Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts

Making Felt Roses With Cricut - Free svg

 
Making Felt Roses With Cricut & The Rotary Blade

This is what I bought the Maker for.  Well, projects like this at least.  I've been able to cut just about everything with my Air 2 - except felt.  For felt, you really do want the rotary blade, which means, you have to use a Maker.  The Air 2 cannot use a rotary blade.  All the frustration I've been through with trying to get a Maker that works (THREE machines.  it took me THREE to get one that works - and I'm not convinced this 3rd one truly works as well as it should..  but at least it works.)  And I've barely made anything at all with felt.  

It's time to change that.  I started with an easy one - felt roses.  These are really quick and easy to make!

Converting A Layered Mandala Into A Card

 
The "Valentine" Mandala Gnome, converted into a Birthday Card


I know this svg is for Valentines Day, but I thought it would make a great Birthday card.  I often make cards from these layered mandala designs.  You can, of course, just glue them onto a regular rectangle card.  But I like to make them shaped.  It's easy to do - here's how:

CWS Valentine Truck Larger Than Mat, with Rolled Flowers

A Layered Vintage Valentine Truck, filled with Rolled Paper Flowers

This is the FREE Valentine Truck svg from Craft With Sarah, modified and cut "larger than mat", with a bundle of free rolled flower svgs from JoJo & Bella in the bed of the truck.

I've made it "larger than mat", increasing the size to 14.5, and I have deleted some of the heart layers, replacing them with rolled paper flowers on top.  

Here's a step by step on how I did this.

First, Unzip the download, upload the svg to Design Space.  The svg is the file that looks like an html file, or like a website.  For a detailed step by step on how to use svgs in Design Space, go here.


Next, at the top of the design space screen, lock the ratio. That's the little lock on top of the sizes - click on it, so that it is "locked", instead of unlocked.  Now you can resize to 14.5.
By default, the size ratio is unlocked in uploads.  You will almost always, 99.5% of the time, want the ratio locked. 

 There's been a glitch in DS for awhile now, where if you forget to lock the ratio, resize and realize that distorted your image, then click undo - the entire image will disappear.  You can just add it again from the uploads menu, but it can get pretty annoying.  If you get in the habit of always looking at that lock before resizing, it will save you aggravation in the long run.  :-)


Now, if you are going to add the rolled paper flowers, there are three layers you can delete - they aren't needed.  I have them highlighted here on the right - they are three heart layers in the bed of the truck.

With those 3 items deleted, your project should look something like this.

If you have resized to 14.5 like I did, unless you have the longer sized papers, cricut cannot cut this at this size.   

Our local Michaels does carry Recollections Paper packs in 12x24, but they are pricy, even on sale. And they are a pain to store, for those of us with smaller craft areas.  I didn't want to buy more paper for this, so I did some slicing.  I could have just sliced the 3 pieces in half, then used heavy tape on the back (a masking tape, or even duct tape) to reinforce over the seams.  But with the added weight of the rolled paper flowers I planned to add, I decided to make sure my slices overlapped.

 Here's what I did:

First I grouped my project, then duplicated it.  I hid the duplicate.  This is only a precautionary measure, it's NOT needed.  But if I make a mistake on my "working copy", I have a back up with the first few adjustments already made, making it easier to start over.  Once I have the duplicate copy, I clicked on the eye to the right to hide it, so it's not visible on the mat. 

Now if you click make it, you can quickly look at the mats and see which ones are too long. Click Cancel, and go back to your work space, find those three layers in the layers panel.   I have them selected in the image below:

Select those three items, and at the top of the layers panel, select the duplicate option.  Again, duplicate is not completely necessary - you could just work with the original.  But I like to have a saved copy, and a "working" copy, I find it easier to recover when I make mistakes.  


Next I drug the pink and black layers off to the side, so I could work with the grey layer first.  Again, duplicate.  This time it is necessary to duplicate.

I want to cut these pieces in half, with an overlap.  So I'll slice both grey images, leaving the front piece longer on one, and the back piece longer on the other.

To slice, create a 9 inch square (shapes menu, on the left in Design Space for computers).  Duplicate it.  Place the squares over the grey truck layers - one in the front, one in the back.


You can only select 2 items at a time to slice, so select the top grey truck layer, and the top square, then choose Slice, from the menu on the bottom right of the screen (on a computer - menus may look different if you are using an ipad or phone app)

Drag all the extra pieces to the right, to be certain you like the image you are left with.
Delete the extras, and repeat with the second image.

 
Now your grey layer is in two pieces, with a good overlap to add stability when piecing together.

Repeat the slicing process for the remaining two large layers.


This next step is not necessary, but I  like to layer my sliced images, and group them together, so that the two sliced pieces stay together as I move them around.


Now, in the layers panel on the right, find the 3 long solid layers in the project image, and delete them. 

 Replace those layers with our newly sliced layers.

Note my mistake - for the pink layer, I glued the wrong front on!  I caught my mistake quickly and was able to fix it, thankfully.  Although my pinks are two different colors, they are very similar shades, and i just was not paying enough attention.

Here is my completed truck base - all glued together and ready for flowers


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THE FLOWERS
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This bundle of Rolled Paper Flowers is FREE for personal use.
To download from this site, you will need to login, or register, first.

Then go to this page for the flowers:
Under license, choose "personal"

Once you choose personal use only, the explanation  will take up most of the page-  scroll down, and at the bottom will be a "download now" button.

One you download this, you have to extract (unzip) the zip file, then find the folder with the svgs.  Upload the svgs to Design Space.

Each file is individual here, so it's a bit of a pain, you have to upload them one at a time.  There are 8 flower included, and you do NOT need 8 different designs, you could choose just a few for this project.  I uploaded them all primarily because I wanted to make a sample sheet showing what each one looks like when cut.


They upload at about 9.5 inches which may seem really large, but in reality, a 9 inch cut will typically make an approximately 2.5 inch completed flower.  Larger than I want for this project, but a good basic size for many other projects.  Here's a helpful chard from Creative Vector Studio:

Rolled Paper Flower Size Chart
Sizes are approximate, and will vary slightly by design, and how tightly you roll.

I chose to resize the flowers to 5.5 wide, allowing me to fit 4 on a 12x12 sheet of paper - or 2 on an 8.5x 11 sheet

Then I used color sync so that there are two flowers in each color. 
Just click on the color sync option on the top right.
Then drag images in menu to combine them.  The latest update has really made the Color Sync option more complicated to use, I hope that DS will switch it back to the old color sync, but this does still work, it's just more awkward.

I sized all of the leaves 3 inches tall.  I think 2.5 may work..  2 inches tall was too small, the center stems are so very thin that they were just too fragile, at 2 inches tall.  

After clicking "Make it", at the top left, I changed the Project Copies to "2" and clicked apply.

This cut two of each of the flowers, for 16 total flowers.
I used the leaves to "fill in" and this fit nicely.  If not using the leaves, you may need another 3 or 4 flowers.

When rolling paper flowers, you start on the outside of the circle, and roll tightly until you get to the center.  Then let the flower "loosen" a bit, gluing the rolled pieces to the circle base in the middle.

This is what each of the flowers looked like once cut and rolled, cutting them at 5.5 inches wide

I used hot glue to attach the flowers to the truck.

I hot glued bakers twine to the back, to hang this. 

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Pop Up Monster Valentines - And An Envelope to hold them

 
These Pop Up Love Monster Valentines are from a new to me designer.  The svg was not free, but it's a great quick and easy design.  My two year old grandson did most of the gluing today, on all 8 of the cards we made.

Find the svg here:

Monster Heart Popper Valentines - A Cricut Craft

 

My just turned two year old grandson is spending some time with me this week, and we wanted to make Valentines.  As he sat on my lap looking at option, he quickly chose ones with poppers attached.  The ones we saw had printable tags though, and he's at an age where he REALLY loves using a glue stick.

  When looking for an option he could glue, he spotted this heart monster.  It wasn't an svg, but it was something I could easily make with shapes in Design Space.  By adding a small circle at the bottom, we could thread the popper keychains through to attach them.  
I used simple shapes to create this in design space.  Since I did not upload anything at all, I can share the project with you, so although it's not an svg, if you use Design Space, you can open the project and make it just as if you had designed it yourself.


When you click on a design space link, like the one above, a screen will pop up asking if you would like to open it in the Design Space app.  Once you "open in app", it will open your Design Space.  

I included eyes in the design, but we chose to use googly eyes instead.  Because...  googly eyes.  :-)   I glued the teeth and tongue to the top layer, because that placement was a bit much for a two year old.  He glued the two large layers together, and glued and placed the eyes.


He enjoyed picking the cardstock too.  I gave him limited selections, but he chose what colors to use.

Although he does quite well with a glue stick, our 2 year old grandson cannot yet write, so I added the To and From in Design Space - and I also filled in those fields.  I used the Always Here font, which writes well with the pens in cricut.  Don't forget to change the text to "draw", and then attach it to the heart.


More Options:
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Popper Bracelets

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FREE PRINTABLE TAGS
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https://www.passionforsavings.com/you-make-my-heart-pop-printable/

https://www.thedenverhousewife.com/2022/01/pop-it-valentines/

https://sprinkledwithpaper.net/pop-it-free-printable-valentines/

https://www.skiptomylou.org/pop-it-printable-valentine-cards/