Spring Landscape Giant Sign 🦋 Spring CC 2026

Giant landscape sign by Craft with Sarah

Make an off-the-mat cardstock project that will impress everyone who sees it!

This detailed giant sign shows a beautiful spring landscape with the sun rising over grassy hills, with fluffy white clouds, a calming river, pink cherry blossom trees and a wide range of flowers and butterflies.

The completed sign measures 24.5 inches wide and 10.5 inches tall, but the larger pieces come in sections so it can be cut from 12×12, A4 or US Letter sized cardstock on a regular 12×12 inch Cricut cutting mat.

Spring Craft Countdown Day 09 - Giant Spring Sign by Craft with Sarah

The large background pieces have been cleverly cut into sections so that all the join lines get covered up by the other colours that go on top.

I am really happy with how this turned out – it’s my favourite giant sign to date.

Hiding the join lines really uplevels the design as it makes the completed piece look completely seamless.

It’s a calming, tranquil scene that perfectly sums up the feeling of spring!

Note: Hand-cutting versions are not included for this project due to the size and complexity.

This Project was part of the Spring Craft Countdown 2026

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Spring landscape scene materials supply list

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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This project is suitable for the following types of Cricut machines: Explore series, Maker series and Joy Xtra. It could be cut with a Joy or Joy 2 but the design would need to be significantly reduced in size.

Larger than mat sign for spring by Craft with Sarah

My favourite glues to use on papercraft projects are Bearly Art Glue and Collall All Purpose Glue.

These are great because they don’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

Bearly Art Glue comes with a tiny nozzle to make it easy to apply glue to small areas of card. The Collall glue doesn’t come with this, so it’s easiest to decant it into needle tip applicator bottles so that you have more control.

The foam pads that I use are from “Dot & Dab”, but any foam squares will work. If yours are big then you may need to cut them smaller with scissors to fit inside the edges of the layers.

When adding the foam pads to larger pieces of card, make sure you add some in the middles of the pieces of card so it gives stability to the middles.

If you don’t add any foam pads in the middles then it can “sag” under the weight of the other layers which doesn’t look as good.

Foundation learning

If you're new to making papercrafts with your cutting machine, check out these links to get you started.

They include videos on topics such as: which file to use with your type of cutting machine, how to load the files into your cutting machine's software, how to cut cardstock with your type of cutting machine, how to recolor and modify/customize the cut files and tips for displaying your projects.

The following tutorials are Cricut-specific, but many of the ideas will work similarly with a Silhouette or ScanNCut machine and any cut files that are shared in them are compatible with all types of cutting machine.

Cricut landscape craft video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

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Written tutorial (with photos!)

Here’s how to make a pretty spring scene craft using a Cricut machine.

Step 1) Download the cutting file & upload to Design Space

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Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

After unzipping, upload the SVG file(s) into your cutting machine software.

Not sure how to use cut files with your type of machine? The following links lead to videos on how to open cut files in:

The download folder also contains printable PDF versions of the templates for hand cutting.

If you are using Cricut Design Space, start a new project and then click the “Upload” button on the left of the screen.

You can then either click “Browse” to find the file on your computer, or drag-and-drop it.

Select the file in the “01 Cricut Version” subfolder called svg-01-giant-spring-sign-craftwithsarah.svg

Press “Upload” on the next screen.

After uploading, the design should be automatically inserted onto your Canvas.

To hide the left sidebar, click the arrow that’s about half way down the page.

If the design doesn’t get inserted onto your Canvas, it will show under “Uploads” in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Need help uploading SVGs? Get step-by-step instructions here in our detailed help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut.

The design loads in ready to cut. The overall size of the finished sign is 24.5 inches wide and 10.5 inches tall.

Step 2) Cut out all the layers

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the pieces.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

TIP: New to using cardstock with your cutting machine? Check out these machine help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut that go through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your machine.

Step 3) Get the pieces in order

This landscape design has lots of pieces in similar colours.

To make it easier to know which pieces to attach in which order, I found it helpful to put them in order, following the assembly guide included in the download folder (also shown later in this tutorial).

Step 4) Stick the base together

This is the most important part of the whole assembly.

Take your time to get the base lined up as carefully and neatly as you can.

If your base pieces are not correctly aligned then the rest of the sign will be affected.

Select the four base pieces. These are the large blue sections with triangle cutouts down the edges.

Glue the pieces together so that the triangles perfectly line up.

Having a straight line underneath the pieces, for example a ruler, is helpful for getting the bottom of the sign straight.

Step 5) Stick the project together

Use 3D foam pads and glue to stick the layers together.

Use these guides to see the order to stick the layers together in.

Printable versions of these assembly guide are included in the folder when you download the cut files.

Scroll down to underneath the guides for some extra tips and guidance.

The larger pieces press up against each other without any overlap.

For example, these two “sunburst” pieces touch each other where my finger is positioned in the photo below:

When you get to the very large background pieces, the individual sections also touch against each other without any overlap.

This is different to how I have created giant signs in the past, but I found this way much easier for assembly.

It means that you can stick on one piece at a time, and know that it will all align perfectly.

For some layers, the colours don’t reach all the way to the bottom.

This is to avoid using lots of cardstock that then doesn’t end up getting seen.

Some of the small flowers along the front of the sign have been strategically placed to hide the join lines in the dark green foliage piece.

Spring landscape craft project to make with a Cricut

After sticking all the pieces of card together, your spring papercraft is all finished!

It has a flat bottom so it can be easily propped up on a shelf.

If you’d rather not mount hang it up, check our these cardstock nail hooks.

Due to the weight of the project, you’ll probably need 2 of them.

You could then add some removable command-strip hooks to your wall to hang the sign, and then remove them once we get to summer.

Or keep it up all year round!

Off the mat sign Cricut project by Craft with Sarah

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Happy crafting,
Sarah x