Hello this is Charity Adams with Adams Acres Scrapin at adamsacres.com and I just wanted to show you today how we go about welding letters together. So we have one shape instead of individual letters and that’s really simple and very easy to do and sure cuts a lot so let’s go ahead and get started and get our letters.
I’m going to click on this screen, here on the matte here and I’m going to type out the word happy. I’m going to make it a little bit bigger just for effects so you can see what I’m looking at. Now this letters are completely individual and we’re going to click on the magnifying glass to look at where the cut lines are going to be.
All the red line is where the cricut cuts the letters so you’ll notice that each one of these letters is going to be individual. We want to highlight the whole group by clicking on the entire group of letters, not one individual letter but the entire group of letters.
We’ll go over to our properties box and you can find that by clicking on windows and looking at shape properties. We want to click on the properties box. We want to make sure that all the letters are highlighted and we click on the box marked weld. So we have a little check box there.
Now let’s click on the magnifying glass again to see where our cut lines are going to be. Again, no letters are overlapping except for this little P and Y and sure cuts a lot turn this line gray so cricur isn’t going to cut there so this would be together. What we want to do is make all the letters go together so we’re going to highlight the A. We can usually, just grab your pointer here and we can move it over with out mouse to overlap the H and the A or we can use another tool called the nudge tool and we can nudge the P over, if you want to keep things in line and you don’t trust yourself moving things individually.
So we’ve got the P overlap. Now let’s nudge over the other P and until it overlaps; very easy, very simple and you got to have to keep clicking on it, there we go. I got it overlapping. Now let’s overlap the Y. I’m going to use my pointer. There we go.
Now let’s take a look at the cut lines again and see if we’ve got this all overlapped and see if we have a one complete cut. We hit preview—the H and the A are going to work, going towards together, the A and P are working, the two P’s are working and the Y is working. That means that when we go ahead and hit the cut button right here, cricut is going to cut this as one cut instead of individual letters.
If you by chance didn’t have this P clicked on well, let’s see what happens. Go ahead and hit the magnifying glass, you’ll notice that the cut lines come back right there and right there so you just definitely want to make sure that everybody is on weld so that you have one complete unit.
Again, this is Charity Adams with Adams Acres Scrapin at adamsacres.com. You can stop by and look for other videos on how to do more scrap booking in your house. You have a great day.
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