Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah!
In this video we're going to be making 3D
layered cards using our Cricut machine. These cards are really fun because
you build them up with 3D foam pads with all these different layers of card, to
create a final design which pops off the front of the card. If I just go in a
little bit closer you can see. You've got all the different colors in the card
going through to create the layered design. If I just turn it on its side
hopefully you can see all these layers and how the 3d foam pads make it up.
These cards are really effective, they look stunning when they're displayed and
best of all they're really really easy to make. Let's get started!
I've opened up the dolphin project in Design Space and I just wanted to show you how it
will look when you open it. On the right-hand side of the screen you've got
all of your different layers. This is what makes up the dolphin card. The thing
to notice is the one that says 'Attach', and in there you've got two separate
things - you've got a score line and a cut line. If I click the icon with a little eye on the
other layers, you can just see what I mean by this. So, this is going to cut out
your main card base for the front and the back of the card, and then it's going to
add a score line down the middle so you know exactly where to fold your card.
If yyou don't have a scoring tool or a scoring stylus with your Cricut machine,
you can hide the score line just by clicking the little eye icon next to it.
That means the score line won't be scored when you go to make it, so you'll
have to manually fold the card yourself without the score line.
If you've loaded one of my card projects which was an SVG file rather than a
Design Space project then you'll need to manually go in and attach the score line
to the card and also turn the score line from a cut line (which is what it'll be
when you open the SVG) into a score line otherwise it's going to cut and not
score. To do that, you can follow the instructions on the video which I've
linked in the top of this video and I've also put a link to that
video in the description below. If you're not sure how to turn a cut line
into a score line and how to attach the score line to the card, have a watch of
that video. If you want to resize the card, you can do that by clicking on the
top layer which says 'Group' and because everything's in a group it means I can
move it all at the same time and also I can resize it just by clicking and
dragging and all the separate parts of the card are moved in proportion.
If you want a specific size, use the width and height boxes at the top. The easiest
thing to do is to set the width, so by default it will load 7 inches wide
because I designed this card to be a 7x5 inch card. The height is
almost 10 inches which is absolutely fine so it is probably not going to hit
exactlyx10 and the reason it's 10 is because we've got the back of the
card as well so it's double that initial 7x inch height. It's best to keep it
in proportion if you're going to resize it, so that the dolphin's don't start
getting all squished and out of shape. Just change either the width or the
height and then the other one you didn't change, or change your proportion.
If I change this to 5 inches wide everything has resized in sync, but I
want to keep it at 7 inches wide so I'm just gonna put that back to 7 and then
click 'Make It' and this is ready to cut. It's got each of my layers on a
separate color. You can change the material size if you want to cut from a
smaller bit of paper. I normally change it to as small as I can because I
don't want any card wastage. When you're happy with how that's looking,
click the 'continue' button and that will connect to your Cricut machine and then
just follow the instructions on the screen to cut all of your different colors of
card. We'll jump straight into how to assemble it. I've nearly cut out all
of these different parts of the card now - I've just got one left.
I thought I'd show you a really quick way of getting the cutout pieces off of
your Cricut mat without them bending or rolling. I have cut out
the final shape of the Dolphins with the swirls in it. I've already peeled off the
edge of the card that I cut out, so I've just got my actual part I want to keep
left on the mat. If I was just to grab this by the corner and pull it off,
my papers all going to fold as it gets away from the stickiness of the mat. To stop
it doing that, because we want it to remain nice and flat, instead of pulling
the card off of the mat we're going to pull the mat off of the paper. Turn your
mat upside down and then just carefully start bending it backwards. As you do
that, you'll see that the bit you've cut out just naturally starts pulling away
from the mat. You need to make sure that it's a gentle bend
of your mat, not a fold, because if you fold it you're like to snap your mat.
You can see as I'm bending my mat back, I'm just applying a tiny bit of pressure
to the dolphin cutout and it's just coming away nice and easily from my mat.
My dolphin cut out is completely flat which is what we wanted and what we
needed. Now I can just take off all of the bits of paper that aren't part of the
actual cutout. If there are any pieces that are a little bit stubborn, you can
use a weeding tool to gently press them out. I can see I've got all of these
knife cutouts perfectly removed from the Dolphins, so I can
just get rid of all that and pull in the other bits that I've already cut out.
We can start assembling our card. The first thing I'm going to do is take the base
card, which is here, and then along the middle we've got a score line.
Turn the card over and then fold it upwards along that score line.
Fold it nice and on the crease if you've got a bone folder or a scraper
tool you can just go along that fold to make it super crisp. That is
the base of our card. Make sure you've got it the right be round, so it opens
in the right place and then we can start adding the layers. The first one
we're going to add is the waves. We're going to build this up using 3d foam pads
to give a nice 3d effect. Turn your waves upside down and then get your foam
pads. These ones are quite large - if I take one off you can see how big
that is. What I do with these is I just cut them with a pair of scissors to
make them smaller. Not only does it mean that your foam pads will last longer, but
when we start putting them onto the smaller pieces of the different layers
it makes it so much easier having smaller bits. I'm going to put
some foam pads onto the waves. You don't need to go crazy and
put them everywhere, but you need enough so that it will be nice and sturdy on
your card and it's not going to fall off. I'm going to put a few around. Make
sure you don't put the foam pads over any of the bubbles otherwise when you
turn it over all you'll see is the white of the foam pad - you won't see the base
card underneath. We want to make sure we put some in the frame part as well.
You might need to cut your foam pieces smaller to get it to fit because what we
don't want is any of these foam pads going outside of the blue, because then
you'll see it when you turn it over. I'm happy with that, once I've added just
one more over there. Okay, so when you put on your foam pads you can just peel off
the other side of the backing to reveal the sticky side on the top. When you've
got them all off, pick it up, bring your card back in and we're gonna stick
this on top so that it lines up perfectly with our card. It can be easier
to open it up and then use this bottom edge to line up. To start with, just
lay it down without pushing it to make sure it's lined up
everywhere and when we're happy with it then you can push it down to get all
those foam pads firmly stuck. You can already see you've got a nice
shadow coming in. If I turn this up then you can get the 3d effect. Hopefully
you can see that it's shining through already. Then, you just need to
repeat that same process for all of the different parts of the design.
I've managed to get it tangled.
The next one is the purple parts of the dolphin.
I'm going to do the same thing again with that one and then finally once more with
the top level of the Dolphins.
My card is almost done, but before I stick the
final layer on I thought I'd show you how small you have to cut
some of the foam pads, especially on this dolphin design, because it's really
intricate. Don't be scared about cutting your foam pieces small. It can be a
little bit fiddly to do, but once you've done a couple you'll get the hang of it.
You need to make sure you put enough onto the Dolphins that it will be
sturdy when you turn it over. If I'd only put the foam pads on the
outside frame and left the Dolphins without, they would sag in the middle when you put
it on the card. Adding these teeny tiny little pieces of foam pads that
I've cut from my bigger pieces means it'll be sturdy and stay upright.
I've taken the backing off these foam pads and I'm going to add it on to my card
to complete the look. I'm still lining it up along the bottom as a guide. It would probably
help if I put it in the shot - you can tell I'm still new to this! All right, so when
you're happy it's lined up, push it down to get all the foam pads nice and stuck.
There we have it, isn't that pretty?
That is how you make a 3d layered card using your Cricut machine.
Sometimes you might want to do a
slightly thinner card, so maybe you want to cut down on your postage costs by
sending a thin one or your card just doesn't have as many layers.
On this one that I made with some Patrick's Day, this one only has one lot of foam pads
in there so it's a really thin card and it will be really cheap to post.
The actual SVG design you can find over on my blog at www.craftwithsarah.com
and I'll put a link to get the free SVG down in the video description as well.
This one is only three layers in total. The Dolphin card was four layers -
we had the sky, the waves, the pink and then the silver of the Dolphins.
This one is only three, so it's your base card, it's the bright green and then the pale
green on top. What I did with this one to cut down on the height is instead of
using foam pads to stick this outer layer of pale green to the bright green,
I used glue instead. That was also really helpful on this one because it's
quite intricate with lots of teeny tiny little cuts. Cutting foam pads that small
would have been kind of a nightmare and so glue was a lot easier. If you're
going to glue it then something like this tacky glue which comes with a really
small little nozzle can be helpful because it means you can put your glue
on really precisely. I hope that you've enjoyed watching this tutorial video.
I am also working on a video at the moment on how to design your own 3d
layer cards in Design Space so if that's something that you'd be interested in so
you create your own perfectly bespoke and unique cards that only you will have,
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you enjoyed it and hope to see you next time!
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