Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

Hi everyone,

My niece Jessica is graduating High School and my other niece Christina is graduating from college.  My sister asked me to make invitations for them.  I recently received of set of gel pens from Peggy at www.cri-kits.com so I decided to use them to make the invitations and they turned out awesome!!! (if I say so myself )

Here are the invitations that I made for them to hand out to there friends.

Cri-Kit gel pens are awesome.  I love all the colors that you can choose from.  The colors above are from the Metallic set.  You can see the color choices here.  I am positive that these cri-kit gel pens are going to be a hit.  I decided rather then just post a bunch of pictures that I will do a video.

It was really hard to squeeze everything I wanted into the 10 minute limit that YouTube has so I had to edit some spots.  If you have any questions though, please let me know.  I am happy to answer them for you!  The biggest one will be what font did I use?  I will answer that right now.  The font is Biscotti.  It is a hairline font.  Essentially it still has the inner and outside lines but because the lines are so thin, it actually looks like a single line font.

Here is the graduation cap SVG if you would like to download it.  Due to the fact that I had to make so many, I broke out and dusted off my 12×24 mat.  I was able to do 8 invites at a time that way.

Blog Candy Time!!!!

http://www.cri-kits.com is sponsoring this give away.

(click on the image below to go to there site)

The winner of this blog candy will win 1 Cri-Kits gel pen kit (comes with 10 pens and holder!!!)

The 4 color choices are Metallic, Gliiter, Reg and Neon and Pastel.

To be entered into this blog candy, just leave a comment on this blog post.  The winner will be chosen next Sunday May 23rd using random.org.  1 entry per person please.

I just downloaded the most recent update to the Sure Cuts A Lot v2 software and have been playing around with it.  It is so cool so I did a little video on it.

You can down load the update here. www.craftedge.com

You have to watch this Youtube video that shows how to make glitter balls.  I tried it today and LOVE it!

I used Mop & Glo instead of the Future as shown in the video.  It worked perfect.  I cut the names out in white vinyl on my cricut using Sure Cuts A lot.

Here are the pictures.  I got the ornaments at Michaels on sale 50% off.  I got these with a little bit of the pearl glaze on them and they still turned out very pretty.

Here is a video on how to create layered words to cut on your cricut.  I used Inkscape and a font called Old Christmas but you really can use just about any font on your computer.  Some fonts cut better then others on you cricut though.

If you have trouble viewing the video, you can download the mp4 here.

I have had several people ask me about cutting vinyl on the cricut so I thought that I would do a little video tutorial.  I also show how to use transfer tape or contact paper to place your design on the location of your choice.  If you want information on where I purchase my vinyl, please click here to review a previous post.