Once you have Inkscape downloaded you’ll want to pull your SVG or photo into Inkscape. Head over to and download this free software. I use Inkscape to make all of my SVG’s and digital mockups.

Of course there are other paid programs that will let you do the same thing but why would you pay when Inkscape is free and it is ALL YOU NEED. The best one I’ve found is a free program called Inkscape. Since there is no option to create a shadow or offset in Cricut Design Space you’ll need an outside source. Make sure to watch the video at the end which also shows how to add a shadow to text. In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to add shadow to an image and import it to Cricut Design Space. Adding a shadow behind an image is one of them. position the entire drawing in the top right corner.īecause you are limitted to your Cricut mat and printer page size, select all your images and then with the sizing padlock enabled (to enforce proportional resizing), change your width or height to accommodate these restrictions.Cricut Design Space is a pretty powerful design tool but there are a few things you just can’t do within design space itself.

Once done unlock all the layers, select all the images/objects and then set the position to (0,0) i.e. In this example, the left square would be placed at (0,0) and the right square at (205.426-5.916mm, 0) i.e.

There positions can be determined but selecting the image in the 'Laminator cut out' layer and then looking at the position and width and height values. the left one in the top left inner corner and the right one in the top right inner corner. The squares need to be aligned as per the above image i.e. In the 'Markers' layer, create two blue 5mm squares (any colour will do). This will make sense when you come to using the Cricut but you need to add the these markers to help you correctly line things up.

Inkscape cricut layers