 We just made this Grinch Christmas tree accent using some SVGs that we made real easy And we'll show you how we make our SVGs right now What is up welcome back do you like to do a builder make it we do too we have a new video each week This week We're showing you a little behind the curtains a little peek into how we make our SVGs, right? So a couple of weeks ago. We posed that question out there if you guys wanted to see a video on how to make SVGs and So there was a lot of positive feedback on that one definitely yes, so we're gonna do that this week We're gonna show you the project we made at the end, but this week's video is gonna be more about how you can make your own SVG and You can make it for the cricket the silhouette the glow forge whatever Crafting tool you're using you'll be able to use this technique for any of those and you see and see machine Let's just jump right into it. We're doing three Easy SVGs. Well, they get progressively harder the first one is super easy I'm about to give up my secret sauce my special ingredient my top tip It's for making free SVG is the easiest way that I know how this is how I like to do it So this is Canva. Canva's got a lot of great templates to start from That's why I like it. We'll do something that's trending We'll pick Christmas cards. We'll see what Christmas gift certificate has But got a great starting place for a lot of your designs already. Oh, I like this Merry Christmas down here That's a good starting point. Let's jump in here. There's free template. Let's use it Now go ahead if you use like the pro version of this I think it's like $14 a month or something, but there's so much you can do without the pro version Like it make SVGs I'm not making a voucher. So I got rid of that stuff down there Let's crowd this together a little bit Come on Get that up in there. They got a bunch of different fonts like hundreds of fonts Like even without having the pro version you still have like a hundred fonts or something. They got some good ones but I Think I'll stick with this grand hotel for now This is just an example. Let's get rid of these packages We're gonna add an element Do they have a bunch of them? Let's go with this a snowflake Bayo He's a little big Need I'm so big Stick them down here in the corner. Oh I like these better Yeah, yeah, let's get rid of these Oh Carl Leggett hanging from the bottom there now, let's move it up top Now let's make sure we don't have a million different mats. So let's see what these colors are and Dark will make them all dark. I want one. I Want one red mat? So I'm making them all the same color. Whoops Let's make We'll keep all those those all seem to be the same color, you know, keep that as white Let's make our snowflake this white Let's get a different snowflake. Let's try this one. I guess I'm a little better Let's stick them up here. Oh, so we got snow Well, there's a lot of different snow This one check this one out. Bam. All right get carried away. Let's make it the same color white Make this Make this black back to Make this one black All right, now we're gonna export it. This is the what's great about Canva We export it as a high quality PNG image And we'll download it real quick Now we'll come over here to Png to svg.com. This is the other a special spice that I got You come in you got to scroll down past all their ads and stuff choose a file I guess this is what it was called Pink and red bold typography. Yes, that's what I got All right, let's see looks okay How many other colors I got I Think that's a real color is it? Let's pick this big this that color We'll see what we got generate. That's a lot of mats. I Don't want that many mats five mats Looks okay. Oh, let's do this Let's make this color. I should have gotten rid of the background make it that color This color is that color That color is red Yeah, it looks okay Do do do do do do do do do do do do All right, I think we'll be able to tell the difference between all the backgrounds Yep, if you scroll down now, bam It gives you all of the mats you need with your little registration marks So you'll so you'll be able to line them up when you cut them out. So let's download it Jump over to cricket Uploader image Vector split that's our jam look it shows up all over mats save Insert this image Look at that Comes in let's ungroup it Now we really don't need this big mat here. We'll delete it Yeah, what is this mat? Was that all the shadows though? I don't know if we really need that But you can play with it You see the if you could get the the amount of colors in your design down It'll export over a whole lot easier, but we got the beef of it right here the merry Christmas SVG number two All right, this one's just a little bit more involved. You're going to be using a program We're using Adobe Illustrator, but I think you can replicate the same technique on inkscape or What's the other one call the critter Critter about that one. Anyway, any of your editing tools You can use this technique on those. So this is a level two level two Let's do something a little more complex. Let's borrow an image from somewhere Who double fingers good placement good placement? nice simple little Grinch Let's do a copy image over to Adobe Illustrator Gonna create new We'll go 12 by 12 for now Mm-hmm We're gonna paste Paste in there then we're going to go to window Image trace use our selection tool select them We're gonna see what three colors has to offer Come on three colors red black white Green. Oh, I lost red. Let's come bump that up to four colors Let's see what we got. Give me back the hat. Give me back the hat Looks great with all the defaults. So we're going to expand it Ungroup it Deselect use our direct selection tool select white delete select this white delete Don't select the path select the whole thing All right looks pretty good So let's go to it export as An SVG let's name it a Grinch head He's wearing a hat. It's not really just a face export Let's keep the inline style that should bring over all the colors. So we'll know what layers are what? Oh, you know what let's do something real quick Let's create a new layer Call that hat. I'll create a new layer I'll call that Face All right, let's move his hat to a layer Take his hat and drag it up Oh, let's take all the green pieces and we'll move those up to face green Green is that all the green pieces? Let's see. We'll hide this layer Yep, we'll hide this layer Great. Let's hide the green and the red We'll select everything I over selected group it Now we'll hide that and select the red. I don't think there's anything to group, but we'll group it in case Select all the green Dude, dude, dude. Let's unhide everything BAM and BAM Now we'll do a export as Yeah, we're still going with Grinch Head export We're gonna keep the inline styles again that should bring over all the colors Okay, let's jump over to Cricut upload our image browse Hey Grinch Head. Oh look at that. You're looking beautiful Seven is grab it insert image BAM there he is looking all a crisp and clean With his different pieces we can hide his head That's actually his face Grinch Head you got all your different layers. Whoops Let's put him back Make it SVG number three Level three this one is still using we're still gonna use Adobe Illustrator You can use any of the other software programs This one's just a little bit more intricate a little more advanced he It'll go a little bit quick, but I think you can pause it and stop and see what he's doing So let's get in there and show you All right, let's go find something that we can do on the glue forge and the Cricut that maybe is a little more complex Let's go borrow an image. Well, let's go borrow some typing skills Let's go borrow an image for how the Grinch stole Christmas. Let's find The DVD cover where his feet are exposed There you go this DVD cover go ahead and copy this We'll copy this image and we'll head on over to Adobe Illustrator We're gonna create new web Let's paste it in there All right, now let's fit him on here so that we're looking at his legs and His feet kind of like he's coming out of the tree and I need him big enough that I'll be able to trace him easily So let's resize them looking good So now what I want to do once I got him set is Go ahead and use my pen tool Then I'm gonna put this on a different layer. So I'm gonna add a new layer Do and let's call this body now. It's called legs Because it's really just as button legs And this is where I'm gonna put all my anchor points now. I'm gonna put an anchor point anywhere where there's a corner I'm just gonna go hit in all the corners. Boop like every corner Just gonna hit every corner right now go around Doesn't have to be perfect a Lot of people like to come in and put a point and drag it around and make it a curve I don't I like to find all of my points and then I'll come in and fine-tune it with my curves All right Once I have all of my corners mapped Get on my anchor point set. I'm gonna select it and I'm gonna kill the fill there And now I have it all let's kill the fill and let's give this a red stroke because this will be my cut path and I like using red strokes for my cut paths in Glow Forge Now I'm gonna select my pen tool again. I'm gonna select this little path and I'm gonna start putting in my anchor points To kind of hone it in and I'm gonna round these anchor points Gonna make these rounded I'm gonna round each one of these all the way around Trying to line it up with the outline of the image. Oops undue I'm just gonna grab the handles and stretch these out until they line up about with the black I'm gonna do this all around the Grinch hitting all the curved spots Just getting in there and up It's kind of tedious. So I'm gonna fast forward all of this. All right. I think I got all of my points I think I got it all rounded. It's outlined it nicely Now it's time to come in and start putting where I would put my score marks in So I'm gonna come in just like I was doing with the pen tool before Except at this time I'm gonna put these on a new layer New layer and I'm gonna call this layer Score marks because this will be all of my score marks You got my legs We're gonna call this cut out now And those are my score marks Again, I'm gonna come in with my pen tool Select the proper layer and just start adding a stroke marks I'm gonna use blue because I like blue for all my score marks And I'm gonna just lay down all of my little points All my anchor points and draw them all out just like I did with the outside I'm not gonna close all of my paths because I don't need to There's just gonna be score marks. So this Original version might not work with the Cricut But the score marks will show up on the glow forge So I'm gonna add all my score marks in Using blue lines and again, this is tedious. So I'm gonna fast forward this Right, let's see what we got Looks pretty good. I think we're about ready All right, so from here we can do a save as I'm just gonna make sure we keep this and don't lose it We'll call this a Grinch legs Gonna keep the AI file All right, now let's test this out on the glow forge. So we're gonna export it export as We're gonna keep that Grinch legs SVG thing going but we're gonna call it glow forge So we'll know this is the glow forge version All right, let's hop over to glow forge. See what we got. I don't hate Grinch face Gonna upload from file Get us that Grinch head or the Grinch legs And there he is. Look at that and they came out on two layers. So Let's size them up Make sure we got the thick draft board selected And now these are our score marks. We're gonna select score high quality. I want them crisp. I want them dark All right, so it works in the glow forge, but you know what? We're not done We're gonna take it up a notch So what we're gonna do is we're going to not only give them the score marks But we're gonna give score marks that we can color inside So I'm just gonna select the path set an offset path and what this will do is create another path Just like it but a little bit bigger around the edge And I'm gonna do this for all of my paths and that way I'll be able to kind of color inside of them Once I have everything set up with an offset path I'm going to then go back in and delete the original path That way I'll just be left with the outside And so I have all of the offset path set. I'm then gonna go back in I'm gonna select both objects I'm gonna select both sets of paths and Then I'm going to join them And they should join everything and get rid of all the marks in between them Make it all one big path Make sure everything's looking good touch them up. So we have all the score marks set everything looks good We're gonna bring back the original outside cut layer that we also put an offset on I think it's time to go test this one out in the glow forge app. We're back We got it all painted. This is the button legs See where the engrave Yeah, hold it up a little bit closer. So the dark lines here. That's where he added the What did you call it the outline the offset offset? Yeah, I'll set so create a little thicker line So we can come in and paint it with the little paint pen But yep That's how we do it. That's how we make the SVGs that we do our projects with and these cute little guys So this is one of those that's licensed so we can't sell something like this So that's why we're showing you how to make it you for yourself not for sale Oh, and we're gonna put these in our Christmas tree. I want to show it the one half of the crew actually Yeah, yeah, let's go the other way. Let's just trade not your legs are upset. Oh my yeah It was like Here we go now he's in the here like this, okay There you go We're gonna put this in our Christmas tree. I'm gonna put a little stick on here I'm gonna add a little post which I don't have on here yet I'm just gonna glue a little piece of MDF on the back of this And it's gonna go in one end of the Christmas tree and his little hands gonna stick out the other end of the Christmas tree And it looks like he's stealing our ornaments stealing the biggest ornament we have. Yeah No, I have I have balls that big. Oh, you do have balls that Christmas balls that big Wow with that I think we're about out of time So we're gonna head out and jam this guy in our tree and grab a bite to eat And we'll see you next week where we'll do it building to make it again I'm gonna balance him by his one tail. Oh, it's one tail. That is not gonna happen to right here You don't think so. I don't think so. Yeah, we'll get that right there He's tiptoeing on my yeah, that's so cute. That looks really cute. I can see it on the camera. It looks good