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Let's get Creative!: Button Machine and Cricut Maker

Learn about how to reserve these items, how to source the supplies, and watch video demonstrations on how to use these different items.

Step 1 - What's In and What's Out

In the template, you'll see 2 concentric circles. The design should fit mainly in the inner circle as anything on the edge or outside of it will not be visible. please view the examples below.

Image is of good and bad examples for button designs

Step 2 - Preparing for Printing

We anticipate many users will design in Canva, so this guide will be using screenshots and verbiage from canva.com.

Before printing, you will want to make sure the template isn't visible! The template will be visible unless you do one of two things. If the template is the top layer of the document, you can  hide the template (select the template and take transparency slider down to zero). Canva will register each circle as its own object, so you will need to adjust transparency on all of them.

The second easier way is to keep your design as the top layer and make your design translucent along the way to check and make sure everything is kept in the inner circle. Then, once you have finished, you can return the design to 100% opacity and you're good to go. No need to adjust each individual template this way.

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