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You will notice small notches on the top, bottom, and center of the stand. We’ll use these later to mark our fold lines to score by hand when we set up the stand. A: You can use the steps from my tutorial to trace your DIY cut out characters on to cardboard, too!
Clean your work area Make sure your work area is well lit. If you are working with white paper, make sure your hands are clean. To reinforce our big cut out characters we’ll use these big plastic sheets. You could use foam core sheets instead, but it won’t cut as neatly or look as polished when you’re done. More on that a little later.. Now I need to cut the layers that are too big down into mat-sized pieces. I'll start with the base layer. Since the grid squares are in 1/2" increments, I can easily start at the bottom left, and round up to the nearest inch or half-inch in both the X and Y fields at the top. With your ruler and your burnishing tool or Cricut Scoring Stylus, make your score lines.Dent the plastic but try not to cut through it.Once that’s finished, I will group and hide that layer. Then I’m going to unhide the layer with all the other pieces, we hid earlier and “ungroup” that. Then I will repeat the same steps to slice the larger pieces of my santa hat and the iceberg. There are five pieces in all. One thing I wish it had was a little bit more storage, maybe on the sides under the tray. I’d love a place to put all of my Cricut Venture accessories—the mat supports, the cleaning kit, etc. It would just be nice if everything could be housed on the stand itself vs. elsewhere in my craftroom.
Right now, the teal body layer of my penguin is sitting at about X: 5.5 and Y: 9. Your X and Y numbers might not match exactly to mine, because your teal layer might be in a different position on the canvas. That’s ok. You just want to make sure you line up the left bottom corner of the bounding box of that layer at the inch or half-inch mark. That’s how we can make sure the alignment of the squares is just right! Use the fields at the top to put yours in the same spot if you'd like. The catch baskets are really wonderful when working with Cricut Smart Materials and so far, I’ve had a lot less dog hair on my projects than I did when I was using my Cricut Maker 3 and the materials would just end up on the floor. Definitely my favorite feature. Absolutely not! You can use your Cricut Venture on a sturdy table. The biggest thing to know is that the machine needs to go at the edge of the table to allow for the mat to move up and down as its cut at a 45° angle. Good thing, all tables have edges, so just slide the machine to the edge and you’re good to go. If you’ve sized your penguin just like I have, he will fit on one sheet of corrugated plastic. Otherwise, repeat with additional pieces of plastic sheets as necessary, then use Scotch Tape to tape the plastic sheet pieces together.Here’s what the pre-sliced stand template looks like on the Design Space canvas. I zoomed out a bit to see the whole design. A: Each day in December leading to Christmas, I present you with a brand new “gift”— a project to craft, make, or do. You can make these projects on a Cricut cutting machine or by hand if you don’t have one. Most of our Merry Maker Mingle projects will come with a fun video with yours truly, a step-by-step printable photo tutorial, and a free pattern/SVG cut file. Sign up to get daily updates and prizes! Get my free SVG files to create DIY Cut Out Characters Compatible with your home inkjet printer to print then cut full-color designs up to 61 cm x 71 cm (24 in x 28 in)
In addition to the fine-point blade, you'll need a single scoring wheel or scoring stylus to add the included crease alignment lines to the template. I'm using the stylus. We'll blend the seam using a smooth metal tool, like the ball-tip stylus in the tool list. A spoon also works! Press and blend the thin cut edges together until they seamlessly merge. This is called burnishing, even though we also use that term when transferring vinyl to other surfaces. If you're working on a soft wood surface, place a self-healing mat under the seam to protect it from the pressure. I’ll start with the red layer, add and align the squares over top. Before I slice I will duplicate the squares so I can use them for the next piece and so on. This next step is the key to cutting a larger than mat image! You want to break apart the images that are too large into mat-sized pieces. Here’s how! I decided to make a DIY printer stand that had built-in spaces designed to fit my Cricut Explore Air 2 and Cricut Maker, too. Since the printer is slightly smaller than the Cricuts, I could also fit some additional things on top of the shelving.Miter saw (If you don’t have a saw, you can have the nice folks at Home Depot or Lowes cut for you since these are very simple cuts) Using a craft knife, cut out the outer shape of the stand, and the inner flap shape, making sure NOT to cut where your score lines will be. Oh, and if you’re wondering, this is the printer I got. I did a lot of research on the perfect printer for my needs. Something that I could do regular office stuff on, but something that I could also use for printing for crafting needs. Specifically, print-then-cut vinyl designs. This printer is very compact and works really well as a desktop printer. Plus it was really affordable. Here’s what I used for my project!
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