Making A Card With Print Then Cut Elements
For this card, part is printed, and part is cut and glued in layers. The printed elements made it much easier to add the layered pieces in the correct spots. Here's how to do that, step by step, with pretty much any free svg.
But just in case you are looking for this exact Road Trip SVG - Find The Free SVG Used Here
Note - My daughter made this card, and as I typed up the instructions, I used "we", because I was helping her to make this. Later I realized that sounded odd, if you don't know that there really were two of us working on this project. :-)
Creating the Card Base
The Quick Version:
- Rectangle sized 9.25 x 6.75 (maximum size for print then cut with cricut). Finished card will be just a little smaller than a regular 5x7 card.
- Add score line, size it to the width of the card - 6.75. Select all, align center, attach.
The Detailed Version:
In Design Space, find the shapes tool, and add a square. Beside linetype, click on the square to change the color.
Select it and click on the lock. Now change the size of your square to 9.25 x 6.75.
Add a score line. You'll find that option under "shapes". Size the score line to 6.75 wide, choose "Align", center, then select all and attach.
You now have a card base for print then cut projects, with a score line. This is a good time to save your project. :-)
SVGS vs PNGs
Quick:
- PNGS - Flat, one layer, great for print then cut.
- SVGS - Multi Layer, each color meant to cut individually (look like html files or website shortcuts)
Detailed:
Quick Tip - SVGS Look Like HTML Files
When uploading images to use Print then Cut, PNGS are often the better option - as they are already just one layer, not meant to cut each layer individually. However, you can [almost] always just flatten an svg to create the same one layer effect.
Quick Recap:
- PNGS - Flat, one layer, great for print then cut.
- SVGS - Multi Layer, each color meant to cut individually (look like html files or website shortcuts)
For this project, we uploaded the SVG, because we want to print part of the design, and cut the rest in layers.
In the layers panel on the right, you can see each piece of the design that will cut. For this, we selected the "It's Time For A" text, and deleted it, so that we could add "Thanks For The" in it's place. One of the many great things about svgs is that you can easily delete any pieces of the design you don't want. We could JUST use the trees from this if we wanted, of just the camper.
Always Flatten For Print Then Cut
Quick:
- Always flatten for print then cut.
Always flatten for print then cut. :-) If you have text, you have to add a shape behind the text and flatten the text to a shape, or the cricut machine will cut out each letter individually. For this project, the card base is our shape.
For this project, we only wanted to print a few pieces on the card, then we wanted to layer the rest on top, to give a dimensional effect. Once we resized the design to fit the bottom half of the card base, we deleted the text at the top, and added new text.
Once it was all sized - click on the uploaded svg and ungroup.
A Note About Group VS Attach
Not all svgs are grouped when they are uploaded, but this one was. Group is nice for sizing, and moving a group of items around when designing. It means absolutely nothing when it's time to cut though - group is only for designing, to keep items in place when they cut, you have to attach. If you attach all, everything will change to one color - because you told design space to cut it all together, and cricut can only cut on one mat at a time... So if you wanted to cut all of these pieces in exctly where they show on the design screen, you would select all of the blue, and attach the blue pieces together. Then select all of the black, and attach all of the black pieces together, etc.
That's not necessary for this project. It's just something to know.
For this next step, you will want to work in the layers panel. One a computer, that's to the right - it shows each item that is on the screen to cut. In that list, select all of the pieces you want to print, and select he white background card. Then choose flatten.
Now your layers panel should look something like this - with a print then cut image, and a bunch of cut images. You will now need to make sure there is cardstock in your printer. Click make it, and the first part of this project will need to be printed. It will print with a black box around it - that black box is the registration marks that show cricut where to cut. It's necessary, and will be cut off of your design once completed.
Place the cardstock on a matt, and then let cricut cut out your card. If you have trouble getting the machine to read the registration marks to cut, here are some suggestions that may help:
Once all of the items for the card were cut, simply layer them onto the card base.
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