these. We love these guys. Let me know in the comments, what are you absolutely adoring? We love to hear your thoughts, your opinions. Let us know what craft supplies you have been working with and maybe what we should add to our list. 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