Once they are grouped together, click on weld in the bottom right-hand side of the screen. Welding images is super similar to welding text. As you can see from the image above, when you click on an image you can use the arrow in the bottom right hand corner to reshape.
If you unlock it bottom left-hand corner , then you can transform it however you want. I am going to unlock one of them to make a skinny rectangle and another one a rectangle for the top. Next, place your two images on top of each other see below.
You have to have your images overlapping in order for the weld to work. Once you have them overlapped, you will need to group them together. To do this, you can either click on them individually while holding control down on your keyboard or you can click and drag your mouse until a blue square appears and then drag it over all the items you want welded together.
Once you hit weld and then make your project, you cannot unweld! There is not a button to unweld your images. However, like I just mentioned — once you make your project and then come back to your canvas, you will not be able to click undo or un-weld anymore. There you have it! Let us know if you have any questions — we love to help! You can also join our Facebook group for more Cricut tips, tricks and projects. Thanks so much stopping by! The Craft-e-Corner team loves to make things and we want to share that love with you!
Whether you're browsing for inspiration or in need of technical assistance, we're here to help. Contact Us for personalized assistance from one of our craft experts. Thank you. I think one of the tricks to Weld is that you can only have 2 objects selected on the canvas at one time.
Does that make any difference? May 14, Courteney Himsel. What does weld mean? This is what it turned out like: Like I previously mentioned, all of the letters are separated. This is how mine looks: As you can tell from the layer screen on the right-hand side, all of my letters are still individually separated.
Welding Images Welding images is super similar to welding text. Related Posts. Filed in: Cricut - Design Space. Some of the Cricut Frustrations come from learning and using tools or settings the wrong way. This tool is extremely powerful as it allows you to create new designs and elements out of simple shapes.
If you are nervous about this or think that for some reason you are going to need those designs or elements again, you can copy them and then hide them. Then, in the future, if you need to get them…. Attach , in my opinion, is the most important tool inside Cricut Design Space. Attaching allows you to keep all of the — attached — layers together. This means that when you send your project to cut, everything will be organized, just like when you designed it in Cricut Design Space.
Not only attaching keeps everything in place, but it also allows you to attribute a layer to a certain cut. For instance, in order to add scoring lines or draw on a project you need to tell your machine where to draw or score. I want to mention this because I personally LOVE this feature; My friend if you are not using this tool, you are missing out! However, it will make your life easier. Grouping allows you to associate pieces of a design that have similar characteristics.
If you are working with a very complex and large project you will want to group certain elements so you can change them in just a couple of clicks. Here are some of the things you can change in an instant for all of the elements that belong to a group.
The Weld tool is located at the bottom of the Layers panel of the Cricut Canvas area. Most people use weld when one or more areas are overlapping each other. Step 1: Click on shapes — left panel — and drop three stars. Double the size of the center star.
Step 2: Move the left and right star towards the middle star in a way that all stars are overlapping with each other. Step 3: Select all of the three stars and click on the weld tool located at the bottom of the Layers panel of the canvas area. Tip: Try using your creativity, I am using simple shapes just to illustrate the way.
However, go ahead and use different images and shapes to come up with new designs. With the normal process, you would have to slice multiple times to cut out all of the stars. To cope with that I always create all of the shapes that I am going to cut out of my piece of paper and then I weld them to make them into a single shape.
Many of these welding techniques are in my Cricut Card Making tutorial. So if you want to put into practice all the things you are learning today.
Have you tried using a cursive or hand-lettered font in Cricut Design Space? The reason behind this decision is that after attaching you can modify that text, but with welding, you will no longer have text, you will have a shape. For instance, if you are writing a word with your Cricut Pens, most likely you will want that word in a very specific place. Step 3: Organize your elements in the order you would like draw, score or cut them.
Then select them all and then click on the attach button located at the bottom of the Layers panel. Note: If, for some reason you need to change the size, font, and or color on just one of the elements of that particular attachment you will have to detach it order to do it. All of the circles lost their place. All of the things you can do on a particular group are marked in a purple box in the following screenshot.
To use group, simply select all of the elements that you want to group and click on the group button located on top of the layers panel.
Check out some of the things I did using the preview screenshot. With just one click on the little eye at the top of the blue hearts group, I was able to hide the visibility of all of them. I also changed the linetype and fill with the hearts in just one step! I know it seems simple, and you may think that you can just select them each time. However, there are times where you might be dealing with multiple pieces in a very complex design. When this happens the group tool is the best way to be efficient and keep your design in order.
I would love for you to be able to get access to all of them. Check out a live preview here or get access here. Thank you so much for this wonderful article! Very helpful and I understood it, was feeling so frustrated. You literally saved my project. I was so close to shoving my cricut into a closet and never looking at it again bc i didnt know what the difference between attach and group was.
Thank you sooo much for helping me figure it out! Hi Catalina, Newbie here. Yes, needless to say, my maker for Christmas just sits on my table. To be honest, I'm so overwhelmed, and confused my brain is spinning lol. Is there such a thing as reading to much? Design Space just isn't sinking in with me, I'm almost to the point I feel stupid. I hate feeling that way.
I wanted my first project to be new labels for my spice jars.
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