I have to admit, I thought you'd lost me with that whole jig thing, until you placed the printed sheet in. Holy moly, what an idea! LOL Mind blown, you know? Not this whole thing makes sense, and I thank you for figuring it all out. I'm just going to wander off muttering to myself like the old lady that I am. :D
She goes over the process in a lot more detail in her other video on this topic, but altered the process slightly for folks who can’t print larger than 8.5x11. Definitely check out her other video 😄
@@CoreyKarwowski Thanks, I'll watch that one as well. I've made my jig, I'm going to leave it on a spare mat so I won't have to worry about where to place anything in the future. :D
This is Soooo good. Thank you for sharing. I went through your other video first. It helped me a lot, because you carefully explained your jig method using a dummy sticker sheet. Great job. Then you come along with this easier method! Boom! So genius.
I live in the UK, so our paper sizes are A3, A4 and A5, but will have a play and see if I can trick my Explore Air 2, Maker 3 & Joy Xtra so I can do the same, as like you, hate wasting anything, but this really is a big help. Thank You.
I didn't know anything about Pro Create but saw I didn't need to in order to use this hack. I just wish I'd seen it sooner, wasted so much sticker paper and so many tears of frustration!😫 Thanks for this!
That is great, thanks. I watched your earlier video but can’t print the tabloid size. As for full sheet printing, I think it’s a MAC thing. My canon prints borderless and it works amazing with my windows computer, but I haven’t been able to make it work with my Mac. Perfect timing, I’ve got a few old mats I was about to throw out, so I think I’ll set up a permanent jig on one of them. Thanks again.
Your tutorial is awesome. I normally do this with prints that I screenprint. But found it difficult to get the prints from my printer to the right size due to not having borderless printing. So basically scale 100%, amazing!! My jig is normally made with masking tape!
This is so smart!! I can't believe it never dawned on me sooner, but you did such a great job of explaining that now I just keep thinking WELL DUH. Thank you so much for sharing!
You’re welcome! I personally still think the original method I have with the jig that includes the print then cut margins does a little better with lining up but I hope this works for you as well! Cricket kind of keeps adjusting margins here and there, and I think that might be part of the problem.
The one flaw with this method is if your printer doesn't print exactly as it looks on the screen (any misalignment) it won't cut quite right. Been trying to find a way to print and cut double sided playing cards and its a challenge trying to line up two sheets of paper (I use self adhesive photo paper back to back, with cardstock between the sheets) and if my prints are shifted slightly the cricut doesn't quite cut as accurate as i would like. Which is to be expected. Thanks for the video, it is helping me to think of different ways to accomplish my goal.
Yeah, as mentioned in the video getting EXACT precision with the cricut is difficult. You might try creating the designs with a little bit of a bleed, but then cutting with the exact sizes you need. It’s an extra step, but it might work.
I have been attempting the same thing for the last year. You have to decide which side is the most important to look the best. Adding bleed to the other card face helps with imperfections in alignment.
Yeah, I thought about that as well. Might go back to just printing and cutting 4 cards at a time, until I can figure out how to ensure my prints are better oriented.
@@joecosier22you can try and align the paper properly, some printers have alignment features, also making sure your printer input section is adjusted properly. For double sided it would be good to have a duplex function but I understand not all printers have this function!
Yes! This! I’m trying to diy plant labels with plant name and QR code. I may need variable numbers of each label, say 5 cucumber and 20 tomato, 2 marigolds, etc.Can you think of a way to do that? I know I could do merge from data (not in cricut); I’m just unsure of how to get the variable numbers without wasting a whole sheet.
Love it! Insta follow 💖💖 I love making stickers my overall goal is to be a print shop. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I use to be a makeup artist now I get to “paint” my colors and designs on my iPad 😍🦋
You certainly could. I personally use the 11 x 17“ hack from my previous video and just periodically cut a new jig out of watercolor paper when my mat gets old or needs cleaned. But vinyl would probably work with this method as well. The only downside would be if you stick vinyl to the mat, you probably aren’t going to get it back up.
I made a video explaining this actually. Here's the link to that: Updated for Canva | How To Make FULL Page of Stickers on Cricut with this Hack 🤯 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IQ5zipvpmaI.html
Thank you for sharing. I had heard of the jig type style but you made this seem so simple with your instruction. Do you do this in beta mode or not in Cricut Design Space?
Does this work with a variety of stickers on one page? From what I'm seeing in the video, it's a single design being printed, rather than a variety of sorts. Please help. Lol
What is that feed support? I could really use something like that for my maker 3. I have done something similar trying to cut out playing cards for some games to keep each page of card images in the same alignment.
I would think it would work the same way only you would cut a rectangle the size of an A4 sheet of paper. I’m not familiar with printers in other countries but I would think it would be a similar process.
I’m sure it would. The difference between a dye cut, and a kiss cut sticker is how much pressure the blade uses and whether not it goes all the way through. You would either need to use a paper cutter to trim the sticker sheets, or perhaps attach a couple of rectangles behind the cut pattern to cut the sheets out. I plan to make a video about that in the future.
A jig is a device that holds a piece of work and guides the tools operating on it. I sometimes use one to hold things in place for my laser cutter. That’s where I got the idea for this hack.
The black paper is just your basic 12x12 scrapbook paper. But you could put 2 sheets of printer paper on the mat. You only need to over an area of about 10x12 for this to work.
A lot of people just use blue painters tape and mark off a section on the mat roughly the size of a sheet of paper then use the cricut to cut out the outline, you then leave the tape on as a jig, might want 2 use another mat that is worn and you don't use as much, that way you can leave the tape on for future use.
