What to write on transcript envelope
Writing and Addressing Envelopes With Your Cricut
hey everyone Tanner Bell here welcome
back to my youtube channel I'm the
founder of makers gonna learn calm a
digital die-cutting community teaching
you how to use your die-cutting machine
and give you access to hundreds of
digital cut files in today's video we're
going to teach you guys exactly how to
address your very own envelopes it's a
very highly requested video I get emails
about this comments all the time so
we're going to use our Cricut today and
Cricut pins to be able to write on our
envelopes the return address and the
address we're sending our envelope to so
it's going to be a lot of fun you can
use your maker any of the Explorers have
the pin slot so therefore you're able to
take advantage of that as well and it's
the same process for either machine so
hope you guys are excited and let's jump
into it so I like to start with how it
looks when it's finished and this is a
big step of the process so what we like
to do is have three different layers
going you want to have your rectangle to
the shape of your envelope for us this
is about a five by seven envelope so we
just created a rectangle five by seven
and put it as our background next you
want to have the return address and
we'll teach you exactly how to format
that text and then we centered this text
right here now we're using fonts from
our membership site makers gonna learn
calm this is our Gracie Lou font I think
it's perfect for using pins and I love
the quirkiness of this font alright to
get started let's go ahead and zoom out
and have some more space right here on
our iPad now remember you can follow
along with this project whether you're
using an iPad your iPhone or your
desktop or laptop so let's go to shapes
and insert a square we're going to take
this square right over here and we're
going to select edit we're going to make
the width 7 and the height 5 just like
so once we've been able to do that we're
going to go ahead and just change the
color of the envelope to white by
selecting the layer
just making it white as you can see here
all right
next we're going to select text and
we're going to select from our system
font Gracie Lou if you're a member to
makers going to learn you're going to be
able to get access to that font for free
if you're a year member so be sure to
have your your membership to get access
to our font library with hundreds of
fonts to choose from anyway
now we're going to type out we'll start
with the return address like we have
here so I'm just go top into my name and
then an address of your choice I just
keep making up random ones as we've been
planning out this video so as you can
see here we're just typing in whatever
we'd like your address and you can see
here a few things now first compared to
our finished one right here the line
spacing totally different this one is
actually centered and we need to align
it to the left so let's start by doing
that
we're gonna add it and we're going to
select line space now be sure to work
with different line spacings for
different fonts they all require
different things now next again this is
still centered so we want to go and
select alignment and we want to align
text left look at how easy that was so
now pretend this is your envelope so you
just want to start sizing this down
let's lock that and we can position it
right up here so that's our return
address and then what we're going to do
now is we're going to get our app
another text box under text you select a
Gracie Lou and we're going to type in
whoever we're sending a message to a
little letter I'm gonna send it to cor
so we're going to type in or address so
now we type that in and again it's
already aligned for the left so we just
need to select edit and we need to align
Center first and then we're going to
select line space and bring that down
too then we can saws that down some
maybe thought this one leave that here
and saws this one down a little bit more
and move that up just a tad sometimes
you will want to turn off if you're
using an iPad smart guides so it's
easier to position exactly how you want
it smart guides kind of snaps things
into place and you usually do not want
that all right so we have this right
here this looks pretty good I love when
I'm filming videos giving the example
first and then recreating it for you
guys so you can see why we're doing
different things so this one looks fun
we're going to lead it and just go back
to the one we were working with what
we're going to do now at this step if
you notice we press make it it is going
to go ahead and put this on a two
totally different mats and it's going to
look very different than as it looks on
our canvas how we need to make this stay
together is first we don't need this
back this white rectangle at the back
anymore this was just for reference on
our map we're going to select the X and
delete and now we have this right here
so we're going to just be able to select
that and we're going to click actions
and select attach one big note is that
you need to in the layers panel change
from cut you need to change that to draw
so instead of cut we're going to select
right and you want to select the pin
you're using now today we're using the
gel pen 1.0 black it tells you right
here on the pin so let's just scroll
through and find that pin and then we're
going to repeat that to our Tanner text
so right and 1.04 the 1.01 here and now
we're good to go it's ready and we're
going to be able to press make it we're
gonna select replace and it's already
formatted right here on our mat so now
we're able to take one of our envelopes
and we're just gonna place it down on
our mat
right up in the top left-hand corner
just like so so you can see here we have
our envelope we're going to move our
little gods back we were filming a knife
blade video so that was fun but we need
our well guides back we're going to load
that into the machine
and now that's ready to go we can press
continue we're going to connect via
bluetooth so now we're going to take our
pin open it a great tip for this is to
take this cap and go ahead and put it on
the top of your pin do not leave it on
your craft table maan gets a little
messy and you will lose it it's a great
reminder for when you're finished to
take it out and put this lid right back
on so now what we want to do is just
simply open clamp a and it's honestly
this simple you'll find there's a little
triangle you just want to take this and
pop it into place once you hear that
click you know you're good to go
you're going to close clamp a it's very
simple a lot easier than clamp B I do
have to say and then you're ready to go
for us we're going to select that this
is light cardstock for the envelope and
then we're going to turn fast mode on
just so it you know and right for us you
don't have to and another great tip is
that if you do not want to go through
the referencing process and you're using
an iOS device feel free to use snap mat
to put multiple envelopes on your mat
and be able to align your return and
sending addresses manually that way it's
a great addition and we'll try to link
our snap in that video down below for
you guys to check out and learn how that
works it's super fun so once you're good
to go we'll press the flashing Cricket
button and it'll start our drawing all
right guys the drawing has completed it
lets us know on our iPad and then the
flashing unload button is happening so
we just want to press that and look at
how beautiful this turned out I love
love love the look of this guy is such a
professional look and it's amazing so
you're gonna be able to do this one tip
I do have is when you're taking it off
the mat don't just pull it up cuz it
then could curl flip it over and just
let it peel off the mat itself and maybe
even use a light grip mat umm if you
want to as well I think they both work
great as you can see here the standard
grip mat worked wonderfully and we used
two different pins here but it honestly
turned out beautiful we love it it's
such a fun way to address envelopes and
this is such a highly requested video I
hope we answered a lot of your questions
on how to do this process and it was
super fun if you guys have any questions
about this process be sure to leave us a
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thanks for watching guys I'll see you
later bye
