What to write on invitation cards
Wedding Wednesday Write and cut invitation inserts on Cricut tutorial
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Wednesday this is gonna be the first in
a long series of really fun crafts and
ways to DIY your wedding so you can not
only have a really special personal
wedding but you can also save quite a
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throughout the rest of this year so the
first thing I'm going to show you guys
how to do is the insert for your wedding
invitation I have the video to show you
how to do this beautiful laser-cut
Rose sleeve for your invitation and that
one I will link below but we're gonna
learn how to use our writing feature
with a writing font and then drawing
with our roses to tie in the roses to
the invitation so let's go over to
design space so I can show you guys how
we're gonna set all of this up in design
space we're gonna get ready to do the
center of our invitations which is
really really easy we're gonna make sure
that we have this in a 5x7 card so you
want the insert with all your
information to be just a little bit
smaller than that so that you can easily
put it inside the middle and have just a
little bit of a border especially for
your folds where we're gonna have our
laser cuts so what we're gonna do is
start with a shape and we're gonna use
the square now you could add flourishes
around the side if you'd like to but
this one we're gonna keep pretty simple
and we'll do some more in-depth ones
throughout our wedding Wednesday series
first thing you need to do is unlock
your square which is down here in the
lower left hand corner now we know that
we're working with a 5x7 card so what I
like to do is I go about 4.75 wide and
then I do about a 6.75 high that just
gives you a little bit of more room to
work with and again leaves you that
little bit of border so that you can
easily fold your card I'm gonna change
it to white right off the bat just makes
it easier to see now for this one we
want to match that beautiful rose
laser-cut that we have and bring that in
to the inside so we're gonna use our
Cricut writing feature and it's gonna be
a lot of fun too
you guys how to make these pretty roses
this way so what we're gonna do is open
up our text and I'm gonna instantly go
into my system fonts and find the font
that I know we use so we use something
called flower something or another I
don't always remember the name so I just
try to remember at least what part of
the name is and is this janda flower
doodles and I know that it was the
capital letter V to get that same rose
so we're just gonna do two of those
roses in here and we're instantly going
to ungroup them so just go ahead over
here click ungroup and I'm gonna set
them in my invitation where I want them
I'm going to put one up here in the
upper corner and one in the lower corner
and I'm gonna have the cricut actually
write these out so right here we're
gonna select on our layers tab over in
the right hand side up here at the top
it's the second one over that says write
and what its gonna do it's gonna bring
you up all of your options for your
different types of pens now make sure
you are picking the correct type of pen
especially if using some of these gold
ones but I'm just gonna use a regular
pen I'm just gonna do pink crystal I
don't actually know the name of my pen
but I'm gonna use a pink color of some
sort from my pens so again click write
and then choose your color right here
it's super easy to do now they are gonna
not be filled in but you can always go
through and fill them in if you want but
I think these are gonna be thin enough
that it's probably not going to be super
obvious that they are not filled in our
next step is to do our text now I want
to use a writing text because we're
gonna actually have the Cricut write out
our invitations so we're gonna go right
over here into our Cricut I do have
access and we're gonna get rid of where
it says flower now what we're gonna do
is go over to filter and click on where
it says writing and what that does is it
brings up all the different fonts that
you can write with now you don't own all
of them because here right here we have
the green a is ones that we can use
without paying for them and then right
here we have like Alexis Maddox that one
is $6.99 but you can go through and find
one that you like and I believe I used
Babette I think that one's really really
pretty
so we'll use we'll do Jane Smith and
James George I will just come up with
some crazy names let's do Jeannie and
James Jones and not capitalized though
now I'm gonna do this in two different
text boxes because I want their names to
be able to be larger than the
information for the wedding which is
usually how they look on typical
invitations but I don't like this
alignment so we're gonna make sure that
we Center our text and see how far apart
our lines are that's way too far it
looks really awkward so up here kind of
in the center right under line spacing
I'm gonna just choose negative three it
does take a big amount of spacing like a
big number to make your line spaces
closer versus like when you do letter
spacing now we could letter space these
closer together as well so let's go
ahead and space them closer because this
is a script font and you want it to look
handwritten so you want it to look
really nice now it does take a second
usually to kind of catch up so you want
to just take your time I used to do
about three or four clicks and then I
stop and see where it's at so if it's
getting a little too close on some
letters like right here I can see these
ones are crossing over so let's move
this over here just for a second just so
it's not on top of that and we're gonna
ungroup it we do this because if you
notice like I said the certain letters
are Criss crossing and we don't want
that to happen because we want it to
look really nice and professional so
we're gonna move this over a little bit
cuz it was way too close to the eye or
to the M and we're gonna move the eye
over a little bit just so that the M
isn't totally crossing over it these
writing fonts are a little bit harder to
do this with because they are so thin
but you just want to move them and
that's okay you just wanna move them so
that they're touching and same ones like
the J for James I'm gonna move that over
a bit I'm gonna move the M over the East
pretty good where it's at but we're
gonna just slide that s over just a
little bit and then we're going to move
the J for Jones over and again you just
want to do this so that it looks like
it's all handwritten and really really
beautiful so what you're gonna do now is
select all the words and you are going
to attach them what that does is it
keeps them from moving around so you can
grab the whole thing together now we're
gonna put this into our invitation here
so we're just gonna stick it there don't
worry if it's not centered right now I'm
going to show you guys how to Center it
we're gonna open another text box and
we're gonna put request your attendance
and I apparently can't spell today
let's fix those requests your attendance
at their wedding and we'll do on June
the 1st 2020 at 4:00 apparently not tea
at 4:00 oh my goodness I cannot type
today guys so we'll do at 4:00 you want
to spell it out with these 4 o'clock so
we'll just put we'll leave it like that
now obviously your wording can change
and you can do it everyone I don't
always remember like the exact wording
but we're gonna do the same thing here
where we're gonna need to letter space
these down so I'm just gonna kind of
move everything over a little bit just
so we can see make sure you move this
out of the way and just select
everything and then you can move this
back over so you can see what you're
doing this one you are going to 100%
half to on group especially because of
these numbers but let's letter space lit
a little bit closer that way you're not
having to move it quite as much but you
are going to have to go through and move
them and a lot of the writing fonts will
do that it's just how it is
so ungroup and all I do is I just start
at the top and just slowly work my way
down again with the writing fonts and
especially on something like this you
want them to look very professional and
together you'll notice that it takes a
while when you ungroup them especially
the writing fonts to come back to show
you what you're working with so don't
don't worry too much it's not not a big
deal if they take a second they're just
they just take a little bit longer to
load for whatever reason and it's just
how they are so again just move your
letters over this can be the like the
most tedious annoying part of the whole
thing but it's really worth it in the
long run to do this so that your
invitations look very very professional
and people will wonder where you got
them and you saved a fortune by doing it
this way again a lot of time and effort
but worth it
in the long run so all we're gonna do is
just keep moving all of our letters over
now these T's are a little bit tricky
because of the way they're lined up so
what I do with the t's is I just try to
get them as neat as I can they're not
always perfect and again it will depend
on what font you are going to use so
like with this I'm not gonna move that
end so far over because it's kind of a
pain so we'll just move the end and
touch it to the D we'll move the a over
and I'll show you guys when we get those
last couple letters together on this
word rather than having to move each of
these letters super far over so that
they are touching the a été you can
select the rest of the back of the
letter and just move them right back
over the whole thing instead of having
to move them so far and we'll do the
same thing with at we'll just put them
together instead of moving them
separately we'll just select both and
move them together we are going to just
make sure that we are moving all of our
letters and so that they touch there
actually is pretty good that's not too
bad and then wedding I like the W a
little further away from that e this is
a lot of just personal preference and
just sort of playing with it and again
different writing thoughts will be a
little bit different you may not have to
go into quite as an intense moving them
around as I am it just depends on your
font in the style that you're going for
so what with these we're just gonna have
to move them so apologize that you guys
have to watch this but I hope it is
teaching you guys that grouping and
ungrouping and how to use them because
there that's an important tool here in
design space is the group on group
buttons you will use them for all sorts
of different things
and there are some things that cannot be
ungroup and I should kind of like the
way that space so we'll just move it
over a little bit certain SVG's can't be
ungrouped and things like that but it's
okay you know once you start playing
with them you'll learn which can and
what can't and how to kind of work
around that now obviously these are not
going to be all nice and centered
anymore so I'm going to show you guys a
real quick way to fix that I actually
like the way this part space so we'll
just grab these ones and move them over
and then we'll start moving the Ock
and yeah I know I probably should have
put a period on this but whatever again
this grammar thing is all on you guys
not me so I'm just gonna do one thing
where all I'm going to do is select one
line and attach it we're gonna attach
each line individually and the reason
we're doing this is so that we can
easily get them to Center
if you ungrouped it and then attached it
it won't Center correctly because it
doesn't believe that it'll Center all
you're like it just doesn't believe
they're all individual lines so I'm
gonna just go ahead and do that and
select them all and over here where you
have a line I'm gonna just Center them
horizontally that way you can see that
they've all centered now we need to put
this into our invitation so we're just
gonna size it down a little bit and
we'll need to resize it as we get it on
to our invitation but it's easier to see
it once you've put it over this just to
see how small or big you need to make it
alright that looks like it's a pretty
decent size so now here's a great trick
to how to make sure that everything is
centered but I also want to show you
real quick I forgot to do this so you
want to select all of these lines again
that you just did with the center and
spacing and attach them so that they're
just like one one piece when you do
writing you can't really weld it doesn't
doesn't believe in welding so you don't
well them you know you could leave them
as a cut and do it I'm gonna actually
both attach oops I don't wanna do that
we're gonna select the writing so you're
gonna select the names you're gonna
select the attendance part the
information and you're gonna select the
box you're gonna click a line and you're
gonna Center them horizontally what that
does is it put your words onto your
invitation right in the center now the
roses you'll have to kind of eyeball
them but they're pretty easy to eyeball
I can see this guy needs to move down
just a little bit and I think we are
good to go so what we're gonna do is
select the whole thing click attach and
what that does is it tells the part of
the cricket to make sure that it keeps
all of your information right where you
have it
your screen when you click make it it's
gonna bring up your design now if you
are doing this on a 12 by 12 sheet you
should be able to fit two so you can go
right up here and click two and click
apply so it will do two on a twelve by
twelve and actually this would work on
an eight-and-a-half by eleven as well if
you put it the long way and I'm gonna do
it on an eight-and-a-half by eleven
because that's the size paper I have and
the great thing is it makes you use as
much of your paper as you possibly can
so let's get the Machine going and I'm
gonna show you guys how to put your pens
in how this is gonna look when we get it
all done so like I said I'm gonna do
this on an eight-and-a-half by eleven
this is just a piece of white cardstock
if you have the maker you can really do
any and I'm pretty sure we you can cut
any with the Explorer as well any color
you just can't do it print and cut with
other color paper so like I said I'm
gonna put it this direction that will
get us to on this page when you go over
to your screen to get ready to make this
and you hit continue it's gonna tell you
which marker color to put in first but
you're gonna need to set your material
now this is a pretty light cardstock
it's only about a 65 pounds so just
choose the sixty pound and it tells me
that I need to put that pink crystal
well all I could find us coral so to put
your pen in you take your cap off and
you open the a which is this one and you
just take your pen and you press it in
until you feel it click you could hear
it click on this one too and that's all
you do and you close a so you're gonna
load your paper and you want to make
sure this is away from the wall so I'm
gonna pull it away a little bit more so
hopefully you guys can still see it I'll
double check that yep you guys can see
it perfect so we're just gonna load it
and this part is going to be drawing out
your roses so you're gonna see it do
four total roses in the corners of there
the invitation is going to be so you'll
see it's gonna do it does work pretty
quickly this is much faster than the
Explorer when it comes to the writing
feature so if you are gonna do a ton of
invitations I would invest in a little
bit more money with the maker the
Explorer is a lot slower they will both
work but if you're doing a lot this the
time savings on this is pretty pretty
significant and then all I'm gonna do
you don't have to use the same color pen
that you tell the Cricut you're going to
use so for the wording if I said it was
going to be the black pen but I think
I'm actually gonna do more of like a
navy just to kind of give it a little
bit more color so we'll just do a Navy
again the only thing that really matters
is the tip size on your pen so you just
want to make sure that you are using the
same tip size that you told it you had
but otherwise the color really doesn't
matter you can do whatever color you
decide if you change your mind so it's
really no big deal if you change your
mind about halfway through like I just
did so you see it's coloring up it's
it's um drawing up our roses except the
Cricut maker really does a nice job with
the drawings it is not going to fill
them in but you can kind of see
hopefully I'm not sure how well you can
see it right now but I will show you up
close they are not filled in but they
still look really lovely you could
always do something where you if you
wanted to you could cut these out of
paper like we did for the invitations
for the laser-cut part and you could
glue them on here just this was kind of
just more of a time savings and just a
different look than I wanted to show you
now I said when we get a few more things
done for wedding Wednesday we'll get
some more fancy invitations and things
like that but I want to start you guys
off with something kind of simple so let
me let it finish doing these roses and
I'll show you how to change out your pen
color so now the Cricut tells us on our
design space screen on our computer or
your phone that you need to change out
your pen so you just open it and pull
your pen out always make sure to recap
your pen and all you do is put your next
color pen in same way you put the other
one in just hold it and I always put my
thumb down here and my other finger up
here
so click that and then you're gonna
click the little Go button again and now
what it's gonna do is it's gonna come
through and write out the information
the names all that type of stuff again
please don't judge my wording on this
it's been a while for me and ours were
pretty like hey this was before I had a
cricket so it's gonna write it in a
really awkward order I have no idea why
it does it it makes no sense I don't
know why it doesn't just write the whole
word but again it's gonna write it
pretty quickly it doesn't really take a
long time so we're gonna let it go ahead
and write it all out and cut it and when
we come back I'll show you our finished
product and here is our finished product
now granted this one's really really
simple but depending on the style of
your wedding this could be exactly what
you need this was all done with the
Cricut writing options and cutting so
all we did was just what I showed you in
design space they're really simple to do
really fun and you guys can get really
really creative with them or make them
as simple as you desire here we have our
finished product now this is the
laser-cut invitation cover I guess that
we cut on another video which I've
linked below and then here is your
insight and I realized I opened that
upside down for you guys let me flip
that around and then there's your
insight all I did was glued this down
and I just used some Elmer's craft bond
glue you could use glue dots
pretty much anything really a hot-melt
glue whatever you're comfortable using I
will say when I took this off I ripped
this right here a little bit so you'll
want to be careful if you're gonna make
these laser-cut outside side pieces
because you'll want to be very careful
when you pull them off but this is just
a 65-pound cardstock from michaels 65
pound cardstock also from michaels and
then we obviously use the right and the
draw so you guys can see it came out
really really nice again your roses
won't be filled in but you could always
go in and fill them in yourself it's
just a matter of personal preference and
again I know the colors are not very
matching I just took what I had but you
guys when you go to do your wedding
stuff you will make them perfect and
beautiful and you will make all your
colors match I hope you guys had a
really fun time learning how to use
other writing and drawing for your
inside of your wedding invitation if you
have any questions please let me
in the comments down below I'm always
happy to answer those for you
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