How To Make DIY Cricut Planner Stickers A Print And Cut Tutorial

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Life is busy, lots of exciting plans and ideas buzzing around in our minds. Work plans, family plans and or course trips and holidays. And if your family life is anything like ours then it takes a lot of planning or organising? Thus today we are going to show you how to take control of that organisation and make your very own Pretty printable Print And Cut Planner Stickers With Your Cricut Maker. With this Cricut Planner Stickers Print then Cut Tutorial. Even better we are going to share this free set of printables for you to download and print then cut your own stickers. 

How to make planner Stickers with Cricut

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How To Make Your Own Cricut Planner Stickers

Is it just me that hates moving into a new planner, year on year every New Year? Planners are like comfy shoes aren’t they? It takes a while to get settled into them, and then once you do you don’t want to change when the time comes.

As I am visual person, my planner has to have pretty planner stickers and visual pages. They draw my eyes to important times and dates, that I know I would otherwise miss if it were a sea of blue ink.

Every Planner Needs Cute Planner Stickers, And These Pretty Printable Planner Stickers For The Cricut Maker Are Just What I Have Spent Years Looking For.

I kid you not? Every January I spend hours looking for pretty pastel coloured planner stickers, the right seasonal stickers to track my year. To highlight holidays, cruises, school holidays and birthdays. Ok I like the odd cocktail and living in the North of England where it snows a LOT, tracking snow days is always a bonus. So yes I want a diverse collection of stickers and all in my favourite colours.

The Only Solution Is To Design And Make My Cricut Planner Stickers Myself.

Planner stickers made with Cricut print then cut

Every Planner Needs Cute Planner Stickers, And These Pretty Printable Planner Stickers For The Cricut Maker Are Just What I Have Spent Years Looking For.

I kid you not? Every January I spend hours looking for pretty pastel coloured planner stickers, the right seasonal stickers to track my year. To highlight holidays, cruises, school holidays and birthdays. Ok I like the odd cocktail and living in the North of England where it snows a LOT, tracking snow days is always a bonus. So yes I want a diverse collection of stickers and all in my favourite colours.

The Only Solution Is To Design And Make My Cricut Planner Stickers Myself.

Cricut Maker Planner Stickers Print And Cut Sticker Tutorial

What Materials Do You Need To Make Your Own Stickers?

  • Laser Home Printer or Inkjet Printer, (Make sure you calibrate your printer to your Cricut before using for the first time, you will find the calibration button by clicking on the 3 lines next to CANVAS in the top left corner of Design Space)
  • Glossy sticker printer paper, printable vinyl I find this cuts better than Cricut printable sticker paper
  • Cricut Maker, Cricut Explore Air, Brother Scan N Cut, Silhouette or xTool M1
  • Cricut Design Space to Silhouette Studio 
  • Cutting Mat
  • Cricut Tool Kit
Free print and cut sticker cricut template

Which Printer Is Compatible With Cricut Print And Cut?

My last printer was not compatible as it did not feed card and printed the images wrong ( see below), I have recently replaced it with the HP Envy 5020 which works perfectly. So far I have cut sticker paper, vinyl and magnetic paper and all printed perfectly.

Calibrate Your Printer With Your Cricut machine

To calibrate your Cricut maker to print and cut click on the left hand drop down menu, Calibration is second down. Click and follow instructions. You printer will print a calibration sheet, which the Cricut will perform a series of cuts on. You them have a answer a few questions about where the cuts are located in relation to the lines. Its a simple task and essential to get your cuts to line up correctly.

Designing Pretty Printable Planner Stickers For The Cricut Maker In Cricut Design Space

Click new project and decide on the layout of you planner stickers. Cricut Design Space make putting patterns into shapes soooo easy. This would also be perfect printed on card for scrapbooking projects.

You need to decide on a colour palette and themes before you start choosing patterns. For me it was pretty clear in my mind that this year will be all about summer, cruising and travel. As a co-editor of a cruise blog cruising is something I pretty much think about all of the time.

Make sure you measure the squares or sections in your planner and ensure the images you have chosen are sized correctly to fit.

Then choose a shapes, once you have a shape, click operation in the top bar, click print and cut to make your cricut stickers printable. Then click on the colour box next to operation. Here click print type and choose pattern. There is a huge choice of patterns for you to design your sticker cut files. 

Free printable Planner Stickers

Adding Text To Your Stickers

If you want to add days of the week simply click text in the side left bar and type your message, days or months. 

Flattening Images To Print And Cut In Cricut Design Space

When you have chosen an image and you can choose anything in Cricut Design Space. It doesn’t not have to be a print and cut image. If it is not, then flatten the image to make it printable so it can be printed as Cricut Pretty Printable Planner Stickers. See my instagram story here for how to flatten images in the design space.

Send Your Stickers To Print Then Cut

Now click make it and send your stickers to print then cut. However do ensure each sticker sheet is smaller than 9.25 x 6.75 to be sent to print and cut. Your stickers will appear in a preview screen, choose your settings. I usually use the printable vinyl setting so my stickers kiss cut the vinyl.

What size do stickers need to be to cut on cricut

Load your printer with the sticker paper. Print your design using your printer. Make sure to select the highest quality print setting and to set the size of your printable material correctly. Click on system dialogue button to see the printer settings, you will want to change this to fine or best. If the box doesn’t appear, reduce design space and the box will be behind it. Now press print.

My Printer will not print my print and cut project

Once the design is printed, place it on the cutting mat and load it into the Cricut machine. Make sure to align the design with the cutting mat and to smooth out any wrinkles or bubbles. But be careful not to smudge the black guidelines. (Image just for illustration, not the actual stickers)

How to use Cricut print and cut

Select the correct material setting on the Cricut machine. This will ensure that the machine cuts your design at the right depth and speed. Now press the “Go” button on your Cricut machine, and it will begin to cut your design.

Once the machine has finished cutting your design, unload the cutting mat and remove your finished project from the mat and remove the excess sticker paper to reveal your stickers. Or alternatively use a guillotine to remove the black guidelines from the edge.

How to make planner stickers with Cricut Design Space

How To Overcome Problems With Cricut Print Then Cut

  • Make sure your project is in the correct orientation. The registration marks should be in the top left corner of the mat and make sure you don’t smudge them.
  • Use the correct materials. Not all materials are compatible with Print and Cut, to get the perfect kiss cut for your print then cut project use sticker paper or Cricut printable vinyl. I find Cricut sticker paper is too thick for my printer. 
  • Make sure your printer is set to the correct settings. Your printer should be set to print at the high or fine quality settings. Click use printer settings when you send your projects to print, if the box doesn’t appear then reduce design space and the box will appear behind.
  • Calibrate your machine. If you are having trouble with the machine reading the registration marks, you can calibrate your machine. To do this, click the 3 lines on the top left of design space and scroll down for options.
  • Make sure the mat is clean and free of debris. Any dirt or debris on the mat can interfere with the machine’s ability to read the registration marks or make the cut inferior. 
  • Use a sharp blade. A dull blade can cause the machine to cut unevenly.
  • If your machine can’t read the registration marks, firstly check there are no bright lights or sunlight shining on your machine. This can stop the machine reading the print then cut project.
  • If this doesn’t work move the project slight in the mat, just an inch but this often works.
Downloadable planner stickers

Which Other Products Can You Use For Print And Cut?

Stickers also print and cut very well onto the printable vinyl, in my opinion the vinyl gives a thinner sleeker finish which I much prefer to the sticker paper. You can also use magnetic paper and magnetic paper which I adore. 

Suggestions And Ideas For Making Printable Stickers For The Cricut Maker

Not only can these super easy printable stickers be used for pretty printable planner stickers, there are so many other things you can use them for.

  • Party bag seals
  • Scrapbooking decals
  • Envelope seals
  • Personalised address stickers
  • Moving home address reminders
  • Labels
  • Wall decorations

The list is endless, being a parent I can think of so many great party ideas, festive stickers and school sticker sheets for labelling text books.

If You Want To Use These Free Cricut Printable PNG Planner Stickers?

Simply click here or on the image below to get our Cricut Printable Planner Sticker PNG cut file, free template? They are an instant download from our shop and will come in a zip file with the png file with a transparent background and jpg file inside. Here’s how you upload the files to Cricut Design Space.

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Free Downloadable Year Round Cricut Planner Stickers for all the months and seasons of the year.

 

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