To create the same look as the example from Annual Inspirations, just add a solid piece of cardstock behind your cut Cricut ® piece. All that’s left is to cut your project!Ĭlick the green Make It button in the top right corner and follow the prompts. You can delete the two separate text pieces since you won’t need these in your project. Just move your pieces around to view each one individually. You’ll see the slice results on the left in the Layers panel. You should now have three separate pieces. Once both the text and the rectangle are selected, click Slice in the bottom right corner, next to Weld. Hold down the “shift” button on your keyboard and select the rectangle. You’ll still be able to see the outline box for the text to make sure it’s centered. Move your sentiment behind the rectangle. Resize the shape to a 3.25″ x 6″ rectangle. To create the piece for your card front, insert a square shape using the “Shapes” option on the left side. Next, click Weld in the bottom right corner, in the Layers panel. Select all the pieces by clicking on the top left of the text and drag across to highlight all three lines. You’ll also need to make sure you have selected all three text pieces. To use the weld tool, make sure each line of your text overlaps. Weld your text together to create one group of text instead of three separate pieces. The example above shows how we arranged the text, with the letter spacing on “YOU” changed to 1.9. You’ll want adjust the letter spacing in the Text Edit bar for “YOU” to make it to overlap with “Be” and “tiful”. Move the text pieces around to create the look that you see on the card. You can see where to change the font height in the screenshot above. Change “tiful” to the Artistry font with a height of 1.25″. Change “YOU” to the Flower Market font with a height of 1″. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to create the “YOU” and “tiful” text in your project.ĭon’t forget to change the font and the font height for each. Select this font, and then adjust the font height in the Text Edit bar to 1.75″. To locate this font, type “Artistry” in the Search Fonts box. You’ll see all font options, but we want to use the font in the Artistry collection to recreate our card. Change fonts by clicking on Fonts in the Text Edit bar. Let’s begin by typing “Be” in the text box. Insert text by clicking Text on the left side of your screen.įor this project, we need to add text for each line separately. Log in with your Cricut ID and password, and then select the green New Project button in the top right corner. If you prefer to use the available app on a mobile device, the buttons and tools will be located in slightly different places on your screen. (If you do not know how to do this, click here.)Īs you follow the outlined steps below, keep in mind that we are showing you how to work in Design Space using a desktop or laptop computer. You will also need to have a Cricut ® machine that is Design Space compatible (any of the Explore models or the new Maker) to link your collections to your account. First, if you wish to use the same fonts we did here, you must own both the Flower Market and Artistry Cricut ® collections. Today, we want to go over how easy it is to work with these fonts in Cricut Design Space™ by sharing step-by-step instructions to recreate this card from the Annual Inspirations idea book:īefore getting started, there are a few things you will need to make this card, other than the paper. Additionally, most of our collections come with their very own unique font. Our Cricut ® collections are purposefully designed with a wide variety of shapes and styles so you can always find just what you need to complete any project. When you peruse any of the Close To My Heart catalogs, it is easy to see that we love using our exclusive Cricut ® collections to add to our scrapbooking, cardmaking, and papercrafting artwork.
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