Need help with your Cricut and remembering all of the things it can do? Be sure to check out my ULTIMATE GUIDE to using Your Cricut here. I like to keep going back and forth to the left and right until my letters look thicker. Then place the next one on top, but just a hair over to the right. If you want, you can change the color of that one just to see how much it’s offset, but remember to change it back to black before you continue.

Place the first one just a little to the left of the original, and a little up, to make the lines a little wider. Now you can start stacking the duplicates on top of each other. You’re going to stick these layers together to make one thick layer of blackout text that will stand out behind your colored layer.

Move that duplicate down out of the way, and then duplicate it a few more times. Select the black layer and duplicate it again. (You can do this from the left side of the top menu.) Then move that colored layer down to the bottom of the screen. Change the color of the duplicate so it’s easier to see. Now you’re ready to start creating the shadow effect.ĭuplicate the Text in Design Space to Create a Shadowįirst, go to the top of the Layers menu again and click the Duplicate button. Once you’re happy with the way it looks, select everything, and then go down to the bottom and click the Weld button, so it welds it together all as one piece.

That will allow you to move each individual letter closer together until it looks like a written-out text. To do this, go over to the top of the Layers menu and click the Ungroup button. For this example, I used my name in the “Hey Girl” font (you can find it here) But I came up with something that does the trick, and I’m sure you’ll want to give it a try too. So with the bleedout option gone, there’s no clear cut way to offset text in Design Space. Duplicate the Text in Design Space to Create a Shadow.

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