If yours are big then you may need to cut them smaller with scissors to fit inside the edges of the layers. The foam pads that I use are from “Dot & Dab”, but any foam squares will work.
The nozzles are REALLY tiny which makes them perfect for putting glue in the pieces of cardstock that make up this design.
To make it even easier to apply glue to layered card projects, I highly recommend getting some of these needle tip applicator bottles to put the glue into. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too! It’s SO good because it doesn’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. My favourite glue to use on papercraft projects is Collall All Purpose Glue. A high quality printable version of this assembly guide is included in the folder when you download the cut file. Use this guide to see the order to stick the layers together in. Use 3D foam pads and glue to stick the layers together. Step 8) Stick the layered cake topper together This birthday layered SVG is GREAT for using up your scraps of cardstock as the balloons are all cut individually so you can use up your smaller offcuts of card rather than cutting into a new sheet. You can drag-and-drop the pieces on the mat previews to move them around. When you’re happy with how the party balloons are looking in Design Space, click “Make It” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the layers. You can see in the below image that my three offset layers have now been combined into one after Welding: This makes it easier to stick them on to the project once cut. If your offset layers are touching then Weld them together to combine them into one layer. I used a thin ofset of 0.1 to add a white border around the edge of the text. To add some extra depth to the lettering, you can create an “Offset” layer. Script fonts work well for this type of design because the letters all touch each other which means you can glue them onto the project as one piece. The font I used is a Cricut Access font called BFC Coffee Shop. I did each of my words as a different layer so that I could recolour them and move them out. NOTE: This tutorial was written BEFORE the Design Space 7.11 update which changed how the Text tool looks, so the images below may look slightly different to how your Design Space screen looks.Ĭlick the “Text” button and then type our your wording. I’ve gone for a “red, white and blue” theme. Keep going until the design fully matches your chosen colours. You can also use the “Color Sync” option in the top-right of the screen to easily drag-and-drop the layers onto different colours. To change the colours, click each layer one-at-a-time and select your new colour from the box along the top of the screen. If you’d like to cut the design in different colours to how to appears on the screen, I strongly recommend taking the time to update the colours in Design Space before cutting it out.Ĭhanging the colours on your computer screen means that you can check you are happy with how it’s all looking before cutting it out. If you are cutting it smaller than about 6 inches in width then it might be an idea to miss off the “outline” layers for the balloons as they will get very thin and difficult to get off the Cricut mat without tearing. I don’t recommend going smaller than about 4.5 inches in width. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.Ĭlick the design on your canvas and use the width/height boxes near the top of the screen to make it the size that you want to cut it. This is how it should look after you have uploaded the file:Īfter uploading, the design will show in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Make sure you upload the file which starts SVG_ in the filename!! Open up Cricut Design Space and upload the file called SVG_Custom_Happy_Birthday_CraftWithSarah.svg Step 2) Upload the SVG file into Design Space How to unzip a folder on an Android device.How to unzip a folder on an iPad/iPhone.How to unzip a folder on Windows computer.Read full terms of useīefore you upload the SVG to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that it comes in.
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