🤯TOP 20 CRICUT HACKS IN UNDER 20 MINUTES 🤯

I hope you guys are ready because this is going to be rapid fire hacks I have the timer out for this video we're gonna set this thing to 20 minutes and we are going to try our absolute best to get through 20 hacks in 20 minutes are you ready before we get the 20 minutes started if you are new here my name is Lauren I'm a craft producer here at makers going to learn where we love to bring you inspiration education and motivation to get your die cutting machine out of the box and start using it we also have an amazing membership Community where we bring you thousands of cut files right now we have over 15,000 plus cut files on our website thousands of fonts where we bring you new cut files and fonts every single month with commercial use license if you want to check that out click that first link down below to definitely check us out but if you're ready for 20 hacks in 20 minutes let's go ahead and get this timer started and let's get going we're going to go ahead and set this timer for 20 minutes and we're going to get started we're going to start here in design space rapid fire 20 things now not all of them are going to be in design space but let's get through this hack number one did you know that you can shuffle through your grid up here in the top leftand Corner if you just click this Square you can shuffle through all of the different grid tops here in Cricut design space hands down one of my favorite ways to shuffle through the grid so hag number two is all about fonts and this is especially for those that may be wanting to to create stickers what happens when you flatten your font you see how there was a kind of like a black line or an outline we'll change it back to a basic cut it's going to change the colors but you can see that there's a very faint black line there but when you go to flatten it removes that so if you are wanting to create words that still have a very faint outline on them what you need to do is we're going to duplicate that we're going to change it operation from basic to pen from there you can choose your thickness if you what you'll do is you click on this box here you can drop down Fine extra fine gel it gives you the millimeter on the side if you want to also go byy that normally gel is a pretty good one we'll do black you can see it got a little bit thicker from there what you're going to do is Select both go to a line Center and now we have that black line and when we go to flatten them both together that black line stays so tag number two to add a black outline to your flattened image duplicate your words change it to a pen function flatten them together hack number three is also going to be one in design space and it is about text it is about adding two different font Styles together I love how we have Ruby CLA here but for some reason Claire is getting a little bit lost up against there what we're going to do is we're going to create a knockout text and to do that you're going to go to offset you're going to create an offset 0.25 is probably going to be way too big normally we like to start out at like a 0.1 or maybe even smaller we'll go with 0.1 you're going to add your offset select your offset and your text you can see here I have offset and Ruby selected now what I can do is I can go to slice because it's two layers and now I'm just going to get rid of the what we have sliced and now I have a super cute knockout text where I can read Claire perfectly and still read Ruby and it just looks really really good together hack number four and design space is going to be all about spacing things evenly so let's say we have these elements here we want them in a straight line to start the process of creating a border and let's say I want to duplicate these because I still want two more over here what you can do instead of having to line these up you could pull your grid back in try your best to line up the points and go from there that would work but let me show you a really quick way to do this or a little hack if you would we're going to select all now this truly isn't a hack this is a function but I don't think it's a function that has been used or utilized a lot here in design space so the first thing that you're going to want to do is go to align and come down here now this might get a little bit confusing we have distribute horizontally and distribute vertically vertically has it turned sideways but it's showing you that it's Distributing them evenly from the top to the bottom distribute horizontally has them on this like to the side it's a little bit confusing but this is the one we want because we want our two end pieces to stay the same and everything in the middle to distribute so we go distribute horizontally you can see that they moved while they're still selected go to a line and then we can Center them vertically and now they are perfectly aligned all across the board and we can attach them together and this is going to be the start of your border or whatever you're wanting to create so that's going to be hack number four hack number five is all about thin fonts now this is going to be super helpful this font specifically is a maker's going to learn it's a Bridget font the font name is Bridget it is very very hard to cut thin stuff with this font so what you can do a hack that we love to do with a font that we love but it's too thin if you'll create an offset and we're talking like a 0.1 is too much we're talking like a01 or a 02 you can barely even see that there but when we click apply and we pull our text away you can see that their original text is still a lot more thin now we do lose a little bit of detail here but this is going to be a lot better to cut and easier to cut especially if you are doing something tiny tiny tiny you're going to want to add that 01 offset and use the offset versus the actual font okay we're currently sitting at 15 minutes let's keep going and see how much more we can get through this is hack number six if for some reason you come down here to combine and you weld your stuff together and you can't go back later and figure out what it was this is the hack that I need you to pay attention to and this is learning all about your image info so you can see we have weld result here if you click down if you hold control or command um and on a Mac it may be different but it is control or option and you scroll down here to the bottom this this is a right click so this is the same as a right click if you're on a Windows and you right click it's just a little bit different on a Mac it's control click for a Mac and you scroll down to image info you can see that it gives you the fonts this so the cursive one was banana pudding and the selected big one was Andy so you can after you weld an image and this is not just for text you can do this with images as well you can find the name or how that image was saved by right clicking or control click and coming down to image info the next hack that I want to show you is how you can take a single color SVG and turn it into a multicolor SVG so what I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate this as many times as I want colors so let's say I want three colors if you want the Stars a different color um lead it one color and snow a different color you can do that so let's say I want three colors I've duplicated it and now I have three of them so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start with my top one and to create a multicolor we're going to Contour out everything that is not part of the first color so let's say we want to start with snow we hide all Contours just select snow and here we have the snow section and you may even want to duplicate it a fourth time so that you have your we'll have it over here in the corner that's your original so now we want to go to Contour we done snow now we want all of the twinkle stars so we're going to hide all Contours and we're going to select all of the little accents and twinkle stars here and hide the W so now we have all of our twinkle stars that go around it and now we need let it to be by itself so once again hide all Contours we're selecting let it and getting rid of the W and here we have let it snow so now we can change our colors let's say we wanted this one blue maybe this one a little bit darker blue and that one the let me bring the snow here like a deeper blue and now you can see that we have multiple color we now have a multiple color SVG what you can do you don't have to attach it together if you want to you can GP group them together like this that's not going to change it you can move it but now what's going to happen is you can send it to your Cricut and cut every single different portion of this SVG in the different colors now let's talk about making it into a sticker so if you these are this is going to be a couple different hacks together but we're mainly going to talk about easy peel stickers so first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create an offset to this whole thing all layers we're going to create an offset it's going to be more than 0.1 we'll go back to 0.2 beautiful apply we want it to be white on the background lovely you could even go ahead and will Contour out these two middle pieces if you want to now I'm going to duplicate this put it over here bring this back in so let's say we want to create an easy pill sticker what you need to do is you need to flatten together and we'll go ahead let's change the color of our canvas from white to gray so we can see now what you're going to do is you're going to create another offset now it doesn't have to be 0.25 it can be 05 this is however much you want the easy peel to be and you're going to apply now it says it's a print and cut but we want this to be a basic cut because we want to cut all of this out on the outside so that it is an easy pill sticker and to do this and cut through both the sticker paper and the backer what you're going to need to do is duplicate it we're going to send it all the way to the back just like so we're going to select all of these align and Center them now it looks like nothing is centered once you have all of these layers you can see we have our flatten layer which is the Let It Snow sticker our offset and then our other offset here if you go to attach them together what that is going to do is it's going to recognize this letuce know as the sticker it's going to cut that out and then there's going to be two it's going to do two passes back here which will cut through the backer making you an easy peel sticker that is hack number seven for you and now let's go ahead and go to the make it screen and let me show you all of these other hacks so now that we are here at the make it screen there's going to be lots of things that look crazy clearly this is way too big you can see that we have lots and lots of mats don't worry I have reasons for everything so first up with this next hack did you know that you can select multiple things on one mat and move to a second mat so what you can do you can see you can move them individually or if you select all that you want you can click these three dots and you can move them all to one mat together now look how easy that is y'all it's insane also while we're here hack number eight nine some I've lost count at this point did you know that you can cut the same material you can cut multiple colors of the same material on one mat so what you're going to want to do is you're going to set your mat up and you're going to have each material color so let's say we want our stars in yellow we're going to put all of our stars in the bottom left hand corner that's where our yellow material is going to go then we have Courtney over here it's going to be in pink the pink corner is going to be down in the bottom right and then let it snow we in blue so you're going to put that in the top right and then put your blue material in the top right what that's going to do is that is going to allow you to cut the same material but multiple colors on the same mat now while we are here did you know that you can also create your own material setting so let's just go ahead and go to continue how you're going to create your own materials is first off go to browse all materials at the very bottom left you're going to go to material settings and then you're going to scroll all the way down to the bottom click add new material name your new material cool new stuff save and from there you can set your pressure settings to as high or as low as you want you can do your multiple passes if you want to and you can choose between a fine point and a deep point blade so you can go ahead and create your own custom settings as well once you're done you're just going to click save and you can see it will be right there so that is just a little quick hack on creating your own custom settings um yes we're going to cancel the cut another thing that I think is once again maybe not a hack but one thing that I don't feel like a lot of people utilize and that is the fact that you can come up here to file and open a new window and you can work on multiple mats and work with multiple machines at the same time so what you're going to do is you're just going to go to your canvas and you can see here in the top Corner if you have maybe an Explorer and a maker you can change this to maker that way you do everything you want to on the maker on this tab and then everything you want on the Explorer on this tab so utilizing multiple windows is a great way to multitask and get lots and lots of stuff done okay y'all we've got about 7 minutes left I've given you all the hacks in design space let's rapid fire some of these hacks that we have on the table and try to get within this 20 minutes so first up we have this little teeny tiny design and let's go ahead and I'll go over ahead and show it to you I hope you guys can see this first of all this is a great example of what adding an out adding an offset to a thin font if you're cutting it very small is going to be because this is the offset y'all that's how crazy it is but my hack for this is if you have a design and you're wanting to line it up perfectly what you need to do and I'm trying to hold this where you guys can see is line up the two edges of your words you can see that this is not even but to find the center point you need to crease that there now I have a crease right there in the middle to tell me what the exact center point is so when I go to put that on my blank I know where the center is and where I need to line it up now speaking about finding the center point if you are working with shirts what you need to do this is a hack for those that are working with shirts take your shirt I would fold the front facing the outside line it up like this take your mini easy press or iron and create a line iron that in so that you can also get the center point there so that when you are going to line it up you have that Center Line down the middle of your shirt y'all don't know what number I'm on but we're moving next up if this is one of my favorite things to teach people if you have a squeegee did you know you can use it for your bottles or curved surfaces to keep them steady while you are putting something putting vinyl on them it is a great hack to have your squeegee there use that Center Point as a way to add your vinyl now if you all been around you know glass bottles and Lauren don't work very well together so I'm not going to be messing with that a lot but I love using that pack now while I have this on the table and we are here if you are applying vinyl and you want it to say another hack get you some alcohol this is one of those that I feel like has been around for a while clean off your surface this is going to help keep your vinyl stuck down really really well while we have the glass on the table if there are labels that you have on here and you're trying to get them off I highly suggest going and getting you some lemon or Citrus essential oils putting it on your labels this is going to really help you get these off and get that adhesive off it's going to bring up that adhesive so well and it's going to allow you to give you a really good clean surface next up is all about tape I don't know about you guys but I literally hate trying to find the end of my tape now masking tape is not hard the worst is the like clear plastic tape but one thing that you can do find you something laying around your craft room I would highly suggest getting like a bread tie not one of the twisty ones but one of those like flat plastic bread ties put putting it at the end of that if you don't have that you can see here I just found some extra a little scrap piece of transfer tape add that to the end that way I can peel that off I can use that once I get to where I need I can take that piece of tape off keep that there and it can just stick right back down as a way to never lose the end of your tape keep you a bread tie or something at the end y'all I love it last hack that I have for you which is one that's been around for the channel for a while it's looking like we have a minute maybe two before this thing goes off let's see if we can get this mat cleaned that is cleaning your mats with baby wipes are we going to make it under the 20 minutes let's find out oh we did it now you will need to let your mat dry it's not going to be sticky when it is wet but y'all wow that was rapid fire that was 20 hacks under 20 minutes y'all I know there were so many hacks that we didn't touch base on go back rewatch like I said that was very fastpaced we were trying to get through it get you the hacks I hope you have enjoyed it if there's a hack that we didn't talk about in this video and you want to share with fellow Crafters share with us definitely make sure you drop it down in the comments below you never know your hack may be featured on one of our next videos if you have 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