Supplies Needed:
- 1 12 inch long piece of paper for the "base" of the card
- Cardstock in white, pink, black, and whatever colors you want for the bow and front design.
- A font that will work as a writing font in Cricut Design Space (Find more than 100 free ones here. I used Always Here)
- A pen or marker that works in your cricut machine (a list of pens that work, no adapter needed)
- Double Sided Tape (essential )
- Glue (a glue stick works fine)
- a plastic bag (ziplock, baggie, or a plastic grocery bag)
- Free SVG
When you upload the svg to design space, it will be all black, and it will be too large.
With the entire thing selected, resize to 12.121 x 11.637
The image above tells you what each piece is, and what the exact sizes were when I made mine, but if you resize the entire thing, the sizes will be good - they don't have to be exactly what is shown above.
Then at the top right in design space, choose ungroup.
Now you can change colors on the items, which makes it easier to see which piece is which.
There's a black half moon to the right of the 3rd bunny head piece. Select it, and at the top left of the design space screen, change it from cut to draw.
Next, create a text box, and add your text. In this card, I typed Happy Easter.
I used the free font Always Here
It's one of the many, many free fonts that can be used as writing fonts in design space, without bubbling.
Find samples, and links to, more than 100 free fonts that you can use in design space as writing fonts.
Then add another text box, and the word pull, in the half moon you switched to draw earlier.
IMPORTANT - Switch your text to draw, it will be cut by default.
Once your text is set to draw, select both text boxes, the half moon, and the square, and choose attach from the bottom left.
Now you are ready to cut your design. When you click make it, you will get a message that one of your pieces is too large, and that you need a larger mat. You do not. It's right at the edge of too large, but it will cut just fine on a 12 inch long piece of paper on a regular mat.
Make sure you put a pen in the pen slot.
These are pens that work in cricut, no adapter needed -
Assemble The Card
The bunny head is 4 pieces.
Put the black rectangle on the pink background, layer the white face on top
Then attach the back of the head, forming the lower part of his mouth.
Next assemble the bow, on your background of choice
(do not attach it to the base yet!)
To make the bow more defined, I inked the edges of the pieces first - and I smudged the ink onto the bow by accident. next time I would use a thick marker to ink the edges.
Next, fold your base. Fold from left to right, lining up the two half moon tabs
Then unfold, and fold the far right over
on the left, fold in to the first fold line on the right
Now cut a piece of plastic baggie, or grocery bag, 7.5 inches long by 1 inch wide.
Wrap it around the card as shown above and secure the ends together with double stick tape. Do not wrap the plastic too tightly, you want it to be a little loose around the card. cut off any excess plastic.
Double stick tape is essential here - it keeps this together flatly enough that it doesn't "catch" when it moves.
Then attach another piece of double stick tape to the outside of the plastic, and fold the card over so that the white insert is now taped fast to the plastic.
on the other side, attach the bunny, at the very bottom of the bunnys chin, to the plastic.
Now when you pull on the white card, the plastic should move and the bunny will move to the top as the card moves down.
When folding the card together to glue the back flap down, be sure not to pull the card too tight. Leave it bubbled ever so slightly so that there is room for everything to move inside.
Then attach your front decorations.
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