Cricut Design Space Graduation Cake Tutorial

Hi, it's Ann from the useless crafter. Today's tutorial is going to be in Design Space. I have some ready tomake projects that are available. So, I'll show you how to get to that, but specifically I'm going to show you how to personalize this one um to bring in a photo, but also um to recreate it if you want to from scratch. So, it's going to start out you'll get a little bit of everything and hopefully I think by the end you'll be more used to using Design Space or at least how I use it. All right. So, first let's get started by finding my profile. So, if you're in the main page, what you want to do is um type in the useless crafter. Let's see if it comes up. All right. So, once you search the useless crafter, you have to go and click on profiles. And there I am. So, you want to click on me. And then once you're in here, you can hit follow. I mean, obviously, I'm in my own account, so I can't follow myself, but I'll show you what that looks like. I'll show you. So, here are all the projects. I have 28 that are ready to go. Um, and once you click on it, it's easy to customize the colors and whatever else. Um, but I also want to show you I only follow a handful of people, but one of my favorites is April right here at Lilac Peaches Handmade. And um, you might recognize some of my recent projects. I' I've been doing her stuff because they're just so stinking cute. They're cute little projects. So anyway, those are two profiles. You can check out the rest that I'm the other five that I'm following. Okay. So, let's go into um my profile and we're going to look at this project. So, I did two. This is the one that you just saw me hold up and then this is the cake topper. They're both the same. The the mini this one is just obviously this taken and made it a little bit bigger. So, and I just think it's so cute to put a baby picture in there or a younger picture for whether it's the fifth grade, graduation, or even high school. All right. So, what you want to do is you want to go to customize. And once you're in here, I left the picture so that you can just use you can upload your picture and go in here. So, what you want to do is one, make sure that you like the size. So, for this Hold on. Let me move this little This little dot is to go on top of the hat because you know how it has that little circle. So, um it's seven a little bit over 7 in and about 4 and 1/2 in high. If you want to make it bigger, you can resize it here. Just make sure everything that you want on the cute topper is in here. And you would just resize it. Oops. See, it's not all in there. All right. So, you want to grab the whole thing and resize it together because it's meant to go together. So, if you're going to resize it, this is where you would do it. Okay, I'm going to go and upload a picture. Okay, so I can show you how to do that. So, um here's the picture and here's this one. What you want to do is you want to ungroup it. I grouped it right now so that you can move everything more easily and then you can go in and customize your colors. Um, but to get to the picture specifically, you want to ungroup it. And you want to take out this picture here. And you're going to go to upload. You need to download a picture that you want to use. Okay. So, here I've already have a picture, but I'm going to go to upload image as if I'm doing it from the beginning. You want to click on browse to find the picture that you're going to use. And I think all of my pictures are in my downloads. I think I see it. So, I'm going to just do another one. I'm going to do this one. Um, open and continue. and apply and [Music] continue. I didn't want to do anything. I just want a flat flat graphic because it's just a picture. And I'm going to hit continue. Hopefully, it'll go. I mean, I know it says it's a big file. Okay. Um I'm just going to change this to Charlotte and upload. Okay. So, it's going to come in. It's going to be humongous. It's okay. We're going to fix that. All right, it says it's uploaded, so that's good. Hopefully, we'll get out of this screen in a second. Okay, great. Okay, so I'm just going to I'm going to make this smaller just for the moment. Okay, so here is Charlotte's face. It's really big. So, I'm going to make this photo smaller. Okay, and then I'm going to go back and make this big so that we can see it. Okay. So, here is the picture. Here is the cap. Okay. So, kind of for me, um, go ahead and arrange and bring to the front. You can kind of see that's a good fit, right? So, actually, let's see. Let's bring this to the front. And you saw I swear this is not scripted. Oh my gosh. It's like almost the right size of her face. So, the easy way to do this is this is two inches, right? about 2 in. If you want to just kind of angle it and see um I would go to shapes, bring in um a circle and make it it's it's 2 in, which is about this size. Okay. And then if you change this to um draw with the pen, it gives you and let's bring uh arrange bring to the Oh, it is in the front. Okay. So you can kind of see how if you want to resize that. Let's see if I can make this a different color so we can see it a little bit better. [Music] Um you kind of see it there. Okay. So here is the circle. If you wanted to make this more of her face to fit in there, you can, you know, resize it at that point. But you kind of see where it is. Okay. So I'm going to move this circle. I'm going to move this here and put it on top. And then you're going to grab the two items and you're going to slice. So there's the new picture. This is the one that you're using to cut to slice. So now you can put the cap over arrange. Bring it to the front so you can see what the cap looks like. And it's totally good, right? Okay. So let's we can delete this. So that's if you're bringing in your picture. Now, to make it this big, all you need to do is see how big this is. This is about 3 and 1/2 in. So, you can put your picture back in here. You can put the cap on the way you like it. It's so stinking cute. Um, I do like the way I did this was I had two graduation caps sitting on top of each other. So, I would I would just duplicate this hat so that you have two of them. Okay. So, that's Oops. That's going to fit on this one right here. Okay. So, you're good with that. But to make it bigger, all I would do is I would make a copy of it and then make this the size that you want. And then that's ready to go as a as a mini cake topper photo prop for everyone to keep. That's it's cute, too. So, you can make a bunch of those. They're very easy to do. All right. So, that's all done. Now, if you want to, you can either get off now. Oh, wait. Not yet. Cuz you want to change the colors. So, if you saw on mine, I think I did the word congrats in red. So, this is where you go and you change everything visually for you. so that when you go to cut it, the mat will correspond with the colors that you want to do. Um, and [Applause] then you can click on everything. I think this I made it white. I made the red the word congrats in HTV so that it's all together. I didn't have to worry about how many letters is that eight little itty bitty letters. So, I just did it in HTV and then ironed it on. It was super easy. Um, grad was also Let me go get it so you can see it. Yeah, I can tell you that. I did not put the straw topper on it yet or the stick, but here it is. It's so cute. I I do love this little thing. Okay. Um and if you don't put, you know, the the straw behind here to put it as a cake topper, um like I said, you don't have to use it as a cake topper. I think it's cute as like a photo prop or just make it bigger as a sign, but okay. So, um the letters G R A D. I have it in white. And this is what I would just do so that like I said when it goes to the cutting mat, it's just so much easier to remember what colors you want to do. Um, all the stars I did them kept them in gold. This first layer I did in red and then the second layer I did in white and then you know what? I did one more layer after that and that I did put in here. So you just want to grab everything and do an offset. And I believe I did the offset at point 07. So apply. I like the sharper edges. And click apply. And that layer I did it in black. So there you have it. You've got your That's how you do it. Now if you want to recreate this from scratch with me, I will show you how to do that right now. Okay. So, I will Let's move all these. Let's move her image up so that it's all there ready to go. Um, I'm going to delete this one. And we've got everything here. So, I'm just going to move this so that it's easier to recreate. Okay. Okay. So, the first thing is I always like to go into the images like the image library and I put um I think I just put graduation. Okay. Oops. It would help if I spelled it correctly. Um okay, so graduation and then you know I looked and see what if there's anything that can get me started. So hopefully I can refind this image and if not I can show you how to find it. Um but there's just so many different things that you can that can get you started instead of starting from scratch scratch. So all right I can't find it but it this will be easy to do because I do think okay so this is the original image. Hopefully it will get me there. I'm going to um Oh, no. It's not in there anymore. I wonder if I can find Okay, if you right click on it. Oh, it does. Okay. So, this little banner was part of the thing. So, I'm going to go to image info. I'll show you what it started out as. So, oh no, now I have to find. Okay, what did I This is This is not helping me. Let's go to images and let's just type in congrats, Brad, and see if I can find it. So, you can see there's so many options. And like I said, I love just having a little bit of a head start instead of doing it totally from scratch. All right. I can't believe I can't find it. And if I can't find it, it's going to be a struggle to to really recreate this without that image. I mean, we can do it. Um, but I don't know if I'll be able to find the right font and everything. [Music] Um, I'm really surprised. I really don't see it. And I want to find it. Let me see if there's any other way I can find this. Let me try this again. This one doesn't have it. That should be a pound sign. Maybe this will There it is. Oh my gosh. Okay, so I'm going to add this. Um, this is what it looks like. This is what got me started. I thought it was so cute. Um, but I'll tell you why I messed with it. So, I went from this to this. Very little changes. I wanted to add a picture because a lot of you guys on the live asked for pictures. So, I knew I didn't want the cap attached to it. Uh, cuz I wanted the cap to be on the picture. I don't love like stencils. So, this to me is like a stencil u font. So, I wanted to change that. Other than that, I thought everything else was cute. So, this is what I did with it. So, let's look at this and just make it a little bit bigger. All right, we're going to ungroup it so that we kind of mess with everything. So, first thing is here's this little guy. I didn't like this font. I just want this banner. I'm going to contour it and hide all. So, here is that. [Music] Um, I didn't want this hat here, right? So, what I did was let's bring in a shape. Let's bring [Music] in and I'm going to make this a different color just so that there's a contrast and we can kind of see what's going on. Oh, actually this is not what I did. Hold on. Because I liked everything in gold, I just deleted the black. Okay, because we can do a contour anytime. So, let me move this up so we can see the we can see the whole thing. Okay, so I have my you can see what it starts to look like, right? And then in the text, um I don't remember what text I used, but I will just copy and duplicate that. way up there. Okay, so this text, let's look at the text. It is it's called Corbel. Um, and it's a Cricut font. So, I'm going to get rid of that. Corbell, it's a It's summer. It's a hot mess at my house. Playd date, dogs, food delivery. Okay, let's go in here and you can search Quell. And there it is. Okay, so here's the tax. And I had it congrats in all caps. And I just want to fit it in here for now. And we can go to this. You can see I made this a little bit thicker. So what you want to do is you want to unlock the image and you want to keep the shape. You just want to make it um taller. Okay. So there we have that. Um oh I lost my stars on the side over here. I think I lost that in the image. I'm just going to pretend that it didn't. I must have deleted it without noticing. I can't get that last. We're going to cop copy it and paste it. And I lost that little star, but that's a minor part of this design. Okay. So, here is just pretend it's there. Okay. The next thing is um to me this little circle with the lots of cuts. I feel like that is what is typically um like a given out like as a ribbon award. So, it's in shapes. Here it is. So, I'm just going to add it down here. And I kind of wanted it here. Kind of messing with the size. I still don't even know what size this is. But all I'm doing right now is making sure that this little ribbon metal circle thingy is um the is proportionate to the size of this. So, I think it is. Maybe make it a little bit smaller if you want. Okay, so that's all I had so far, right? And this was my image of Charlotte. So, I'm just going to copy it and drop it down here. So, that's my image of her, right? And then now I'm going to go into images and I want my graduation cap. I might just have to pick one because I don't remember which one that is. Um, it has a little um like widow's peak in the front. And then I didn't want the tassel because if you remember, I created my own tassel like of ribbon of thread and I kind of wanted that to be more realistic looking. So, um, so let's find. So, I I think I chose this cap actually. And what I did was let's just move this down here. I'm going to slice that off. Okay. So, I'm going to bring in just a square. And again, I'm going to change the color just so that I have a contrasting color so I can see the difference between the two. Now, I'm going to rotate this a little bit. And I want it parallel. to my cap. [Music] And I think that's parallel. I'm going to use my arrow key and move it up. And I think that's about right. I'm going to Oops. Okay. Let me go up a little bit more and move it over. Okay. Now, I'm going to grab these two items and I'm going to slice. So, it's not perfect, but now the cap looks pretty good, right? And then all I need to do is go to contour and remove this little island. And now I have my cap. So, I'm going to delete all of this. I've got a cap without the tassel. And I just need to make sure that it's the right size that I want it. That's it. Right. You can tilt. You want because I'm going to do the offset soon. I You want to make sure that you have the cap exactly how you want it. All your elements. Okay. And then we're going to grab this. I'm just going to bring it down a little bit. And we're going to do our first offset. It's 0.07. I want it sharp. I want to apply. So, it's not 007. The reason why I know this is because I'm going to make this bigger so that you can see. Okay. Um, I'm going to make it even a little bit bigger. And we're going to move this over. Let's create that offset. And I'm going to go back to 007 and tell you why I didn't choose 007. Okay. Why is it not moving? Let's see if it will update at this point. Okay. No, it's not. Okay. At 0.05, you see how the there's a space right here? I kind of want to grab to be one full piece. Like so. Um, I didn't want these gaps in between. So, I'm just going to keep making it a little bit bigger. I think I chose 0085, which I'm really close right now. So see maybe maybe I did 0.1. Let's do 0.1. Okay. So at 0.1 I want to make it sharp. It's good. Let's click apply. Okay. What you can do is I have all these little shapes filled in. You could just go to contour and easily hide all and see. Now it's going to be a complete black, which I kind of like for this for this project. All right. I'm changing that to red to match what I had. [Music] Then I didn't do this right. Hold on. Let's delete that for a second. Start start over for a minute here. Um I need to offset my photo. So I'm going to do an offset. So hold. I'm going to get rid of this for now. We're going to do an offset 007. Okay. Um I did my first one in white. And it's not going to be print and cut. It's going to be basic cut because it's just a shape. Okay. So, here's my white. I'm going to do it again. Oops. Offset. And that's going to be red. this time. And then one more offset is going to be black. So, I'm going to click offset, apply, and that's going to be black. Okay. Um, you guys are just going to love me. I only did two offsets on this, so I'm going to delete that. And this one, because I did a red offset, this red I actually did in black. I know. I have it all right here. Okay. Now, I'm going to move this over like so. Move this cap over like this. Now, I'm going to grab everything and do an offset. So, my first offset of the total cake topper, I'm going to go to 0.1. Apply. This is going to be in red. And I'm going to go to contour because I want to fill in all those spaces. I'm going to click hide all. I'm gonna get this. Okay. Then, oh, I didn't like that. Hold on. Let's delete that. Um, I didn't like it because, hold on, let me undo it real quick. I didn't like the way this offset cut off my hat a little bit. So, I think I know what it is. I'm going to delete it. I'm going to redo this offset. I'm kind of glad all these mistakes are happening so that you could see whether or not you like it. Let's go to the rounded corner. Okay. It's so weird that it's doing that because it didn't do that on my original one. Okay. I'm going to go to the rounded and I'm going to do seven. Let's see what that looks like. I'm going to try 0.08. I guess I need to do 0.1. Okay. Okay. So, I'm going to apply keep it in black. Go to contour and hide all. The other day it let me do less than 0.1. I don't know what's going on cuz this is so rounded right here and I don't love that. But I didn't like the pointed shape either. So, let's um All right. So, my first color I did in red. And I did, if you remember, this is HTV. So, it is also red, but not the same red. So, I'm going to click because it's a different material. For now, I'm just going to click it to be a different color so that you could see it. This is in white as well as this. So, I'm grabbing all these, changing it to white. Okay. Then I'm going to grab this whole thing and do another offset. And this offset doesn't need to be as thick. I can go to 7 now. Oops. 0.07. There we go. And apply. If you don't like this little open area right here, you can go to contour, hide this, and this one is going to be in white. And then I did one more offset and that's in black. So pretty easy, right? If you want to like if you want the three layers and then you want to stick the straw behind this black layer, I might cut two black layers just so that that way the back is totally flat and you don't see the straw at all. Um, and that's all that there is to it. 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