📹 Make A 3d Card For A Birthday That’ll Knock Their Socks Off

Instructions

1. Prepare the card and mat
2. Prepare your design file
3. Load Mat and Make
4. Weeding
5. Doing Repairs
6. Contrasting Cardstock

Step 1 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Prepare The Card and Mat 

Take your card, confirm the orientation of your card before you place it on your mat. 

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Then when you’re happy, use a tool or place something on top so you can press the card down properly.

It’s not completely necessary to place an additional piece of paper on top of your card to rub it, however, I wanted to completely avoid any potential of making the card dirty.

Step 2 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Prepare Your File In Design Space

Download your file from DesignBundles and unzip. Then open your Cricut Design Space app and upload the file. 

If you have more than one Cricut machine, ensure that you have the correct machine selected within your settings. 

Step 3 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Load Mat and Make

This is the part that takes a little while if your design is as complicated as the butterfly that I selected. After it’s completed, hit the unload button in the Design Space App.

Step 4 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Weeding

Weeding is the process of separating your finished piece from those little cut out pieces. I find it easiest to weed when it is not still attached to the card as you can see in the video.

It lead to a tiny D I Saster (that’s how I say that word) - I broke part of a wing. However, it was the layers of paper that had separated so it wasn’t like a clean cut, I was able to repair.  

It’s so much easier to weed by holding both sides of the card with your finger and thumb so that you can hold on to the really spindly pieces and get them out either from the back where it won't be seen or the front. 

Weeding from the front is an absolute nightmare for me and I don’t know if that’s true for everyone.

So if you can get it off in one piece, it will be easier when you can add additional support from holding. 

Dealing With Paper Teeth….

Whenever the Cricut machine cuts, and there's just a little bit of paper just poking out, that’s a bit of tooth.

I pulled on that on the back layer of the paper started to come up.

So I lifted it off because cardstock is just layered paper pressed together and hot and cold pressing it and I can always reinforce it.

Step 5 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Doing Repairs

I accidentally broke one of the little pieces of butterfly wings. But because it was the layered paper had just come apart.

Then, I was easily able to use the microdots and kind of use the back of one of the Cricut tools to really get it on. 

Of course you could use a glue pen or something like that to reattach it because it's going to have a fine point.

And I had a bit of trouble getting the wee plastic of that, but it worked out okay. I was able to do it thin enough, and I was able to ensure that it wouldn't affect any other part of the card.

So I did all my work from the back because that is where the card stock is gonna go over.

The people receiving the card, won't see these parts. So the back of your card, while you try not to be messy, like if you do, it's not the end of the world, you do not need to rip up your card and start all over again. 

Repairs can occur and you can do very well. Whenever I was rubbing my fingers over it back, it was because the tooth from the, or the teeth from all the little holes that I was poking, it had all poked out of the back. 

Step 6 To Make A 3D Card For A Birthday; Contrasting Cardstock

Now it's time to cut the card stock and figure out if you've got all of the tooth and the little bits of scraggly paper off the corners.

You will know if you haven’t managed to remove all of the pieces because it might be a little difficult to insert the cardstock, as you see the trouble I had in the video! It was just one small piece. 

Your contrasting card just needs to slot into the little corners of your cut out design. 

Et Voila!