Shadowbox Instructions Personalize

SHADOW BOX
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Materials
2. Cricut Setup
3. Silhouette Studio Setup
4. Assembling The Project
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Materials
• Cutting machine, laser cutter or hand cutting tools
• Cardstock (multiple colors, we recommend at least 190 gsm)
• Foamboard strips or foam dots
• Glue
Note
Our shadowbox designs have a 8.3 inch format so you can easily cut
them on 8.5x11 inch paper. Our shadowbox frame measures 8.5 inch for
the artwork space, so you will have a small gap to fit the design into. If
you don‘t need or want the gap you can resize our designs easily closer
to the 8.5 inch.
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CRICUT SETUP
PREPARING YOUR PROJECT
• Open Design Space
• Select “New Project”
• Select “Upload” on the left toolbar and click “Upload Image”
• Click “Browse” and select the .svg file you downloaded and click on “Upload”
• Select the uploaded file from “Recent Uploads” and click on “Add to Canvas”
OPTIONAL
• Our files, in this case the .svg, are all correctly scaled. You will see the size
in the preview if you select all Layers.
• If you want to build it exactly like we did dont change anything but feel free
to scale it to any size you like
• If you want to rescale make sure everything is selected and the lock button
is closed so your design stays proportional.
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OPTIONAL PERSONALIZE YOUR PROJECT

(if you bought a personalizable shadow box)
1. Ungroup the A-Z Font
2. Place the letters you will need in the name area
3. Delete the lettes you don‘t need
4. Select your placed letters
5. Go to Align > Center Vertically
6. Adjust the spacing by moving the letters
7. Select your placed letters again
8. Click „Weld“ to change the letters into a single shape
9. To bring the name right to the center select it with the top layer and go
to Align > Center Horizontally
10. Select the name and top layer again and go to „Slice“
CRICUT SETUP
CUTTING YOUR PROJECT
• Select cutting lines
You will need to select the cutting lines which belong to the object and click attach, re-
peat that step for the all the other objects. If you dont do that Cricut will try to cut the cut
lines seperated from the actual object.
• Click “Make it”
On the left you will see all the layers which will be cut individually. Design Space will not cut
the layers in the correct order but you can arrange them by the numbers I added to the layers.
• Click on Continue
You will now see the materials screen. Choose “Medium Cardstock” for a
standard 65lb cardstock. If you have a different thickness of paper you may want to
choose other settings. Click “Browse all Materials” to find others.
• Select your Material
After you chose your material, follow the instrctions by Design Space, place your card-
stock on the mat and cut your first layer. After the cut finishes pay attention to carefully
remove the cardstock. Place the next cardstock of your choice on the mat and reepeat
the process with the same method.
SILHOUETTE STUDIO SETUP
PREPARING YOUR PROJECT
• Click on file and select “open”
• If you have Silhouette Studio Designer, Designer Plus or Business Edition
Open the already prepared silhouette studio file or .svg file you just downloaded.
• If you have Silhouette Basic Edition
Just open the Silhouette Studio file and you can skip the following steps
OR open the .dxf file you just downloaded and do the following steps:
1. Go to Edit -> Preferences and make sure your measurements are set to inches or
millimeter, depends on what you use
2. Select all layers including the frame and go to object -> press “group”
3. With the group selected write “27,00” (width for inches) or “685,80” (width for mm)
and make sure the lock is closed.
WIDTH (in) WIDTH (mm)
4. With the group selected go to object -> press “ungroup”

5. You can delete the frame if you like, we only needed it to scale the artwork
properly
SILHOUETTE STUDIO SETUP
OPTIONAL PERSONALIZE YOUR PROJECT
(if you bought a personalizable shadow box)
1. Ungroup the A-Z Font
2. Place the letters you will need in the name area
3. Delete the lettes you don‘t need
4. Select your placed letters
5. Open the transform panel and click „Align Middle“
and „Space Horizontal“
6. Hold the selection and go to

Object > Make Compound Path
7. To bring the name right to the center select it with the top layer
and use the alignment tool again („Align Middle“)
8. Select the name and top layer again and go to
Object > Make Compound Path
CUTTING YOUR PROJECT

1. Select all layers and move them beside the mat on the screen
2. Drag your objects to cut onto the mat and click “send”
ASSEMBLING THE PROJECT
Shadowbox
01. Cut foam board in 4 strips per layer and 02. Glue the fixed foamboard, apply the
glue 4 pieces per layer at the edges. next layer and repeat the process.
03. Your shadow box is finished!

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OPTIONAL PERSONALIZE YOUR PROJECT

4. With the group selected go to object -> press “ungroup”

6. Hold the selection and go to

CUTTING YOUR PROJECT

03. Your shadow box is finished!

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