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- To start making your flare pins

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go ahead and open up Design Space.

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Now if you go to the materials PDF

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there is a link there for this project

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that I've already created for you,

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but I'm gonna show you how
you can do this on your own

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to create any flare pin you want.

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Click on New Project, then click Images.

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For this project one of the images

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I really liked was a cactus.

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I feel like it's a flare
pin, cactus, it makes sense.

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So I'm gonna type in the word
cactus and see what I find.

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Right here is a great cactus

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that's part of the subscription
service of Cricut Access.

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That means that you already
paid your yearly subscription

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and you don't have to pay more
money to access this image.

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Now that I've got my
cactus in Design Space

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I'm going to delete one part of the layer

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that I don't need, that background.

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Now I have the piece of the cactus

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that I wanna turn into a flare pin.

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Before I do anything else I
want to duplicate this image,

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I'll need two of them.

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For the first image, go over
to the bottom right corner

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and click Flatten.

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This is how we make an image printable.

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Instead of it cutting,
now Design Space knows

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that I want this image to Print Then Cut.

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For the second image I'm gonna go down

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to the bottom right hand
corner and click Weld.

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Now this creates a solid image

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that's going to be the
back of my flare pin,

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this is gonna be the part
that I cut out of the wood.

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Now that we've done that we're ready

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to send this to the machine.

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The only thing I'm gonna
do now is jump over

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to the file I created that
has a few more designs.

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In this Design Space file I
have four different flare pins

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and four different backgrounds.

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All of those backgrounds
are the same color,

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because they're gonna print
from the same color of wood.

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Over here I've got my
Print Then Cut designs,

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and now I just go up to
the upper right hand corner

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and click Make It.

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The first thing you'll
do is Print Then Cut.

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So I'm going to click Continue,

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select my maker.

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Now go over to Send to Printer.

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Once you click that this file

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will be sent over to your printer,

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so that you can cut it
out from your machine.

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I would recommend printing on cardstock.

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I find that it's easier
to cut out on your machine

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and it's gonna give a
little more thickness

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to your finished project.

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When you're using my project file

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this is the printout that you'll get.

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You'll see it has black lines
all the way around the images

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and those are registration lines

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that tells your machine
exactly where to cut.

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Now I'm gonna load the
mat into my machine.

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Make sure your machine is loaded

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with the fine point blade here,

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because that's what we
need to cut cardstock.

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Now we're ready to select our materials.

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And I'm gonna select Medium Cardstock,

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because that's what I'm using.

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And then we're ready to cut.

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When using Print Then Cut

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the first thing your machine is gonna do

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after you load the mat is
scan those registration lines.

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This way the machine
know exactly where to cut

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every single time,

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so you can get a precise cut
from those printed images.

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Now that we've got all of our images cut

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we're ready to cut the basswood.

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I'm gonna put it on my mat

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and then use some masking
tape to tape it down.

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This is always a good practice to use

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when using the knife blade,

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so that your wood doesn't
shift around on the mat.

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At this point you'll also wanna make sure

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you switch out that fine
point blade that we were using

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for the knife blade.

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You'll also wanna make sure
you move all the star wheels

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over to the right.

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Any time you're cutting
with a thick material,

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like the basswood, you
wanna move those over.

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I'm also gonna change
my material to basswood.

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In this case we're using 1/16 thickness,

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so that's what I'll select.

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And now we're ready to cut.

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Once the machine has made one pass

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through all of the cuts it
will give you a time estimate

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on how long it will take to
complete the entire project.

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In this case we're making four flare pins

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and it's telling me it's
gonna take about 30 minutes.

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Now we have all of the pieces

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and it's time to put them together.