SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Cricut Maker
- Laptop or Computer
- Cricut Chipboard
- Cricut Strong Grip Mat 12"x 12"
- Masking Tape
- Assorted Colored Wood Paint or Spray Paint
- Paint Brushes
- Tweezers
- Light Sand Paper
DIRECTIONS:
- Open Design Space and Insert your design svg and adjust to 8"x 8", highlight design and weld design.
- Insert a square shape from shapes icon and adjust square to 8 1/2"x 8 1/2".
- Place your design onto the square; be sure to highlight design and square and center horizontally and vertically.
- Highlight over both again and slice.
- This new sliced design image will be the square stencil that you will be cutting.
- Lay Chipboard on strong grip mat and tape all sides down to the mat.
- Cut with the Cricut maker; mirror the image when cutting.
- This takes approximately 4-5 hours; during this time, you can start creating the next stencil.
- Open a new Cricut design space window tab, and follow the same directions until you have 3.
- After the first one is cut out, peel up the tape and slowly peel the mat away from the chipboard.
- Using tweezers, carefully tap out pieces of the chipboard design.
- Once all pieces are out, use light sand paper to remove any layer of chipboard left behind.
- Use spray paint or wood paint in a vented room or outside, 3-4 coats; let each coat dry for 5 hours.
JOANN HACKS:
- Turn your computer screen to "never sleep" so the 5 hour cut per stencil doesn't get interrupted by your computer sleeping or shutting off.
- Mirror your stencil before cutting because the top side being cut with the Cricut maker has rollers that will indent on the chipboard; this gives the bottom side a perfect smooth surface when finished.
- When punching out the cut pieces of wood from the stencil, push them out from the back smooth side to the front side that has the roller marks (this leaves your stencil with just one smooth side and any flaws on the back).
Rated 4 out of
5
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Vee85 from
Nice Project
I was unable to download the files on my mac. The files downloaded on my PC using a right click, then Save As. Cut nicely on cardstock.
Date published: 2022-10-15
Rated 5 out of
5
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Yogi from
Rangoli
Brought few days ago as using it to my hears content . As this is available here , am happy n proud that Joann fabrics made it possible for me to decorate our home with Indian traditions
Date published: 2021-12-30
Rated 5 out of
5
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Faye from
Beautiful design
Turned out beautiful. Links to svg file worked for me on my PC. Click on link then once image appears just do a right click of the mouse and select "save as" then save it to your desktop. It's already in svg format.
Date published: 2021-12-29
Rated 3 out of
5
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namy from
Unable to load as SVG
When clicked on the link it opens up in the browser not in design space, how can I download it.
Date published: 2021-12-04
Rated 2 out of
5
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scraphappi from
How to download???
I tried to import image into Cricut but could only use a screen shot to do so and the edges of the different parts of the design were too wobbly looking to use to cut stencil design. Anybody know how to get this into a usable SVG file from the website?
Date published: 2021-11-07
Rated 5 out of
5
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Malamute Mom from
Great instructions, SVGs and inspiration
All the links worked for me.
It does take a long time to make and prep the stencils. I found it faster to make the stencils usable by using a paper hardener and 1 layer of paint than multiple layers of paint.
(I modified for Cameo 4)
Date published: 2021-11-05
Rated 1 out of
5
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Terri51 from
Incomplete instructions
There is a link to the svg but when I access it it says “file not found”. I couldn’t even get started!
Date published: 2021-10-31