hello my name is alice and today i am going to show you how to make stickers using cricut design
space and their offset function now the offset function is in beta mode which is like they're
testing it out they're seeing if they like it and to be honest i really like it it makes the whole
stick making process a lot easier whether you make stickers on illustrator or procreate or similar
softwares as long as you've saved out your image as a png you can create that nice white seamless
cut line around the outside using the maker offset settings so i am just going to talk you through
how i did it i have made these beautiful stickers and hopefully after following this tutorial
you'll be able to make these as easy as i did so first things first you need to get your artwork
ready so in this case i actually downloaded some ready-made stickers from envato elements i
rave about them a lot they're always linked to my description so many creative assets for designers
over on that website when you have your design you need to make sure that you have them exported as a
png so for example in procreate you can go up into the export settings click the png option
press save and then you can import that file straight into qriket design space the same thing
applies with adobe illustrator you want to collect the assets for export and save them as pngs with
clear backgrounds you don't always have to do the clear background thing but it's easier in
the long run if you do cricut design space does have the option which i'll show you further down
the line of removing the background but we're going to do that because we might as well we
have the option too so once you have got your sticker designs ready all exported as pngs with
clear backgrounds we're going to upload them into a qriket design space so you simply need to go
to the upload button drag in or browse for the file and then we're going to tweak some settings
to make sure they're perfect so you'll see when you first upload it you've got three options and
we're going to click the complex option to make sure our designs are crisp and complex then i am
going to go into the next setting and remove the background if we need to like i said you can do
this in design space we're going to make sure that the background is removed you can preview the cut
so you can see in the gray area that's the part that will be cut out once you're happy with that
press apply and continue and then we want it to be a print then cut image that means i'm going to
send it to the printer first and then once it's printed i'm going to stick it to my cricut mat
and send it to the cricut machine just make sure it's print and cut cool and then you have all your
images uploaded annoyingly you have to do these one by one i wish there was a way of doing bulk
uploads maybe i've missed that if i have let me know but what i'm going to do is hold shift select
all of the stickers that i want to print and press add to canvas so once they're in the canvas i'm
gonna just resize them and arrange them i'm not gonna fix these in place i'm gonna let cricut like
fit them onto my paper as as needed you'll see that in a second and this is where we're gonna do
the offset tool so i'm gonna click on one of the images and up in the offset tool if you click this
you'll see that there's a little blue line that appears around the image that sort of mirrors
the silhouette of it so you can drag the size of this up or down to whatever you like you can round
or straighten the corners and press apply you'll see that it's now black and obviously we don't
want a black outline we want a white one so i'm going to go up into color and change it to white
so now if i change the color of the canvas behind these stickers you'll see that it has a white
background behind it and just to finalize this to make sure that they get cut together we need to
flatten these two elements so i'm going to click on the sticker and i'm going to click on the white
offset that we've created and i'm going to click flatten and then that is ready to be
cut so i'm gonna repeat this process for all the stickers adding the offset tool changing it to
y and flattening them all as individual stickers so our stickers are ready we're now going to move
into getting them printed and cut so we need to hit the make it button and we are going to connect
our printer i use this incredible canon printer i will leave the information of all the equipment
and supplies that i use in the description and all i do is plug my laptop in and send this straight
to the printer now for the print settings this is something that you'll have to tweak depending on
your own printer i have a preset that i've made basically the only change that i do
is often i up the contrast so usually between around seven or ten i will increase the contrast
just so the colors pop and they're really vibrant and i also make sure that it's going to be printed
on a glossy photo paper that just means the amount of ink that's getting put onto the page is going
to be exactly what you need and i actually use sticker paper from online labels again i'll leave
that linked in the description i really really like how these turn out they are great quality
so now on your laptop you're going to see an arrangement of your stickers on the cricut mat you
can move these around to fit more on or use less paper it's completely up to you once you're happy
you can press print and send it to print huna thought once you're happy press print and your
printer will do all the work for you once they're printed you need to take a cricut mat this is
actually a shiny new one too i'm very happy about it and all i'm gonna do is stick my print then cut
image in the top left hand corner if you sort of mirror what it's showing you on your laptop screen
you can't really go wrong just make sure it meets that very top left hand corner edge and then we're
gonna load it up into the machine so once it's loaded into the machine all you need to do is hit
the play button and you'll see if you look really close on your machine a little light will appear
underneath the blade and it is actually scanning those black lines of the print then cut image
this is so the machine can accurately detect where on the mat the piece of paper is ready for cutting
so it will scan with that light and then it will cut now when you press cut you need to make sure
that you've selected the right material so in this case i've selected glossy stickers
you can do kiss cut stickers where it's like a sticker sheet and you peel it off the sheet where
in this case as these are freestanding stickers with their own individual backing that's what
we're going to use in this setting it shouldn't take too long especially the more simple your
stickers are the quicker it will be and as long as you've got the settings correct maybe it'll take a
little bit of experimentation depending on the type of sticker paper you have but they should
very easily peel off so we're going to take the mat off the machine we're going to unload it and
i'm going to peel away that excess paper i like to flip the mat upside down and peel it that way
because that stops the stickers from coming off like bent and curved and then i'll take this
little cricut tool and i will peel the stickers off very gently again to stop them from bending
as i'm taking them off the mat we now have these beautiful stickers these were so so easy to do
i'm finding using the offset tool a lot easier than previous methods of exporting them with
that border maybe they're not quite as smooth as i'd like them whereas with the offset tool you can
do it all in that one software on qriket design space that's it we've made some beautiful stickers
let me know if you have tried the offset tool if you've made stickers i'd love to hear from you
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you