MAKE a Cake Topper Quickly with Print then Cut features with Cricut Design Space

hi it's Ann from the useless crafter thanks for joining and please subscribe if you haven't already but today we're going to be doing this cute little cake topper there you go and uh we're really going to be focusing on print and cut features so you can see on the side the 14 and this little gift print then cut is going to be so it's such a good feature for you to know how to use um and some of you may already be using it but I'm still a few of my tips and tricks um it's great for capturing all the details um and it's great for putting out like stickers and stuff too so um like I said it's a great feature to to really understand how to use all right I'm going to make myself smaller because no one needs to see me this big I wanted to make sure you saw the cake topper and then oops hold on here what just happened all right oh my gosh I did it again let's see okay let me move myself over so I'm in design space right now as you can see this is my profile and I have this project already um set for you to cut and and be done with it you would just click on it and click customize and look at how cute that is right just love everything about this simple simple simple kick topper all right let's go to customize so that you can see what it looks like and you can make changes to it but here's hello gallentine I'm going to take that out this has got a T of offsets by itself then we have this print then cut and this print then cut and then a few more offsets some more layers um as you can see it's a super simple cake topper that took I don't know 20 minutes to do so um this is an easy way to skip I mean I love all the details and I love beautiful card stock but sometimes you got to just do it and use spr and cut because look at all the details that you get from here um this would take quite a few pieces as well as you know sometimes it's so small so anyway let's get started so this is ready for you if you don't want to learn how to do it it's ready for you to just go in and cut but if you want to learn how to use it we'll keep this here as um as an easy um visual for us all right let's go into images and we're going to type in hello gallentine so hello gallentine is actually um an image that is ready to go so I think this is it right here um so we're going to add it Okay so we've got that um let's see I don't remember what I used for this one so let's just go and we're going to cheat because I already have the image over here and we're going to go into our panel over here so it says it's right here and we can click on print then cut right click on it to go down and see the image info which hold on let me move my face over a little bit so you can see what I'm seeing so in the panel um this is the print thing cut we're going to right click on it so we can get more info you would use this also to see which what the font is if you've used text for something else all right we're going to scroll all the way down and image info is this so it's a gift and here's the gift and we're going to just add it then we're going to go let's see we're going to exit out of here we're going to add this little calendar piece excuse me and it says it's right here but it's flattened so we're going to click on this button to kind of like undo everything and see what it is print then cut here right click on it go down and click on image info and it's Valentine's Day so we will add that and now that we have all of our basically all of our images this is it we're going to create this hello gallentine so let me make this a lot smaller and you can see these these little spiral tabs I would not want to deal with those little pieces and gluing them the gluing part's not as bad as just cutting and keeping track of them so um you know while this is a simple little image it's a lot of pieces so that is why I wanted to incorporate the print then cut feature okay so let's do this step by step first thing is hello Valentine is all together it's one image it's a basic cut right it says right here um and it's all together I normally would just slice this apart but I see how close this is and it's going to be very difficult to slice hello from gallentine and the reason why I wanted to do that is you can see in my image here um is that I wanted hello to be a different color and gallentine to be a different color so that's going to be um so what we'll do is we we will just make a copy of this so we've got two images we're going to click on the first one and go to contour and we are going to click on hello so I if you can look over here you see Hello disappeared I have just the inside pieces that I need to click on I love the Contour feature for that okay and look at this hello is gone and I just have gallentine left now I'm going to go to this one and I want to keep hello right so I'm gonna hit Contour I'm just going to hide all and then I want to add back these little guys I'm going show you what that looks like and we did it we've got hello gallentine super simple right okay so let's line these two up like we want to and I'm going to make the top one I have it I'm using red p and I absolutely love it because it's so bright and and vibrant and then for gallentine I used a purple Mirror Mirror foil and I absolutely adore that as well okay so I am at this point I'm going to grab these two and I'm going to group it together so they always move as one so as I resize it they're resizing it together okay so I'm going to make it a little bit smaller and let's go and do our first offset so I want to say I did three offsets um one of the offsets that I like to do when I'm doing a lot of color is the first offset I like to do it in white because I feel like the colors pop so let's go to our offset and I do like having my offsets on the thinner side these days so I'm going type in 05 hit Tab and let it and I'm going to look at this because what I want in that first offset is I want Hello gallentine to be connected so that my offset is one piece and it looks like it is because is um this the tit the dot on the eye is connected to the hello so I think this is good I'm going to click apply okay then I'm going to make it white okay now one thing that you might want to look at is I'm just going to move this aside let's look at this piece and I'm going to zoom in even more so you can see it to me some of these pieces we don't need these little holes like that one is so small I'm not even going to notice it um and it might kind of jam your cut it's just not worth it so I'm going to go to contour and I'm going to get rid of those small ones and usually they're down here so I'm going to scroll all the way to the bottom like this little guy I think is one of these pieces so I'm going to get rid of that I don't need that one don't need this little one so you see that oh these two disappeared um don't need that one and don't need that one I'm going to keep the rest I feel like the rest are big enough pieces so this is what it's going to look like it's just just cleaner right okay so let's move this back over and if we grab these two and we go to align and Center we'll Center it properly okay now let's do one more offset um okay offset it's going to um have our last um offset in there and we're just going to click ply and that one I did in a baby pink so I'm just going to put pink there all right then what did we do we worked on our print and cut okay so let's look at that I'm going to zoom out for a second so this is all good I'm going to grab this and I'm going to group it together so it's going to go as one okay now let's look at this this little guy so this is already a print and cut but what I worry about is that the hearts are going to cut out separately and then I'm going to have this piece is going to be four pieces so I'm going to grab this and I'm going to do an offset that is smaller than 05 even I'm going to do maybe 01 and see what that looks like so 01 gives me just a slight offset I'm going to apply and I'm going to keep it at I'm going to make it white so you can't you don't notice it and then I'm going to grab these two items and I'm going to flatten so now it's a bigger image it's all together it's going to cut out as one piece the hearts are attached to the present which is what I want I don't want the hearts to be cut separately because I don't want to have to deal with them okay all right so we've got that now what you want to do also is um I'm using a glossy photo paper and I'm going to want to glue it onto card stock to make it sturdier so we're going to grab this and we're going to duplicate it but on this one I'm going to go I'm going to unflatten it okay I'm going to grab the whole thing and instead of print and cut I'm going to go to basic cut and I'm going to cut that in white and so now I have a piece I'm going to Let's arrange this and send it to the back you'll see that I have a piece that is exactly my that fits this um this image here let's align it just so that you can see what I'm talking about so that way it we have stability for the image if you have thin paper that you're using um and then you can do layers so this I'm going to do a few of them I'm just going to make a few copies I like having three layers just in case if you go and do two layers and realize like that's enough for you then you can just keep it we'll move this arranged s to the front all right so this is good and I'm just going to grab this arrange oops not arrange um can I unline it I canline it let's Center it and we're going to group it just so that it's all together um and when we resize everything we could it'll all resize together all right so we've got one thing down on this one this one I think when you go to do it it is going to be all one image so let's look at this guy so right now look at all the pieces it would cut right it would cut this little heart this little heart and all the individual tabs it would cut out the February in white so it's a lot of pieces what's nice is when this image is not flattened yet you can change the colors if you wanted to so if you wanted to make the valent the number 14 um maybe a little bit brighter you can go to Advanced and pick like a darker a darker pink okay so you can make those changes before you do this um what I would do with this also is still just do a little little offset just to make sure and that offset where is it it's this one I'm going to change that to White so that we don't notice it then I'm going to grab the whole thing and we're going to flatten it so it's going to be all one image that gets cut so this piece is going to be one and let me show you what that looks like when I cut it I don't know if you can see but it's all just one piece each and that's what you want because that's a point PR and cut right it's going to be simple now we just did this we could have before we if if you want to think of it as a sticker cuz you're going to cut it on sticker paper we could um well let's see where are we on this I haven't flattened it right oh no is that it no this one oh here I did flatten it already we can unflatten it let's say you wanted to add I don't know another text above it you can still do that on this and even on this image because you would just flatten it afterwards but let me just show you what I mean I mean you would never do this not this way I'm going to leave the text the same and whatever but I'm just going to type my name I want this to be Ann's calendar I want it to be I don't know in purple okay and then I can grab this whole thing and I can flatten it and now this whole thing is there so um even if the print and cut is already the image is already print and cut you can add another layer on top and then flatten everything so you could have done the same thing with this gift um but you can see it's so nice to make stickers easy to make stickers and images all right same thing with this one we are going to make a duplicate copy right and we're going to unflatten this one and grab the whole thing and we're going to change it to basic cut what did it do okay grab all of this let's align It Center it okay and then you can you can just weld it so that you know it's one one little piece all right so that's going to be the the copies that the layers behind it and you can make a few copies of this change all of these to White that you're cutting okay arrange and put that to the front put this on top grab all of this these are just things you do just to make your life a little bit easier a line Center it why isn't it centering it's acting a little weird right now we'll just grab all of that and we're going to group it together so now we've got all these pieces together so I put let's make this a little bit smaller so you can see what my original one looks like like I have this in front so I'm going to arrange and bring it to the front I've got this tilted a little bit if we like the way it looks that's tilted too much maybe like so I think I have it something like this this one we have up here I wanted to see the 14 the February and I'm going to tilt it this way so you can see the heart peeking out right um let's see how big is this whole image it's about 8 in long let's grab this and see this is a little bit longer we're going to make it a little bit smaller there now it's about the same actually got to make it a little bit smaller because we're going to do some offsets so let's make it just a little bit smaller grab the whole thing I like having the whole thing with an offset because then the whole cake topper is supported by um one big piece okay so in my offset let me see what I did I did a pink layer and a red layer so I don't know okay I don't know why it's doing that let's ungroup this one for a second it's acting really weird I'm just going to move that over for a second okay let's grab that and let's do our offset this one I'm going to change back to 5 05 and we're going to make that first layer it's in pink and then we're going to do another offset and that one is in red and that's all there is to it to this kick topper so easy and so fast right okay so let me delete this one because I feel like there's something funky with that image I'm going to delete Del it let's go back to this one Let's Pretend We're going to make it I have a few more tips for you so I'm going to change this to my Cricket maker and the reason why I'm doing it from I know my machines my Cricut maker does the bre best printed cut that's why I'm going to change it to that all right let's go to make it when you're in make it and you're printing this um I always like to do a few copies that way you have it if one gets messed up you're not ruining the whole sheet you're still I don't know you don't have to recut it again so I'm going to do three images and let's just continue oh well let's look at everything all of these will be triple copies which we're not going to want to do so I'm going to walk you through it so don't worry we're going to be in print then cut let's continue and um hopefully it will connect we're going to send to printer and oh my goodness why I okay there um I'm going to go to my brother because that's my printer I want to click add bleed because it will just give you another offset and it will be more white around it and it will cut perfectly you also want to use yes to system dialogue and this is the reason why when you go to click on it it will take you to your printer so I want to go to My Brother printer and I want to go to preferences and under preferences I want to change my media type to glossy paper I'm going to change let's see my print quality is good I do want it at fine all of that is good here I want to do a photo image then down here I want to change it to manual I'm going to slide my um photo glossy photo paper in through my printer that's just the way it is and I'm going to click okay I'm not going to do that because um I've already done it but that's what you would do and then you would go and it would send it to the printer it would print it out then you now have it printed out now you're going to put it on your mat and you're going to select the paper I would change this to let's change it to card stock and see what our options are there's light card stock that's what I would choose I would click on this done and you see how um you want to make sure that when you put it on the mat that that it's not upside down it's it looks exactly the way this picture is right so that the gifts are on top and then the calendar is on the bottom and you want to put it at the z0 you don't want to move it I mean I know there's a sensor but for PRN cut because it's so delicate and what's the word that I'm looking for a temperamental and you're crossing your fingers and doing a dance and hoping that it cuts out properly I just like to put the paper exactly the way it's being showed to me all right so you select that now you send it to your Cricket so I know a lot of people if you've never done prin cup before a lot of people are always saying how do I get my Cricut to print your Cricut is not going to print it's you're going to send it to your printer through design space so that it recognizes it puts the sensors on it um and then you can go and cut it on your Cricket okay once you've done this and you've cut it I would cancel out of it I would change this back to one copy and I would then cut the rest of this so this is in white this is in um light pink oh this is my original one so I changed a bunch of colors um here's the pink here's my red P which I absolutely love I was going to do gold on this one and I ended up changing that to red but here's this purple one which I want to show you right here let me make this bigger I absolutely love this paper and look at how it cut even this looks pretty right and it I'm going to show you the back you can see it cut perfectly so um it's always good to find good good good paper and here it is again you can also see pictures in my profile in design space and that is all there is to print and cut and this cake topper if you wanted to learn how to do it from the beginning all right thanks so much and I'll see you guys next time bye