![]() ![]() This is the way Cricut will need it, so that it can understand it. When you’re happy with your text, you can convert it to outlines (shapes). To move the text to the center, grab the text tool and click into the text, move your cursor to the beginning of the text (using your arrow keys), and add some kerning to shift the text into place. You can change the fill & stroke of the path (I like to keep a stroke on the path while I’m working on it). Grab both the text and the oval, and then select Text -> Put on Path. Select the circle tool, and make an oval. You’ll need to click Apply to see the changes on the canvas. Choose a font – it won’t change right away on the canvas, but the preview below will change. Then, click the select tool, and go over to your text panel (if it’s not showing, go to Text -> Text & Font). You can click on the text tool in the toolbar, click on the canvas, and type your text. The last step is adding text to your SVG. ![]() You can combine shapes of the same color to keep their orientation in the same place on the Cricut mat.įor more details on all of this, check out my YouTube video :) Adding Text to Your SVG in Inkscape Then, you can select the separate pieces of the cupcake, and set their colors. You can lock that layer so you don’t move it around. Then, drag that layer to the bottom so that it will be behind everything else. So then you can switch back to the select tool, select the silhouette, and cut it, and paste onto a new layer. This breaks everything up into separate shapes – including the silhouette. To do this, grab your outline SVG and select Path → Break Apart. Because iron-on vinyl always has some shrinkage, I recommend having the first layer as a black silhouette of your artwork, and then layering colored pieces on top of it. The next step is to add color to your SVG in Inkscape. ![]() (Again, this is easier to follow in the video)Īfter you’re all done drawing, you can convert your lines to shapes, and then combine all of those shapes into a single shape. You’ll need to click & drag to create your curves, and then right-click whenever you’re ready to end your stroke. ![]() It may seem weird at first, but once you get used to it, it will become second nature. This allows you to use the mouse to draw. To create the single-color outline, you can draw your artwork using the bezier tool. Next, add a second layer (you can name it something like “vector drawing”), to do your vector drawing on. Set up your layer that contains the sketch as a sketch layer – in other words, lock the layer, and lower the opacity so that you can draw over it more easily. Then, the two panels I always like to have open are layers (Layer → Layers) and appearance (Object → Fill and Stroke). I always like to start by importing a sketch that I can then trace over. It will probably be easier to watch my video tutorial on creating a single color SVG for the first step, but I’ve also outlined the steps below. It really just depends on how detailed you want to get with it. Of course, you can do just the first step if all you want is a simple, single-color SVG. I’ve broken the process up into three steps – Creating the outline, then adding the color, and finally adding text. INKSCAPE CRICUT EXPLORE FREEInkscape is a great free program you can use so that you can create perfect SVGs for Cricut Design Space, that you can then use yourself, or sell on Etsy or other digital resource sites! There are a lot of little nuances when creating an SVG for Cricut. ![]()
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