1 00:00:01,321 --> 00:00:02,860 - We'll be making the main part of the flower 2 00:00:02,860 --> 00:00:04,777 from colored cardstock. 3 00:00:04,839 --> 00:00:08,006 I'm using this fun, textured cardstock 4 00:00:08,459 --> 00:00:11,677 and I'm going to be using a blue cutting mat. 5 00:00:11,677 --> 00:00:15,439 So you'll want to take the plastic protective cover 6 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:18,248 off the mat, and that's there to keep all 7 00:00:18,248 --> 00:00:20,498 bits and dirt off your mat. 8 00:00:21,994 --> 00:00:24,936 Take you cardstock and I want you to carefully line it up 9 00:00:24,936 --> 00:00:27,436 on the grid on the sticky map. 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,652 If you're just working with a scrap of paper, 11 00:00:32,652 --> 00:00:34,537 just make sure that you line it up first 12 00:00:34,537 --> 00:00:35,707 in the left-hand corner. 13 00:00:35,707 --> 00:00:39,290 So we just wanna smooth over the cardstock, 14 00:00:41,224 --> 00:00:43,274 make sure that it's all stuck down. 15 00:00:43,274 --> 00:00:46,937 Then we're gonna slide it under those guides 16 00:00:46,937 --> 00:00:48,724 on the Cricut machine. 17 00:00:48,724 --> 00:00:50,718 Make sure it go underneath. 18 00:00:50,718 --> 00:00:52,985 To cut all the pieces of this flower, 19 00:00:52,985 --> 00:00:55,434 you need to go to the Creative Bug Project Page 20 00:00:55,434 --> 00:00:57,767 for this particular project. 21 00:00:58,042 --> 00:01:00,042 You'll need to download the PDF, 22 00:01:00,042 --> 00:01:02,570 and then you can click on the link in the PDF 23 00:01:02,570 --> 00:01:06,232 and it will take you directly to the Cricut Design Space. 24 00:01:06,232 --> 00:01:09,098 I've opened the main flower piece into my Design Space. 25 00:01:09,098 --> 00:01:11,341 And now I think I wanna duplicate it, 26 00:01:11,341 --> 00:01:13,755 because I think I'd like to cut four 27 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:15,785 from my one 12 by 12 piece of cardstock. 28 00:01:15,785 --> 00:01:18,868 So I'm going to click on that flower. 29 00:01:20,138 --> 00:01:22,857 And then I'm gonna click on Duplicate. 30 00:01:22,857 --> 00:01:26,376 And that's gonna create another one of the flowers. 31 00:01:26,376 --> 00:01:28,918 And I can move that to the side. 32 00:01:28,918 --> 00:01:30,835 We just wanna make sure 33 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:35,842 that it still fits in that 12 by 12 inch space. 34 00:01:36,207 --> 00:01:38,283 That's how big our cutting mat is. 35 00:01:38,283 --> 00:01:40,950 So I'm gonna duplicate it again. 36 00:01:42,572 --> 00:01:44,489 I'm gonna try for four. 37 00:01:45,390 --> 00:01:48,140 Even if I don't use all of these, 38 00:01:49,837 --> 00:01:52,052 I can set them aside and use them for another project. 39 00:01:52,052 --> 00:01:54,885 But I always like to make the most 40 00:01:55,041 --> 00:01:57,208 of my pieces of cardstock. 41 00:01:57,406 --> 00:02:01,073 Sometimes when you look at your Design Space 42 00:02:01,531 --> 00:02:03,923 on the computer, it might be a little bit confusing. 43 00:02:03,923 --> 00:02:05,488 And you might think that you can 44 00:02:05,488 --> 00:02:08,030 spread out all your templates onto one page. 45 00:02:08,030 --> 00:02:10,250 But if you have a look at the little numbers 46 00:02:10,250 --> 00:02:11,771 along the top and down the sides, 47 00:02:11,771 --> 00:02:13,649 each on represents one inch. 48 00:02:13,649 --> 00:02:16,227 And it kinda corresponds with your cutting mat. 49 00:02:16,227 --> 00:02:20,394 So just make sure that you stay within a 12 by 12 inch area. 50 00:02:22,208 --> 00:02:26,208 So now that I've got my four flowers on my page, 51 00:02:26,621 --> 00:02:30,143 I want to combine them all together so that they print 52 00:02:30,143 --> 00:02:32,779 exactly as I see them, so that they cut 53 00:02:32,779 --> 00:02:35,739 exactly as they appear on the screen. 54 00:02:35,739 --> 00:02:39,906 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on Select All, 55 00:02:40,267 --> 00:02:43,645 and that's going to select all four together. 56 00:02:43,645 --> 00:02:46,606 And then I'm gonna take my mouse over to Weld, 57 00:02:46,606 --> 00:02:48,402 and I'm gonna click on that. 58 00:02:48,402 --> 00:02:52,569 And that means they're going to cut exactly as I see them. 59 00:02:52,829 --> 00:02:53,998 So now we're ready to cut. 60 00:02:53,998 --> 00:02:57,748 I'm going to click on the little C Go button. 61 00:02:58,762 --> 00:03:01,345 And a window's going to pop up. 62 00:03:01,601 --> 00:03:03,601 And this window tells me 63 00:03:03,661 --> 00:03:04,749 that it's ready to go. 64 00:03:04,749 --> 00:03:06,634 So it looks like it's ready to go. 65 00:03:06,634 --> 00:03:08,317 I'm gonna click on the Go button. 66 00:03:08,317 --> 00:03:12,234 And now it's giving my the cue to load my paper 67 00:03:12,252 --> 00:03:13,565 into the machine. 68 00:03:13,565 --> 00:03:15,372 So I'm gonna go over to the Cricut machine. 69 00:03:15,372 --> 00:03:18,044 You'll see that the little arrow is flashing. 70 00:03:18,044 --> 00:03:22,044 That means that we can press it to load our mat. 71 00:03:23,644 --> 00:03:26,753 The next thing that you wanna do is make sure 72 00:03:26,753 --> 00:03:29,586 that the dial is set to cardstock. 73 00:03:32,406 --> 00:03:34,867 Now you'll see that the C is flashing, 74 00:03:34,867 --> 00:03:38,867 and we just need to press that to start our cut. 75 00:03:53,227 --> 00:03:56,109 When the machine is finished cutting, 76 00:03:56,109 --> 00:03:58,396 you'll notice that the arrow is flashing again. 77 00:03:58,396 --> 00:04:01,019 We need to press that to unload the cardstock. 78 00:04:01,019 --> 00:04:04,059 You're gonna take the mat out of the machine. 79 00:04:04,059 --> 00:04:08,226 And then we'll carefully peel off that piece of cardstock 80 00:04:10,314 --> 00:04:14,481 so that all that's left are the beautiful flowers. 81 00:04:14,506 --> 00:04:18,673 Now I'm just gonna use my fingers to peel the flowers off. 82 00:04:22,781 --> 00:04:25,471 Make sure you peel the flowers off really gently, 83 00:04:25,471 --> 00:04:28,221 because they do rip quite easily. 84 00:04:30,930 --> 00:04:33,089 My string of lights is about 13 feet long 85 00:04:33,089 --> 00:04:36,911 and I found that I needed around about 15 flowers. 86 00:04:36,911 --> 00:04:39,218 So if that's the case, you should go ahead and cut 87 00:04:39,218 --> 00:04:41,425 maybe three more pieces of cardstock, 88 00:04:41,425 --> 00:04:44,225 'cause you can four flowers per pieces. 89 00:04:44,225 --> 00:04:45,602 Now that we've finished that, 90 00:04:45,602 --> 00:04:47,969 we're gonna move on and cut the felt part 91 00:04:47,969 --> 00:04:48,972 of the flower. 92 00:04:48,972 --> 00:04:50,757 So we really need to prepared the felt first. 93 00:04:50,757 --> 00:04:53,218 We're gonna take our piece of wool felt, 94 00:04:53,218 --> 00:04:56,764 and we're also gonna take our piece of Heat n' Bond. 95 00:04:56,764 --> 00:04:59,954 And I've cut this to the exact same size as the felt. 96 00:04:59,954 --> 00:05:02,320 There's no right or wrong side to the felt 97 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,238 so you can put the Heat n' Bond on 98 00:05:04,238 --> 00:05:06,096 whichever side you choose. 99 00:05:06,096 --> 00:05:08,767 But when you use the Heat n' Bond, I want you to feel it. 100 00:05:08,767 --> 00:05:12,043 One side is rough and one side is just plain paper. 101 00:05:12,043 --> 00:05:14,875 We want the rough side to be on the felt 102 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:16,792 with the paper side up. 103 00:05:17,041 --> 00:05:20,874 Take your iron and just lightly iron the paper 104 00:05:23,873 --> 00:05:26,369 until it's stuck down onto the felt. 105 00:05:26,369 --> 00:05:28,656 This should only just take a second. 106 00:05:28,656 --> 00:05:30,906 It'll stick pretty quickly. 107 00:05:31,071 --> 00:05:33,068 And I think that looks pretty good. 108 00:05:33,068 --> 00:05:36,238 I have a little bit overhanging Heat n' Bond on my felt 109 00:05:36,238 --> 00:05:38,862 so I wanna clean it up and get rid of the scraps. 110 00:05:38,862 --> 00:05:41,529 So I'm just gonna trim that off. 111 00:05:49,152 --> 00:05:51,098 It's great for you to prepare all of your felt pieces 112 00:05:51,098 --> 00:05:53,588 in advance, so then you can take them over 113 00:05:53,588 --> 00:05:55,385 to the cutting machine and get them all done. 114 00:05:55,385 --> 00:05:59,451 We're only using scraps, so you'll need quite a few scraps 115 00:05:59,451 --> 00:06:02,687 to do this entire project, especially if you're doing 15. 116 00:06:02,687 --> 00:06:06,012 I can get two flowers out of each piece of mine. 117 00:06:06,012 --> 00:06:09,275 So now I've got it ready to position onto my cutting mat 118 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:11,744 and I'm using a blue mat for this. 119 00:06:11,744 --> 00:06:15,136 So I think it's a good idea if you just position 120 00:06:15,136 --> 00:06:19,053 your felt piece up in that top left-hand corner 121 00:06:19,698 --> 00:06:23,198 And make sure it's stuck down really well. 122 00:06:24,735 --> 00:06:26,943 That Heat n' Bond paper is gonna keep it in place. 123 00:06:26,943 --> 00:06:30,360 And then we can slide it into the machine 124 00:06:32,431 --> 00:06:36,598 and go over to the computer and work on our design. 125 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,879 We're gonna be using the exact same flower 126 00:06:38,879 --> 00:06:40,097 as we used before. 127 00:06:40,097 --> 00:06:42,560 But this time, we're gonna make it a little bit smaller. 128 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,941 So we're just gonna up that flower file up again 129 00:06:44,941 --> 00:06:46,064 in our Design Space. 130 00:06:46,064 --> 00:06:47,936 And then we're going to click on it. 131 00:06:47,936 --> 00:06:51,936 And I want you to use your mouse to size it down 132 00:06:52,336 --> 00:06:55,086 to about three and-a-half inches. 133 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,087 And a great way to test is to slide it up in to that corner 134 00:07:00,126 --> 00:07:04,176 and just double check that it fits at three and-a-half 135 00:07:04,176 --> 00:07:05,177 by three and-a-half. 136 00:07:05,177 --> 00:07:08,094 And I think that looks pretty good. 137 00:07:11,112 --> 00:07:12,842 So now I wanna duplicate that, 138 00:07:12,842 --> 00:07:15,509 and I'm only gonna do that once. 139 00:07:15,530 --> 00:07:19,697 So I'm gonna click on Duplicate and I'm gonna drag it down. 140 00:07:21,599 --> 00:07:22,849 Just like that. 141 00:07:23,771 --> 00:07:26,881 We just wanna make sure that when we move those flowers 142 00:07:26,881 --> 00:07:29,692 into positions that they're gonna actually fit on the felt. 143 00:07:29,692 --> 00:07:32,188 So I'm gonna go back over to the Cricut. 144 00:07:32,188 --> 00:07:35,857 Our felt scrap is about four and-a-half inches wide 145 00:07:35,857 --> 00:07:38,371 and it's almost eight inches long, 146 00:07:38,371 --> 00:07:41,520 so our two flowers should fit really well. 147 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,187 Click on Select All. 148 00:07:43,330 --> 00:07:45,745 And then I'm gonna take my mouse over to Weld, 149 00:07:45,745 --> 00:07:47,115 so I've done that. 150 00:07:47,115 --> 00:07:50,042 And we're going to click on the Cricut button. 151 00:07:50,042 --> 00:07:51,989 And this is gonna bring it up. 152 00:07:51,989 --> 00:07:53,989 We're gonna click on GO. 153 00:07:54,615 --> 00:07:58,115 And then now is the really important part. 154 00:07:58,529 --> 00:08:00,689 Unlike cardstock we're gonna have to set it 155 00:08:00,689 --> 00:08:03,336 for a custom setting, 'cause felt's a little bit 156 00:08:03,336 --> 00:08:04,345 harder to cut. 157 00:08:04,345 --> 00:08:06,261 So you can go over to the dial on your Cricut machine 158 00:08:06,261 --> 00:08:09,222 and I want you to turn it around to custom. 159 00:08:09,222 --> 00:08:11,422 We're gonna go back to the computer and you'll see 160 00:08:11,422 --> 00:08:13,037 that it's telling me to load my mat. 161 00:08:13,037 --> 00:08:15,517 We're gonna go back over to the Cricut 162 00:08:15,517 --> 00:08:18,110 and we're gonna click on that flashing arrow. 163 00:08:18,110 --> 00:08:21,360 Before we hit Cut, we have to make sure 164 00:08:21,562 --> 00:08:23,005 that we adjust it for the felt. 165 00:08:23,005 --> 00:08:25,922 So you can go into Set and click on 166 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:29,632 the arrows under Select a Material. 167 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:34,021 And if you scroll down you'll see that it says Felt. 168 00:08:34,021 --> 00:08:36,271 And we wanna click on that. 169 00:08:36,959 --> 00:08:39,792 So that means that the machine is set for felt. 170 00:08:39,792 --> 00:08:41,986 We're gonna see that the little C button is flashing, 171 00:08:41,986 --> 00:08:43,641 that means it's ready to cut. 172 00:08:43,641 --> 00:08:45,558 So let's press on that. 173 00:08:48,888 --> 00:08:53,055 And you'll notice it's cutting through the felt twice. 174 00:08:58,135 --> 00:09:00,872 Now we can unload the mat from the machine 175 00:09:00,872 --> 00:09:03,455 by pressing the flashing arrow. 176 00:09:05,079 --> 00:09:06,195 Let's take the mat out of the machine 177 00:09:06,195 --> 00:09:07,945 and peel off our felt 178 00:09:09,038 --> 00:09:11,719 and reveal some beautiful felt flowers. 179 00:09:11,719 --> 00:09:14,357 If you have any trouble with the cutting of the felt, 180 00:09:14,357 --> 00:09:17,176 have a think about how many times you've used that blade, 181 00:09:17,176 --> 00:09:19,336 you might need to replace it, and that's okay. 182 00:09:19,336 --> 00:09:20,910 And they're easy to come by. 183 00:09:20,910 --> 00:09:23,151 When you're peeling it off, try and get your fingernail 184 00:09:23,151 --> 00:09:25,183 under the paper side of this. 185 00:09:25,183 --> 00:09:27,766 So let's peel it off like this. 186 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,669 We're gonna peel the felt off the paper backing 187 00:09:31,669 --> 00:09:34,419 and it just comes off super easy. 188 00:09:35,978 --> 00:09:38,232 And you'll see some of the flowers are still attached 189 00:09:38,232 --> 00:09:40,914 to the felt in little parts, and that's okay. 190 00:09:40,914 --> 00:09:43,497 You can just use a really sharp pair of scissors 191 00:09:43,497 --> 00:09:44,580 to loosen it. 192 00:09:45,732 --> 00:09:47,622 And you can also use those scissors just to trim 193 00:09:47,622 --> 00:09:49,705 any of those fluffy bits. 194 00:09:54,438 --> 00:09:58,105 I'm just gonna use these and just loosen up. 195 00:10:00,344 --> 00:10:01,761 Those bits a bit. 196 00:10:02,902 --> 00:10:04,235 Okay, like that. 197 00:10:04,633 --> 00:10:06,487 And just seal those little wooly bits. 198 00:10:06,487 --> 00:10:08,570 Let's just trim them off. 199 00:10:11,912 --> 00:10:16,079 I always find that they get a bit wooly in the corners. 200 00:10:16,257 --> 00:10:20,090 So just go in there and give it a little trim. 201 00:10:20,492 --> 00:10:21,992 It's looking good. 202 00:10:23,630 --> 00:10:25,547 So I'm happy with that. 203 00:10:25,687 --> 00:10:27,450 I'm gonna put that one to the side 204 00:10:27,450 --> 00:10:29,031 and I'm going to work on my next one. 205 00:10:29,031 --> 00:10:31,770 This one's a little bit more stuck, 206 00:10:31,770 --> 00:10:33,103 but that's okay. 207 00:10:35,771 --> 00:10:38,551 The scissors loosen it up really well. 208 00:10:38,551 --> 00:10:40,281 I think it's important that you make the effort 209 00:10:40,281 --> 00:10:42,364 to give it a little trim, 210 00:10:42,540 --> 00:10:45,111 'cause you want it to look neat. 211 00:10:45,111 --> 00:10:48,234 Cut about 15 or 16 of the felt flowers 212 00:10:48,234 --> 00:10:50,330 in a variety of colors and set them aside. 213 00:10:50,330 --> 00:10:53,177 And we're gonna move on and do our leaves. 214 00:10:53,177 --> 00:10:55,513 So I have my piece of green cardstock. 215 00:10:55,513 --> 00:10:57,893 And I'm going to place it on my mat 216 00:10:57,893 --> 00:11:00,585 just as I've done the other parts of the flower. 217 00:11:00,585 --> 00:11:03,085 I'm positioning it on that mat 218 00:11:03,819 --> 00:11:06,319 and pressing down really well. 219 00:11:09,981 --> 00:11:12,188 Let's load this mat into the machine. 220 00:11:12,188 --> 00:11:15,981 And then we're going to go back over to the design space 221 00:11:15,981 --> 00:11:17,201 on the computer. 222 00:11:17,201 --> 00:11:20,126 And we're going to start duplicating our leaf image. 223 00:11:20,126 --> 00:11:22,151 I've already got it up on my screen. 224 00:11:22,151 --> 00:11:24,484 So we're gonna click on that 225 00:11:24,984 --> 00:11:27,259 and we're gonna duplicate that quite a few times 226 00:11:27,259 --> 00:11:29,244 so it fits in that 12 by 12. 227 00:11:29,244 --> 00:11:31,517 I used two leaves per flower. 228 00:11:31,517 --> 00:11:32,517 It's up to you. 229 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:34,317 You might wanna use one, you might wanna use two. 230 00:11:34,317 --> 00:11:37,584 But I would do is definitely do as many as you can 231 00:11:37,584 --> 00:11:39,001 to fill that page 232 00:11:39,011 --> 00:11:42,460 so that you make good use of that cardstock. 233 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:46,627 So I am going to press Duplicate quite a few times 234 00:11:47,461 --> 00:11:48,794 to fill my page. 235 00:11:52,828 --> 00:11:55,972 I usually do a few and then I move them around. 236 00:11:55,972 --> 00:11:58,889 And I take them right up to that 12 237 00:11:59,072 --> 00:12:00,989 or just before that 12. 238 00:12:08,911 --> 00:12:10,700 And I think I can probably just add 239 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,034 a couple more if I lay them on their side. 240 00:12:13,034 --> 00:12:14,880 So I'm gonna duplicate two more. 241 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,463 And I'm gonna take that down to the bottom. 242 00:12:19,580 --> 00:12:22,367 And then I'm gonna click on this little circle at the top 243 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:25,200 and I'm gonna turn it on its side. 244 00:12:26,301 --> 00:12:30,425 When I'm using particularly fun and precious cardstock, 245 00:12:30,425 --> 00:12:34,178 I like to get as much as I can out of each page. 246 00:12:34,178 --> 00:12:35,345 There they go. 247 00:12:35,551 --> 00:12:38,218 So now we're going to Select All 248 00:12:40,706 --> 00:12:42,373 so that, once again, 249 00:12:43,585 --> 00:12:45,907 the leaves cut exactly as I'm looking at them. 250 00:12:45,907 --> 00:12:48,657 And then I'm gonna click on Weld. 251 00:12:49,634 --> 00:12:51,467 And we're ready to go. 252 00:12:55,554 --> 00:12:58,804 So let's click on the Cricut Go button. 253 00:13:01,641 --> 00:13:02,474 Great. 254 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:05,222 And we're going to click on Go. 255 00:13:07,140 --> 00:13:09,396 And then once again our machine is prompting us 256 00:13:09,396 --> 00:13:10,729 to load the map. 257 00:13:12,308 --> 00:13:14,932 So let's click on the flashing arrow button again, 258 00:13:14,932 --> 00:13:16,849 just as we have before. 259 00:13:18,694 --> 00:13:22,861 And then the important thing is to change your dial 260 00:13:24,104 --> 00:13:26,902 back to cardstock, so let's just turn that around, 261 00:13:26,902 --> 00:13:27,819 super easy. 262 00:13:29,331 --> 00:13:30,839 And then we're going to click 263 00:13:30,839 --> 00:13:33,506 on that flashing C button again. 264 00:13:33,905 --> 00:13:35,238 And off it goes. 265 00:13:38,869 --> 00:13:40,369 Let's take it out. 266 00:13:40,645 --> 00:13:43,379 And now we're just gonna carefully pull it back 267 00:13:43,379 --> 00:13:46,129 to reveal all those great leaves. 268 00:13:50,566 --> 00:13:54,709 You can use the tool, the spatula, to take these off, 269 00:13:54,709 --> 00:13:56,220 or you can just use your fingers. 270 00:13:56,220 --> 00:13:57,925 I'm just gonna use my fingers. 271 00:13:57,925 --> 00:14:02,003 Because we're using the blue mat, it's not as sticky, 272 00:14:02,003 --> 00:14:05,003 so they're a lot easier to take off. 273 00:14:07,668 --> 00:14:09,718 So now we're gonna move on and we're gonna be cutting out 274 00:14:09,718 --> 00:14:13,028 the centers of our flowers out of Kraft-Tex. 275 00:14:13,028 --> 00:14:15,702 We're gonna use a purple mat for this part, 276 00:14:15,702 --> 00:14:18,593 because it's a strong grip so it's super, super sticky. 277 00:14:18,593 --> 00:14:21,061 And because the Kraft-Tex is a lot thicker 278 00:14:21,061 --> 00:14:23,592 it's gonna hold it in place while it cuts. 279 00:14:23,592 --> 00:14:27,009 So let's take off the protective plastic. 280 00:14:28,662 --> 00:14:31,184 You can already see that this is a lot stickier 281 00:14:31,184 --> 00:14:32,684 than the last mat. 282 00:14:36,278 --> 00:14:38,945 And I have my piece of Kraft-Tex 283 00:14:39,078 --> 00:14:42,328 and I'm going to line it up on the mat. 284 00:14:43,917 --> 00:14:48,084 I'm really gonna take my time getting it super flat 285 00:14:49,606 --> 00:14:52,856 with as few little bubbles as possible. 286 00:14:52,871 --> 00:14:57,038 Kraft-Tex is like a really thick part paper, part fabric. 287 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,275 It's really great and you can wash it. 288 00:14:59,275 --> 00:15:02,085 It doesn't tear and it doesn't fray. 289 00:15:02,085 --> 00:15:04,226 And the more you wash it the softer it becomes 290 00:15:04,226 --> 00:15:06,406 so it's also a really good leather alternative. 291 00:15:06,406 --> 00:15:10,573 But in this case we're using it to make a stiff center 292 00:15:11,082 --> 00:15:12,907 that kind of holds its shape. 293 00:15:12,907 --> 00:15:15,940 I'm gonna use this little scraper as well 294 00:15:15,940 --> 00:15:18,551 just to make sure that it's really stuck down. 295 00:15:18,551 --> 00:15:20,003 Now if you don't have any Kraft-Tex, 296 00:15:20,003 --> 00:15:22,253 go ahead and use cardstock. 297 00:15:22,742 --> 00:15:24,774 You can definitely use that. 298 00:15:24,774 --> 00:15:26,993 This is just introducing a different texture to the flowers 299 00:15:26,993 --> 00:15:28,804 but it's entirely up to you. 300 00:15:28,804 --> 00:15:31,474 Okay, let's load this into the machine. 301 00:15:31,474 --> 00:15:33,574 So you should totally know how to do this already 302 00:15:33,574 --> 00:15:35,558 since we've done it quite a few times. 303 00:15:35,558 --> 00:15:37,906 But we're going to open the image 304 00:15:37,906 --> 00:15:39,682 onto our design space. 305 00:15:39,682 --> 00:15:42,374 And then we're gonna go back and have a look 306 00:15:42,374 --> 00:15:44,199 at the measurement of our Kraft-Tex. 307 00:15:44,199 --> 00:15:47,832 And I'm seeing that it's measuring about eight across 308 00:15:47,832 --> 00:15:49,332 and about 10 down. 309 00:15:49,512 --> 00:15:51,255 So when we fill in the page with this page, 310 00:15:51,255 --> 00:15:52,871 with this shape, we wanna make sure 311 00:15:52,871 --> 00:15:55,121 that we don't go past that. 312 00:15:55,387 --> 00:15:59,554 So I'm just gonna duplicate this image a few times. 313 00:16:11,347 --> 00:16:14,847 'Kay, so once again, I'm gonna Select All. 314 00:16:15,699 --> 00:16:17,791 And then I'm gonna go to Weld. 315 00:16:17,791 --> 00:16:20,554 Remember that so that it cuts exactly as we see it 316 00:16:20,554 --> 00:16:21,554 on the page. 317 00:16:21,564 --> 00:16:25,314 And then I'm gonna click on the Cricut button 318 00:16:25,570 --> 00:16:26,903 and click on Go. 319 00:16:28,124 --> 00:16:29,471 I've tried a lot of different settings 320 00:16:29,471 --> 00:16:31,335 with this actually Kraft-Tex product. 321 00:16:31,335 --> 00:16:33,743 And I find that Posterboard words really, really well. 322 00:16:33,743 --> 00:16:36,192 It's a slightly deeper cut than cardstock. 323 00:16:36,192 --> 00:16:38,816 And I think you'll be pleased with how well it cuts. 324 00:16:38,816 --> 00:16:41,324 Before we start cutting, we wanna turn our dial around 325 00:16:41,324 --> 00:16:42,574 to posterbaord. 326 00:16:43,170 --> 00:16:46,170 And then we're gonna click on the C. 327 00:16:50,495 --> 00:16:54,084 Let's press the button and unload the mat from the machine. 328 00:16:54,084 --> 00:16:57,334 And this will just peel off super easy. 329 00:16:59,482 --> 00:17:02,524 We can just take each one of these out. 330 00:17:02,524 --> 00:17:05,120 So all we have left to do is to create a really fun 331 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:08,411 polka dot detail to the center of the flowers. 332 00:17:08,411 --> 00:17:10,187 So just grab a Sharpie 333 00:17:10,187 --> 00:17:13,687 and you can just do some little polka dots 334 00:17:14,770 --> 00:17:16,020 all over there. 335 00:17:16,303 --> 00:17:18,496 If you're not partial to polkA dots 336 00:17:18,496 --> 00:17:19,835 you could do something different. 337 00:17:19,835 --> 00:17:21,007 Think of it as maybe 338 00:17:21,007 --> 00:17:23,759 a little blank canvas to do what you want. 339 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:25,535 But I think the dots look pretty good. 340 00:17:25,535 --> 00:17:27,962 Go ahead and polka dot all the centers to your flowers. 341 00:17:27,962 --> 00:17:30,954 And up next we'll punch holes and assemble them.