Step 2: Cut The Bookmarks

1: After you are happy with the design, we are ready to save our design, Click on Save button on the Right Top side of the screen and provide a name to your design and click on Save button.

2: Before start printing and cutting our design, we need to make sure that we are going to cut with the right cricut machine, in order to do this, we are going to click on Maker in the top Right Menu, next to Make Green button and in there, we are going to chose our machine, in our case we are using a Cricut Maker

2: We are going to turn on our cricut machine by clicking on the power button:

3: We are ready to start printing and cutting, so you are going to click on the MAKE green button.

4: Before proceeding with the print and cut, we are going to present to you all the functionalities/configurations that you can see on that screen:

💡Tip: Since we are not using different configurations than the default ones, there is no need to change anything on this page.

5: We are going to click on Continue and in the following screen, we are going to click on Browse All Material:

Once in there, we are going to search by the word: Carstock

Or you just simply can go down to the bottom of the list and click on it and then click on DONE button

💡Tip: If you click on the favorite icon next to the cricut small icon, you can easily access the material without searching for it every time, so you just click on this icon:

6: In our case is just cardstock, so we are going to chose Pressure Default the following configurations:

7: Now that our configurations are ready, we are going to proceed to add our cardstock in our physical mat.

💡Tip: Remember that for this project you can use scraps from previous projects.  And also, this is the point that you define your real colors for your bookmarks, in design space is only to show you how is going to look like, and sometimes (and believe me, this happens a lot) you realize that the color that you have on your design, you do not have it physically, and that is OK!

💡Tip 2: Also, you can note that if you follow the instructions from our previous tutorials on how to clean your mat and how to make the mat sticky again, you can use your mats for years! I’ve been using the same mat for the last 3 years and the mat is still working as new!

8: After our Mat is ready, we are going to make sure that we add the mat under the rollers, and we are going to click on the upload button:

💡Tip: Remember that this instructions are for Cricut Maker, if you have another Cricut Machine, the instructions could be slightly different.

9: Once the Mat was uploaded, we are going to click on the Cut button and the machine is going to start cutting and you are going to be able to see the progress of the cut on your device screen.

10: After the cut is done, the upload/download mat button is going to start blinking, meaning the cut is ready, so you are able to download the mat from your machine and proceed to add the next mat following the same process. 

Also, you are going to notice a check next to your mat on your device screen, so with this you can differentiate which mat/design was already cut and which ones not yet.