How to print then cut full page print then cut Trick your Cricut to print then cut a full page hack

hey everybody and welcome to another qriket craft tutorial this is a video i'm so excited to share with you guys but before we get started be sure you hit that big red subscribe button down below i would love to have you as part of my crafty family here on youtube and don't forget to check out my newsletter over on my website corinneblackstone.com you can also find a lot of free svgs and i created a shop full of some of the svgs that i have designed as well so feel free to check those out i'm going to show you today how to take your cricut from printing and cutting this kind of small page to being able to print and cut a full page of stickers in this video i'm going to use neato brand clear sticker paper i am obsessed with this for sticker paper it's so far been my favorite to work with it's really really nice so glossy and the cricut does a great job cutting it now if you're watching this in march 2021 they are having an incredible sale right now for the month of march which is national craft month so happy national craft month to everybody but you can save 50 off of their 10 packs of sticker paper and all the printables by using the code march 50 march 5-0 or you can save 25 off of all of their other size packs using march 25 march 25 so i'll link everything down below for you guys so that you can get in on this awesome deal but i love these labels if you guys are watching for a while you know that i don't tell you i love something unless i actually love it i've been using these for a while and i'm so pleased with them they're really high quality and really easy to use so let's go over to the computer so i can show you guys how to set it up so that you can cut a full sheet with print and cut so i'm going to show you guys how easy this really is to do you can do this in picmonkey just create a free profile i have a professional profile but you can do this with the free one all you're going to do is go to file create new and you want to go down to where it says blank canvas all the way down at the bottom under all like the snapchats and the instagrams and all those preset sizes are some more options for just print sizes what you want to do is find eight and a half by 11 which is right here select that and you're going to have this eight and a half by 11 page the first thing that i like to do is change my background i'm going to change my background right now to a dark color the reason we're going to do this is it's going to make it easy for us to see our offsets on our stickers as well as the little registration marks that we have to put in the corners so what i'm going to do is pull in some images that i just made for fun i made a couple animal offsets a while back just for something fun so i'm just going to pull in um a couple of those just so we can use them we'll use these little penguins those guys are pretty cute definitely need to size them down they are way too big and then we'll pull in a couple more but we can size a bunch of them down so let me do that really quick all you have to do is drag and drop very simple now that i've pulled in a couple images we can just resize them however big we want them to be for our print then cut because i'm going to do a full page i want to make quite a few just so you guys can see that you really can fit a lot on here so what i can do is copy and paste my image and make sure that they all are going to fit on the page you can again do these kind of however you want you can slide them around twist them turn them whatever works best for you but i think that looks pretty good so i'm just going to do a couple rows of this just so this goes a little bit quicker so i did was copied the whole row and pasted the whole row and then i'm just going to put it right below the other one and do the same thing with another row and again you can do these with any pngs that you have it doesn't matter whatever you want to do should work just fine so there are our designs i think that looks pretty good so the next thing that you'll need to do is to get some squares because we need to put those into each of the four corners this makes sure that our print is gonna print at exactly eight and a half by eleven so what i need to do is go to graphics and all i do is search in the graphics for the word square just choose the solid square it's going to bring the square up and then this graphic menu go ahead and change the graphic color to white and you're going to size it down a whole bunch because this is way too big we just need like a really small square it doesn't need to be anything crazy but we do need to make sure that it gets lined up in this corner this is one of the reasons that i like picmonkey because it'll line it up directly in that corner pretty much for you you just have to um kind of move it and then see how it gives you those red lines and it tells you where it's lined up that's how you know it's lined up in the corner so all i do is do that again the copy and the paste and i'm gonna need to do four total so this is number two i'm gonna get that lined up then i'm to paste again that'll be number three for this corner again you need to put it in all four corners if you don't do all four corners this will not work then go ahead and click paste again and down in this corner once we've done that we need to make sure that we change the background color back to transparent so scroll all the way down and find your black box and if you click on that and click pick color it's going to give you all your color options but right below the color line is the word transparent go ahead and click on that now we're done with this part so what we need to do is download this png so click download you want to make sure that you download it as a png click download i'm just going to call it forest animals and i'm going to put it in to my cricut folder and i'm going to put it under print and cut so that it's easier to find then just click save it'll save it as a png so we're done here on picmonkey now go over to inkscape you can get inkscape at inkscape.org don't be intimidated this part is really really easy if you have troubles with inkscape take notes as i go through this i'm going to try to go through this fairly slowly for you guys because this part's super easy but i know inkscape is scary for a lot of people so what you'll do first is you're going to go to file you want to go to right down here three from the bottom and it says document properties click on document properties there's not a whole lot that we need to do here except that we need to change our page size page size for me always defaults to a4 and it probably does for most people so you want to make sure that you change your page size to us letter you can see it's just a slight looking difference between the a4 and the us letter but the us letter is really important that you use this and there's a reason that we're using inkscape to print i found that this was the easiest way to print without having to worry about any margins from the printer or the printing device so we're going to go ahead and choose the 8.5 by 11 and just close now what you'll do is go to file click on import which is about middle and find the file that you saved so we save these apps woodland creatures i think or forest creatures what do we say forest animals click on that now it's probably going to open really big so don't freak out but right here it says the bitmap image import just click ok you don't have to change anything see how it opens really really large don't freak it's okay what you'll do is up here at the top do you see right here we have a w and then a bunch of numbers a little lock and an h and a bunch of numbers and then you have this m m click on the m m and change it to the i n which stands for inches now what i'm going to do is click on this little lock this is just like the cricut lock so it'll keep everything in the right proportions change the w here to 8.5 now it's going to make it 8.5 by 11 which is exactly what we wanted now just line it up with your box perfection and now all we have to do is print it you don't need to save this or anything just go ahead and click file and right about four from the bottom five from the bottom is print click print you want to make sure that you choose the printer you want to print it to and whatever material you're printing on you'll want to make sure that you have that loaded into your printer then simply click print i don't have my material loaded yet so i got to go do that but this part's super easy just make sure you have the printer selected so let me go do that i'm going to do these on some neato labels this next step is super important we're going to go into our cricut design space and open up a shape and use a square what we're going to do is unlock our square which you can do either down here in the lower left hand corner or up at the top right between the width and the height we need to make the width 8.5 inches and the height 11 inches this is the square that we're going to use to make our template on our mat this is really easy but make sure that you do this step or your print and cut isn't going to work on a full sheet so all i'm going to do now is click make it i'm going to click continue right now and we're going to do this on the medium card stock setting but i'm going to show you guys how to set up the mat so that you can cut the template for this part i really recommend using an older mat you really don't want to use a newer mat because we're going to use some painters tape and that occasionally will kind of damage the mat you can use a new mat if you have extras but i'm just going to use this old mat it'll be fine so what you're going to do is take your painters tape and i recommend using a pretty wide stance painters tape i think this is the inch and this is just blue painters tape nothing's crazy but you want to make sure that you that you tape all the way across for eight little over eight and a half inches almost i usually try to do nine and then you're going to tape all the way down 11. so watch this so what we're going to do is line this up it doesn't have to be exact but it does help to line it up with the top as neatly as you can and then i'm going to use a longer piece down here you want to make sure that it does go past the 11 because again the cricut does give you a little bit of a um spot like uh i think it's 0.25 inches so about a quarter of an inch where it is not gonna cut so then i'm gonna go down this side now here i like to start right at about eight just to be safe and then i go another row over and you'll understand why it's kind of hard to show you guys exactly why we do this but you'll understand when it goes to cut this out why we do this so i do overlap a little bit it doesn't need to be a ton but i do overlap just a little bit there and then i want to put another row down here at the bottom and i want to make sure that i go all the way across now i can see where my old tape set so this makes it a little bit easier but you'll want to make sure that you have a good kind of border around this i usually do about an inch on this side an inch at the bottom an inch at the top and then i try to do a little more of an inch on that side now what we're going to do is load this into our cricut remember we cut this we set this to cut on medium card stock let me pull my cricut in for you guys and all i'm gonna do is load this and we're just gonna hit go and it's gonna cut that square out well i guess it's a rectangle but we'll let it go ahead and cut that rectangle out [Music] once it's done cutting go ahead and unload it i'm going to go ahead and close my machine up for you guys real quick that way we can move it out of the way and what you need to do now is peel off the inside of the tape not this side you want to peel off what's on the inside so what i tend to do is i'll either get a pin pen or the cricut weeding tool whatever i've got on hand and you'll see that there's an edge where it cut and you're going to go ahead and peel up that edge now i set it to medium card stock so that it would cut through both layers when i had a couple spots where it was double layered now i don't know if you guys can see this but do you see how it's damaging my mat it's pulling up some of the green this is an old old cricket mat so that's part of the problem but again just be aware that you really don't want to use a new mat for this because this will probably damage your mat so what i do is i just use this old mat it works fine and if it's not quite sticky enough you can always hold your um paper down with another piece of painters tape so what i'm doing now again just peeling the inside not the outside the inside so you see how you have this thin line over here and you want to be careful because you don't want to peel off too much because you need to make sure that you keep the border of your painters tape because your sticker paper or whatever you're printing cutting on in this case we're printing and cutting on neato sticker paper needs to be able to fit inside so i'm just double checking making sure i got all sides perfect now let's go back over to qriket design space because we need to load the png into qriket design space now that you've cut that out go ahead and just click finish we don't actually need this square anymore so you can just delete it now we're going to go to upload and we're going to click upload image click browse and what we're going to do is go in to our print and cut folder or wherever you saved your item your png that you downloaded from picmonkey go ahead and find that png from picmonkey so remember i called it forest animals now it's going to bring up this i just choose complex it really doesn't matter click continue and don't touch anything leave it don't click on anything just click continue when it brings up this page whether it wants you to do the print then cut or whether it wants you to do this one which is the cut image we're going to select the cut image now i see i have a little bit of a weird spot here in the squirrel i might fix that before we go and finish our print and cut but whatever it's fine so you want to do this one you want to do the cut image go ahead and click upload select this one which looks like just black blobs and insert your image now again it might insert huge don't worry totally okay what i'm going to do is change my width to 8.5 it should change your height to 11. now it says it's 11.4 so it might be off just a hair but it'll be okay but we do have these weird holes in the squirrel and i'm just going to get rid of those really quick by using contour i don't know where those came from but i really don't want them so i'm just going to find all these little holes and click on them and it'll get rid of the holes in the squirrel i guess when i made the png it probably had that little open space and i didn't notice so now that our holes are gone we can go ahead and click continue what we're gonna do is click on the word make it you're going to leave it as a cut image you're not going to move it on the screen at all don't touch it don't move it click continue now you want to set it to cut whatever material you printed on so in this case i'm using the neato sticker paper which worked really well on sticky note i've done it on a couple other settings but sticky note has really been the best one that i've tried sticky note and sometimes i use more pressure so you may want to play around with your paper that you're going to print and cut on before you actually commit to doing this so let me take you back over to the machine i'm going to show you how to put the sticker paper on there and then we're going to cut it out here's the sticker paper that i'm using this is the neato clear gloss paper and sometimes we all know cricut can be really a pain when it comes to glossy paper so this is a great way to get around their machine not really reading our marks so what we want to do is we want to make sure that we line up our sticker paper inside this area so what i like to do is i will press it against this edge of painters tape both in both these corners and just get it so it's straight as i can get it and i think i need to peel it up i don't think i got it quite right in the one corner so let me just i've got a little bit of a fuzz on here so let me get that off there's an old piece of paper from one of the cuts that i tested with so what you want to do again you just want to make sure that you get this as straight as you can as even as you can if you're having problems getting it straight just peel it up it's okay you need to make sure this part is done correctly if it's not it's not going to print and cut correctly that looks better much much better okay so now because i am using an old mat i do want to make sure that i press this down really really well i will put my sleeve over my hand to do this because sometimes the ink might get on your hands but you can do this with your hands as well the neato sticker paper is great because it really doesn't run but i do like to try not to get too much of my oils from my hands on this now if you are concerned about your paper peeling up because you used an old mat you can just use a little piece of painters tape and i will usually use this right at the very very tippity top and you just want to make sure that you don't cover these corners because it is going to cut those but that's okay we want it to and you want to make sure that you're not covering any of your sticker when you do this so anywhere that it's going to cut anywhere on that offset so i just put just a little bit of tape along each edge again this is just because i'm using an old mat i should use a newer mat but i don't like to ruin them with the painters tape if i don't have to let me pull the cricut machine back in for you guys and we're going to get this cut so again i set this to sticky note and we are going to go ahead and cut this on our qriket maker you can do this with the cricut explore as well so don't worry you can absolutely do this with either or um i will say by adding these rhinestones you guys are i'm sure gonna ask about those it does make the lid open a little bit slower so sometimes they just give it a little push so now what you're gonna do is just load it like you would any other time you load material and don't get discouraged if your print and cut doesn't work right the very first time this took me like four or five tries to get it right so don't fret if it's not exactly right the first time just keep trying i do say use like cheap paper card stock the first time you do this do not use like your good sticker paper you don't want to do that so i'm gonna show you guys what it's gonna do so now it's gonna not instead instead of like reading the print and cut lines like it should it's gonna cut out our squares in our corners now i watch this and babysit this one because if it starts to cut off and crazy i will cancel it but it should with any luck cut really nicely around our designs now again with this i do recommend having some form of an offset around your stickers it does give you a little bit more leeway for any kind of just slight off measuring that may happen when you place your design on to your mat so do recommend an offset if you're doing these but this is a great way to trick your your qriket into doing a full page print and cut i'll let you guys finish watching this cut [Music] let's go ahead and unload our stickers and i'm going to show you guys this because this is amazing i think this is going to blow your minds this is pretty cool so make sure that you don't remove this if you want to continue to do the print and cut but you can redo this anytime but i like to keep one mat that just has the template for my oversized printing cuts on it so i like to just be very careful when removing this extra painters tape like i said you just need to be super like conscious of the border that you created again if you need to redo it you saw it's very easy it just takes a few pieces of painters tape it's pretty simple to do not really anything that you need to worry too too much about but if you want to keep it just be really gentle when removing this painters tape if you end up with a little bit like at the top you can just peel that off or just leave it it doesn't really matter it doesn't get in the way now what we can do is take our stickers off i like to flip my mat over and remove my stickers by bending my mat now these i did as a die cut which is why i use the sticky um note setting i like a die cut sticker so i can peel these either way but i'll show you this way so you guys can see it better but look at this this is a full page a full page whoops it looks like it didn't cut that squirrel quite as well there we go he was just stuck by his little ear no big deal that is a full page printing cut my friends this is an eight and a half by eleven sheet of neato sticker paper the neato sticker paper is amazing and look look how little paper that wasted could i fit more on this probably if i really wanted to squish and squeeze and stuff but that is a full sheet print the cut that is eight and a half by eleven and a full sheet i'm gonna go ahead and peel some of these guys off for you look how cute and this sticker paper is so nice you see how glossy it is it's thick it's heavy i love it works really great the backing is nice such good quality paper now if you are watching this in march of 2021 it is national craft month so just be aware that the neato sticker paper is on sale their 10 packs are 50 off using code march 50 and you can shop that through the link in the description so you can get that discount and then also they're offering their 25 packs or bigger packs for 25 off which is going to be code march 25. again you'll shop that link in the description to get those discounts but look at this these things are so nice i love them guys neato is a fantastic company i really like their product i wouldn't push their product if it wasn't nice this is a great quality sticker paper it's definitely a good alternative to using printable vinyl if you wanted to make just stickers because printable vinyl might be a little bit overkill but what i love about these stickers is that they are clear they are glossy they are really really super clear some of the glossy ones get a little bit like frosted but these are really really really clear really nice super super pretty so this was a label for the product that i was using in case you want to know what it is what i love is it's made in the usa for me that's something super important and i really love that i can get a really nice sticker paper these are both inkjet and laser compatible which is awesome so if you have a laser printer you don't need to buy an inkjet printer which i love and i think that's a super helpful thing that you can have because you usually have to buy one or the other and it's super super annoying i hope you guys had so much fun learning this really cool hack if you have any questions at all let me know in the comments down below i'm always happy to answer those for you this is one of my favorite things that i learned to do on my cricut because it does save me some materials i'm able to get a few more stickers out of my sticker paper than i would normally using the qriket print then cut if you don't know qriket print and cut really limits you to only 6.75 by two five in this one we were able to go eight and a half by eleven and we could fit a ton more stickers onto our sticker paper i hope you guys had so much fun here learning this awesome qriket hack have a great day and happy crafting [Music] you

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Length: 24min 24sec (1464 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 11 2021