An Index Of Cricut Resources & How To's

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Getting Started With Cricut 

• A Quick Overview - I just bought a cricut!  Now what?  
• Supplies To Buy - I just bought a cricut!  What else should I buy to use with it? 
• Vinyl - Which Vinyl Do I Need, And Where To Buy It
• Pens (Markers) - Alternative Pens & Markers that work w/ no adapter needed.
• Fonts - How to download & install fonts to use in Design Space 
• Fonts - Where To Find Free Fonts
• SVGS - How To Download & Use Free SVGS In Design Space
• SVGS - Where To Find Free SVGS by theme
• Facebook Group For This Page - Come ask your questions, share your projects, and find so, so many free svgs, here - Cricut Tips, Tutorials, & Free SVGS

Quick Tip Cards For Cricut - The Index

An Index Of The Cricut Quick Tip Cards

Often when answering a question, I find it easier to explain with a quick visual.  

Frequently, these have much longer step by step instructions in the post, or in another post, but this is the "quick version", for when you need a reminder, or just a simple explanation.

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An Index Of Quick Tip Cards
By Type

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Beginner Basics:

• How To Use System Fonts
• What Is An SVG?
• How To Upload & Use SVGS
• Use Cntrl V To Paste
• Operations - How To Cut, Draw (pens) or Print Then Cut (Printer required)
• When To Attach, Weld, & Flatten
• The New Combine Menu 
• Align Features in Design Space
• Attach - To Fix Jumbled Text
• Contour - To remove extra cuts
• Slice - How To
• Use Attach Instead Of Slice
• Use Your Machine Before The Warranty Runs Out!
• How to Quickly Recut One Part Of A Design

Design Space Features

• Offset  (Shadow Text) Is Now In Design Space!
• How To Move Items To Another Mat After Clicking Make It
• How To Remove The Grid Background In Design Space
• How To Use Color Sync
• How To Use More Than One Design Space Window
• Copy & Paste Between Projects
• Duplicate - How to make many copies of one item in DS
• Using The Guide Operation In Design Space
• Screenshot the Colors Panel To Keep Track Of Colors Used
• When The "Rename" Option is Missing
• How To "Fill In" with a pattern or color
• How To Easily Make Multiple Copies Of An Image In Design Space
• Images Out Of Sight -If you uploaded an image, and it appears in the layers panel but not in your work space, you probably need to fix the “position” at the top of the screen 
  
  

Fonts & Text

• Copy & Paste Glyphs All At Once
• Draw Then Cut (Using pens)
• Find The Name Of A Welded Font [Original Option No Longer Works]
• Fix Weird Font Spacing In Design Space
• How To Use A Character Map For Font Glyphs
• How To Use Free Fonts
• Make A Split Monogram
• Use the Wordmark.it Website to view your fonts
• Why Is My Text Bubbling? Writing Fonts
• When Welded Text Fills In

General Tips

• How To Search Facebook Groups 
• Change The Default Folder View In Windows 11
• Recover Your Password Without Needing To Reset It
• Change Your Facebook Feed

Print Then Cut 

• Black Box Around The Image
• Close The Lid
• Enable The Printer Dialog Box For "Best Quality"
• Project Incompatible - Maximum Print Than Cut Size Is 9.25" x 6.75".
• What To Try When Cricut Cannot Read The Registration Marks
• Why Print Then Cut Is Cutting Every Letter
• How To Use Print Then Cut Without A Printer

Problem Solving

• If Your SVG thumbnails turned into edge icons, don't panic
• Hide The "Native" Folder Created On Your Desktop by Design Space
• Project Incompatible - Maximum Print Than Cut Size Is 9.25" x 6.75".
• What To Try When Cricut Cannot Read The Registration Marks
• Uploaded Images Not Visible

SVGS

• What Is An SVG?  (All Cut Files Are NOT svgs!)
• Commercial Use Vs Personal Use Licenses
• Quickly Sort SVG Bundles
• Svgs look like html files
• Dingbat Fonts Work As Cut Files
• Uploaded Images Not Visible
• View Thumbnails Of Downloaded SVGS

Weeding & Transferring

• Layer small designs on the transfer tape & transfer all at once
• Reverse Weeding
• Weeding Boxes Around Small Text (You can use offset too!)
• Which Vinyl To Use
• Use Painters text to hold tiny pieces, so they don't get lost before you get them glued on
• Lazy Vinyl Weeding

An Index Of All Of My Cricut Related Blog Posts

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Where To Find Free Cut Files For Cricut Or Silhouette Machines - The List

An Alphabetical List Of Sites With Free SVGS

Don't forget to check the facebook page, Crafting With Fields Of Heather.  Each day I post a Daily List Of Free Fonts & Free SVGS.    And see seperate posts on this blog for a list of sites with free svgs for paper crafting, and another post of sites with  free svgs for card making.

Where To Find Free SVG Cut Files For Cricut or Silhouette By Theme

An Alphabetical Index

of my "Where To Find Loads Of Free SVG" Posts, by theme

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