Use this tutorial to create custom designs in Cricut Design Space. You can use your artwork to make cut t-shirt designs, vinyl projects, print and cut and more!
Plus, scroll down to learn how you can win a Cricut Explore Air 2 AND a $2000 shopping spree to Hayneedle!
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I’m so excited about this post for creating custom designs (including cut t-shirt designs) in Cricut Design Space! As many of you know, I create most of my designs in Adobe Illustrator. I love it so much, I created a course for Beginning Designers to learn the ropes of Illustrator!
However, not everyone has Illustrator, and not everyone wants it, so I’m creating tutorials on how to get around that design loophole with your Cricut. A couple weeks ago, I published a post on how to use images from your Phone for Hand Lettered Cricut Pen Projects. Today, you’ll learn how to make custom images. Follow the video tutorial below for this SUPER easy design so you can create cut t-shirt designs of your own!
Make Your Own Cut T-Shirt Designs Plus More:
Tools For Making Cut T-Shirt Designs Plus More:
- Cricut Explore Air 2 (obviously)
- Cricut Design Space™
- Loveletter Script (for this particular project)
Supplies To Make Cut T-Shirt Designs and More:
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Instructions For Making Cut T-Shirt Designs Plus More:
- First, you’ll open Design Space and click Create a New Project.
- Click Insert Shapes and click on the shape you desire. For this design, I selected the hexagon.
- Using the rotate button on the top right of the hexagon image, rotate it 90 degrees. Tip: For a perfect rotation press SHIFT while rotating and it will turn exactly45 degrees, so just turn it twice to make a 90-degree rotation.
- Resize the hexagon to the desired size by using the icon that looks like two arrows going in the opposite direction. Again, use SHIFT to hold the exact shape while you resize it with your mouse.
- Press CTRL (or Command for Macs) and C, then CTRL and V to copy and paste the image.
- Resize the top hexagon so it’s smaller than the original, then align the two shapes to the center of each other using the ALIGN tool on the top toolbar.
- To take the smaller hexagon from the larger, select both images, then click on SLICE in the LAYERS section of the right-hand toolbar.
- Delete the smaller hexagons.
- Next, you’ll add text. Select the type tool, then type in your saying. Under EDIT, you can change the font. I used Loveletter Script.
- You want to isolate each letter, so click on the Ei icon that has boxes around the individual letters. Delete the O in love.
- Go back to insert shapes, then select the heart. Place that where the O should go, then move each letter closer together.
- Resize the script and rotate if you wish, then combine the whole image together by going back to LAYERS, then WELD. After that, you’re ready to send it to your Cricut, then cut!
For this project, I created a T-shirt for my daughter with their Gitter Iron-on. It is A-DOR-A-BLE, people. SO adorable in fact, it’s getting its own post tomorrow! This was a fun project and I think you’ll like it too! Also, remember you can always create designs in another program and Upload them to your Cricut…but you don’t have to do that if you want a simple design like this hexagon word art!
And I promised you a Giveaway, right? Well…head over to Cricut for a chance to win a Cricut Explore Air 2 AND a $2000 shopping spree to Hayneedle! I just got an ottoman there and I am IN LOVE! Click the link below, then scroll down till you see the Cricut and Hayneedle box and click Enter to Win. It will give you the rest of the details when you click that button.
Click HERE to enter this HUGE giveaway!
The Giveaway ends on February 24th, so hurry to win!
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.
If You Liked Learning How To Make Cut T-Shirt Designs & More, Check Out These Other Posts:
How to Make Glitter HTV Shirts
How to Upload Printables to Cricut Design Space
Hand Lettered Wood Sign Tutorial
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