How To Draw and Write With Cricut Pens | Easy Handmade Card for Beginners

have you ever used pens with your Cricut or did you even know that you could to write and draw if not you're in the right place because today we are going to be making this adorable card with a drawn feature on the outside and riding on the inside in Cricut design space that I think you are going to love my name is Lauren and I'm a craft producer here at makers G to learn where we bring you inspiration education and motivation to get your do cutting machine out of the box and start using it so with all that being said let's go ahead and hop overhead and talk about the materials that you're going to need to create this card first of all I want to take a minute and look at this card I love it I think it is so cute it's different than really anything that we've really seen I love the shape of it I just think it is so adorable so this is what we're going to be making today the materials that you're going to need today are pretty minimal starting out we have two sheets of card stock from celebration warehouse this is our absolute favorite card stock we love Ashley Falco and her brand this is the brown and ivory that we are going to be using today next up you are going to need a scoring stylus or a scoring wheel really and truly we love a scoring stylist over the scoring wheel just because we can put it into clamp a and not have to switch it back and forth plus this is universal tool for an Explorer or a maker series machine next up we are going to be using this Cricut pen in the color moccasin this is a point4 tip this is a fine point Cricut pen and the color is moccasin and then last but not least we have our Scotch atg gun this is just a an advanced tape glider now if you do not have a scotch atg C you can do this with any type of double-sided adhesive or um some glue such as a zig pen Barely There art glue all of these are great we just need some type of adhesive to adhere our inset to our card now let's talk about the files that we're going to be using today these files are specific for if you are wanting to draw or write with your Cricut and the reason being is because they are monoline fonts and files now normally if if you were to take a file and turn it into a pin function in design space it's just going to give you the outline however here at Maker's going to learn we have files already set for monol line for drawing and sketch fonts that you can use with design space and your Cricut to write in your card so let's go ahead and jump over to our share screen and I'm going to show you exactly where you can find those and how to download them now that we're here on our makers going to learn website one thing I want to make sure that you guys know know is if you are not part of our membership we currently have an amazing deal going on y'all I don't think you're going to want to miss this we are offering to those that are not members a 7day free trial this is insane you get unlimited access to our website for 7 Days completely free now with the cut files and fonts you get 20 download credits so you can choose 20 cut files or or 20 fonts or mix and match however you would like so if you want to take advantage of this great deal make sure you click the link down below that way you can get your download credits try us out I really think you are going to enjoy everything that we offer here not only do we come out with new cut files and fonts every month but we have a Facebook group that you can take advantage of we have courses we have over 60 plus classes here in our class section that you can take advantage of member only classes other classes past boot camps so much there but I really want to go back to our dashboard and show you my favorite part is our resource Library y'all this is where you're going to find all of our reference sheets our guides things like that 30 days to master your Cricut if you are not a Cricut master or you want to learn more or you maybe you're new to Cricket this is where you need to start we're going to walk you through step by step day one getting your Cricut out of the box turning it on getting everything set up all the way to making your first cut and becoming a Cricut Pro it is a self-paced course so you can do it as you want and we also have our Cricut reference guide we like to call this our Cricut Bible that talks about everything that you need to know we'll just go through it the terminology here um all the way down to the tools when to use them um design space functions and how they work but my favorite is the Cricut cut settings and then on down here your easy press heat settings now we have tested all of these materials on all of these different mediums to tell you exactly the temperature that you need and how long so this is going to be worth it if nothing else I love our Cricut reference guide now back to our dashboard let's go ahead and grab the files and fonts that we need so we're going to start out with cut file and what I want to do is I just want to type in monol line because that's going to show me every single file that we have on our website that you can draw with your Cricut you can see here we have so many of these that you can use but we're going to do the monol line desert here what I'm going to do is I'm going to click the arrow pointing down come up here double click that to unzip that double click it again and I'm just going to leave that here because I want to go back to our website and grab our font now once again we want to use special fonts for this especially when riding with our Cricut so I'm just going to type in sketch and our sketch fonts are going to come up and all of these are going to be single line fonts that doesn't leave anything inside and I'm going to show you exactly what I mean here in a minute the one that we're going to be using today is Thomas sketch so I'm going to click the arrow pointing down once again come up here unzip this file doubleclick that it is a a font make sure we install it onto our computer once that is installed we're going to go back to design space and before I start assembling everything I want to reload design space so that it is going to pick up all of the new fonts that I have downloaded on my computer now that we have downloaded the file that we want and the font is is ready to go we are going to start assembling our card the first thing that I want to do is I want to come over here to upload I want to hit upload image I'm going to go back to my finder and I'm going to grab the monol line desert in the SVG pull that in come back over here upload it into design space once it's here I'm going to select it and add it to Canvas now do not be afraid this is what it's going to look like coming in guys so don't worry it's all good what you need to do if you have downloaded a monoline file it's going to come in as a basic cut but we're going to come up here to operations and change it from basic cut to pen now you can see that it is a true drawing sketch file that is exactly what we needed so we're going to use the shape of this file and start the process of building our card what I want to do now that I have changed it to a pin function I'm going to come up here to offset and I'm going to create an offset now you can create an offset as large or as small as you want for this I think a025 is a good place to start so we're going to select 025 and hit apply now because we put an offset on the pin function it is is going to be a pin function itself so with it selected we need to go back to operations and change it back to basic now you can see where we're coming where we're going with this but I want to get rid of everything in the middle and I'm going to change the color real quick so you can see I want this to be solid so what I'm going to do with the offset selected I'm going to come to contour and I'm going to hide all Contours now you can see we have the base of our card but we don't have the second side so what you must do now is we need to duplicate you can do that by selecting this duplicate button here or hitting command D if you are on a Mac from there what we're going to do is we're going to bring these two sides of the card together and what you can do is you can zoom in it's very important that we zoom in for this section and we are just going to overlap them barely you can see here that we barely have them overlapped what we're going to do now is Select both this offset and our second offset and I will zoom out here we have them both selected we're going to come down here to combine and unite them together so now we have the base of our card don't worry our monol line is still there and I'm going to show you there you you can see it but I'm going to bring it back to front because we still have to add our score line so now that we have the base of our card we're going to go over here to our shapes we are going to grab a line and we are going to bring that line here in the middle of our card once again I'm going to zoom in place it right where it needs to go stretch it down so that it goes all the way from the top to the bottom of our card and I'm going to Zoom back out and we want to have the card selected and then come over here to our layers panel and select our line as well and attach them together okay so now we have our card our monol line desert is still there once again I want to show you guys it's just behind our card currently just so we don't get confused I'm going to leave it behind our card because now we want to create the inset for the inside of the card with your card still selected now the next step is to come back up here to offset we want to select offset again except this time we are going down below the line and creating an inset and y'all this is an amazing hack did you know that if you have a score line separating two sides of a card it will automatically separate those two sides so so really and truly we'll go overhead if you wanted to create two inset sides you can do that super simple so we'll go back to the share screen we're just going to select how large or small you want your Ivory layer to be and we're just going to select apply now you have your two insets to each side if you want to keep them both you can if not what you're going to do is come down here to contour and Contour out one side and then you have your inset what I'm going to do is I'm going to change it to we'll change it to an ivory color just so we kind of get an idea of what our card is going to look like and now we're going to pull our inset I'm going to zoom out we're going to pull our inset over to the side now that over here by itself and we're going to select our card and move it back behind our monol line desert sketch now we're not done we still have to add our text and what you need to do now is select your desert file and your card and attach them together now this is very very important because if you do not attach your sketch to the front of your card it's going to be completely separate and we want it to be sketched right on top of of the paper so you must attach your sketch so our card now is done ready to be sent to our Cricut but we still need to add our sentiment on the inside of our card to add your sentiment what you need to do is select your text we're going to go to our fonts and our system fonts and we're going to type in Thomas and we want to choose the sketch font now want to let's start out with the regular Thomas font and let's just say you had a regular font and this is what I really wanted to show you guys earlier let's just say you have a regular font and you type in your sentiment things are tough enter but so are you and let's say we size it down we want it on the inside of our card but we don't want to print it and we want it to we want our cricket to Rite on Rite it inside if you choose a regular font and not a sketch font and we come up here to operations and change it from basic to pen what's going to happen is it's just going to give you the outline of that font it is not going to be a single line so that's why it is very important to choose a sketch font versus a regular font if you want it to look like true handwriting so now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select this and change the font from the regular Thomas font to the Thomas sketch and now we can see it looks like handwriting so once you have your sentiment and you have it placed where you want it to go we are going to select both layers our inset we're going to select both of these layers and attach them together so now what it's going to do is going to cut this out of the ivory but also rot this out with the Cricut pen that we are using now we are finished creating everything in design space and we are ready to send it to our Cricut to watch the magic happen once you are ready we are going to go to make it so first up it is going to cut out the inset of our card I'm going to place our card stock down on our light grip mat we will go to continue and we are doing this on medium card stock now it's telling us to load our pen into clamp a so what you're going to do with the arrow forward we are going to take our pen load it into clamp a close the clamp and now we're going to load in our Matt with our ivory card stock it is going to draw or write your sentiment first and then after that is done it is going to come back through and cut out our inset for the inside of our card once it is done we're going to flip our mat over unload our inset and then we are going to move on to the actual base or main portion of the card load our card stock on go back to design space once again we are using medium card stock and it's telling us what we need first it's wanting the scoring stylus first so we're going to go back over here to our Cricut we're going to unload our pen and place our scoring stylus in first load our mat we'll press the go and now it's going to score down the middle of our card once that has finished design space tells us to take the scoring stylus out of clamp a and add our pen back in so we're going to do that and press play again it is now going to draw our monol line file on the front of our card and be beautiful once it has finished cutting we're going to unload we'll bring it back over here flip our mat upside down and unload our card and look how cute we're just going to line that up the score line we're going to give it a good press along that score line we'll grab our inset here and using our atg gun we are just going to add some double-sided adhesive to our card and then place it inside like this and now you have a truly custom card where you have written and drawn with your Cricket I mean come on what an amazing way to get a truly custom card riding and drawing with your Cricut if this is something that has intimidated you in the past please do not let it I truly think writing and drawing with your Cricut is one of the most underutilized portions of our machines and I think it gives such a nice effect especially when it comes to card making if you have enjoyed this video make sure you hit that Thumbs Up Button subscribe to our Channel and hit that Bell notification so that you can get notified every time we get crafty I can't wait to see the amazing card and things that you all create using the pens and using drawing and writing with your Cricut and I will see you guys in the next one