‎Printing! Cricut Design Space on the App Store

Table Of Content

• Introducing Cricut Venture, the largest and fastest cutting machine on the Cricut® platform
• Cricut Christmas Party – Wrap Up
• DIY book covers with Cricut
• Cricut launches Cricut Joy Xtra, expanding its platform and cutting machine portfolio
• Changing Mat Size
• Cricut Weld vs Attach: When Do I Group, Attach, Slice, or Weld?
• Cricut review

That means I’ve selected it and I can then insert it onto my canvas. You’ll notice a little icon with that same image shows up here. You can select more than one at a time, so I can click on that butterfly too, and it shows up right next to it. So if I keep scrolling and I’m like, oh, hey, I want a snail too. But I just want the deer, so we’re gonna go up and unselect that one.

Introducing Cricut Venture, the largest and fastest cutting machine on the Cricut® platform

So you click on that and you type in a name. So let’s call this Cricut Kickoff desktop, ’cause this is the third one we’ve done, and I will click Save. All right, so another option that we could have done is we can select him again and we can click on attach, right here. So you’ll notice the line is still here between the two hearts. So when we go to click, make it, you see this black line here, it’ll cut there. So you’ll have one complete heart and one partial heart, which probably isn’t what you wanted, but maybe it was.

Cricut Christmas Party – Wrap Up

Familiarize yourself with options for working with your image layers, such as Group/Ungroup, Slice, Weld, Attach, and Contour. Access features such as Linetype, Color palette, Alignment, etc. for editing images and text. The developer, Cricut, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

DIY book covers with Cricut

Templates offers a few settings like size, type, and color. Okay, so it’s well adhered to our mat. The very top row is promotional information from Cricut — so that means sales, new features, or anything else they want to call your attention to. Once you have the Cricut Design Space DMG file (Mac) or EXE file (Windows) downloaded, double click it to install it, then open up Cricut Design Space. Before you cut Iron-On or Infusible Ink transfer sheets, mirror your mats so your design will be properly oriented after application. Learn how to search, filter, and use these projects that are pre-designed by professional artists.

That takes us to our mat preview screen, and as you can see here, I’ve got two hearts side by side and they are not overlapping and offset the way that I designed it to be. So this is not yet ready for us, okay? So we need to get these two hearts joined permanently.

How to make a Christmas ornament with Cricut

The one that we care about is this one that says image, and this is where you can upload images, right here with this button. By the way, down here are all the images I’ve uploaded recently. Now, you may notice that you don’t see an SVG file. So on some Windows computers, they’re called Chrome HTML or Edge HTML, because they’re pushing the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows, I think.

So right now, this project that we’re doing tonight is at the top of the list, but it might not be when you see it. All my projects are numbered so you can find them easier. All right, so when you are in my library, the first link that you see goes to the file itself. And then in the lower right corner, this is the resize handle. If you click, hold and drag it, it makes it smaller and bigger.

Cricut Weld vs Attach: When Do I Group, Attach, Slice, or Weld?

If, for some reason, it wasn’t, you would wanna go up to the line type menu and select draw, okay? ‘Cause we want to use our pen to draw it onto our certificate. Now, what I’d like to do is join these two hearts together permanently. So I’m gonna kind of offset them like this and create a new shape that looks like two hearts together.

Cricut review

If you click apply, it just duplicates it for you right on the screen. We don’t need to cut four of these, but if you ever wanted to do a bunch of things, that’s really useful and it will fill your mat for you and it will make new mats as necessary. So once I select an image, I get the green box around it like this.

Do we see our drawing where we expect it to be? Over here, it’ll say, these are the two colors. So we have the blue layer and the yellow layer. And we see our writing on our card is not somewhere else, and it says draw and cut here. And this one says just cut, which is what we want.

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Okay, let’s show you what not to do. If you go like this and just peel it off. What you get is curled a piece of paper. You don’t want curled pieces of paper, because paper, whatever, especially a certificate, it should be nice and straight. So instead what we do is we flip our mat over like this, onto our surface and we peel our mat away from our project. And it basically just comes off for you, I mean, not always, but oftentimes it does.

So about there, and then we click and drag it over to our card. It seems a little bit big, so let’s make that a little smaller. We wanna cut this though, so I’m gonna put it back on cut and go back and change it to red. Of course, I could also have just undone it back to red, okay? Now what I’d really like to do, this isn’t much of a design, just a red heart. I would like to make my own design and so I’m going to duplicate this heart.

So I can cut it, which is the default. And if I do that, I just get an outline, because this is just gonna draw around the outline. We can engrave it, like a piece of acrylic or something like that. We can, and of course, this is if you have the tools, right? With your Maker, you get the fine point blade and the rotary blade and the other ones, as we discussed in lesson two, are available separately.

Congratulations to Mr. Maker for completing Cricut Kickoff. That looks a little off to me. Maybe it’s the stars that’s doing it.

No, my best advice here is to play with Cricut Design Space. Press all the buttons and try all the menu items. This really is very user-friendly software. All right, so let’s talk about using the images that are in Design Space.

We’re not going to go into all of those tonight. Just know that there’s lots of things that you can do and I have many tutorials explaining them if you want to know, but for now I wanna center it. So I’m gonna go to Alignment and choose center and now our text is centered. Awesome, so now we need to change this font to a writing font. So you can see right now that these two items are grouped.