Hello and welcome to craft with Sarah. In this Design Space tutorial
I'm going to show you how you can cut a word or a name out of an outline shape in Design Space and
for this example I'm going to cut my name out of the outline of a heart. Let's get started.
I'm going to go into images and find a heart to use.
I want one that's the outline of a heart not something filled in like this one,
I just want a nice outline to use. This one could be suitable but because the
line is a different thickness all the way around it'll be difficult to get my font looking right
and consistent with the line. I would prefer one where the line is the same thickness if possible.
I'm going to choose this yellow one so insert images and make it nice and big
so it's easier to work with. Go into text and type out the name that you want to add
and then select the text and go into the font drop-down and now you can choose from the Cricut
fonts or ones on your computer to filter it by. On your computer click the system button
and then you're looking for a font which matches the outline and I've got quite a thick outline,
that yellow line around the heart is quite thick so I want a thick font to use. Ideally you want a
script font, one where the letters will touch each other because then it will complete that heart all
the way around and you won't have any gaps in it. I'm going to scroll down and try and find a nice
thick font to use. I quite like this one which is called Anordighos,
maybe I'll put a link in the description of this video. I like this font because it's a nice
thick font so it's going to match with the thickness of the yellow on the heart.
Now in Design Space when you use a script font it adds this huge line between each
of the letters so it doesn't join them up and that's not ideal as that's not what we want,
we want our letters to be joined. To do that make sure you've got your letter layer selected
and then press Ungroup and this moves each letter to its own individual layer.
Now what we can do is click each one and drag it so that it's connected to the previous ones.
I need to rotate them so that it will fit along the side of the heart.
Select all of the letters by clicking on one layer in your layers panel pressing ctrl and
then clicking on the others. When you've got them all selected press Group at the top of
the layers panel and that just means you can move them all together. Now nice and easily
I'm going to rotate it with a little arrow and make it a bit smaller so it's going to fit.
How this is going to work is we're going to cut out all of the yellow that you can
see between the letters but in order to do that we need to make sure that the beginning of the
s and the end of the h are going to form a nice shape out of the heart when we cut
it . At the minute if we cut it now it would look a bit weird because you'll have this gap
of the yellow in with the s and also the end of the h. What I'm going to do is Ungroup my letters
by clicking on the Group and pressing Ungroup and now I can move each one individually again. I'm
going to make it so that my first letter covers the top and the bottom of the yellow and you can
see now this little bit of the s at the bottom is covering both sides of the yellow. I'm going to do
a little bit of movement on the other letters so that they're better following
the line of the heart and I'm moving each one making sure they're still connected and that it's
better following the heart. Then with the h I want that tick on the end of it to go above the top of
the heart and I might need to move the whole thing down a bit so it's not too rotated against the a.
There we go and now you can see the top. If I just zoom in the top of my s down here it is
covering the top of the yellow and the bottom of the yellow here and the same thing on the h.
It's covering that whole space and that's going to make it easier for us to cut the heart.
Zoom out again and select all of your letters and this time we're going to press Weld
and that's going to join all the letters together into one layer.
Some times when you Weld it can fill in the holes in the middle of the letters and if it does that
hit the undo button on the top left and then make your letters really big and try welding it again
and that should fix it okay. Get your letters layer and then right click and duplicate
and drag it on top of the other one as we want to make sure these are exactly one on top of the
other because it's going to help us cut it out of the heart. Go into a line and press center
now and when you do that you might find that it moves the word around a bit so that your first
and last letters aren't going over both edges of the heart any more. If it does do that just keep
an eye out and move the heart around so that it is all correctly lined up in the layers panel.
Click the I next to the first version of your word just to hide it as we only want the second
and the heart showing at the moment. Select both those layers by clicking one of them
and then press ctrl on your keyboard and choose the heart and then down the bottom press Slice.
What that's done is cut the heart and the word out from each other so you've got all these new
layers called Slice result. We don't want the ones that are the same colour as the text so we
can right click and delete them. We also don't want this one which is where that word was cut
out so right click and delete that one. All we want is the bottom one which basically shows you
the outline of the heart but you've got this gap where your word was and now if you turn on your
other word layer by clicking the eye you can see that you've still got all of the details there.
What we need to do is hide the bits of yellow that are showing up between the
word and the letters and to do that click on the heart and press Contour down in the bottom
right. Zoom in a bit to make it easier and then you've got all of these little sections
from where we sliced it and just click on those to hide them.
All of these little individual pieces we want to hide and then when you close that you can
see you've got rid of them and it's forming a nice line between the heart and your word.
The last thing to do is just to click on the heart and change the colour to match your text and then
make sure you're happy with how that's all looking. For example on mine
I've got a little tick on the s where it's creating a little bubble
where I haven't quite lined it up properly. You can fix that by going into shapes and choosing a
square and I'm going to make it a bright colour so it's easier to see.
Then click the padlock icon and resize it so that it's a long thin line and then move it
so that it matches the line of the heart . Place it against it, there we go. Now with
the line selected and the word press Slice and then delete the first three Slice results
and now you can see that bubble has gone. Now it's looking a little bit smoother where
it switches from the heart to the word and you can do the same the other side if you want to as well.
I won't do that for this video but you can see I've got the h forming a little bubble and you
could get rid of that using the same thing. This is very nearly ready to cut and the only thing
left to do is to Weld these two layers together so that they're all cut as one continuous shape.
Choose both of your layers and press Weld and again if you find it notices it fills in bits
that it's not supposed to just undo the Weld and make it really big and then try welding it again.
Here is my finished design and now I can change the size to however I want to cut it.
Let's say eight inches and then that's all ready for me to click make it
and cut it out of vinyl or card stock or whatever it is that you're planning on using.
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