DOUBLE SIDED PRINT + CUT | THIS CRICUT HACK CHANGES. THE. GAME.

shut the front door we have the hack of all hacks y'all today we're going to learn everything there is to know about doublesided prin and cut are you ready let's go ahead and Dive Right In if you're new here my name is Lauren and I'm a craft producer here at makers going to learn where we strive to bring you inspiration education and motivation to get that Cricket out and start using it and today buddy let me tell you I have been wanting to do double-sided print and cut for forever and we finally figured it out let's go ahead and dive right into Cricket design space so first things first there is a very specific way that we want to create this project and very specific things that you want to create this is going to work better if you are using basic shapes and you have either a plain pattern or just a solid color on the back so the first thing you're going to do is decide what you want to create today we are creating Valentine Day cards because that is coming up you can do birthday invitations party invites business cards so many other things you can create with this but I want to show you the concept first so that you can then take the concept and run with it and make anything and everything that your heart desires so the first thing I'm going to do is is I'm going to grab a shape now for this one like I said because we are doing Valentine's Day cards I'm just going to grab this rounded Corner square and here in just a second we will size it accordingly to what we want but after I grab that square I'm going to hop over to the makers going to learn website and I'm going to start choosing the files that I want so the first one that I'm going to grab is actually going to be over here on page one and I'm going to download the pattern Hearts so to do that I'm going to click this arrow pointing down it is going to come in as a zip folder you do need to double click that and unzip that however before we upload it there is one other thing that we need to grab so I'm just going to come over here to our cut files this is one of our new cut files I mean look how stinking cute these Valentine's little pre-made cards are for you so I think I want to do this wild for you once again we're going to download that by clicking that arrow pointing down coming up here to our downloads and double clicking that zip file so that we can make sure that it gets opened and then we're just going to head back over to design space and start the uploading process once you are back here in design space we are going to come over here to the leftand toolbar and down here at the very bottom we're going to click upload we are going to to upload image I'm going to just pop my finder back into view and I am going to grab the PNG version of our Valentine's Day card drag and drop continue now we do want this as a flat graphic so I'm just going to make sure I select flat graphic and then continue and upload it to our canvas now however I am not done and that is very large but we are going to resize here in just a minute before I continue I'm going to come back over here to upload once again upload image bring my finder in and now I'm ready for my pattern Hearts so I'm going to drag and drop that we are going to hit continue you can see that this one specifically does not have a background no fear I'm going to show you exactly what you need to do to alleviate that situation so that your Cricket's not trying to cut out every single individual piece so we're just going to hit apply and continue and once again we want this as a flat graphic now if you wanted it all to be the same color you can choose a single layer create the color that you want and then flatten it but today we are just choosing flat graphic we're going to click continue and then we are going to also upload that onto our canvas okay y'all like I said these come in really really large so I am going to zoom out and you can see my little 2x two square over here I'm just going to start sizing these down just like this and now we can come back over here and zoom back in now that we have these sized down we are going to choose what we want Val the size that we want our Valentine's Day card now this does come in as a locked Square so if I'm wanting to create a rectangle I do need to click that unlock button and I'm just going to unlock it and stretch it to the size that I want or you can type in the numbers so we may do a let's do a 3x 4 see if that fits this size aspect ratio just like this [Music] beautiful and now what we can do you can actually leave this as a sharp edge that's perfectly fine I still am looking for a round Edge so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to duplicate this first bring it over to the side and then I'm just going to bring this here in front I'm going to move it to the back and make sure that it doesn't cut anything that I want off of it and you can see when I zoom in that it still has all of the information that I want like that and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to select both of those and I'm going to slice that now this is not a necessary step but this is what I'm looking for right here I wanted those sharp edges gone so this is exactly what I was looking for and now I have this side and all I have to do now is size my hearts according to what I want now keep in mind when you're working with a pattern the larger the pattern the less you're going to see of the hearts if you want your pattern to be busier make it smaller if you want it to be not so busy make it larger that's going to be completely up to you so once we have done that sized it accordingly I'm going to select both of these layers once again again I'm going to come down here to the bottom right hand corner and I'm going to select slice now once that has sliced out this is why I duplicated the same size shape is because I want to get rid of that I want to get rid of this gray slice result and that one as well but you have to create a background for this pattern to sit on so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the color of this to whatever color you want if you want to try to match this pink you can I personally am just going to keep it white and I am going to change the canvas background so that you all can see this a lot better so once I have changed that to White I'm now going to select both of these layers and you can tell that I have selected them both because they are both green on the layers panel once you have done that we're going to come up here to a line and we're going to Center those pieces together now they fit beautifully exactly where they need to go but this is not the final step just yet with them still both selected you must come over here to our right hand layers panel and flatten those together now what that is going to do is that allows this to just cut it tells your Cricut that you just want this cut on the edge and not all these little tiny pieces on the inside and y'all that's pretty much it as far as setting it up in design space the next work comes in with your printer so what we are going to do now is we are going to go to make it you do need to save your project we'll just save this as Valentine's Day card and we want to put these on two separate mats so to do that we need to click these three little dots here we're going to move the object to a new mat and now you are just going to place both of these in each of the respective corners ERS okay so depending on what you print first we'll go ahead and print this wild for you first and I'm going to get it as close to this corner border right there as possible one thing that I love to do is if it's not to get it to snap I kind of move it up past the um red dotted lines and I'll show you we'll zoom in so what I like to do to make sure it snaps exactly where I want it I like to move it up past those dotted lines Let It Go it snaps there and then I can move it to the side and it snaps there and you can see it fits super super tight up against that corner so this is going to be the most important part when it comes to double-sided print and cut and that is knowing your printer okay we must know our printer it took us a while to really get familiarized with our printer if you don't know know how your printer prints my suggestion to you is take a piece of paper put a black X in either the top right or the top left corner now because this page is showing me that it should print in the top left I'm going to put it in the top right to see exactly where it prints so you can see I have put this X in the top right and it should print on the top left now I'm going to send this through our printer and I'm going to show you exactly where it prints according to where this x is so from here we're going to click continue we are going to send to printer now I am using our Canon ts9500 series I am going to go ahead and add the bleed because we have a solid color on the front and I always use system dialogue after you have toggled on use system dialogue we're going to click print it is going to pull up behind here once again like I said I'm using our Canon ts9500 series I am feeding from my rear tray and I'm turning it to best quality that's going to be the most important thing is feeding from the rear tray and printing on bre best quality so after that we're going to click print and then I will bring it in and show you where it prints according to where I put our X Okay so this is why it is so important to know your printer I put our X you all saw on the top right corner I then placed a piece of paper just like this in the printer with the X on the top right corner and this is how it printed so it printed it upside down and on the opposite side so now depending on where your X is after you print you will then need to flip your page if it printed here all you are going to do is place your page you're going to turn it this way in your printer and you will have to manipulate on your canvas as well and I'll show you how to do that so if this is how your printer prints all we're going to do is flip it this way place it back in our printer we're going to go over here to our second mat we're going to edit our second mat we're going to zoom out and we're going to place it on the opposite corner as close to that top as we did same way we'll zoom in get it to snap as close to this corner as possible and then we're going to click done and now we can send this one to the printer before we cut another thing that is extremely extremely important when you are feeding your paper from your rear tray is to make sure that your guides here are very tight on the paper you don't want them to be you can see here there's a little there's like wiggle room there you don't want that wiggle room you want to place your paper in your printer and make sure that you pull your guides to touch either side of the paper that way it does not move and it stays secure and y'all look here's our front here is our back another thing that you can do to check to make sure that it lines up take your paper hold it up to the light I can see that mine is just a little bit off but because we have this pattern on a white background I really don't think you're going to be able to tell that much but I do want to make sure that this front Cuts perfectly because the front where it does have full color so I'm going to go back to mat number one and we'll go to our share screen I'm going to go back to mat number one and that's what we're going to cut from so what I'm going to do is I'm going to line this up on the mat according to where Cricut is telling me to put it you want this triangle in the top left corner we're going to burnish this onto our mat we are cutting this on medium card stock we're going to load this into our machine and keep our fingers crossed okay y'all Moment of Truth we're going to unload our mat we're going to do this together it looks like it did pretty good A look how good that looks y'all it really isn't that hard and like I said earlier it does work better with your basic shapes and patterns on the back but I'm very impressed with how this double-sided print and cut turned out so are you all as impressed as I am because I think I'm going to be doing this a lot more than I ever thought that I would there are so many different things that you can do with this for example look at this cute little birthday card that we've done double-sided you can do business cards and you can see here business cards would be super cute front and back easy for you all to create Valentine's Day cards so many different things that you can do a double-sided prin and cut for let me know in the comments what's the first thing you're going to make double-sided print and cut I cannot wait to hear what you all plan to create if you have enjoyed this video make sure you hit that thumbs up button subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can get notified every time we get crafty and 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