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How To Decorate Your Cricut Explore Air 2 (AND How To Use The BrightPad)

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July 26, 2017 by Sydney 6 Comments

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I received a BrightPad from Cricut in exchange for my review. As always all opinions are mine alone.

Add some color and pizazz to your Cricut Explore Air 2 with vinyl and making the weeding easier with the new Cricut BrightPad.Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad Tutorial

I’ve had my Cricut Explore Air 2 for just over a year now and, while I’ve used it for 100’s of projects I have yet to decorate Explore Air 2 itself. I’ve seen people who have put cute sayings or characters on their Explore Airs; some even put their business or blog names on them. While they all look good it just wasn’t me. Then one day when I was looking up designs on lovesvg.com I came across these cute flowers and I new they would be perfect for Explore Air 2. And with my new BrightPad it would be easy to weed the smaller pieces.

Supplies:

Explore Air 2

Standard Grip Cutting Mat

Adhesive Foil

Transfer Tape

Essential Tool Kit (you’ll need scissors, weeder, scraper and trimmer)

BrightPad

Directions:

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialDownload the 3 Floral SVG from lovesvg.com. In your download folder on your computer open the zip file (4208_3_Floral) and click the folder that has the same name.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialSelect the SVG file and move to desktop.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialOpen your Cricut Design Space and select New Project. Click Upload.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialIn the upload menu select Upload Image.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialOn the next screen select Browse, and then select desktop in the little window that pops up. Next select the SVG file that says 3_Floral.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialIn Design Space the preview image will come up. On this screen click the green Save button in the bottom right corner.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialIn the upload menu select the 3 flowers design and then click the green Insert Image button in the bottom right corner.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialOnce you have your flowers in design space you’ll want to decide which one you want on your Explore Air (I chose the pink one). Make the other 2 flowers not visible by clicking on the eye to the right of the design.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialChange the width of the single flower to 7 and send to the mat.

Attach adhesive foil to cutting mat and press the flashing C.

Once design is made cut around design to remove excess vinyl.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialPlace design on your Brightpad and hit the power button.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialUsing the weeder start to pull up vinyl starting in the bottom left corner and pulling at a 90° angle.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialPlace design on your Explore Air machine and measure where you want it to go. Mark with a pen on the backing.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialPlace in the trimmer and cut along the line you measured.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialAttach transfer tape to the first piece of design and use the scraper to fully press the tape into the foil.

Peel backing back at a 90° angle away from transfer tape.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialLine up design to the top of the bottom lid of machine and press firmly to adhere.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialRemove transfer tape slowly at a 90° angle.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialRepeat previous 4 steps with the second half of design. Make sure to line up the bottom of this half to the top of the first half you applied.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialNow my Explore Air 2 is just as gorgeous as the projects it helps me create! And with the help of my BrightPad I was able to finish this project in less than 10 minutes. The Brightpad makes weeding, tracing and other tasks that have intricate deals so much easier. There are 5 brightness settings and has nonslip base to make sure your project stays where you put it.

I’ll be going live over on my Facebook page tomorrow, Thursday July 27th at 11am MST showing you how the BrightPad works and answering your questions about all things Cricut.

Make your own custom decal for your Cricut Explore Air AND BrightPad TutorialWant to WIN a BrightPad to make your crafting easier?! I’ve teamed up with Cricut and we’re giving one lucky reader their very own BrightPad! Enter through the widget below.

PS There is a secret question that you can only get the answer to on the Facebook Live tomorrow that is worth an extra 5 entries to the giveaway so don’t miss out!

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Filed Under: Crafts, Cricut Tagged With: Adhesive Foil, Bright Pad, Cricut, Explore Air 2, Giveaway, How To Upload Your Own Image

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Comments

  1. SandraM says

    July 26, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    Can;’t wait to get me one. Excited to have the chance to win one.

    Reply
    • Sydney says

      August 7, 2017 at 7:56 am

      You are going to love it!!

      Reply
  2. Nick says

    July 27, 2017 at 12:57 am

    This looks great. Would love to decorate my desk in some similar fashion šŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Sydney says

      August 7, 2017 at 7:56 am

      Thanks so much Nick! I would love to see what you do!

      Reply
  3. Daniel Lara says

    August 1, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    The post helped me a lot. I can’t say how much it did but to be honest, what a novice circut explore user can do with his machine, I can do better now. The only credits goes to this post I think. šŸ™‚

    I have read several posts from the craft section of your site and found them much more helpful because of proper explanation with clear images and screenshots.

    Thank you. Keep up the job! šŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Sydney says

      August 7, 2017 at 7:55 am

      Thanks so much for stopping by Daniel! This Cricut is such a fun craft tool to have! Let me know if you have any other questions as you learn šŸ™‚

      Reply

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