Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video we're going
to be making these cute little paper craft hearts for Valentine's Day.
These all have little holes at the top so that you can turn them
into decorations and I'm going to be making mine into a lovely Valentine's tree. All the
designs work beautifully together to create that tree of love. Let's see how to make it.
Once you've downloaded the free SVG files from my website, you'll see that they come
contained in one zip folder. They have probably have gone to your downloads folder or wherever it
is on your computer or device that files normally end up when you download them off the internet.
We need to unzip this folder before we can upload the SVG files into Cricut Design Space.
If you read the tutorial that goes along with this video you'll see I've included
links on how to unzip folders on Macs, Windows computers, iPhones, iPads and Android devices
but I will just quickly show you how to do it on a Windows computer which is what I'm using.
I've got my zip folder here and all I need to do is right-click on it and press 'extract all',
choose a place for it to be saved to, so I'm going to put it in the same place and press 'extract'.
Now a second version of the folder has appeared but this one, it doesn't have the little zip
down the picture on the left and it doesn't end in .zip so this is the one that we want to use.
Double-click on it to see what's in there. All of
the files for these hearts come in three different file formats.
If you're using a Silhouette machine with the free version of Silhouette Studio you'll need to
use the DXF files. If you're going to be printing these then use the PNG files or if you're using
a Cricut or any other type of cutting machine that can open SVG files then it's the one under
SVG files that you'll need. If I double-click in here you can see we've got five separate files.
Now yours probably won't show this blue PS - don't worry about that, that's because I've
set my SVG files to open in Adobe Photoshop. Yours might show an internet browser icon, for example
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Edge, or it might show something different. It honestly does
not matter what picture you can see here; all we need to know is these are definitely the SVG files
because I start all my SVGs with SVG_ in the file name and then they end in .SVG as the file type.
So these are the ones we'll need to put into Cricut Design Space.
I've opened Cricut Design Space and started a new project. To upload the files, go into 'Upload' on
the left and then 'Upload image'. You can see down here I've already put four of them in,
but let's go ahead and do the last one. I'll click upload image
and then 'browse' or you can drag and drop the file in - that's what I'm going to do.
I've got my files here and the one I haven't done yet is the one with the wings so I'm just
going to drag it in and make sure you choose the one that starts SVG in the file name.
When you see this screen, all of the layers should appear on top of each other.
If yours looks different and you can see each individual layer separately,
that means you've accidentally uploaded the png file so if that's the case click
'cancel' down the bottom, try again and make sure you upload the one which starts SVG.
I'm going to go ahead and press 'upload' and now that one will appear in my recent uploads.
For my tree, I'm going to use one of each design so I can just go ahead and click them all
to get a green border around them and then press 'add to canvas'. It might take a little while
to load because we're putting five layered designs onto the project so that's a lot for
it to load and think about. Here we are, so now you can just click and drag them apar.
I've colored these hearts so that they use the same shades of red across the different
hearts which is going to make it easier for you to have enough different shades of card
to cut it out from. If you go to 'color sync' on the top right you can see all of
the different colors. It does still have quite a lot, so there are four shades
of pink and then three shades of red and if you don't have that many you can simplify it.
To simplify it, simply choose a color and click and drag it onto a different color and
then it will change. So this one changed this color of the heart to red instead of a pink
and now I've only got three shades of pink instead of the four that were there before.
If you want to you can color them differently to use less shades.
These decorations load in quite big by default. I want to make them smaller so that they'll fit
on my tree nicely. To resize, simply click on one of the hearts and then in the width
and height box at the top make sure this little padlock icon is closed. If it's open,
you can simply click it and it will close and when it's closed that means you only
need to type in the width and the height will change automatically.
For this one with the two hearts I'm going to go for 3.25 inches wide,
press enter on my keyboard and that will resize it and then for this one which is the mandala design
I'll change it to three inches tall. All of these measurements are included in the written
tutorial for this video. The winged heart I did at four inches wide, and don't worry
that these are looking really really small - it's just because the grid on Design Space
is quite big - these will still cut out at a good size to go and be used as decorations.
For the love heart I'm going to make this one three inches wide
and then finally for the rose heart again I'll do this one three inches wide.
These are now all ready for me to cut out so I'm going to click 'make it' on the top right
and you can see it splits out all of the different colors so you can go ahead and cut those. If you
want to use a different sized paper, simply click on the color of the card that you want to change
the paper size for, go into the drop down and then you can change it. You will need to change
it individually for each separate color. I'm just going to click 'cancel' out of this to go back to
the main screen because one thing you might want to do is make double-sided ornaments, so that
if maybe the wind blows them or just in the air they're moving about wherever you're displaying
them if you see the back of it then you can double-sided so that the back is pretty as well.
I didn't do that for my decorations that I'll show you how to make in a moment, but it's really easy
to do if there is something that you'd like to do with your hearts. All you need to do is simply
click on one of the designs, go over to the top and press 'duplicate' and that will make a copy.
At the moment this won't quite work because if you try to stick them back to back they're
not going to line up. We need to make this duplicated copy a mirror image of the original.
Go into 'flip' and then 'flip horizontal' and now this is a mirror image so when
they're stuck back to back to make a double sided ornament, it will work.
The only design that this is a little bit problematic on is the one that says love because
if we duplicate that and then go and flip it you see the word is backwards so you might not want to
double side the love one but all of the other ones will work fine as long as you remember to flip it.
When you're happy with the size of everything and the colors,
go ahead and get everything cut out from cardstock and then I'll show you how to stick them together.
Here are all of my hearts cut out and if I just put my hand in you can see just how small
some of these have been cut. They all cut quite nicely from cardstock. You might have a little
bit of trouble with the really intricate ones just because these details do end up
really tiny. If you're having trouble with your cardstock
then just try making it a little bit bigger and then it should cut out okay.
If you decided to do yours double-sided then you'll obviously have two of each
one but as I'm only doing mine single-sided for this then I've only got the one of each.
Let's see how to stick all of these together. I'm going to separate out these layers and these
are really delicate so just be careful when you're moving it about. I'm going to stick
these together with a combination of glue and foam pads. The glue I'm using is called Collall
and I get this on Amazon in the UK. Other glues that are available
are art glitter glue and Bearly art glue and both of those are available in the USA.
I put it into these needle tip bottles which have tiny nozzles on
which means I'm going to be able to easily get the glue into all of the tiny spaces
in these hearts. If you see, it's just got a really really small tip to it and
then the 3D foam pads I'm using are also quite small. If you don't have small ones
then just cut your ones smaller with a pair of scissors and that will work just fine.
All right, so I've got my two bottom layers of the winged heart and I'm going to turn
the black layer upside down and add glue onto the back. I'm just going to put some around the
heart and then because I've got my tiny bottle I can get glue into these little bits on the wings
and I do recommend doing this if you do have a way to do it neatly because it will mean that
your little decoration is much more sturdy because you'll have glued down these parts.
If you don't then it's kind of at risk of ripping if you accidentally catch it or if it, you know,
flutters too much in the wind or something like that but with a bit of glue on we should be okay.
Then I'm just going to glue it, stick it down, on top of the white. Make sure you
line the holes up at the top as we need that to thread the ribbon through at the end. The
second part is the heart to go on top. I'll turn the red bit upside down and add some foam pads.
We don't need very many because it's quite a small piece
but I still want to make sure it's going to have a good stick on it and then peel off the tops.
There we go and glue it into place - and by glue, I mean stick the foam pads because we
didn't use glue on that one! We are going to use glue for the little black outline to go on top
so I turn it upside down and this is probably quite hard to see a black bit of card on my
black craft mat so I'm sorry about that. You'll be able to see it in a minute when I pick it up
so again. Just that tiny bit of glue
and then put it on there okay. So that's this one done for now. I'll add all the ribbon at the end.
If you were doing this double sided then you'd stick together the other side and
then just glue the two bits together back to back and then that one would be done.
Next let's move on to this one with the pretty little mandala design in the middle.
Now because the holes in this are really small I'm not going to use as many foam pads because
otherwise when you get the shadow between the depth of the layers you won't see the colors of
the details underneath because it will just be all in the gray shadow. But I'm going to start with
some foam for the bottom pink layer just so that it does have a little bit of depth.
This is where I'm glad I have small foam pads so that they can go in these little gaps.
As I said earlier, if your foam pads are bigger just cut them with some scissors.
I'm adding quite a few here because this is going to have all the other layers on top so I want to
make sure it's nicely stuck to the base but also when you're adding them you need to be careful
that you don't put the foam over any of the gaps in the design otherwise you'll see it when
you turn it round and we don't want to be able to do that. Okay so now put that in the middle
and stick it down and then the rest of the layers I'm going to glue them.
That's heart number two ready for the ribbon. For number three we'll do the other complex one
which is the one with the roses in the middle and again we've just got a little bit of that
depth coming through from the bottom so I will use some foam for this one. It is down to your
personal preference if you prefer to just glue them all then absolutely you can do that or if
you want to foam more of them than what I'm doing, again it's completely up to you - it's your craft,
you can do it however you want! Line that up and then the pink one I will glue on top.
There we are, there's that one and then next we'll do
this one. For this one I'm going to start with the heart at the bottom
and I'm going to glue these ones and then use foam for the little heart on top.
There we are. All right, next we've got this white one and this one I will use
the foam for so this is going to be the layering on this particular heart. Which
of the heart designs is your favorite? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Stick that one on and then the same with the other ones I'm just going to glue them.
There we are, heart number four done let's just pick it up and
show it into the light a little bit and then last but not least is this one with the word
love on it and for this one I'm going to use foam pads on the pink heart. This is where
my depth is going to come in and I'll put a fair few on here. If I just had these three
it wouldn't be very stable or secure just need that little bit extra. This will go
in the middle and then next is the red layer.
There's the last one, so now all five of my little hearts have been made it's time to add some ribbon
and get them on the tree. Here's the ribbon I'm going to use. It's quite thin as you can see.
I don't actually know where I got this from, it's just in my craft stash. It's a little bit
frayed in places so I might have to cut some bits off but I figured this would be good because the
holes are quite small, especially in some of them. You could also use string or elastic or embroidery
thread. There's lots of different things that you could use to hang these on the tree.
I'm just going to cut a little bit, here we are, it doesn't really matter how much you do
and then fold it in half, thread it through the gap
and then tuck the two little tails in the loop and pull it tight.
Then that has secured the ribbon on and then I've got a little bit at the top where I'll
tie it onto my tree and make a bow. I probably should have done it a bit longer to give me more
to play with to tie it into a bow at the top, but if I need to I can just unpick it to take it off
so go ahead and do that to all of the hearts and then we'll put it on the tree.
I hope you enjoyed this video on how to assemble my five little layered hearts for Valentine's Day.
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