whatever we want. And we do it just for fun. Hi, everybody. I'm Corinne Blackstone
and welcome to my craft room. So excited to have you here today. Before we get started, make sure
that you're subscribed here on YouTube. It is completely free to subscribe
and I would love to have you as part of my crafty family. now, in today's video, we are going to be talking
specifically about print and cut, but we're going to be talking a lot
about print cut hacks. Plus, I also am going to show you
how to fill your entire sheet. Look at how filled up
this is with designs. This was cut with the cricut. And I have some templates
that you can get for free to help you fill up your entire sheet over
corinneBlackstone.com I will link it down
below in the video's description. That way you can download them. I have one for every size
and I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to get this to you, but let me tell you,
it took me forever to actually make them. I kept having to test and mess them up
and it was an adventure, but I got them done finally. So now they're ready for you guys and it's
going to save you so much material. You can see we only wasted it. Really? The corners on this one. So I'm really excited
for you to get these. We're also going to talk about a few other
like little hacks and things that I've kind of figured out
throughout the years with my cricut. So let's go ahead and get started. We are starting here in design
space as always for this tutorial, and we're going to go over some printing
cut hacks that I think everybody should know about
because these are super easy to do. They really save you some time
and some materials. So the first thing
we're going to talk about is how can we fit more of our stickers
onto one sheet? But of course
we need to upload some stickers first. So let's go ahead and do that. We're going to be using this adorable
animal sticker set from creative Fabrica to do this. You can give
this was really any images that you want, but I just want to find something fun
and different. So I will link the design to below
if you want to grab it. And then I'll also link below a free trial
that you can sign up for. You get ten free downloads
to try out, create a fabrica. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to click on download and it's going to bring up a folder
and ask me where I'd like to save this and save it into my cricut folder. And then I have a print, then cut folder,
save it into that. Now, for mine,
I like to just sort of change the name because I don't need the numbers
at the end of it. No worries about that. And then I also really don't need
the sublimation or the clip art, so I'm just going to leave it as animal
hugging heart and click Save. Now I need to extract this folder
because they do come zipped, which means that they're compressed. So what I have to do from here is just
click extract all and click extract. Now it's going to take a second
because this is kind of a big folder. It's got a lot of animals in it and it's going to open up the folder
that is now extracted. You'll see the difference in the folder. This one has this little pink above it
and then this one doesn't want to close the folder
that has the pink, and then we'll pull our animals
from this folder here. Now we'll head back over to design space and I'll show you
how to upload some of them. So back over here in design space,
all we simply have to do is click upload and then you want to click upload image
and you can either browse for them, but I personally prefer to drag and drop
because it's a little bit quicker. make sure that you've kept
your folder open and then from here you can just pick
and choose which ones you want to print. I'm of course going to pick the penguin, so I just drag it
and drop it over in to my design space. Now you'll notice that you have some options Simple, moderate,
moderately complex or complex. Go ahead and pick complex. Now, we don't need to do anything
with this. We don't have any backgrounds
to remove or anything like that because these are already designed
to be printed cut stickers, but they are going to be quite large
when we upload them. And one way to tell
how large it's going to be is this checkered background in the back,
like back here. See how like tiny
those little checkers are? That's really giving you an idea on
how big this sticker is going to be. But don't worry, we'll resize them. So just click apply and continue. Now, again, because these are fairly
large, high quality images, it might take a minute for you
to get them to load over on this screen, but once they load,
you're going to select this one right here,
which is going to be your print. Then you'll see this full color. Select that image and click upload. Now, I'm going to go ahead and upload the rest of the animals
because it's going to take a little while. I don't think you guys need to watch me
upload all of them. But again, this is a little bit of a slow process when you're using really high
quality images. once you have as many designs as you want,
all you simply need to do is under your recent uploads, select
each of your images. So I've got five and I'm going to click
Add to canvas. Now, again, this could take a moment
just because these are such a large image now, these are gigantic, as you can see. So since they're all currently selected,
all I'm going to do is resize them. So you can see up here at the top under
size, I'm just going to make them all
five inches wide. Will resize them again in a few minutes just so that they'll all fit
and we have like the right sticker size. But this is going to make it easier
for us to work with them to begin with. So right now I've got this cute
little penguin, a little dinosaur, a hedgehog, a toucan,
and we have a little froggy. Now with these types of designs,
they're technically made for sublimation. So what you may see is some images where there are parts
that stick out from the image, meaning that they're not actually
physically attached to the design. So you'll see here, like with the frog,
everything is within the frog's body. But if you look here at the two can what you'll see is
you've got these little hearts that are not actually part of the two key
and they're not touching him. So you'll need to add a offset or you may need to remove them completely so that you don't have these little
tiny pieces that are cut individually because they're probably not going to cut well and they're going to be really small,
so they're going to be fairly useless. There's a couple of ways to do this. So what you can do is you can use a shape and for something like this,
I would use a circle. And what I want to do
is I'm going to go ahead and slice the little hearts out,
meaning remove them. It's going to make my circle really small. And you want to make sure that your circle
doesn't touch any parts of your toucan. So right now you can see I'm fitting it over the heart here
and it's perfectly fine. It's not touching any of the two can. Do you want to select both of the items
and click the word slice? Now you're going to need to do this
a couple of times to remove all of the different pieces
that maybe we don't want in our toucan. So what you can do is just start again with a new circle and we can remove
all of these little hearts. I really just don't want to deal with
them. I'll leave this little guy here
so that I can show you what I mean When I say that
we need it to use a offset. But I'm going to get rid of the two
over by his tail. And you can just see
I put that circle on top and I choose the word slice, and then
it removes the items you can see here. Now I can just delete these three pieces
and we don't have those anymore. So that's definitely one option
that you can use. Now, another option is that you can use
offsets. Now, I personally really like
to have an offset with my stickers. I like the look of it. I think it just looks
a little more polished. And that way, if they're putting it on
something that's maybe a different color, maybe it's not white,
maybe it's black, maybe it's green. Maybe they're using it on a laptop case
by adding that little offset, it's going to just pop that sticker off of whatever
they put it on just a little bit more. So I'm going to do an offset
on our two can. First. Now, I don't like to use this
create sticker option. It's much easier
if you just use the offset because create sticker literally just does
the same thing we're doing here. So I'm going to click Offset. Now, this can take a moment to load,
especially when you're using a sticker that has a lot of good detail. Now, what's great about this is you
can always adjust the size of your offset. Now, this is a personal preference. I do tend to like a thinner offset, so I'm going to kind of thin out my offset
a little bit. But you'll notice that sometimes
it gets a little bit funny. Even though I told it,
I wanted to go thinner. Do you see how it's actually thicker? This is the joys of working with cricut
designs. These sometimes. So if it's not working the way
that you want it to and it's giving you really weird like offsets
and things simply just hit cancel and you may still have an offset
and just move the little guy and the offset will go away. It can be a little bit glitchy, so just play with it a little bit
until you can get it to work. Now, sometimes it's just not going to and you may just have to close
the whole program and restart. So for example, right here,
you can see it went big, but this time it went a little bit smaller. That's what I wanted it to do. I don't want a really big offset, but I don't want it
to cut this little slit here. So I'm going to make this
just a little bit bigger. I'm just going to go to like point
eight 0.089 and we'll see if that kind of closes up
this little gap right here. But again, personal preference, it can totally cut that out for you
if that's what you would like it to do. It's really up to you. But again, you see that offsets
being a little bit weird today. So I'm just going to go ahead and leave it because sometimes it's not worth arguing. Now, what we can do with our offset is we can go ahead
and change the color of it. So if we don't want it black,
you can make it any color that you want. So if you want a yellow offset,
actually that looks kind of cool. You can do a gray, you can do pink,
you can do whatever you want. I actually really kind of
like the yellow with the toucan. I think that's really cute. And I think we'll do that
just so you can get a better idea of what the offsets going to look like. I'm going to go a little bit brighter
on that offset. And one thing I'm also going to do
is I want to move him out of the way just so you can see the offset
and you see it's his full shape. Everything we do have a little spot
in between his legs that I think I'm going to go ahead and remove Now. In order to remove that,
what you'll need to do is go up to the operation
and I want you to change it from print, then cut to basic cut. Now it's going to change the color, which is sort of annoying,
but we can change it back then. I want you to go over to Contour and all we have to do is simply click
on this little spot between his legs, then go back to your operation,
change him back to print, then cut, and then you can go ahead
and change his color back. Then just line him back up. Now, if you having trouble getting it
lined up perfectly again, select both items. Go to a line and just choose Center. Now we have one more step in order
to make this a full sticker. So that it will cut correctly. And what we're going to do
is use our flatten option. Clicking. Flatten just tells Cricut
that that's one piece and that's how we want it to cut. We want to cut around the yellow. Now there are some other stickers here
that aren't going to need an offset like this frog. He's got really good lines all around him. He doesn't have any like little tiny,
wispy pieces. Same with the dinosaur. I think he'll be okay without an offset. I'm not going to go ahead and add one. But one thing I want to check for
is any transparent areas. So by doing that, I'm just going to click
Blank Canvas and I'm going to change my color here
and I'm going to change it to blue. And that's going to help me see if there's
any blue showing through my design. There's not. So that's fine. I'm going to go ahead
and just change this Back to White. Now with the penguin here,
we've got all these little wispy hairs. So adding an offset to
that is going to assist in our cut setting and allowing it to cut a lot cleaner. So I'm just going to add a little offset
to our penguin. Again, I don't want a really big one. Hopefully it won't glitch. Too bad, but I want to just do kind of a
smaller offset and I'll leave this offset. White Because I think that
that'll look really good with him. But now you can see instead
of cutting little teeny tiny pieces, it's going to cut a little bit
of a thicker design. Now, currently it looks like our offset
doesn't exist, but if I go back and change that canvas color again, you can see
our offset is currently right there. When you choose print, then cut. It gets rid of the black outline and it can make it
look like the offset doesn't exist. We go ahead and attach. Now, I do want to do an offset
on this guy as well because he does
have all those little spikes. So that's something to think about
when you're doing this is what's it going to cut and how sharper
the lines because with stickers, less sharp lines are better. So that's a quick little hack
to think about is less sharp lines. You want round lines, you don't want
anything super crazy, super sharp Now that we've got the offsets
on the couple of stickers we want to do offsets on so you can get
some interesting ideas on how that works. We're going to go ahead and upload
a template. Now. I created these templates for you.
Just took forever. I'm not going to lie.
That's why they came out so late. But I created some templates that fit
with the new print, the cut sizing. So if you go to Karen Blackstone dot com,
you can download those templates and they're going to save you
a lot of hassle. So what you'll do is download them
and unzip them, then click upload and you want to upload the image. Now I have included
SDGs and PNGs for these. That way you have several options. Now I'm going to be just using some
regular old letter sized paper nominees. The PNG file. The PNG file tells you exactly what size
this should measure just in case. For some reason, design space doesn't size
it correctly because sometimes it doesn't. And I'm going to click continue and all I have to do from here
is just click, apply and continue again. Now, again, just like with print and cut,
you want to save it as the print, then cut image and click upload. Now we're not actually going to print
and cut this off. This is just a template.
So add it to your canvas. Now again, check the sizing because it may
size really weird for some reason. Sometimes it uploads giant
and sometimes it uploads correctly. I don't know why,
so it's obviously too big. You can tell by the size and guide here
what it tells you to size it at. So what I want you to do is make sure you lock the lock right here
in the middle of your size options. Just click it and then you want to
change your width to 7.44. That should have your height go the correct dimension
because everything should size the same. Now I'm going to go ahead and change
my canvas color just back to white. So it's a little easier
to see our template against it. Now, this template don't change the sizing
because this is exactly the size in which we can cut with on our paper. You want to right click on your template
and you want to send it to the back. Now what we can do is take our stickers
and lay them out onto our template so that we're able to fit
as many as we want. Now, I don't want to make really
big stickers. I don't need big stickers, so I'm
just going to size them down pretty small. I usually like to go up to two,
maybe like one and a half inches. It just sort of depends on the sticker
or the shape of the sticker, all that type of stuff. Now you want to leave
a little bit of spacing between your stickers
because for this one, for example, we're going to need to do
what's called Bleed. And we'll talk about that
in just a minute. So I'm going to
go ahead and size this down. And again,
you can size them however you want. Whatever works for you,
and we're going to make many of them. So don't worry
if we make some that are really small. I just want to try to show you that
we can fit a ton by using this template because we're able to actually kind of
put them into these corners, which you can't do without the template
Now what we can do is copy and paste as many of them as we want to
and fill in our entire sticker sheets. I'm going to go ahead and just I'm using
control C in control V on my keyboard, but you do what works for you
and I'm just going to copy and paste now. I am going to size my penguin down
a little bit. I think maybe. I don't know, we'll see. But I can change the sizes
on these stickers and that way I can place
as many as I want to on my page. So I'm going to go ahead
and get these all set out and then show you what our next step is now before we use, attach or Flatten
to hold these in place. What I want to show you is what happens
if we click make it right now, because it's going to rearrange everything
from what we said it to be and it's going to set it
the way that it thinks that it should fit on to
its printable area. You'll notice here that it lines them up
and kind of fits them. It's a little bit weird
into our design area. Don't like it. Not how I want it
set up something to click cancel. I'm going to go back and we're going to
use either flat or flatten or attach. Now it just sort of depends on you
and which one you like to do and designs me sometimes doesn't
always like one or the other. It's been a little glitchy today,
so I think I'm going to try attach and just see if that works
a little bit better. You'll notice that it looks like it
disappears. It's just because it's updating and
it's just been a little bit slow today. once everything is attached. Now when you click make
it will hold everything in place and fit it on to the page. The way you have it set. That way you're not stuck with it wasting tons of material
because we don't want to be doing that. Now what you'll see is it hasn't moved our stickers at all,
which is exactly what we wanted it to do. So from here we can actually just hit,
continue and print our design. Now I'm just going to be printing this
on some regular old sticker paper. I'll link
everything that we're using down below. So what we're going to do for
this is I'm going to choose send a printer,
which is this big green button right here. Now, there's a couple of settings
that we need to use with these stickers to make sure
that they come out really, really great. And this is one of those other
little like hack things that I think is going to really help you
when it comes to stickers. Now, remember, we didn't put an offset
around the frog or the dinosaur, and we're also using a yellow offset
around our toucan. So in order to make sure
that we don't have any of the white showing around our stickers, we're going
to be using what's called bleed. And Bleed basically just pushes the color
out from the stickers and I'll show you exactly what that looks like after we print them
so that you can see the difference between
the ones that we use a white offset with versus the ones that we didn't do
any offset with. Now, typically when you add bleed,
you're going to want to only do that with stickers
that don't have any white offset. But because we mixed these together,
we can leave the bleed on. Then what I want to do
is I'm going to turn on my system dialog. This is the true test to making sure
that you get the most amazing print from your stickers. And this is something that I do
with everything that I print. Now hit print. It won't send it to your printer
right away. What it's going to do is it's going
to bring up our printer preferences. Once it brings up your printer preferences
and if for some reason it's sitting and spinning for a really long
time, look behind your other programs. Sometimes it doesn't
pop it up right in the front. You want to make sure that you're
selecting the correct printer that you're using. And for me, I use an Epson Ecotank 2720. It's an inkjet printer. I'm going to go to preferences and this is
where you need to change some settings. Now you're going to want to play around with your settings a little bit
because they may not be exactly like mine, depending on what kind of sticker paper
you are using. Now I'm going to be using the star craft. So what I'm doing is I go to paper type
and I change it to the premium presentation paper matte. Then I want to change my quality
from standard to high. I always double check
and make sure color is selected. You also want to make sure
that you are looking at any of your other print settings
that may kind of mess with your stickers. Make sure you have the correct document
size selected. So I want to make sure
that my letter size is selected. If it's the wrong size, it's
going to mess up your print and you're going to have to reprint it
and waste ink and materials. So double check that. Now we're going to go under more options. Under more options,
we're going to do a couple other things. And these are super easy. All we're going to do is just turn off
high speed. So I guess
we're only going to do one thing. But you want to turn off high speed print. Now, it may say bio directional printing. That's the same thing. Now, also, if you don't have
all of these settings like I do, you probably did not install the drivers
for your printer properly. And that's okay. It happens. All you simply need to do is
go to your printer manufacturer website. So I would go to epson's website and you can look up the drivers
for your printer and reinstall them. That way you make sure you have all of the printer
settings that you possibly can have. Now I have had lots of printers
and I will say that the Epson prints the best for me. But if you have a canon or whatever and
you like that, by all means stick with it. But if you're looking for a new printer,
I will link some of the Epson eco tanks that I really like down below for you because I find these to be
the best quality printers on the planet. Now, from here always to do is click
print to send it to my printer. Now click on that. Right the second, because I don't have my sticker
paper loaded, but once we print it out, I'm
going to show you what that looks like. Show you the bleed and I'll take you over to the machine
so you can see how we cut these out. Another great hack that you can use with
your printing cut is to cut the laminate
so that it doesn't cover up your lines. Some cricuts
have a little bit of an issue if you cover the lines with a glossy
laminate, holographic laminate. So we're going to use that
same template that we used. So just go to upload and
all you have to do is find the template that you used and select
it and add it to the canvas. You don't have to do anything too crazy
with this. It's pretty simple. And then all we're going to do
is change the operation for it. Once it loads, once it loads. Of course, we need to change the sizing
because, you know, design space. So I'm going to change that down to 7.44. Then what I need to do is I'm
just going to change this from print. The cut all the way over down here
to basic and simple as that. We can cut the laminate
using this template. So all I have to do from here is click,
make it, and then we're going to cut out
some holographic laminate. And I'm just going to cut it out,
simple like this. Now you can cut this on the vinyl setting,
but I actually really just want it to cut completely through the backing
just to make it a little bit easier to apply to my design
and to waste a little bit less vinyl. So what I'm going to do
is I'm actually going to cut this on the heavy cardstock setting. That way it cuts through the vinyl
and through the backing, and then I'll show you a couple of tricks on how we can put this laminate
on to our stickers. first thing we're going to cut
is the laminate, because this is a really easy hack, Just going to make it easier to make sure
that you don't get any laminate over the lines if you're having trouble
with your cricut, reading the lines. So this is one really helpful tip
if your cricut really does have trouble reading lines. I've never really had too much of an issue,
but this is a great hack. Now I am again
putting this on heavy cardstock because I want to make sure
it cuts through the backing since we're not really trying to like
cut too much and that way it'll save a little bit of vinyl
by doing that. So I'm going to go ahead and load this in. We're going to cut this again
on heavy cardstock, Let that cut through. Well, lay it on to our stickers and then I'll talk
about some other options that you can use. If you're having trouble
with your reading lines once it's done cutting,
it should cut through all the layers of your vinyl
so you can see here cut through. So I'm going to go ahead and unload this. I'm going to take this piece
of my vinyl off and I'm also going to take the backing off now, make sure that you're kind
of rolling your mat away, that we don't roll your vinyl and you can keep this for,
you know, something else, another project, and I'll move everything out of the way
really quick because now what we're going to do is place
the laminate on top of our stickers we've got our stickers
and we have our laminate. Now what you'll see
is that our laminate fits in between the lines of our stickers. You're going to want a squeegee for this
portion because we are going to use that. I'm going to turn my stickers opposite me. It doesn't really matter.
You can do it from the top or the bottom. But what I like to do
is I'm going to peel my vinyl off of the backing and I'm just going to peel
like the top little section. So I just feel kind of right about where
the stairs are. I call them the stairs. I'm not really sure
what I should call them, but the little steps at the top
and then I fold this portion down so that I can access
just a little bit of our stick. Then all I want to do
is I'm going to get this lined up in between
and I want to get it as straight as I can. And I'm just going to lay it down
very gently. And then all I want to do
is press this down. I think I got it a little off,
but it'll be okay because
it's still not going over the lines. And this is just
a little bit of the bleed, which actually before I get this finished,
I forgot to show you the bleed. So let me get you an up close look. Do you see? It's a little difficult to see,
but do you see around our little froggy, there's like a little edge of extra ink. You can also see it around our dinosaur
just a little bit. Just a little extra ink. And then same
with along the edge of our two can. It's a little wider. That is what the bleed does. It pushes out the color from your design
just a little bit so that you don't end up with any white
on your design. Now, now that I've also showed you that,
let me go ahead and get the sticker or the laminate down. So what I do, and it's hard to see
because this always folds over, I'm using my squeegee
and I'm pressing my laminate down and I'm just going to go nice and slow
in little increments, and I'm just slowly
pressing that laminate down. Now it is going to fold over my hand
regardless of what I try to do to it. So I got to hold it down over here
if you guys want to see all of the steps. But as you can see, all I'm doing
is just very gently pressing down. And I'm doing this in very small sections. That way we don't end up with any bubbles. So I'm going go ahead and finish this
and then we can get this all cut out. That was the perfect application. Came out really, really good. So now you can really see I don't know
how about you guys can see, but the little shine is not over
our registration lines. one thing I want to make sure we go over is just a couple other things
that you can do in order to ensure that your lines might be red
if you're having issues. Now, like you said,
I very rarely have issues, but one thing you can do
is take a Sharpie marker and just trace very carefully
over your registration line. Another option
is if you're using a glossy sticker paper, putting some matte scotch tape over
the lines can be very helpful. Another option is to actually turn
off the lights in your room. Now, a lot of people think that
that is the only answer, but I've actually found a lot of times
that more light is what's helpful. So take your cell phone or flashlight
or turn on all the lights in your room and use more light. A lot of times more light is what actually
fixes the issue with your stickers. Now you want
to make sure that you load your machine and you want to load it with the sticker paper with the top
of your sticker paper into the machine. First. It's really important. If you load it backwards, it won't work. Go ahead and load your machine in. We're going to cut this again on heavy
cardstock because of the laminate sheet. I'm going to let this read the lines,
cut out our stickers and show you our final product. that it's done cutting Before
I hit the unload button, I want to just double check
and make sure that it cut through. I never trust it. So all you do
is you just peel up your backing. It didn't actually cut through. Not necessarily the end of the world,
but let's see if it actually cut a sticker out, because as long as
the stickers are cut, it's fine. So I did check
it does have a sticker cut out. You could just peel a sticker back. So since it didn't cut through the
backing, I'm not super concerned about it. It's fine as long as it cut through
the stickers themselves. So now what I'm going to do is unload
my mat. I'm just going to turn this over
and I'm just going to roll my mat off of my stickers. And because of the way this cut, we're actually going to be able
to remove the main backing portion. So the larger piece of vinyl
or in this case printable vinyl. And all I'm going to do
is try to see if I can get it to come off. So what you do is you can just get one of the corners lifted up
and then you should be able to and this one may not come off
great because he was already picked up. But what you can do now
is take all of this backing portion off here and you're left with a full big sheet of stickers
and you see how many we fit on this sheet. Plus, I gave you some tips and tricks
on how to fit all these on the sheet. You can download this Free at Me website. CorinneBlackstone.com I will link this down below for you. That way you can find it right away. This is such a fun, easy way that you can
fit more stickers onto your sheet. It's a great print and cut hack. I hope some of the other printing contacts
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