Tutorial - Slice Cricut Cottage Home Sign

In love with the idea - a Cottage Home sign. Didn't have a stencil with those words so I made them using my Cricut. 

I recently saw that Claudia from Mockingbird Hill has the sign Cottage Home over her window in her cottage, I love it and it goes so well with her home (Instagram link).

I wanted to make a similar sign with some variations so ...

Time for another try at stencil making on the Cricut.

Took a few hours to get my mojo back using the Cricut as I haven't been making stencils for several months and had mostly  forgotten the sequence. 

I practiced, made several mistakes, corrected them and finally came up with Cottage and Home.

 
Skip to the bottom of the post if the following tutorial isn't your cup of tea and you will see another very pretty picture of Cottage Home.


I've written my current 'how to' here, mostly for my own info. The biggest 'remembering' was the sequence for how to add a slice in a letter.

After starting a new Cricut page...

Select T (text ) left side of screen and type your word. Pick the font you want (right side of screen) under Edit.

I typed H and the OME separately so I could have different sized letters in the same word, used the Georgia font.

The O needed to be sliced so...


Chose Insert Shapes (left hand of screen) and then the black square, click on the lock icon and resize square to a narrow line. Move the black line and position it over the letter you want to slice (ie) through the middle of the O.


Here is the big deal for SLICING (as I made the individual signs).

Hold down shift, select the black line and the ONE letter that needs to be sliced (mine was attached to the OME  letters) and then Layers (right side of screen window) and click on Slice. 

If you have more than one letter that has to be sliced do each one separately until finished.


Move (drag) your letter (my OME section of letters) aside, select the black line and little bits that were cut out and delete them then move your letter (OME) back to their place.

Adding a frame around your Word Stencil:

You can make a border (you decide on the size) around your stenciled word - the Cricut will cut out the letter shapes and then the outside line of the box.

Using Shape (left margin), pick the black square, unlock the square, size it to cover your word (HOME), select the box and then ARRANGE (top bar) and Send to Back. Select the black box and (right side), Layer  - then click on SLICE twice.


You will have 2 word cuts to drag out of the black box. Drag the black HOME and the Turquoise HOME outside of the black square. Delete them. SAVE your work.

You now have a stencil that can be cut on the Cricut.



 
I made various stencil patterns for Cottage and Home.

 
The stencils I use frequently are all commercial on 10 ml plastic - very sturdy. Cardstock - not so much, but since I am using a very dry (dabbed paint to almost not there at all) stencil brush for my stencil the cardstock holds up fairly well as long as is it dried/stored flat after use. 

I carefully lightly hand painted the cuts in Cottage with a very thin brush.

Something just came to mind - I can always cut new stencils from the saved word if a cardstock stencil doesn't hold up.

Thanks for visiting

I will be at these amazing parties this week, 
come and join me! 

Featured by Sam at Raggedy Bits July 19/17

 Sharing with:

Thursday
Saving 4 Six, Try It Like It, My Thrift Store Addiction, The Charm of Home, Embracing Change, Seeking Lavender Lane, Have A Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson, Crafts a la Mode

Friday 
Reviews, Chews and How-To's,  Funky Junk Interiors,  Under a Texas Sky,  Rattlebridge Farm,  The Cottage Market,  A Fireman's Wife,  The Painted Hinge,  Ms. Toody Goo Shoes, Pam's Party and Practical Tips, 

Saturday
Our Mini Family, Strawberry Butterscotch, Pieced Pastimes,   Scrapality,  Across the Blvd, Life On Lakeshore Drive, Love of Home

Sunday
Pleasures of the Northwest, Nifty Thrifty,  That DIY Showoff, Silver Pennies,  Creating My Way To Success,  Rustic and Refined,  Eclectic Red Barn, Share The Joy

Monday
Dwellings The Heart of Your Home, Normandy Life, Coastal Charm, Two Purple Couches, Grandma's Briefs,  Flour Me With Love, A Stroll Through Life, Celebrate and Decorate, Home Stories A to Z, 

Tuesday
Stone Cottage Adventures, My Husband Has Too Many Hobbies, Fluster Buster,  DIY by Design,  Knick of Time,

Wednesday
Raven Would, Raggety Bits, Grandma's House DIY, The Thrifty Home, Suburban Simplicity, Five Kids a Dog and a Blog, Of Faeries and Fauna Craft Co., Grammy's Grid, I Gotta Create, Savvy Southern Style, Sincerely, Paula, The Essence of Home