Under Linetype at the top of the screen, select Score. Currently these lines are designated as cutting lines. This highlights the score lines on the popup portion of the card. You first need to click on the score line layer at the top of the panel. There are four layers, two with score lines, and two with the card shapes. Preparing to Cut a Design in Cricut Design Spaceīefore doing anything else to this design, notice the Layers on the right side of the screen. Your cutting file is now open in Cricut Design Space.

The design will now appear on the Cricut Design Space Canvas. Select the green Insert Images button in the lower right corner of the screen. Click on the image you just uploaded, and you will see a green outline around the image. Another screen opens allowing you to select the image you wish to use. Now, click on the green Save button in the lower right corner of the screen. I use popup, card, valentine, heart, scallop, lattice, JulieFlanagan. Double click on the file name, and it should open in the next window you see in Cricut Design Space.Īdd as many tags as you might like to use when searching for this design once it has been loaded into Design Space. Then click on Browse, to search for the file named ValentinePopupCard2-CDS-JulieFlanagan.svg that you saved to your computer. A window will open allowing you to search your computer for the file you wish to use.Ĭlick on the Upload Image button. Open a New page in Cricut Design Space.Ĭlick on the Upload icon at the bottom of the left toolbar.

Cricut Design Space is a free program that you can use, even if you don’t own a Cricut. Now that you have downloaded and unzipped the cutting files for the Valentine Popup Card, upload the SVG cutting file for CDS to Cricut Design Space. What do Good Cutting Files look Like in Cricut Design Space? Upload an SVG cutting file into Cricut Design Space You may wish to learn more about third party software that can be used for creating your SVG cutting files on this blog post. What can you do to prepare your cutting files so that they load easily into your favorite cutting software? Lines or shapes may be missing, or they show up in very odd places on the screen. Sometimes details do not load properly into the software. What can you do if the cutting files won’t work correctly or require lots of tedious editing? This can be very frustrating.

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