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Addressing A Pre-Made Envelope With Cricut

Addressing A Pre-Made Envelope With Cricut

To address a premade envelope, simply type your address in a text box, choose a "writing font" [one that works with the pens ] and set the line type to draw.

Choosing Your Font:

When using pens in cricut, the pen follows the path of the blade - giving most text an "outline", or bubbled look. Most will tell you to use an official Cricut Writing Font - and for those of you who pay the monthly fee to rent images and fonts from Cricut, that's a good idea.

But for those of us who do not rent our images and text... there are HUNDREDS of free options you can download and install.. Hairline fonts that will appear single line, and true single line fonts (which actually, often do not work as well as the hairline fonts, in Design Space).

I've already tested hundreds of fonts, in a variety of pen sizes, and included links on where to download the fonts. You can find all of my samples, sorted by pen size, here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/6-single-line-fonts-that-will-write.html

But for addressing Christmas cards, I recommend sticking to the list of fonts that write well with the super fine tip pens. Find that list here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/free-fonts-for-writing-with-cricut-with_14.html

I have 48 fonts tested, and listed there, that I think work extremely well. Links to download each of the fonts can be found on that site as well.

But for me - my two "go to" favorites are AlwaysHere, and Montepetrum.

Click Make it. But do not actually Make it yet!

Place your envelope on your mat. Look at the grid and decide where you would like the machine to write. For my envelope, I decided on 2.5 inches in, 2 inches down.

Look at the screen, click on the mat, then click on the address, and drag the address to the spot on the grid where you want it to draw. See the image above? I've moved the address down.

Now click make it.

This time I used a plain old bic pen to write. I use these a lot!

That's it! Addressing envelopes with cricut is time consuming. It is MUCH faster to use a program like word, and a printer, to print labels for on envelopes, or print right on envelopes with your printer. But it's still nice to know how to do it with cricut too.

This is how I actually address my Christmas Cards - Using Mail Merge and Avery Labels.

Here's a step by step how to:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/12/using-mail-merge-avery-labels-to.html

I gave up on using home made envelopes awhile back - too many of my cards were returned as "undeliverable" by our post office. Instead, I purchase these. They are not the most inexpensive, but they are so pretty! A pack of 50 costs around $14. They come in a multitude of colors - from dark blue and dark green, to Ivory and White, with either silver, or gold, accents.

Find them here: https://amzn.to/3rjxjV5

Sunflower & Bee Banner

A Sunflower & Bee Banner, made with a variety of svgs

Here's what I used:

These are the same bee and flower svgs I used to make the magnets.

Unfortunately, the bundle, from Canada Crafts, is no longer available. CC is no longer on Creative Fabrica at all, although they do have a store on Design Bundles - this particular bundle is not on there.

However, there's a FREE, similar svg from:

https://bearly.art/products/bee-you-tiful-sunflower-bloom

Daily Dose of DIY has a free bee svg that I like a bit better than the bearly art version:

https://dailydoseofdiy.com/3d-paper-bee-craft/

And there's an entire selection of free sunflower svgs here

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2023/07/free-svgs-for-making-paper-sunflowers.html

The banner I used is my favorite banner base - it's from Special Hearts Studio.

https://specialheartstudio.com/easy-patriotic-banner/

Just use the base - skip the flag and star tops for this. I cut 10 of the base, then glued them together in sets, so I have 5 pieces two pieces thick. That's not necessary with heavier cardstock, but I always find my kraft brown cardstock to be a little thinner than a lot of my other 12x12 papers.

The svg in the center is from a bundle I got in the Dollar Deals ages ago. It's 40 bee designs, and I've used a lot of them on wine pouches and garden flags.

https://bit.ly/3Tsd3dY

A garden flag made from the same svg bundle

https://bit.ly/3Tsd3dY

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Free SVGS For Making Paper Sunflowers

Where to find free svgs for making Paper Sunflowers

My Favorite Cardstock, The Experts Favorite Card Stock Selections, Price Comparisons, And A Look At My Paper Storage

If you had told me 3 years ago that I'd eventually be buying more paper than vinyl, I'd have laughed and thought that was extremely unlikely. And yet, here we are... with paper projects on my desk every week, and vinyl only pulled out once every month or so! [That may be partially because I put vinyl & htv on EVERYTHING the first two years I had a cricut.... LOL! ]

When I first started with paper projects, I felt like a kindergartner. [A glue stick is still my preferred glue for most layered projects... ] My projects were messy. They sometimes still are, but they have definitely come a long way. Mostly because I settled on better papers. Not expensive papers - I'm too frugal for that, for the most part. Just BETTER paper. I almost always buy something with some texture, or pearlized, or frosted now.

And I don't just stock up on all the colors - I buy the colors I truly love. Which are, most commonly, very deep jewel tones, which can be more difficult to find. Cardstock manufacturers sure do like their brights and pastels.

These are the papers I buy most often. They have all cut well for me, on a regular basis - and they tend to be the best deals I have found. I do buy most of my paper locally, rather than online - at least the first time I purchase it. Too often I find that the color shown on my screen is not true to what it looks like in person. Once I know I love a particular pack, I'll buy it online, but only if shipping is free or it's a fantastic sale.

After I list my favorites, I tell you about what Dreaming Tree, Jennifer Maker, & Lia Griffith, recommend, as well.

And then if you scroll WAY down to the bottom of this post, I share how I organize and store my paper and paper scraps, too.

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Christmas In July - Week One

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Week One - Organizing My Christmas SVGS
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I know many of you are just anxious to get started on a project. I'd be the last to discourage that. Pick something, send it to cut, and while it is cutting, start thinking about organizing all of the svgs and supplies you already own.

For week one, my emphasis is on finding all of my Christmas SVGS, organizing them, setting up a folder to store some inspiration and projects to make in (a visual to do list) and then checking supplies and attempting to be realistic about what I can actually get done this year.

This Weeks Goals:

Sort & Organize My Christmas SVGS
Check My SVG Purchases
What Projects Did I Start Last Year And Not Finish?
Create Folders For This Years Christmas Projects
Planner Page - Brainstorming Goals For The Christmas Season
Planner Page - Supply Inventory

Step one for me is to see what I already have. It's always more than I think.

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Sorting & Organizing Christmas SVGS

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As I say over and over, what works for me may not work for you, and what works for you may not work for me. AND, what works for me is always "in progress", I'm constantly making changes. But here's a look at how I keep my Christmas svgs sorted:

Christmas has a WHOLE LOT of subfolders - more than any other category of svgs on my hard drive. All of these are stored on an external hard drive.

If you use Windows and you do not see thumbnail views of your svgs, it's MUCH easier to sort them if you can see what they are! Here's how to enable thumbnail views of svgs:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-see-thumbnails-of-svg-files.html

I use the windows power toys option.

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STEP TWO

Checking My Purchases

Now that my files are all organized and I can see where everything is, it's a good time to check the sites I buy svgs from, and make sure there isn't anything I forgot to move over to these folders. In most cases, you can just go to your account, and look for your purchase history. Here are screenshots and more detailed instructions for the sites I purchase from most: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2023/06/tip-search-your-purchase-history.html

Design Bundles, as of August 2026, is going to subscription only - so just to be safe, this may be a good time to download ALL of your purchases...

And with the Creative Fabrica taking over all of the Dreaming Tree files, and Leo leaving DT, if you have a CF Membership, you may want to download all of the DT Christmas files too. I don't know what will happen with all of that. (See what little we do know here )

Although the thumbnail viewing option I covered above is helpful for many svgs, when it comes to complex 3d paper svgs, I always try to save the photo of the completed project into the folder with the svgs too. Sometimes it is included in the download, sometimes it is not - I right click and "save as" on the project photos, just to be safe.

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STEP THREE

CHRISTMAS "WORK" FOLDERS

I always keep a "Cut Now" folder in dropbox [one of my cloud storage options] , with the projects I want to make soon.

In that folder, I added a Cmas folder.

Inside, I stuck preview photos of the projects I'd like to make this July. In a folder labeled "2 upload", I have all of the files I need to add to Design Space. This is a visual to do list for me. I'll add more files as I decide exactly what I am doing this month, but this shows me some of the things I didn't get to last year.

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Now to find my stash of "Not completed" projects, and decide what I want to finish this week-end.

Next week, Week two, will be all about Christmas Cards.

Getting my list organized, my supplies ready, and deciding on a few designs to make. I won't make TOO many ahead - maybe half? Because I know there will be so many new designs I'll want to make later this year. I never make just one card design - I'm not cut out to be a factory worker. I make many different designs each year.

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