Are you tired of spending hours searching for the perfect layered SVG for your papercraft project?
Have you ever wished you could just make your OWN designs, but without having to
learn any complicated graphic design software? Well, you can! Keep watching to find out how.
Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video, I’m showing how YOU can learn all about
making your own layered designs to cut from cardstock with your Cricut machine… and it
can ALL be done from within Cricut Design Space. From turning flat images into layered designs,
to mastering shadow box design, mandala letters, adding shadow outlines to text and
even designing giant off-the-mat signs, the Cricut possibilities you can unleash will be endless!
I’m excited to announce that my Lovely Layering training course
has been completely re-vamped and updated for 2023, and it’s all ready and available NOW.
Lovely Layering is a collection of step-by-step video lessons which
teaches you how to make all kinds of layered designs from within Cricut Design Space.
You’ll start with simple projects that teach the basics of designing in Cricut Design Space,
then each future lesson builds on what you have already learned as the projects
start to get even more impressive! But don’t worry – you don’t need any
graphic design or drawing skills, or even any experience at using Cricut
Design Space. Everything is covered in the lessons, in simple, easy-to-follow steps.
Find out more at craftwithsarah.com/lovely-layering or follow
the link in the description of this video. Let’s take a look at the lessons
that are included… Lesson One is one of the
most popular lessons inside Lovely Layering. It teaches how to turn a flat, one-layer
design such as this zentangle heart into one that’s layered.
You’ll then go one step further by making a more detailed design, such as this cow. For this one,
rather than just filling in the entire layers as a whole, as with the heart you just saw,
we’ll chop bits out of the image to give a realistic sense of perspective and depth
when looking at the completed design. I love this cow, it looks so lifelike
as the face and nose “pop out” more than the ears and horns, giving the illusion
that they really are sat there looking at you. You'll master editing tools within Design Space
such as Contour, Slice and Combine. Don't worry if you haven't used them before, or if you're
not quite sure how to use them, because all you need is included in the video lessons.
Lesson Two of Lovely Layering is how to use the Offset tool to add shadow outlines to text,
to make fun cake topper or greeting card topper designs.
Lesson Three uses those same techniques, but we apply them to images instead of text.
Lesson Four is how to design your own shadow box scenes. This is where you combine pre-made images
to design your own themed shadow boxes. I'll show you some top tips for ensuring
an effective 3D design that shows the layers perfectly, and then you'll also learn how you
can cut it out to perfectly sit inside your box frame and how to stick it all together.
Lesson Five builds on that shadow box technique and this time it's all about how to make a layered
design, but inside a shape. I'll show you how to do it with this unicorn head design.
You’ll also learn how to turn your design into a light up shadow box
where we've got LED strips behind it. Lesson Six is how to make layered greetings
cards. I’ve taken one of the most popular card designs from my website and turned into a video
tutorial so that you can make your own matching designs, with whatever text on it you want.
For Lesson 7, you’ll see how to make custom backgrounds as part of this stencil letter
shadow box, then how to turn the flat design into something that’s layered.
Lesson Eight is my personal favourite – designing layered letters. It comes
in two parts, the first of which is making this beautiful rose design.
Then, you’ll delve deeper into Design Space to make a more complex letter design with
patterns inside the letter and a custom filigree leaf background.
Sometimes, you might have the perfect image that you want to turn into a layered design,
but it’s a silhouette, or some other type of image that has no pattern
inside it. Does that mean you can’t use it? Oh no! Lesson Nine shows how to turn silhouette images
into outlines, then add patterns or mandala inside of them to make truly custom designs.
Lesson Ten is how to design your own layered clocks. I think these are really fun and
they make excellent gifts for birthdays or Christmas for your family member and friends.
Lesson Eleven is a newer lessons, which is all about designing word scenes, which is when you
take a whole word and create an image layer design behind it so that throughout each letter of the
word, you see different parts of the design. Finally, Lesson 12 is short-and-sweet end to
the course, which shows how to use the Offset tool to make stepped shadow box designs.
In total, these lessons will teach you all the skills you need to master creating layered
cardstock designs with your Cricut machine. If you're interested in learning how
to make your own designs, check out craftwithsarah.com/lovely-layering or
click the link in the description of this video. Lovely Layering is constantly evolving so that it
stays up to date with the latest Design Space changes, and to make sure it contains
all the types of projects YOU want to make. I’m working on three additional lessons at
the moment which will be released later in 2023. These are: designing floral bouquets, designing
paper wreaths AND… this is a big one… designing your own giant off-the-mat wall art signs.
By purchasing Lovely Layering, you will get all those updates for free when they are released.
So what are you waiting for? Head to craftwithsarah.com/lovely-layering
right now, to sign up. Thank you so much for watching and I
hope you have enjoyed this video. If you have any questions about Lovely Layering, leave a comment
on this video or email sarah@craftwithsarah.com Thank you for watching, bye!