Friday, 6 November 2020

Print and Cut on Cricut Maker

 

Using the Print and Cut feature in Cricut Design Space you can create personalized labels and cut outs. It is a simple feature with great results. 

This video shows how to take a basic image, add text and create your own labels. There will soon be another video for some advanced ideas for the print and cut. 





Saturday, 31 October 2020

Creating a text offset for Design Space

 

 


I use my Cricut Maker a lot but one feature it lacks is creating an offset, a border around. So after playing around I have worked out a method you can do solely in Design Space or by using other free software.

The free software I have used is Brother Canvas Workspace. This software is designed for use with the ScanNcut but with a few tweaks you can create exactly the offset you are looking for. Canvas Workspace can be easily found with a Google search. Download the desktop version and you are ready to go.  

Please share your designs with us all. 






Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Insert Cards

Recently the Cricut Joy moved to my craft room. I love having it and I can make cards very quickly. The one downside I found was that the preset card size was not the size common in Australia. So with some playing around I have manged to work out the appropriate size panel I need for A6 size cards. In Australia we typically use half an A4 size, which is in reality A5 size cards. 

This short video will show the process, I would love to see the cards you make. Included in the video is how to make the same stye of card for other machines. I have created this in Cricut Design Space, however, you could create the same thing in and design program. 

 
 
 
 



 


Thursday, 15 October 2020

Material Settings on the Cricut

Are you getting clean cuts first time?  Do you find yourself cutting twice? Here are tips on your pressure setting on your Cricut. 

When you are cutting on any machine getting a clean cut is dependent upon blade pressure and depth. Altering the pressure on the Cricut machines is very easy. You can also set up your own custom materials. 

The simple steps are shown in the video.

 



Thursday, 2 January 2020

Cutting a full page of stickers on a Cricut Maker

I love the Print and Cut feature in Cricut Design space, however, I wanted to use a full A4 sheet. So I started playing around to work out how to do that. There are videos on YouTube with different ideas and I tried some of them with not much success. I have Sure Cuts A Lot 5 (SCAL) and decided to try doing it thru that program.

After some trial and error I had success a full A4 page of stickers.


The process is a little fiddly at first but it does make a full page of stickers possible. So give it a go, see how it works for you. Test it out on normal copy paper a couple of times before using your sticker paper. I might next try to do this for a 12x12 sheet of paper because I can in fact print that size on my printer, however, I will leave that for another day.

Enjoy the video and show me how you go.


Monday, 16 December 2019

New in the Craft Room

The recent edition to my Craft Room is a Cricut Maker. After having a ScanNcut for several years this was the next step. There is a lot to love in this machine -- and of course I needed to make it mine. So out came the glitter vinyl.


Then there are needed/wanted extras of course. he machine has a blade swap out system that you add extra tips to. I got the Embossing tips at Spotlight on special. I have found some great specials on Amazon and get free shipping with my Prime Membership. So I got the Knife Blade, for cutting thick materials. I also found the Debossing tip at a good price today and purchased out of the. Check the link below.

Always extra mats and blades come in handy as well.


This is an affiliate link, if you purchase I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Cricut Tip, Fine QuickSwap Debossing Debossing Tip Silver






Friday, 13 December 2019

Saturday, 7 December 2019

Canvas Workspace Desktop

This program is useful and very versatile. This booklet will help you learn the functionality of the program and use it more successfully.

All options and menu items available within the program are listed and the booklet comes with an extensive index.


Sections include:

  • DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL
  • OPENING SCREEN
    1.  MENU ITEMS
    2. EDIT OPTIONS
    3. OBJECT MODE
    4. OBJECT PANEL
    5  DRAWING AREA
    6. CONTROL AREA
  • HOW TO …
    CREATE YOUR OWN SHAPES
    MAKE A FRAME
    USE A FONT INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER
    USING GLYPHS AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS FROM YOUR FONTS
    EDITING TEXT
    CHANGING FONTS ON TEXT OBJECT
    DRAWING WITH THE SCANNCUT
    DRAW VS CUT LINE
    FILLING A MAT WITH THE SAME OBJECT
    WELD
    DIVIDE
    REMOVE OVERLAP
    SUBTRACT OVERLAP
    ALIGNING OBJECTS
    CREATING AN OFFSET
    EDITING A PATH (NODES)
    USING LAYERS
    TRACE AN IMAGE
  • INDEX







Thursday, 28 November 2019

My ScanNcut

Since owning my first ScanNcut several years ago I have kept a notebook with information in it about my machine. I recently considered expanding the information I kept and this notebook is specifically for that purpose.

You may not choose to use all the pages and you may want several copies of some pages. Each page is independent and you can print and use those pages you find most useful.

Sections include:
  • My machine details 
  • My tools 
  • My machine settings 
  • My machine care 
  • My favourite tips 
  • My Canvas Workspace 
  • My files My projects 
  • My favourite websites 
  • My favourite fonts 
  • My favourite suppliers 
  • My notes 
This is designed to record all things you need to know or remember about your ScanNcut. It is a personal record of those things that you want to know and keep.


Available as a PDF download here for $3.00 AUD. It will be sent after payment. If you have any questions please contact me.


Friday, 22 November 2019

Shaker card with no foam

I saw a similar idea to this on YouTube and wanted to do it with the ScanNcut. It looks great and very simple to cut and assemble.

Instead of using foam you can build up your your card base.


The video is in 3 parts. The first part has the project from design in Canvas Workspace Desktop, and the second part has cutting. Part 3 is the construction of the card, with full instructions. Enjoy.



Part 1-- Design


Part 2 -- Cutting


Part 3 -- Construction

Saturday, 16 November 2019

6 Days of Christmas Projects - Day 6

I have put together 6 projects for Christmas using the ScanNcut. They include designs in Canvas Desktop and cutting on the ScanNcut.


Day 6

One  card two ways. Learn how to use shapes in Canvas Desktop to create a unique shape. This card is shown in two different layouts.



Techniques used:
  • Designing in Canvas Workspace Desktop
  • Creating designs from shapes
  • Image Tracing
  • Resizing shapes