Step 1: Create the Design
1: In order to be able to start our Design, we are going to access our Design
Space application and in there we are going to click on the + New Project Green button located on the top Right corner of our screen.
2: After we clicked in there, we are going to be able to access our Blank Canvas, in where we are going to start creating our Design:
3: We are going to use the upload functionality to add our images.
You are going to upload both images that we are providing, following the steps that are showing in your device.
After adding them to your canvas, you should be able to see something like:
4: We are going to ungroup the images so we can resize them and manage them independently:
After ungrouping them:
5: You are going to also apply the same process as Step 4, to the other image that you uploaded:
💡Tip: We are not going to resize the elements, the size that you have in your canvas is the one that we are going to use.
6: We are going to change the color of the items so it’s easy to identify them specially if you want to create more than one flower of the same type but in different color. In order to change the color, you are going to select the element, click on the color square next to the operations drop down and click on the desire color:
7: We are going to duplicate each one of the elements the following amount:
* Leaves: 4 leaves in total
* Flower base: you are going to cut 1 for each flower, in our case, 2
* Flower 1: 6 petals in total
* Flower 2: 16 petals in total
In order to duplicate, we are going to select the element and then click on the duplicate button the amount of times that we want:
After duplicating each one of the elements we should have:
💡Tip: Each one of the amounts that is being suggested is only for 1 flower of each type, you can add more “petals” to each flower or duplicate more times in order to do more flowers.
8: We are going to use the shapes functionality, and we are going to add a circle:
9: we are going to change the color to red, we are going to resize the circle to 1.26” and we are going to duplicate it 15 times:
10: For the last flower (circles) we are also going to add a base of the flower in green.
💡Tip: You can use different colors and shades of green if you want.
12: We are going to add a rectangle with the following dimmensions and we are going to change the color:
13: we are going to add an scoring line, we are going to change the operation to Basic Cut and resize it with the following measurements:
14: We are going to duplicate several times the line (47 in total) and we are going to place them over the rectangle, we are going to use as a guidance the small squares on our canvas:
15: Once there are all places, using the align functionality you are going to select all the elements (including the rectangle) and we are going to align them to the top, and after align them all together we are going to attach them:
After attaching them:
16: We are going to duplicate this rectangle, one more time, this is going to be the center of 2 of our flowers:
17: We are going to add an square using the shapes functionality with the following dimensions W:8” and H: 10” and we are going to change the color to a light pink:
18: Once that you have all the flowers that you want, and the size and colors, you are ready to start cutting the design.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following cricut functionalities:
- Add Shapes
- Resize Elements
- Duplicate Elements
- Un-group Elements
- Upload images