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How to Make a Curved line in Cricut Design Space +Free SVG Curvy Lines

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Updated on August 21, 2019

Hello Daydreamers!

In today’s tutorial, I am going to teach you all of my tricks to get curved lines in Cricut Design Space.

Plus, at the end of this post, there’s an SVG file for you to download multiple curved lines for you to use in your projects.

Let’s get started!

There’s not an option for you to add Curved lines to Cricut Design Space. However, you can extract curved lines from Cricut Access images, and or, create curves by welding and slicing circles against other shapes.

Lately, I have been putting all of my efforts to answer questions about shapes and lines for Cricut Design Space.

Look how to make rounded corners and add single lines.

I genuinely want to empower you to create whatever you wish on Cricut Design Space, and curved lines and shapes are an essential part of pretty much any design.

Curved Lines Featured Image

If you are a beginner and are still figuring out Cricut’s software, I recommend that you read my fantastic and Ultimate Cricut Design Space tutorial. 

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Understanding the Difference
Trying to Create Curved Effects on Shapes
Step 1 – Add Circles
Step 2 – Weld and Duplicate
Step 3 – Slice and Play Around
Adding Curved Lines With Cricut Access
Get Curved Lines and Curvy Shapes for FREE

Understanding the Difference

Before we get started, and for you to follow this tutorial, you need to know the difference between a Curved Line, and a Curvy Shape.

Spiral Line and Spiral Shape in Cricut Design Space
Difference between and Curved Line and Curvy Shape

A curved line is ideal if you want to cut, score, or draw a single line on a design. That line shows precisely where the blade will cut through.

A Curvy Shape has the same properties as a square, triangle, heart, or any other shape. These are perfect if you want to incorporate in different designs and you can weld and slice them against other shapes.

Trying to Create Curved Effects on Shapes

If you are trying to create some wavy effect on your shapes, you can accomplish this by welding circles and then slicing them against your desired shape.

Let’s see a step by step tutorial.

Step 1 – Add Circles 

Add circles to create a new shape. The circle shape can be located on the left panel area under the shapes icon.

For this tutorial, I used three circles, and then, I align them at the top.

Be creative; they don’t have to be in this order, think of the curve you want and try to get the edge of the circle to look like that.

Circles in Cricut Design Space to form a curvy shape.
Add Circles and align them to create your desired curve

Step 2 – Weld and Duplicate

Once you have all of the circles, you need to select them and them and then click on “Weld.”

As you can see in the picture down below, a new shape (like a cloud one) has been created.

At this point, you can use the edge of the new shape and slice it against another one; however, I am going to duplicate it and then slice both of them.

Curvy shapes that look like clouds Cricut Design Space
Weld and Duplicate 

Step 3 – Slice and Play Around

Try to see how many curved new shapes you can get by slicing the two “clouds” and think about how you can incorporate them into a new design.

Slicing Curvy Shapes to create more curvy shapes
Create as many curvy shapes as you can by slicing both shapes

I used one of the “slice results” in a square.

Creating Waves on a square Cricut Design Space
Add wavy lines to a square

The problem with this method is that you can’t get single cutting lines; they will always be some curvy shape. Not an arbitrary line that you can just cut through.

Adding Curved Lines With Cricut Access

If you have Cricut Access (Cricut extensive library of Cutting Files) you can search for curved lines within their files and then add them one by one to your project.

If you don’t know what Cricut Access is, read this fantastic guide I put together and find out whether this a great option for you or not.

Click on images and type lines, line, curve, curves, to see what comes up.

Search lines in Cricut's library

For this tutorial, I searched by the keyword line and added the Rainbow option.

Since I only needed the curved lines I hid – you can delete them too – the rest of the layers.

adding curved lines from Cricut's Library

The problem with this method is that it isn’t free plus there aren’t many options available, and you can’t use a single line to weld or slice, so forget about creating new shapes with them.

Note: There are other curvy shapes similar to the ones we recreated above that you can incorporate as part of your design as well.

Get Curved Lines and Curvy Shapes for FREE

Free Curved Lines and Shapes SVG for Cricut Design Space
Curved Lines and Curvy Shapes – My gift to you! 🙂

I have Adobe Illustrator (it’s my favorite software to create amazing beautiful cutting files.) Nonetheless, not everyone has that opportunity and access to this program, and I am a firm believer that everyone should have access to curved lines.

Wouldn’t you agree with me?

I have some curved lines and shapes for you to download and use in your projects, even for commercial use as long as you use them within a project.

DO NOT upload them on their own to your website or any other website; if you think someone would benefit from them, redirect them to this post!

This license is only for these Curved Lines, none of my other designs can’t be used for commercial purposes.

Free SVG Curved Lines and shapes for Cricut
Right-click and save this SVG File then upload it to Design Space, use any curved shape or curvy line you want and get creative!

Oh!

And just so you know, I also have a FREE growing library with tons of printables and SVG files ready to be cut.

I would love for you to be able to get access to all of them. It’s 100% Free for my daydreamers (aka subscribers). Check out a live preview here or get access here.

If you like this post and think someone else could benefit from it, make sure to post it on your favorite social media, by doing so, you aren’t only helping someone else to learn and find cool resources, but you are also supporting my work.

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Comments

  1. amy says

    November 2, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Hey ! I want to make single-line cuts, and I do have illustrator. How did you save your single lines from illustrator in a way that did not produce two-line cuts in cricut? When I save my lines in illustrator, my cricut cuts the outlines of the lines. thanks!

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      November 2, 2020 at 11:30 pm

      You need to use a vector line. Don’t outline or expand your design on AI.

      Reply
  2. Theresa says

    September 26, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    This is what I needed to make my projects more interesting.

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      September 28, 2020 at 4:19 pm

      You’re welcome 🙂

      Reply
  3. Briella says

    August 23, 2020 at 9:34 am

    I love this post. I’m really interested how you make these lines though. Could you explain it to me?

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      August 26, 2020 at 4:58 pm

      I make them in Adobe Illustrator. They are vector lines and they are super easy to make.

      Reply
  4. Kim says

    August 4, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    THANK YOU!!!! I’ve been trying to make and looking for a half circle with an open top for EVER!!! I could never get one that didn’t do wonky things when cutting (jagged edges, etc.). The one in your curved lines is perfect! Great article all around. You’re my new best friend. 🙂

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      August 11, 2020 at 6:35 pm

      You’re very welcome Kim! I am so happy I get to help. 🙂

      Reply
  5. Eryka Hurst says

    March 12, 2020 at 10:28 am

    Hi, thanks so much for these. I wonder if you could help me. When I create a path in Photoshop is there a way to convert it into a single line or would I need Illustrator to do that? I have tried in Photoshop but can’t find how to do it.

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      March 23, 2020 at 6:13 pm

      I am sure there’s a way to do it n PS but I have no clue. I use AI for vector lines. It’s easier.

      Reply
  6. Annie says

    March 8, 2020 at 12:26 am

    I can upload this but not as svg. Any ideas?

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      March 9, 2020 at 6:56 pm

      Are you from a PC? Uploading SVG from a phone it’s a little bit tricky (working on a tutorial for this).

      Reply
  7. Annie says

    March 7, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    I am trying to sign up for your site, but do not see where to do it. I put in my first name and email, but do not see where to put in a password although it asks as if I have already chosen one.

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      March 9, 2020 at 7:02 pm

      Hi Annie. You need to fill out this form, then an Email with the password and link will be sent to your email! If you already got the email, the password right bellow the link.

      Reply
  8. Sarah says

    February 7, 2020 at 8:46 am

    Hi do you know if you can offset shapes in Cricut design space. It’s really frustrating as I want to be able to cut round small drawings. Thank you for your help.

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      February 11, 2020 at 7:02 pm

      You can’t. However, I have a handy article that will teach you how to achieve outlines.

      Reply
  9. Dana says

    January 31, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    Thank you!!

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      February 4, 2020 at 5:26 pm

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  10. Tina says

    November 6, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    Hi, I have a question. I recently created some curved lines in Illustrator, but when I import it into the Design Space, the curvature changed a bit. How to get around it?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      November 14, 2019 at 5:35 am

      Hi Tina, that’s a little odd, quite frankly that’s never happened to me. I hope you can find a way around it.

      Reply
  11. Stephanie Campise says

    August 18, 2019 at 8:17 pm

    I apologize but it will not let me right click and upload? Is it not available anymore?

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      August 21, 2019 at 7:14 pm

      They are still available. Right-click on the image and select the option “Save Image As.”

      Reply
  12. Jen says

    March 14, 2019 at 4:34 am

    Hi! Thank you so much for these lines! I’ve been searching for hours trying to figure out how to add tails to the balloons I made in Design Space.

    I’m not seeing how to download these lines though. Right click on what? The picture or should there be a link? I have a Mac so maybe that’s why I can’t figure it out.

    Reply
    • Catalina says

      March 14, 2019 at 1:32 pm

      Hi Jen! I am glad they can help you! Yes. to upload them just right click (on the image that sais so) and save on your computer and then upload to Desing Space.

      Reply

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