Easy Step by Step Circut Tutorial – How to Add Your Own Images to Cricut Design Space.

How to Add Your Own Images to Cricut Design Space

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Getting started with a Cricut Machine can be intimidating. If you are like me you have a dozen crafts and projects you would like to design but when you first get your machine, you stare it frozen with where to begin. Add your own images is one of the first steps you will want to do when first exploring your machine. Doing these 10 steps will help you feel comfortable with your machine. The steps are simple but the accomplishment makes you feel like you actually took the first step in becoming comfortable with your new vinyl machine.

Take a look at these 10 easy step-by-step directions for uploading your own image to Cricut Design Space. Happy crafting!

 

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Cricut Image Tutorial:

Adding your own images in Cricut Design Space is very easy and will have you going on new projects and having fun with your Cricut in no time.

1. First, open your Cricut Design Space. Once you have it open you will see the Upload Images tab on the left side. Click the tab.

2. This will take you to the upload image page. Click on the Upload Image tab as shown.

3. You will then you will be prompted to click the BROWSE button to upload your image.

4. Once you upload your image check the Simple image option. Then click the CONTINUE button.

5. Using the magic wand button as show, select the areas around your image. This will tell your Cricut to cut around your image.

6. Once all the areas around the image you want to cut out is cleared, click the CONTINUE button.

7. You will now be prompted to Save as a Cut image. Once checked click the SAVE button.

8. Your image will be added to your Uploaded Image Library. Select your image and then click the INSERT IMAGES button.

9. Now you will make your image the size you would like it to be cut. Using the DOUBLE ARROW button drag your image to your desired size.

10. Your image is now ready to be cut out. Click the GO button to begin cutting.

That’s it! You can find more inspiration on Cricut’s Blog and the Circut Design Space. You can also shop the cutting machine collection at Cricut.com. Enjoy!

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Science Experiments at Home for Kids on Frugal Coupon Living. Take a look at the chemical reaction produced from baking soda and vinegar!

Kids Science Experiments at Home | Baking Soda and Vinegar

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The kids and I love to do crafts at home. Sometimes they enjoy it a little bit more than me! However, I try to be a good mother and do what I can to create excitement at home that is minimal and is an easy clean up. The former teacher in me, also makes sure the activity has some education involved. This baking soda and vinegar experiment is creative, crafty and something you as a mother can walk away from as they have fun playing with the patterns and colors – I think you can get away with telling them it is art!

So a quick description so you and your child understand what is going on. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and vinegar (acetic acid) react with each other because of an acid-base reaction. One of the products this reaction creates is carbon dioxide, which creates all the fizzing as it escapes the solution.

Hey Mom! Did you know that you can unclog a drain with baking soda and vinegar! Pour a pot of boiling hot water down your drain and then ad about 1/2 cup of baking soda. Let that sit for a bit. After, pour 1 cup vinegar and 1 cup very hot water. Cover your drain with a plug to keep the chemical reaction going down. Let sit 5 to 10 minutes and flush out with more hot boiling water!

Baking Soda and Vinegar

Supplies:

• 3 cups baking soda
• 3 colors of food coloring
• 16 oz bottle of vinegar
• Straws
• 9×13″ baking pan

Directions:

1. Separate your baking soda evenly into 3 bowls, 1 cup in each.
2. Add several drops of food coloring to each bowl to turn each cup of baking soda a different color.
3. Mix your baking soda and food coloring together, you will have to use your fingertips as the food coloring tends to clump together.
4. Pour your colored baking soda into your baking pan and lightly shake the pan so it spreads out evenly.
5. Place your straw into your bottle of vinegar, place your finger tip on the top of the straw to hold the vinegar inside the straw, lift over to the pan of baking soda, and release your finger.
6. You will notice the reaction of the vinegar combining with the baking soda.

Extension:

When baking soda and vinegar are combined they create an chemical reaction. Baking soda is a bicarbonate and vinegar is an acetic acid it creates carbon dioxide and water.

Have the kids place the vinegar where the colors connect too, do they mix together and make new colors?

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Upcycled Craft | Jellyfish Water Bottle

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This is a fun upcycled craft for the kids. Reuse an old water bottle and cut it down to create this fun jellyfish water bottle. We luckily didn’t have to buy anything because all the supplies were laying around our home. We love the blue and orange contrast but you could have fun create rainbow legs with pinks, yellows, greens, oranges, blues and more. This is a fun idea for Earth Day on March 20th. We also think it’s a cute idea to take into the preschool classroom for a summer craft session. Show us how yours turns out. We can’t wait to see!

Supplies:

• Empty plastic bottle
• A mix of blue and green craft paints
• Foam paint brush
• 1 1/2″ thick sheer orange ribbon
• Hole puncher
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Hot glue/hot glue gun

Directions:

1. Cut the bottom of your water bottle off, about 3-4″ from the bottom and dry out the inside with a towel.
2. Use a hole puncher to punch holes every 3/4″ across the open end edge.
3. Squirt a small amount of blue and green paints onto a palette of a paper plate, paint the outside of your plastic bottle, and let dry.
4. Cut your ribbon into 12″ pieces, place one piece at a time halfway into a punched hole, and tie into a knot until each hole has a ribbon.
5. Carefully hot glue two googly eyes onto the front of your blue bottle.

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