How to Engrave Acrylic with Cricut Maker

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I have been having a lot of fun playing with acrylic sheets and rod. I love that when you put an engraved acrylic sheet on an LED strip, it lights up making it a beautiful lighted floating design.

I think it makes an amazing personalized gift for anyone! Especially for kids as a night lamp. Plus, you can make multiple designs and easily switch them out!

DIY Engraved Nightlight

Set up design

In Cricut Design Space, create your own quote or load a design from the 1000s available in the library. resize the design to fit your template.

Prepare mat

Place the acrylic blank on the StrongGrip mat. Use the lines as a guide.

Make it

When you hit “make it” in Design Space, you need to center the design in the mat preview using the same method you used for taping the acrylic blank on the cutting mat. 

Engrave!

Load the engraving tool in the machine. Move the four white star wheels all the way to the right (VERY important)

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