Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. This is the first of two videos where I'm releasing a free SVG
in celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
The Platinum Jubilee is celebrating the Queen's 70 years on the throne and here in the UK,
we have two bank holidays coming up in celebration which is going to be the 2nd and the 3rd of June,
There are lots of fun festivities planned around the country and here at Craft with Sarah,
we're going to be having our very own English tea party but of course, we need to decorate
the office with it to be really, truly a success and what better way to do that than with some
gorgeous little layered gnomes which have been designed especially for the occasion.
Today I'm going to show you how to make this little Beefeater gnome. This has been
modelled after the Beefeater guards that protect the Queen at Buckingham Palace. He's got his lovely
little Beefeater hat and of course, he has his Union Jack flag in celebration of the Jubilee.
Tomorrow a new design will come out and that will be a female gnome and she has
her wonderful crown on top and she's done even better with two little Union Jack flags to wave.
These two gnomes work beautifully together and they would make excellent decorations
for your Jubilee celebrations. Let's find out how to make the male version of the gnome.
You can download the free cutting file for this project at craftwithsarah.com/free-svgs or follow
the link in the description of this video to go straight to the download page. The download comes
in a zip folder and you need to unzip this before you can upload the files into Cricut Design Space.
Once you've downloaded and unzipped the folder, open up Cricut Design Space and
start a new project. Go into upload on the left and then press upload image. You can
then either click browse to find the files on your computer or you can drag and drop them in.
Make sure you choose the unzipped version of the folder and then you want the file which starts SVG
in the file name for Cricut Design Space. None of the other files work properly in Design Space so
make sure you choose that one which starts SVG. I'm going to click and drag that in
and then it should look like this with all of the layers of the Beefeater one on top of the other.
If yours looks different and you can see all of the layers next to each other instead,
that means you've accidentally uploaded the wrong file so if that's the case,
press cancel down on the bottom and try again, and make sure you upload the one which starts
SVG. Press upload and then that will upload into your Design Space and then appear under
your recent uploads. Click on it to get the green border and then press add to canvas.
Here's how it loads in and you can see all of the layers in the layers panel down on the right hand
side. To resize the design, first make sure the padlock icon is closed at the top of the width
in the height box. If it's open simply click on it to close it. When it's closed that means
all the dimensions will change in proportion with each other so if I was to make this a bit smaller,
let's go 7.5 inches tall and press enter on my keyboard, you see the width changed as well
so everything stays looking exactly as it should. when you're happy with how everything's looking
press make it over on the top right and that will split everything out into the different colours.
This is a good design for using up your paper scraps because there are lots of little pieces in
different colours. If you want to you can change the paper size by going into this drop down and
changing it around. You can also click and drag the shapes around to make better use of the space.
You do have to change the paper size on every single colour so if that's something you need
to do go ahead and get all that sorted and then press continue to connect to your Cricut machine.
After pressing continue, follow the on-screen instructions to get all
of the different colours cut out from cardstock.
Here all of my layers cut out for my little Jubilee Beefeater gnome and I've just led
them one on top of the other so that I can check I'm happy with the colours of everything
and also just to make sure that I haven't accidentally missed anything.
The glue I'm going to use for this project is called Collall. I really like it because it
doesn't bend or wrinkle the cardstock like some glues can do and then I put it into these needle
tip applicator bottles that I buy on Amazon. These are amazing for making their designs
because the nozzles on them are really thin so you can get them into all of these details.
You're also going to need some foam squares or foam pads
or something similar. I am using these ones which are nice because they're quite small. If yours are
big then you might need to get a pair of scissors and cut them smaller to fit in some of the spaces.
Alright, so now I'm just going to move all of these layers apart because with all my layered
designs, you start at the bottom and work upwards. Trying to do this in sections whilst
keeping everything kind of roughly in the correct place. I'm just placing these around on my desk.
The download folder which you got when you downloaded this design contains a pdf file
called assembly guide and that tells you the order in which to stick all of these layers and it also
says if you should use glue or foam for each one. We're going to start with this little hand
and this just needs a tiny dab of glue and then line it up along that edge and then next we can do
the outline of this deep red here, which also makes the red in our union jack flag.
So I've turned him upside down. I'm going to put my glue
onto the back and this is where these needle tip bottles come in handy because you can get
around all the border lines pretty easily without getting any on the work surface.
So I'm just going to carefully line this up
and it'll fit exactly on top of the red layer that was already there.
There we go, okay I'm going to work on the hand with the flag first and
the rest of the colours of the flag are all going to be glue layers.
so next is the blue one. Turn it upside down and again add some glue in here.
I actually did just get my work surface because I put the glue down in completely the wrong place.
Okay, so this one just sits on the red flag
and then next is the white section we're getting even narrower on this one.
Okay, so I'm going to place this one on top and push it down quite gently
because I don't want that glue to smush out the edges and get onto the other colours of card
and then next, we've got the flag pole which again I'm going to glue,
with that down there and down there
and stick on, and then the hand which is here, I’m going to use my foam squares
for it to give it a little bit of dimension so that it's popping out from the rest of the flag.
Two pieces on there. Take the tops off to reveal the stickiness and then just stick it on. You see
I just moved that flag pose, so be careful you don't smush your glue around like I just did.
Okay, so now I can move on to the rest of the gnome and his feet are next and for this one,
it's up to you if you want to glue or if you want to foam this layer. I think I am going to foam it
just because otherwise, there won't be any dimension right at the bottom of the design.
When you're adding your foam pads as well as going all the way around the edge like I'm doing now,
you also want to make sure you put some foam squares in the middle, which I'll do in a moment.
So I'm going to put some in these spaces and the reason we do that is it gives a nice kind of
stable level to the card, so that it doesn't dip down in the middle. If we didn't put any
of these foam bits on when this was stuck you'd probably find that the middle of the card domes
downwards under its own weight and that'll get worse when we stick the other layers on top,
so by adding the foam squares in the middle that doming down
doesn't happen and you just end up with a more professional and a better looking end product.
It does mean that there's more of these
little bits to peel off though, but it's worth it in the end.
Okay, so I'm going to line this up. I'm going to use the beard as my guide. I think I've got this
strand of glue there, and then what I try to do is line it up and then just gently drop it down.
And the reason I do that is that if I had messed it up and I hadn't lined up right,
I could just pick it up and reposition it without damaging anything,
but I am actually happy with that I'm just going to push down to get all of those foam squares
nice and stuck, and then we can move on to our little gnomes fantastic beard. This comes in
two layers the first one is a solid layer and this one will be a foam square layer.
Just like before, I'm going to line up the edges and then gently let it drop down.
There we go and then push down to seal and then we've got all of these fun details in
the beard and this will be a glue layer. Here's my little glue bottle. I need to fill it up again
soon. You'd think that the bottles being this small would run out really quickly but actually,
they tend to last me around probably at least five layered designs if not more,
before I need to fill it up again. I'd say probably more like seven, so they're pretty good
and it's because they just a little bit of glue out when you squeeze it.
Okay, let's stick this on.
Okay.
Okay. Next we have the solid layer of his I'm going to call it a hat.
I'm sure it's probably got a proper name. If you know what it is, leave a comment.
Stick that one on and then move on to the detail layer which will be glued.
And generally, that's how all of my layered designs work, the solid layers are foam squared
and the detailed layers are glued, but it doesn't always follow. That's not the case every single
time. It does depend a bit on the actual design, so that's why I really recommend checking out the
assembly guide pdfs that are included with every single design. Both my free ones and my paid ones,
just so that you know for sure how to stick each layer down.
Okay, there's his hat and then next we have this weird little pie slice triangle which actually
just makes the bottom of his face. So there's a dab of glue on there and stick it down and most
of this triangle is going to be covered up, so we don't need to worry about it looking messy.
Next, we've got this yellow which is the bottom of his helmet, which is going to go down under
his chin, so this is going to be glued on as well. This goes on before we do his fabulous moustache.
There we go. I'm not sure if it should be touching the bottom
or if it's kind of over his chin so I'm not 100% on that.
I think it should probably be at the bottom because you'd sort of
be wearing it under your chin, wouldn't you? So I guess that makes more sense.
Okay, next is the solid layer of the moustache which will be a foam layer.
Sticking it to my fingers instead of the card.
Okay.
Little moustache and then the solid layout will be glued.
Try and get your glue into at least the outside pieces of this, otherwise if you
only put the glue in the bit where the nose is going to go, it won't be stuck on very well.
There we are and then finally, we've got his little nose which we'll use the foam squares for
to really pop that nose out from his moustache.
There okay, our little Beefeater Jubilee gnome is now all ready to go ahead and guard the Queen
this Jubilee, or, you know, maybe he's just on his way to a nice Jubilee garden party.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to make my male
Jubilee gnome. Don't forget, tomorrow the matching female design will be out so
keep an eye on my YouTube channel if you'd like to grab this free download as well.
Thank you so much for watching, bye!