Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah.
In this video I'm going to walk through how
to download the free SVGs and Design Space Projects from my website.
To start, go to www.craftwithsarah.com and then if you scroll down the homepage you can
see all of my most recent Cricut projects. You can click into those to
read the step-by-step instructions for each one. Most of these include a
link to a free file, so if you just read through you'll be able to see links to
the free file that links to that particular blog post. For this one on
button art, I can click the link to the flamingo button button art pattern which takes me to a new
page where I can get that template. If you want to see all of my free SVGs and
free Design Space Projects in one go, instead of looking at a blog post first,
just click 'Freebies' in the top navigation. This loads all of my craft
freebies. To limit it to just the Cricut ones, go over to the left and
click the little box next to where it says 'Free SVGs for Cricut' and that will
filter all the results to just see the ones that you can open on your Cricut machine.
To download a file, all you need to do is click into it (you'll notice
that all of these files are free), click 'Add to basket' and that will add it to
your basket. You can add as many files as you want to your basket, and then click 'Proceed
to checkout'. Again, don't worry - it's still completely free, you don't need to pay
for any of my downloads. On the checkout page, if you've already got an account on
my website you can click here to login but if you don't then fill out the boxes
to register a free account. To make sure you never miss a new free SVG file or
project, tick the box that says 'Get new freebies email weekly'. If you'd
prefer not to get newsletters from me then you can just uncheck that box.
Don't worry - you can still get access to all of your free downloads even if you don't
decide to subscribe to my newsletter. When you've entered all your details,
click 'Place order'. Once that goes through you'll see this screen which lists out
all of the different files that you've just chosen to download. Click on the
orange button to start the download and that file will just download to
your computer to wherever it is that internet files download to. If you're on
a Windows PC, it will probably be your 'Downloads' folder.
There are two types of Cricut project that i share on my blog.
One type is Design Space Projects which you
can open directly in Design Space. These usually use Cricut Access images
in them, and the other type are SVGs which you have to upload manually into Design Space.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when using each of those
different types of freebie, so keep watching for instructions on how to open
both of those in Design Space and the things you need to do before you can cut them.
If you download one of the Design Space Projects from my website, you'll get a
PDF download which looks something like this. The link you want to open the
project in Design Space is the one that starts with design.cricut.com.
When you click on that link it will open your internet browser and connect to
Cricut. It's going to ask you if you want to open the Cricut Design Space program.
If you already have it on your computer you can just click 'Open'.
If you don't have it then you'll need to download it and install it. If you're not
sure how to do that, check out my other videos for instructions on how to
download and install Design Space on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android devices.
I do already have Design Space so I'm going to click 'Open'.
You'll probably get another pop-up asking if you want to open Design Space.
Yes we do, so click 'Open' to go ahead and open the Design Space
program on your computer. It can be a bit slow to load so bear with it and it will
get there eventually. Once it loads the project, you have two options down the
bottom. You can either click 'Customize' or 'Make It'. If you click 'Make It' then it will
go straight to the screen where you see all the different Cricut mats and
you choose your material. If you want to customize the design, e.g.
change the size or the colors or add anything else to it, click the
'Customize' button. That'll load a canvas for you with everything from the
project included so then you can make your own changes to it before you click
the 'Make It' button. My favorite part about sharing Design Space Projects is
that all of the different tools that you might be using as part of this project
are already done for you. All you need to do is open the project and any
score lines are already set to score and attached to the bit of card that they
need to score, so with this dolphin's card which is a Cricut Design Space
Project, all you need to do is open up the project and click
'Make It'. You don't need to change anything else. However, if you're using
one of my projects from my blog which is an SVG file that you need to upload into
Cricut rather than a pre-made Design Space Project then there are a few extra
steps you need to do before you can cut the files on your Cricut machine if
there's any parts of the design which needs to be scored, written with a pen or that use a different Cricut blade.
That's because when we load a SVG file, Design Space doesn't have a way of
recognizing what lines should be score and what lines should be cut. We just
need to go in and tell it. Luckily that's a really easy and straightforward
process and it only takes about a minute. I'm just going to skip to a new screen
and import an SVG file to show you what I mean. Here's a card-making project that
I've downloaded from my blog. When it downloads, it comes in a zip folder so
you need to unzip it before you can load it into Design Space. To do that on a
Windows PC all you need to do is right-click on the folder and then press
'Extract all'. That's made a new folder here and if I double click
into it you can see I've got the SVG file. Yours might not have a PS
above it, it might show your internet browser icon or something different.
It doesn't matter what the picture is, all that's showing you is the program you've
got set up on your computer by default to open SVG files, so ignore the picture
or the icon that's showing. All we're bothered about is
that we can see this file in the folder we've just extracted. Open up Design
Space and then click on 'New project' in the top left.
Down the left hand side there's
a button which says 'Upload'. Click that and then click into 'Upload image'. Find
the SVG file and then you can add it into Design Space eitherr by clicking
the 'Browse' button or click and drag and drop. Make sure you drag and drop the
file name the ends in .SVG - not the picture of the finished card or project.
Once that's loaded, press 'Save' and it'll import the SVG to your
'Recently uploaded images'. Now you can click it and then click 'Insert image'.
This has put the SVG file onto our canvas and you can see already that this
is a little bit different to how the dolphin card looked, because there's
nothing here which says score line. There's one cut line which is the very
top layer (usually, when I'm making SVGs). If we hide everything else, we
can see that this cut line is just a single line down the canvas. That's
the one we need to change to a score line. Click on the layer in the layers
panel and then go to the top of the screen where it says 'Line type' and
change that to 'Score'. That's changed the lines so it's now all dashed which
indicates it's a score line. Now we can turn everything back on and you
might think it now it's ready to cut, but if I go and click 'Make it' now, you
can see we're not quite there because what Cricut is going to do is
score that line all on its own on a mat, and it's not going to actually put it
as part of the card. I'm going to cancel out of this and show you
how to attach that score line to the main card. The first thing you need to do
is ungroup everything. Click on the group name at the top which is the the
very first line you'll have in your layers panel.
Right-click on there and then press 'Ungroup'. This has ungrouped our layers so
we've now got them separate, but it's kept that score line and main card grouped
together. What we need to do is to select that group by pressing the top
line and you can see the score and the cut are both gray which means they're
selected. Go down to the bottom and press 'Attach'. Now my score line is attached to
my main card, so if i click 'Make it' now, they're part of the same mat so they're
going to be scored/cut from the same piece of card.
You'll notice at the top I've got a
message telling me that my images are too big so it's not gonna cut at the
moment. I need to make everything smaller. To do that, select all layers and
then group them and then you can either use the arrow icon in the bottom right
to change the size or what's easiest if you know what size card you want to make
is just to go to the top and change the width and the height in here. If I
put seven inches tall it's gonna change the width for me in proportion so now
when I click 'Make it', everything is correctly sized, the score line is
attached to the card and it's ready for me to cut.
This ended up being a little bit of a long video but don't worry because as soon as you've done
this once or twice on different SVG files you'll have learnt how to
do it and it'll all be automatic, so when you upload an SVG file you'll be able to
get those score lines converted and attach to your main card in probably
about a minute. It's not going to take you any time at all once you get used to
doing it. I hope this video has helped you to understand the difference between
downloaded Design Space Project links from my blog and SVG files. To get all
of my free Cricut files, head on over to www.craftwithsarah.com to
check out what I've got on there and don't forget to subscribe.
Thanks for watching, bye!