Cricut Maker Knife Blade Diy Letterboard!

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Cricut Maker Knife Blade DIY Letterboard!

Have you lot used the Cricut Maker Knife Blade yet? I mean value you lot should larn for it! The knife blade is a revolutionary tool for the Cricut Maker in addition to makes otherwise unheard of projects totally possible! This cute ledge mode letterboard is a cinch to brand using the Cricut Maker Knife Blade.

I mean value you lot should larn for it. Ready to larn started?

Supplies Needed:

Cricut Maker (sorry, no other cutting auto tin practise this)
The Cricut Maker is different whatever other cutting machine. It's powerful, it has the ultimate cutting might in addition to has incredible versatility!

Cricut Knife Blade (able to cutting materials every bit thick every bit 2.4mm)
Cricut Chipboard
Purple Cricut Mat 12X24
Craft Foam 12x18
Blue Painters Tape
Pine Board 12x12
1x2 Boards cutting to 12"
School Glue
Hot Glue/gun
This Cricut Design Space Project

The Cricut's adaptive tool organisation makes it possible to role the knife blade, rotary blade, scoring wheel...and who knows what's next! Let's beak nigh the Knife Blade for a second. Materials that the knife blade is rated to cutting are:

Balsa wood, upwards to 3/32”

Basswood, upwards to 1/16"

Tooling leather, upwards to vii oz

Garment leather, upwards to 5oz

Cricut® Chipboard, 2mm

Matboard, 2-ply or 4-ply

Craft foam, upwards to 3mm

If you lot haven't used the knife blade before, start yesteryear calibrating your blade. Go to your CDS sidebar...

Click Calibration in addition to thus Knife Blade.

Now, practise what the instructions say. Insert your knife blade...use a lightweight slice of newspaper on the light-green mat in addition to insert it into the machine. Then continue. The knife blade volition cutting several modest cuts in addition to thus inquire you lot questions nigh which ones lined upwards best. Answer the prompts in addition to that's it...it's develop to cutting with.

Don't forget when using the knife blade to slide the star wheels to the correct side of the bar.

Just similar pictured. This volition maintain them from grooving in addition to gouging the cloth that is beingness cut.

Now stick your arts and crafts foam to the imperial mat in addition to record the edges amongst painters tape.

Insert the blade into the Cricut Maker.

Then insert the mat.

Cut the Cricut Design Space projection I designed...it volition give you lot a bang-up diversity of letters in addition to numbers. Set the cloth to Craft Foam...it volition brand ii passes.

Before removing the mat, banking company stand upwards for in addition to run across if the cutting has gone all the agency through the material. I needed to practise i to a greater extent than pass. Then take away the mat in addition to delineate out all the letters.

So many options amongst these fun letters!

Now cutting the backing pieces amongst the Cricut Maker on Cricut Chipboard. The Cricut Chipboard is made differently than other chipboards, thus it's optimized for the knife blade in addition to the Maker.

Same thought every bit before, record downward the chipboard to a imperial mat. All you lot take to practise forthwith is cutting rectangle shapes that are 1.5X3" in addition to a few that are 2x3"...for the M's in addition to W's.

Then identify i missive of the alphabet on each board. Adhere them all inwards i sitting or only pick the phrase you lot take in addition to get together it then.

Use the hot mucilage to adhere the arts and crafts foam letters to the chipboard.

Now to get together the letterboard. It's thus easy! If you lot don't accept might tools to cutting the woods yourself, they volition help you lot out at the habitation improvement store. You take a 12x12" board in addition to thus 1x2 strips that are 12 inches long.

Measure the side of the pino board in addition to score the 4" in addition to 8". Then repeat the mark procedure for the contrary side.

Run a squiggle of schoolhouse or woods mucilage on i side of the 1x2 strip.

Place the boards downward correct higher upwards the markings made, summation the final i correct along the bottom edge.

Then the chipboard letters only sit down on the ledge.

The chipboard is heavy plenty to maintain them all inwards identify perfectly! So really--if you lot haven't used the Cricut Maker Knife Blade yet--I mean value you lot should larn for it! 😄

Need to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than inspiration?
Some to a greater extent than knife blade projects in addition to inspiration tin live on flora here...and these:

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