When I first started with my Cricut I purchased a lot of SVG's because I didn't know how to make my own designs. I spent a ton of money doing that and most of the time the SVG's weren't exactly what I wanted so it was very frustrating. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make your own designs in Cricut Design space.
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All of the Cricut Machines now use Design Space instead of cartridges. Besides being able to manipulate the images, one of the best features is that you can purchase images one at a time as you need them. I created this image in design space but its to big to print and cut so I just want to print it. Or can I export the file outside of design space. On Tuesday, September 29, Design Space for Web will no longer be available. Download the all-new Design Space for Desktop app for your Mac or Windows computer right now. We highly recommend you download Design Space for Desktop as the old web version will soon be obsolete. Plus, you'll love the ability to design and. Yes, you can create your very own iron-on design for free in Design Space. How to Create an Iron-On T-Shirt - Prepping & Cutting Iron-On Let's load your mat with material, cut your design, and prep it for a perfect T-shirt application. Cricut Design Space is the free software you use to create or upload designs and cut them on your Cricut. All Cricut Explore family, Maker and Joy users need to download and use the free Cricut Design Space software. I didn't sign up for my free trial, can I still use the free trial? Yes, you can still use your free trial for Cricut Access.
Like I mentioned before, I used to pay anywhere from $2.00 to $5.00 for a SVG that I kind of liked but wasn't really in love with because I didn't know how to make my own designs. Now I have a subscription to Creative Fabrica and I get access to 15k+ SVG's and I can download as many as I want FOR FREE. Not only are they free but they include a commercial license so I can legally sell whatever I make with them.
In this tutorial I'm making a 'Welcome Fall' sign and I'm using 1 SVG and a couple fonts I got from Creative Fabrica. Let's get started and I'll show you how to make your own designs in Cricut Design Space. Virtual ios on pc. (You can get all the fonts for free too…woo-hoo!)
The Main Design
Pick your main design element. For This project I used apumpkin. I found this set of Fall SVG's and downloaded all of them but I onlyneeded the pumpkin for my project.
The pumpkin needed just a bit of editing for what I wantedto make so I put a circle in the middle and welded the circle to the pumpkin tomake the center solid. Since the word 'FALL' has 4 letters, I duplicated thepumpkin 4 times.
Now it's time to put the letters inside the pumpkins. Ichose the font 'Christmas Story' from Creative Fabrica for my letters. I sized the 'F' in the middle of the pumpkin andthen made each of the other letters the same size.
Once I had all the letters placed where I wanted them I 'Sliced'each letter out of each pumpkin. (Check out the video tutorial below to see howI sliced the letters.) I found some funfall colors and made each pumpkin a different color.
Adding some words
You're well on your way to making your own designs in Cricut Design Space. Now it's time for the 'Welcome' at the top. I went over to Creative Fabrica and used the free font manager (This is totally free. No subscription needed.) to pick the font I wanted for my 'welcome'.
I used the PUA (private use area) to add some extra flare tomy word. Unlocking the PUA for all myfonts is another reason I really love Fontcloud. I can quickly see all the extra ligatures andswashes each font has and I can easily try them out to see what will work bestfor my project. (The video tutorial below shows how this all works.)
To find out more about the free font manager check out this post 'Why you need a free font manager and how to use it'. That's all there is to it. Now I'm ready to cut my design and put it on a wood sign.
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