Christmas Pun Here Ornament Print & Cut Card MightE Made It

Christmas will soon be upon us and what better way to have a celebratory Socially Distant Christmas than by MAILING A CHRISTMAS CARD!

Today’s project is a simple ornament shaped card using the Cricut Print Then Cut feature. As I mentioned in last month’s blog post; I’m a huge fan of the print and cut feature and use it often and a simple Christmas card is a great way to use this feature. So let’s begin!

Supplies:

Cutting Machine & Mat (I’m using my Cricut Maker)
Cricut Design Space
White card stock
Printer (mine is an HP Envy 7855. I LOVE THIS PRINTER & HP Instant Ink)
Cricut Scoring Tool or Cricut Scoring Wheel
Envelope to fit your card. For this project a 4″ by 6″ envelope will suffice.
CLICK HERE FOR “CHRISTMAS PUN HERE” CUT FILE
CLICK HERE FOR THE CRICUT DESIGN SPACE PROJECT

Steps:

Download & Unzip the Christmas Pun Here Cut file.
Upload into Cricut Design Space
When you import the file into the canvas click select all. (for me the file was positioned at Y= -10? In case this happens to you, just type 0 in the Y box and your file should come into focus)
While everything is selected, click “Ungroup” twice.
Select all the colored ornaments pieces and hide them. Select a colored shape and click the eyeball in the Layers Menu. We will only be using the black background portion of our file. Your canvas should look like this:
Select your preferred ornament. I like the circle ornament for this project. The teardrop ornament would be great for a banner or confetti! (that project is coming soon!) Resize the selected circle ornament to 4 inches high.
Select the circle ornament again. Right click and select send to back:
Select Christmas Pun Here and Resize to 3″ inches wide. This will allow the words to fit inside of your ornament:
Select the Christmas Ornament again and click duplicate. After this step you’re going to align them horizontally and move them close enough to weld. Your canvas should look like this:
After welding your two ornaments together, be sure to send to back again. After that change your ornaments to white:
This card is a little boring so we’re going to add a little bit more razzle dazzle!
I recolored the teardrop backgrounds and added a cute little border to the bottom of the card. I won’t provide too much instruction on this because CREATIVITY!!!
Click ‘Select All’ and then ‘Flatten’:
We’re now going to add our score line to this card. Now that everything is flattened. Click Shapes then score line:
Select all, then align, then center. This will put your score line directly in the center of your card.
Then click Select All again then attach. This will ensure that after your print and your card is placed on the mat, it will be scored BEFORE it’s cut.
SAVE YOUR PROJECT BEFORE YOU CLICK MAKE IT. Just in case disaster strikes, you’ve protected yourself.
The next screen is generally defaulted. There’s no additional steps here. Click Continue:
Add your white card stock to your printer. Then click continue.
Click “Send to Printer”. Turn off ‘Apply Bleed’. Turn on ‘use system dialogue’. Then click Print.
Follow your printer’s settings.
Place your printed project on your cricut mat.
Your Cricut will read the registration marks, score and cut your project your project.
Remove from mat, fold in half.
BOOM. Christmas Card!