How to Make Stained Glass Patterns using Cricut
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Stained glass tutorial on how to make stained glass patterns using the Cricut and the Cricut remove-able vinyl. Stained glass pattern making made easy. Quit using patterns shears!! Cricut will completely change the way you make stained glass. In this video I show you how to go from drawing to Cricut to glass cutting. No longer lose your pattern in the grinder or spend hours drawing very single piece on with a sharpie. The Cricut makes stained glass a breeze and extremely accurate. Please find me on Instagram if you have questions or want to see what I am working on @k_c_glassworks.
This is what you will need to use this pattern making method:
a digital design software (like Procreate), Photoshop, a Cricut of any kind, Cricut remove-able vinyl, 100% acetone, Transfer tape, a program to print out a pattern to follow (like Rapid Resizer), and stained glass supplies.
There are many way to make stained glass patterns but the most common way was to use stained glass pattern shears. Although this isn't a bad way to get started, when you start doing more complicate and larger patterns these pattern shears can be quite the pain. It also takes forever. A lot of people like to glue their pattern onto the glass. The problem with this method is that the glue is pain to clean and it also gums up the glass scoring tool.
To be able to use this method you will need some sort of digital design software to create you drawings. This can be anything you want to use. I use Procreate to draw on my iPad. This works best for me but you can also use Photoshop or Illustrator to create you drawings. I personally don't know how to create stained glass drawings on these programs. Photoshop is a relatively complicated program because of how much can be accomplished. I only know the basics of Photoshop and how to do this pattern making for stained glass. If you need to slow the video down so that you can follow every single button I click you can change that setting in the video. I really try to close all gaps so that you can go from start to finish.
There is also a way to make patterns larger than 12"x12" on the Cricut. I can make a video on how to make large stained glass patterns as well using this same method. There is just a couple extra steps but then you aren't confined to that 12" x12" square.
Stained glass patterns play such a huge role in the quality of your work. If you have a crappy pattern then you are going to have crappy stained glass. It's really what separates good stained glass artists from bad ones. You can make extremely accurate stained glass pieces from pattern shears but it takes an insane amount of time. And a ton of grinding. I don't know about you but I hate using the grinder. The less time I use it the happier I am.
I use Rapid Resizer to be able to print out my large patterns on 8.5x11 sheets of paper. I haven't found a good way to do this on Photoshop yet. If you know how to print large documents on Photoshop please let me know how. Rapid Resizer is relatively cheap and is great for stained glass. It was the program I used when I was still using pattern shears to make my stained glass patterns.
I started doing stained glass in 2020. I started my stained glass journey using the copper foil method and have quickly progressed to using only lead came. I absolutely love the look of lead came and the entire process. I started doing stained glass as a hobby and just something fun to do on the side and now I have my own stained glass business. My business is called Kingdom Creative Glassworks. I quit my full time job not too long ago and haven't looked back.
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This looks great - I am really interested in beginning stained glass work and I have a cricut....... win, win!
A suggestion - if you invert the origional image and then use "select by colour range" the first part of the process is much quicker. However if you do want to use the magic wand turn on Caps lock and you cursor turns into a cross hair making it much easier to select small areas.
Great video!
I use the same concept except I mask the entire design and cut between the panels for separate colors. I also almost always mirror the design and work from the back side of the glass since the back side it always the smoother side.
Oh ok, for this process there is no need to mirror the design it will always stay the same. And I also put the vinyl on the “smooth” side of the glass. The only time I would ever mirror parts of the design would be if I wanted the “textured” side of the glass showing on the front side of the panel.
i am learning about stained glass. last year i bought a cricut that i still haven't opened. i was starting to think i should sell it. now i see that i can use it for other things as well. thanks for this video. good luck with your channel!
I hope you really enjoy using your cricut for your craft! Thank you for the kind words!
Can’t wait to see the next video!
Thanks!! Hopefully I will get one out soon!
This was super helpful, as are the comments! Thank you so very much!
So glad it was helpful!! Thank you!
Instead of clicking and selecting each line/section of lines to get the marching ants on the whole layer's worth of lines, you can right click on the layer and click "select pixels" and it will do it for you. Hope it saves you a little bit of time! Thanks for sharing your process!
Omg thank you 😊 haha i will definitely try this!
Alternatively you can unselect ‘contiguous’ in the top bar and it will select everything of the same colour
Just here to say.. the intro 😂 best thing I've ever seen. Thank you.
Hahaha this being my first video i find it extremely cringe 😅
Wow. This is great. Thanks for sharing. I am new to stained glass. My daughter has a Cricut, so I will definitely be rewatching this with her and asking for her assistance.
So glad you found it helpful! I hope it makes your stained glass journey a breeze!
To select all the lines, just hold CTRL key and click on the little picture in the layer. It select everything in the layer automagically...then you can inverse if you need to.
Thanks for the tip Eric!
Came from Instagram! Thanks for pointing to your videos! Starting with the first to move through the rest :)
So amazing!! Thanks for checking it out!
first of all- thank you thank you thank you for posting this- it was incredibly helpful and pretty easy to follow. I am just curious if you or any of your viewers can speak to why you might use procreate if you're already using photoshop. I started up with Procreate- new to it. And kinda figured it was going to be all I needed. But then nearly every video I see, folks are transferring the Procreate file to another graphic design software. Why use procreate in the first place? Should I just be using Photoshop? I'm so confused about this extra step!
I like to hand draw which is why I use Procreate. Some people don’t mind drawing on photoshop or adobe illustrator. I’ve never liked it. You have to use photoshop in order to get the correct line width for the spacing between your pattern pieces for cricut. It’s not an extra step, it is a necessary one.
KC, This was great. I like your easy to follow simple steps style of teaching. Thanks, Lee
So glad it was helpful for you!!
What line depth would you use for copper foil??…you should put this video on the Facebook group How to do stained glass with a Cricut…so many people have asked for someone to make a video..I can’t wait to do this when I get home..thanks so much!
I don’t use Facebook. Feel free to share the link in the FB group if you want! I’m not sure what line spacing you would need for copper foil. I never use foil anymore. If I get a chance I will try to figure out those measurements.
Hi, thank you for going through these steps so clearly. Why is it the file can't go directly from procreate (or whatever design program) to Cricut? Is there a conversion of file type that is specific to photoshop that is has to go through in order to work with Cricut? Or is that part of the process specific to procreate? say, If it were designed in illustrator, would I still have to put it through the steps in photoshop? Thanks again!
You can’t go direct from procreate to Cricut because you need to create the individual pieces that cricut will be cutting out which can only be done on photoshop. I have never used illustrator but no matter what the process is still the same in order to cut individual pattern pieces for the vinyl on cricut. That process needs to be done before the file is moved to cricut.
I do stained glass and found this interesting. I have photo shop which I have not used and don't understand quite how you got your image to it.. but I like the idea of the vinyl patterns.👍
Thanks for watching! I hope you can use this pattern technique in your stained glass work! You might be able to find a tutorial here on RUclips to help you out with some Photoshop Troubleshooting.
I’m new to stained glass, I’m a maker and woodworker. I think your video is great, I would only suggest keeping safety a priority. Maybe wear gloves when using acetone and tell your viewers to wear safety glasses when working with acetone.
Common sense is also good.
This was an excellent first instructional video. The only thing I ask is can you go into more detail about how you creat the pattern to lay out the window on please? For tech idiots like, I'm old and dont speak photoshop or any of that but my wife does, so I'm good there. Neither of us knows what to do with that rapid resizer though. We are both looking to find out how to do large windows and piece it all out so it goes through the cricut in stages and then is put through the resizer in stages to be joined together.
There is definitely a completely different process to go through for larger windows if you are looking to get your pattern pieces cut out on Cricut. I will definitely make a video on how to do that because it’s not the easiest to explain over text. If you are able to draw your patterns digitally then are able to create the large size you want it to be, and rapid resizer will recognize the size and print it out on multiple sheets of paper that you will have to cut and tape together. This is definitely not super easy to explain 😂 right now I am filming a leading video. So hopefully I get to this soon! Thanks for reaching out!
@@KCGlassworks Grand, thanks for that.
@@hepburn118 just made a new video about to do this! Check it out!
@@KCGlassworks Righto, I'll do that. You're other new video on making bigger than cricut size windows is excellent by the way.
If you are using a textured glass wouldn’t you normally be cutting the reverse smooth side? How would you handle that?
Yup! Always score and break on the smooth side! All glass is different! Sometimes the “smooth” side even can be textured. Especially on art glass like Youghigheny or Uruboros glass. These glasses can be very textured on both sides so you just got to take your time when cutting special glasses like these ☺️ hope this helps!
Just learning this concept. Wondering why you need transfer tape and not just peel the piece off the backing and put it on the glass?? Thanks for this video.
Great question! You absolutely can just “peel and stick” the vinyl, but only on simple shapes. In order to keep the exact shape and position of your pattern piece you will need to use the transfer tape to maintain that shape (especially if it has many curves) so it doesn’t distort it. Hope this helps!!
@@KCGlassworks Do you think a Brother Scan and Cut would be better? I don't design patterns, just buy from others. 😊
@@jenorrn i am not sure! I have never heard of a brother scan and cut. 🙂
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have been looking high and low for how to do this for my cricut.
I am wanting to cut the shapes to make fused glass projects, so the line thickness has to be 0. is this a problem or can I actually choose 0 as the line thickness?
So glad you found the video! So you can definitely make your line 0. As long as Cricut Design recognizes cut lines then you’re good! Hope this helps!
do you use pattern shears to cut out your pattern? is there a reason that you dont use them? that would eliminate the width of the line issue in photoshop.
I have used them and personally I don’t like them. I haven’t found them to be nearly as accurate as using photoshop and cricut. Also my entire reason for using photoshop and cricut is so that I dont have to draw two patterns, cut one out, draw it on my glass with sharpie and then lose all my sharpie marks in the grinder or taurus ring saw. I really strive for accuracy when creating panels and the perfect fit. Is it completely necessary? Maybe not but that’s the excellence I want in my work. ☺️ hope this helps!
I finally figured most of this out, but how do I get the final image to be smooth. The edges are pixeled so the Cricut is making small jagged cuts.
Whenever you first upload your image to Design Space select “complex image”. This should help, if not you may have to revisit your drawing.
How do you like using procreate? I have a surface pro and use Krita. I was thinking about getting an iPad for procreate, but im not sure how stained glass artists like procreate.
I personally use it for almost all my designs. It’s really personal preference because I know some artists strictly use Illustrator for designs and I have no idea how to use that program.
Would one not need to create a mirror image of the cut-out to make it stick to the back/flat side of the glass where one would be cutting?
Nope! I stick all of my vinyl on the “flat” side of all my glass. The only time you would have to create a mirrored image of the pattern is if you wanted the textured side of the glass to be the “front” and not the back like normal. Other than that your pattern and your vinyl will look the exact same. Hope this helps 😊
Good video. I am having a problem cutting the pattern when I enter it into Cricut Design. I get through the process in Photoshop and it looks good. In Circut Design the only option it allows me is Print and Cut and all this does is cut along the outside boarder. The Cut Only Option shows the pattern and then turns solid black right away. Any ideas why I can not cut the pattens pieces? I notice the Icon for your Cricut Desgin is different than the one I use. Could it be that the version I use is the problem?
It does sound like you may need to update your version of Cricut if it doesn’t do that automatically. Also double check that you are deleting your background color in Photoshop. If Cricut design space gives you the option of selecting “Cut Only” always choose it. It will look different once it opens up in Design Space. Let me know if you have any other questions! Thanks!
Sooo, i have been trying to work with my procreate drawing to follow your method...but as soon as I try to work in Photoshop, it tells me I can not edit a 'Smart Object'...??? I saved as pdf, png, and jpg with same results...any attempt to fix this have been fruitless. HELP!!!!
Sounds like you need to combine all layers. You may be choosing the wrong editing tool. You can also save as PSD (photoshop doc) in procreate. It will make it really compatible.
I also suggest watching my other drawing videos. You might be able to find your solution that way.
I watched all your related material...I ended up going to rapid resizer and it was SO much easier...I was able to do everything, including sizing the lines for lead came in R.Resizer.
No issues like with photoshop and tools are easier also.
This is a naive question. Why do you need the transfer tape? Can’t you just stick the contact paper on the glass directly?
Great question! You can absolutely do this for very simple shapes. But I will always use transfer tape for very curvy or complicated shapes because the transfer tape is going to hold that shape in proper position for the pattern. If you were to just peel it off and stick it, it may distort the pattern piece and end up being wrong when it’s finished. Hope this helps!