Create a Calligraphy Cake Topper with Adobe Illustrator & Cricut

Look, I love paper as much as the next girl. But sometimes, I want to use my calligraphy in a different way. Sometimes I want to take it off the page and bring it into the third dimension. And with at-home cut machines, like the Cricut and Silhouette, I can -- and so can you!

In this course, I’ll be showing you how to create SVG files from your calligraphy in Adobe Illustrator and turn a 2D sketch into a show stopping cake topper. I’ll walk you through the process step-by-step, from concept sketches to the final product.

Along the way, you’ll learn best practices for design, how to choose the best materials for your topper, 3 methods for optimizing and refining your design in Illustrator, tips for cutting your final product, and so much more. By the end of this class, you’ll have a super fun, total custom and uber ‘grammable cake topper… and the skills to make even more. 

Please note that this class is not a how-to on using the Cricut or Silhouette. Instead, this class is about designing a calligraphy-based cake topper and using Illustrator to turn it into the file you need for the cut machine. Links to tutorials for each of these machines is included in the Resources section of class (under the Class Project heading).

Hope to see you soon!

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• Class Preview
• Intro & Supplies Needed
• Designing Your Cake Topper
• Intro to Illustrator & SVG Files
• The Okay SVG Method: Image Trace
• The Better SVG Method: Pencil Tool
• The Best SVG Method: Pen Tool
• Cut & Assemble Your Cake Topper
• Class Project