The customizable skins are areas to apply digital papers, patterns and colors.

You’ll find inside the file:

• Cutting File
• Customizable skins without bleed
• Customizable skins with bleeds

As in the image below:

• Customizable skins without bleed

They have the exact same size of the cutting area and they are very useful to create frames, shapes or details on each side of your box. There is no space for artwork outside the cut line:

• Customizable skins with bleed
  

They are a little bigger than the cutting area, so the fill runs beyond the cutting lines, creating a safety margin. With the bleed area added, you’ll avoid any misalignment and white borders while cutting your projects.

At first, make sure the customizable skins are ungrouped. To find the ungroup tool you must select your project, click with the right button and click on ungroup, or click on  ungroup on the sidebar.

As Cricut already has a native bleed feature, it is recommended to use Skins without bleed to create your personalization.
To make it easier, hide all objects that you will not use.

Then, ungroup the skins again

Change the operation to Print then Cut

Choose and select which faces to apply a pattern

On Print type change color to Patter 

Choose the pattern that you want to apply

You can use any image saved on your computer in .jpg and .png, as long as you have uploaded it to your Design Space pattern library.

When we import a digital paper to Design Space, it becomes a Fill Pattern. To edit it, you must follow some simple steps:

• Select the face with the digital paper you want to adjust the size
  
• Open Edit Pattern Panel
• Edit the pattern as you need

You can do some adjustments like scale, angle, and mirror.

Our files are made to be versatile, regardless of the cutting machine you use.
Since the Design Space has a native feature to create bleeding, we recommend you using the Skins Without Bleeding if you want to customize your project directly on Design Space

You can easily add ornaments to your personalization using the pen operation:

• Make a 2mm offset on the faces you want to add ornaments to.
  
• Change the operation to Pen and choose the desired color and thickness
  

After you finish your customization, prepare your project following the steps below:

• Group the ornaments (if you have any) and then hide the group.
  
• Weld the faces with the same pattern and that are side by side
  
• Drag the ornament layer to the top
  
• Select all customization and flatten
  
• Select the personalization, the cutting lines and then center both
  
• Select only the cut layer of the box border and hide it, leaving only the score lines visible
  
• Select all and attach
  
• If necessary, resize the attached set to fit the printable area. Remember to keep the proportions locked in order not to distort the project.
  
• Click on “Make it” button to print and cut your project.

Your project set up is done. Adjust the cutting options as you need and now you’re ready to cut it.