Cardstock keychains / Earrings / Charms: Cricut Project for beginners, here you will learn how to make beautiful charms for necklace or a huge variety or project, special for gift in any occasion for: him, her, birthday, San valentine, anniversary, etc.
Supply list (Cardstock keychains Earrings Charms)
- Design
- Cutting Machine: cricut, silhouette, etc.
- White cardstock : print to cut
- Black heavy cardstock: 300 gsm (110lb) for layers
- Printer
- Glue
- Keychain hardware with tassel
- Jewelry pliers
- UV resine
- UV light
- Silicone mat: optional
- Triple thick glitter.
How to make Cardstock keychains / Earrings / Charms: Cricut Project.
- Open cricut design space and upload the SVG or PNG file and resize the image to 3 inches approximately.
- Create two circles the little one inside of the big circle centered. Then apply slice option for get a donut and resized to 0.25 inches, then place it at the top and behind your design. This will be the area for put the keychain hardware.
- Weld the donut with the plain background layer of the design. And duplicate that layer four times for be the cardstock Thicker.
- Select the original design ( outline with colors layers) and apply flatten option for print and cut.
- 5. Send to cut in the heavy black cardstock the 4 layers and send to print and cut (select bleed option) the image in the White cardstock.
- 6. The settings for heavy black cardstock is: cut pressure 300 multicut 2x blade type: fine-point blade. Select this new material and select the option MORE in pressure.
- To paint the image with triple thick for make the image more vibrant. ( start with the lighters parts and wait that the image is dried, after finish with the darker parts.
- After everything is dried and cut out, take the four little silhouettes and start mostly gluing around the edge with the clear tacky glue for joint the four black layers.
- Once all the layers have dried to cure the back of the keychain with UV resine and put it 90 seconds ( 3-4 times) in the UV nail lamp. After all that is cured, flip it over and glue the image wait for that to dry a little bit and then to proceed to cure the image with the UV resine and lamp.
Now the cardstock charm is ready for use it on a: keychain, necklace, earrings, bows, decorate your phone, crocs, etc.