Hello and welcome to Craft With Sarah. In this video I'm going to show you how to create your own
split picture Word Art images directly in Design Space.
You can see with this one on the screen we've got our split picture on the left of the sunflower
which we're going to cut in half and then add a load of text and images to the right hand side
to create your very own artwork and this would look beautiful on a t-shirt or on a tote bag
or wherever it is that you want to put it. It's a way of making your own designs
exactly as you want them to appear. First we need to choose our image that
we're going to Slice in half so click into images and then search for whatever it is you want,
I’m going to use a sunflower. Click the picture you want and then press insert images. I'm going
to make this a bit bigger so that it's easier to see when I'm working with it.
I want to slice this in half so I can put the text next to it and to do this go into shapes
and choose square. I'm going to drag this over and then click the little padlock icon which
means I can now drag this into a different rectangle shape. In your layers panel click
and drag the rectangle underneath the image to make it easier to see and you may want to
change the colour of the rectangle to make it a bit clearer where you're going to cut.
Play about with the positioning of your image until you're happy with where it's positioned so
the line on the edge of the rectangle is where it's going to cut to slice this in half. You can
play about with rotating your image and moving it about until you're exactly happy with where
it's going. To cut when you're ready select both layers either by clicking and dragging around both
of them or in the layers panel click the first one, hold down control on your keyboard and press
the other one and then when you've got them both selected down the bottom press Slice so that's
going to cut them out of each other. You can see in the layers now we've got all these different
options we don't need the two orange ones so I'm going to right click on those ones and delete.
We've now got a left and a right side of the sunflower as separate layers and you can have
a look at these both separately and see which one you prefer the effect of. I prefer this one on the
left and that's the one I'm going to use. The one on the right I’m going to right click and delete.
If I zoom in a bit we can start adding the text so click on the text tool
and add your first line of text that you want to add. By default this will load in the Cricut sans
font but we can change that to be something a little bit prettier to match with our design.
In the font drop down and you can either choose from one of cricket's fonts or if you click system
this shows you the fonts that you've got installed on your computer. I know which font I'm going to
use so I’m going to type in the name of it and then find it. This one is called Angsana New
and it's a font I downloaded. You can use any of the fonts on your computer and then
change the size by clicking and dragging on the arrows and position it where you want it to go
you don't need to be that precise in your positioning now because it'll be easier
to do once you've got all of your words. I'm going to move on to the next one which
is going to be the letter a and Design Space will remember the font you chose
so you can see now it's already picked up the same font that I used on that one.
For the word sunflower I'm going to choose a different font and I’m going to type this out
and then go into the font drop down again and search for the one I want to use.
The font I'm using is called Allenattore and it's a script font. Design Space does this horrible
thing with script fonts and it separates out all the letters and puts big gaps towards them
which looks really ugly and not how a script font is supposed to look.
They are supposed to be all joined up so we need to do a little bit of work to make that happen.
First find the letter space box in the top and change the setting to zero as that does a good
job at moving them closer but ideally we want them even closer and some of them to be touching so
click on your layer and then in the layers panel right click and press Ungroup. What that's done
is put every single letter on its own layer which means we can now select them with our mouse
and drag them closer together to get them to join.
You might want to zoom in a bit to make it easier to see what you're doing.
I’m moving these letters closer together so that they join up
and you might not want them all joined so I'm going to leave this e1 separate.
I'm happy with that but mine has gone a little bit wonky, I've not done it quite in a straight line.
You can do that if you want to achieve nice little curves or try and keep them all straight.
When you're happy with how that is looking select each of the letters in that word
and then at the top press Group so that's now put them all in one Group and if we want to
we can change the size and they're all going to change but keep that new position that we've set.
I'm going to add this one to the design and then move my a around a little bit okay. Now I
can continue and add the rest of the words and I’m going to go ahead and do that and pause the video,
add the words in exactly the same way and then I'll come back when they're all finished.
I've got all my words and I've positioned them where I want to go in the sizes I want. This could
be a finished design that I go ahead with and cut with my Cricut or I can add some extra decorations
to make it look a little bit more finished and to fill in some of these gaps around the words. If
you're going to cut it as it is now there is one thing you absolutely need to do before you cut
it with your Cricut otherwise it will not work when you cut it because we Ungrouped all these
letters on the script fonts. If you were to send this to your Cricut now it's going to cut each
individual letter completely and they're not going to be joined together which means they'll all fall
apart or if you're using vinyl you'll be able to see the cut lines around each letter and it will
look a little bit messy. The way to fix this so that it doesn’t all come apart when you cut it
is to Weld it now with Welding. What that means is it squishes all the layers together into one
so it will cut the outline of everything rather than cutting your letters individually and it's
really important to remember that once you Weld something you cannot unweld it so if you wanted to
change the words or the font at a later date you would not be able to do it after you've welded.
To make it so that we can keep editing our design we're going to make a copy of it before we weld.
Go ahead at the top and press save and give it a name. I’ll combine
some flower and click save and it's a good practice to save every five or ten minutes
or so when you're doing anything in Design Space in case anything happens. First before I weld I'm
going to make a Group of everything so in the layers panel click each layer with the control
button on your keyboard held down and when all of them are selected press the Group button
this has put them all in one Group. If I click the little arrow you can see it's moving all the
layers together and I can now resize if I want to and everything is going to go in proportion
now. At the moment this is all still editable so I've got all my layers still there
and I want to keep it so that I have one version with all those layers.
Right click on your Group and press duplicate and this makes a copy of it. This is the one
that I'm going to keep as my spare with all the layers in case I want to change it later.
I don't want to cut this version though so I’m going to click on the little eye
to hide it and then click the one that is still showing and then with the Group selected press
Weld down the bottom. Before I do that I'm going to open it up to show you how this is going to
work so you can see all the layers in here but when I press Weld it's going to squish them all
together. Now it’s one layer and you can see here Weld result there’s one. Now when I go
to click and make it and cut this on my Cricut it's going to cut it properly on the outlines
of all these letters and it's not going to cut all the joining bits and cut each letter separately.
If I wanted to change the wording again I can hide that Weld result,
show my original Group with all the layers make my changes and then duplicate the Group
again and Weld that second version and I'll start adding in my little extra bits
I'm going to add another sunflower but you can do whatever you want to fill in some of those gaps.
I am going to choose the same sunflower that I had earlier and make it smaller if I zoom out.
Here we go. You can play about adding extra images and things to fill in some of these
gaps and make it look a little bit more uniform. It is easiest to make sure you're not in a Group
at this point and if you followed along with my last bit and put everything in a Group.
Press Ungroup to get all your layers back again and that makes it easier. You can
change things about as you're going. I've got that sunflower at the top which looks nice but
I want to add a little bit of something in the gaps around the words down the bottom
so I'm going to go into images and type in swirl and find a little something to add in and
make it smaller. I want all of these to be the same colour because I'm going to cut it out of
the same colour of vinyl and the easiest way to put everything at the same colour is to press
colour sync in the top right and now actually you can see I've got three colours. I've got a black
on the flowers; I think it's a dark grey, on the text and then the orange. I want it to be all the
same colours so it cuts from the same matte and to do that click and drag all the bits that are a
different colour onto one of the other colours and then it will make it all the same. When
you're finished click layers tab again to see your layers. I’m going to make it smaller and rotate it
and position it in the gap to fill in that space and make it look a little bit more
joined together and right click and duplicate. Then I want to put it in the bottom bit here
underneath and to do that I need to flip it so press flip in the top and flip horizontal and
now that will fit nicely in that gap. That’s going to move my text along a bit so I will
make that a little bit bigger, there we go. This is almost looking exactly how I want but I think
I need something in between the gap between the little sunflower and where it says ba.
I'm going to add another swell so in images I've still got swell found and
I'm going to have a little look and find something, I think this one.
This has come across as two layers and I only want one so I'm going to delete that hidden one.
Go back to colour sync and make it the same colour.
I want this swell to look like it's coming out of the sunflower so I'm going to make it nice and
small and actually I think I'm going to click the padlock and squidge it up a little bit and then
position it where I want it to go. At the moment that looks a little bit messy because if you see
you've got the swell coming into the sunflower and it doesn’t look very good so we need to fix that.
To fix it we're going to use a clever little trick with the Contour tool so click the sunflower,
find the layer and then right click and duplicate to make a copy. I'm going to make this a different
colour so it's easier to see. What I am doing is positioning it exactly on top of the original one
and then down the bottom of the layers panel click Contour and press hide all Contours.
What that's done is hidden all of the cut outs in that sunflower so I’ve got the outer shape. Make
sure you've got that new shape selected and then press ctrl on your keyboard and choose the swirl
then click Slice and that's going to cut out the swirl in the shape of the sunflower.
Now we've got two yellow bits and we don't need these so right click and delete. It's also cut
our swell into different pieces and again we don't need that top one so I'm going to delete that one
and now the swirl is perfectly cut around the sunflower. It's not cutting into it
anymore and it’s perfectly aligned all the way along and it's looking really nice and neat.
Now zoom out and I am completely happy with how that's looking so I’m going to hit save.
It's now ready to cut and we need to do the same thing with the Welding that I showed you earlier.
I’m going to go through it one more time because it is really important that you do this step.
So select every single layer by clicking them with your control key hit down and press down
and then Group them. Scroll up to the top and I’m going to collapse the Group to make this easier.
Right click and duplicate, hide your duplicated one and this is the one that has all the layers
in. If we need to change it later we can select the Group that is still visible and then press
Weld so that's going to squidge all those layers into one for us. It's now ready to cut so again
you can resize it either in the boxes at the top or by clicking and dragging the arrows
and then when you're happy with how it is looking you can click make it and it's going to cut it
out for you. It's going to cut everything in position exactly where we've made it
and it's going to cut out all of our script fonts around the edges. It's not going to cut each layer
separately which is exactly what we want so that's why we Welded it. I went through that a
little bit quickly so I hope it all made sense. I am currently working on a series of videos
which go through all of the tools like Slice and Weld and Attach
in more detail so keep an eye out for them and if you need a little bit more of a helping hand
with using the tools in Cricut and Design Space. For now here is our split image word out all
ready to cut I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and if you have please subscribe
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