Once that was cut, I was prompted to insert the bottom layer. When the cut is done, the machine will stop and you’ll need to press the Unload mat on your connected device (laptop or Ipad). The Cricut Joy will automatically roll it in and make sure it’s straight.Ĭlick Go on your Ipad or laptop to start the cut. Anyone else love the hand holding like I do?ĬDS is going to cut out the top layer of Joy gift tag first so I put a scrap piece of red cardstock on the Joy mat and held it up to the rollers. Luckily Cricut Design Space makes it super easy by telling you exactly what to do for each step and gives you pictures on the screen. Now it’s time to insert the mats and cut.
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I do have a video showing how I made two other gift tags with the Cricut Joy at the top or side of this post, but if you want to see the full detailed tutorial where I walk you step by step how to design in CDS and cut, check out my YouTube tutorial here. However my Cricut Joy didn’t quite cut it out all the way the first time, so I changed pressure Default to More. I am using regular cardstock for most of my cuts. CDS will ask you to select material in between each mat when using a Cricut Joy (this is different than the other machines). On the next page select whichever material you will be cutting out. This means I will apply a piece of cardstock to a Cricut Joy mat. Since I will be using cardstock for my DIY Christmas gifts tags, I selected On Mat. Once you click on Make it when using the Cricut Joy you’ll get a pop up mat. CDS doesn’t automatically save.Īlso, make sure Cricut Joy is selected from the drop-down menu on the top right if you have more than one Cricut cutting machine. I always suggest saving your design before you click on make it.
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Now the most important part of the draw and cut function… once you have the text centered where you want it, select both the text and snowman layer (use your cursor to put a box around both of them) and click on Attach. Then I used the Alignment dropdown to align the words so they’re centered to each other. Next I decreased the Line Space so there wasn’t such a big gap between the words. Now that I’ve chosen my pen and color, the yellow triangle is gone. I ended up changing my mind on the color I used and it’s no big deal! The Cricut can’t read what pen is actually inserted!įor this one, I chose Gel and then Purple. This doesn’t mean you are locked into the pen though! It’s simply so CDS can prompt you to insert a certain pen which is helpful if you are using multiple pens. This is because Cricut Design Space wants you to specify which pen you want to load.
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You’ll notice after you convert it to a writing font that you’ll get a yellow caution triangle in your layers panel. I used Agent Q for the cute penguin gift tag. When you click on the Font drop-down filter it to Writing.
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Then you need to change the font to a writing font. To add text to a Cricut Joy gift tag, insert a text box and type what you want it to say. Then I changed the color of the top layer to white. The first thing I did with the Cricut holiday gift tag I wanted to add text to is Ungroup it (upper right-hand corner). I inserted it and duplicated it so I could cut it out two different ways. I didn’t do anything to it, you can cut it straight away!įor the snowman tag, I searched Snowman Tag and found this cute one. I searched Joy Tag and used the one on the second row. On a new canvas in Cricut Design Space (aka CDS), click on Image.
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I used images from Cricut Access for these tags.