Hi all!
Tonight we had a Cricut course at Michaels led by Darci White! Please like and follow her businesses 923 Designs (custom glassware) and The Kitchen and the Cave!

Here are some notes from the night…not everyone that attended had a Cricut

Step 1

Open the box and get started!  Go to Cricut.com to register and get started (you can even do this if you do not own a Cricut and want a friend to cut something out for ya) – you just need to set up an email with a password and…done!  The device can plug into a laptop or a computer or can be wireless. (so super easy/no installation!)

Step 2

You need: computer, cricut, mat, some tools & vinyl or whatever material you want to cut

Cricut

mat

tools

Step 3

When you go to Cricut.com design space – here’s what you can do:

1.  pick a design that is already made – they have cards, coasters, signs, t-shirt graphics, etc & there are videos you can watch to see how the craft is made OR
2. create your own project design

 

Darci’s Class

We made a card with the design already made to get the idea…

then we cut out all the layered colors with the machine

 

Then everyone got to design their own vinyl to cut out and then transfer on a small chalkboard…

Danielle has a custom jewelry shop so she made her logo.

She traced her design then cut it out…

She used transfer paper to transfer the image using the scraper as well.

 

other designs of the night…

 

fonts: Samantha & Kyden

Tips of the night…

• you take out your blade to place the scoring tool in when you are making a card
• there is a cleaner at the dollar store to clean your mat – you spray it on, it loosens all the debris & the mat is sticky again!
• Cricut Access subscribers pay around $9.99/month to have access to a lot of clip art & fonts (not necessary but fun!)
• Cartridges are a group of clip art that is related that is usually a better deal than paying for each clip art
• you can take any image on google, etc – save it – then take it into design space to trace it

Design Space is an online software so you can access your projects from any computer…

So…we had a great time & there’s a lot of tricks to learn within Design Space if you are ever interested…

I hope you learned a little about the Cricut!

Happy Crafting!