Select the solid red shark layer AND the red flag layer and click “Slice”. Hide the white shark layer again by pressing the eye icon.Ĭlick the eye icon in the layers panel next to the solid red shark. Turn on the white shark layer by clicking the eye in the layers panel just to double-check it’s all looking as it should: Just delete the white layers of the flag AND delete the white outline layer of the shark as we don’t need them. The bottom layer is easy because that’s all one colour and it will be the full size of the shark. ![]() Hide the black outline layer by pressing the eye next to it in the layers panel.Ĭlick on the flag image and press “Ungroup” to separate out all the layers, then do the same for the shark group. I have a bit of empty space in the nose of the shark where it’s going slightly over the edge of the flag but that’s ok – I can fill it with blue later. Resize the flag and shark as appropriate until you are happy with the positioning. If the shark is appearing BENEATH the flag, click the shark group then click “Arrange” and then “Bring to front”. Move the shark image over the flag image. Hide all the shark layers APART FROM the black outline layer. Grouping layers means that they will now all move and resize at the same time. This puts all the shark layers perfectly on top of each other.Ĭlick “Group” to group together all the shark layers. Once they are all selected, click “Align” and then “Center”. Select all the shark layers, either by clicking-and-dragging a box around them on the main Canvas, or by clicking one of the layers in the Layers panel and then pressing Ctrl or Shift on your keyboard and click the rest of the shark layers. In my case, that’s four: red, white, blue and the original black outline which will be my very top layer. ![]() I chose black.ĭuplicate the outline several times so that you have as many outlines as you will have colours on your design. Make the outline layer that’s already on the screen a dark colour that won’t be used on any of the other layers of your design. Next we need do something similar but for the “outline” layer of the shark. We need one “filled in” layer for every colour that we’ll be using for the finished design.ĭuplicate the layer until you have enough, then re-colour them to match your design. This has left us with a filled in shark that’s the exact same size as the outline layer. Change the colour of the shark to white (I used a pale grey so it’s easier to see) The reason we deleted the two layers in Step 2 is because they were only the size of the INSIDE of the outline layer, but we need them to be the fill size including the width of the outline.Ĭlick the outline shark layer and click “Duplicate” to make a copy.Ĭlick on the duplicated layer, click “Contour”.Ĭlick “hide all contours” in the popup box, then close out of the popup. ![]() This step might seem a bit off since we just deleted two “filled in” layers, but we now need to create some new ones. This will cut out the original shark from the offset layer to leave us with three separate layers.ĭelete the two “filled in” layers so you are just left with the outline of the shark. Select the original shark image AND the new offset layer and press “Slice”. To do this, select the shark layer then click the “Offset” button. We need to turn it into an “outline” instead so that we can add the American Flag image inside of it. Step 2: Make an outline of your main imageĪt the moment the shark image is a silhouette. I chose this flag image as all the line are straight rather then “flying” in the wind which will make it easier when I’m creating the different layers. The Cricut Access images I chose for this tutorial are: American Flag #M2CCF4CC and Shark #M26C5E58D. ![]() How to design a layered cardstock Cricut project Step 1: Choose your images
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