🎁 CRICUT CHRISTMAS TAGS...IN BULK! Simple & Beautiful Designs To Top Off Your Gifts! 🎁

And today we're here to craft. We are. So today what we're gonna be making is something that is going to be very recreatable. It's going to take your gifts from here to the next level. Y'all, I really think that you're going to love these gift tags. They are, we're gonna be getting into some design space functions that we don't use a lot that I really think you all are going to love and you're gonna love learning about them if you don't know how to use them. Hopefully we will take your skill to the next level. So this project is definitely gonna be one that I'm gonna see. I feel like I'm gonna see a lot of recreations of this project. Yes, I'm hoping so and they're great to make in bulk. So like you can start now and just make a bunch of them so that when it comes time for you to wrap your Christmas presents you just have a pile of tags that you can grab from and write the person's name on. Right, and they just look so professional. Yeah. They're so, so good. All right, people. I'm so excited to be here. Let me go ahead and show you what we're gonna be making today. Let's go in the overhead so they can probably see the details. Look how cute. Alicia actually made these before she left but I'm gonna make them with you today. They are super fun and easy. We've got the Ashley Falco or Celebration Warehouse Red Glitter which really gives it a pop and then this craft cardstock is also from Celebration Warehouse. So super fun and you can see that it's got like a couple steps but not too many because we're gonna do it all together. I think that red, Ashley Falco, that red glitter is one of my favorites of hers. Yes. It has so much dimension to it. Yeah, it's like a dark, it's dark in some lights and brighter in others. I know, I just love it. So let's head over to Design Space and I'll show you the cut files that we're gonna start with here today. They are all linked down below. So this is our rounded gift tag which will be the base and then we have these pine trees, a snowflake, and a reindeer. I think I'm just gonna do one or maybe two with you today because it's all the same basic, oh gosh, what do you call it, like principle, same process that to make each one. So we'll go ahead and start with the snowflake and if you guys want to see another one we can definitely go ahead and do that. So my question, Courtney, if you wanted to recreate this with anything, birthday, whatever, you can do this for any kind of time. Yeah, different Christmas files, other holiday files, birthday files, butterflies, whatever you want. I will say that it's better for your image to be like solid instead of having like, if he had eyes and a mouth and different kind of like features on him, it wouldn't look as good. However, if you have like a two-part image, like say the trunk was separate from the trees here, that would be fine because the offset will help you there. So just wanted to mention that. Perfect. Okay, so let's go ahead and start with our tag and our snowflake and what we're gonna do is kind of, well, let's change the color. Let's make this maybe a blue and bring it to the front. So now we're just arranging this on the tag and so where it is blue is actually gonna be cut out. So I'm trying to envision what this might look like and I'm gonna, I want it to overhang a little bit on each side. So I'm thinking maybe it's like, oh it's like bouncing for me. Okay, that looks good. So it doesn't have to be perfect at this point. We can change it too. So with just the snowflake selected, I'm gonna go up to offset and this 0.25 makes it really big. I'm gonna scale it down but I don't have an exact number in mind, just kind of more how I want it to look. So I'm thinking something like this would look good and then I'm gonna click apply. So you can start to see more of what we're working with here. So then in your layers panel, you're gonna take that offset that you just made and while I'm holding down shift, I'm gonna grab the gif tag too and I'm gonna go down to our combine function. So these are relatively new. They used to just have weld but now we have weld, unite, subtract, intersect and exclude. So I want to go ahead and either weld or unite these. Unite is less permanent than weld so I'm just gonna go ahead and do unite here for this one and then I'm left with this black shape which I'm going to, oh you know what? I'm gonna undo it because I think when you unite and not weld, you can't contour and I want to contour out this little white spot here. I'm gonna do that again. I'm gonna go up to combine and go to weld. So then when I click on this weld result, see now this contour option pops up and I can go ahead and click this so that it's one solid shape and it's not gonna cut that out which is what I want for my tag. So then this is on the front and it looks like our snowflake is gone but you can still see the snowflake here. So you can go ahead and send this to the back and your snowflake is gonna pop back up. Now I'm going to take this, I did something weird, that was strange. Send to the back, okay. Somehow I grouped the snowflake with the trees. Now I'm going to take the snowflake and my weld result, select. I need to watch comments, I wasn't watching them. Are you kind of watching too to see if there's any questions? Okay. So with both of these elements selected here, I'm gonna go to combine and I'm going to go to subtract. So that cuts that blue snowflake out of that design. And then I want to go ahead and add an offset to this too. So I'm looking, that looks okay. I kind of want to increase it just a little bit more but let's do that. Click apply and now I need to contour these out. So click hide all contours and it'll just leave the basic shape behind it. Now I need to change some colors here. So let's go ahead and change this offset that we made to red. Okay that looks good. And then I just like to use the colors that I'm kind of using so I can get a glimpse of what it's gonna look like. Advance. I'm just gonna like lighten it. There you go. So that is what our finished design is gonna look like. However, if you want holes in yours, you can go ahead and add a circle. So I'm gonna do that and I'm going to zoom in so I can see this better. Can you tell us the sizes? I was just gonna say that while she, before she jumps into this, we'll tell you the sizes. The best way to do it, I feel like, and Courtney can correct me if you think I'm wrong, I think it's easier to design something when it's really large and then size it down when I'm getting ready to cut. Especially with an offset because then you have like more wiggle room. Yes. And you don't have to get into like .00 something, which kind of irritates me sometimes. So I'm going ahead and making this. So let's go over some of the sizes. I just generally think a tag should be about 3 by 4 or so and I might size this down actually when I go to cut it because it's gonna be like, let's see, the whole total dimensions of this red part is 5 inches. I feel like that's pretty big for a tag. I mean, if you have a really big gift, that might be fine. But anyways, I'm gonna go ahead and work with this circle. Design space is being like jumpy. It's moving my stuff for me. Okay, so I have my circle here and I'm gonna go ahead and put an offset on this. I'm trying to see. Maybe. See, I'm kind of working on a smaller scale and so it needs like less here. But you're gonna have to go in maybe 4. Play around with it until it looks good. I think that looks good. So I'm gonna click apply there and now it's gonna be kind of confusing but I need to slice the larger circle out of the brown or I say slice because that's just what I'm used to but I'm actually going to subtract it. So just like that and then this smaller circle, you grab it from your layers panel is the easiest because all these layers are like on top of each other. Okay, there we go. So I sliced or I subtracted that smaller circle out from the bottom red layer and then I'm gonna send it to the back and see it's like being jumpy. Okay, anyways this is what our final tag is gonna look like before we add our words. So I'm going to go ahead and add some text on here in our sketch font affirmation sketch and I'm just gonna. I probably spelled that wrong. This is one of my favorite features for these tags is the fact that you can go ahead and have it written on there like to and from and then mass-produce them and fill them out later or you could say to and leave it blank and then from the Bell family. Right. And have a bunch of them finished. That's what I'm gonna do here. But if you were like making it for a specific person and you don't like your handwriting, you could go ahead and write to Lauren here. Yeah. So Deb says, I don't understand that about the hole. Can you please say what the purpose and do it again? So the purpose was we still wanted to see that red glitter on you kind of see how we have the offset of the red. We didn't want it to be one circle all the way through. We still wanted to be able to see a little bit of the red through that. So that's why we had the circle, did an offset, cut the offset out of the out of the brown layer and then the smaller circle out of the red. That way you can see that red kind of peekaboo through where where the hole is. So I'm just playing with my text a little bit. I think I'm going to increase the line space just to give me a little bit more room for that name when I'm writing it depending on if they've got a long name or if I want to add their last name too. And then I can go up. This is a basic cut right now so you need to change that to draw. And there is our design but we're not done yet. We need to take the pen function and attach it to the base that you want it to write on. Otherwise it's going to be a different place on the map. So go ahead and select those and go to attach. Now I'm probably going to go ahead and design some more with you just so I can kind of slow it down and do it with you again if you need a refresher. But I want to show you now how if we hide these what it's going to look like on our map. So here we have what our red cutout which is for the back and then we have our craft card stock with the words on it. And when you make this in bulk you can go ahead and how many do you think will fit on here? You think seven? I'm thinking six but yeah only six will fit. So down to six and apply. And you can make six of these on your two maps. So pretty cool. Alright let's go ahead and unhide our elements here so we can go and make another one. Alright I'm going to go ahead and make the Christmas tree one. I need to go back and add my tag because I already used the tags that I had. Alright I'm going to make the height here. Oh I didn't resize this. That's why it could only make six. That's why it could only make six. I was going to say I wish I could have made more than six on two sheets of paper. Yeah so we need to resize those. Hello? Design space is being very very glitchy. So I'll just select these and arrange a line centered. Oh that's not gonna be good. That looks good. It really doesn't matter you glue it on there anyway. Alright let's go ahead and design another one and then we'll size them down and go ahead and make them. Alright so I like what this what Deb said about the hole. So I might go ahead and do that on this one. Okay. So I'm gonna make this height 3.75 because I think that'll get the tag to be about four inches or so. Then I'm gonna go ahead and add a hole. That way I can also use this center function and center the hole because I wasn't able to center the hole last time because the snowflake peeks out on one side. Rock. Where it would have made it uneven. Okay so I'm zooming in so I can see what I'm doing a little better. I want this a little bit smaller. That seems proportionate. Lorraine is saying that she can't get undo to work on design space anymore which is what you were having issues with. Yeah I wasn't able to do that either so. Great. Who needs to take away their mistakes. Alright let's go ahead and go up to align center. That way our hole is. Oh. It let me undo it. Okay. Selecting those and align center horizontally. See it was a little bit off-center. Now we don't have to worry about that. So with both of these selected go to combine and subtract. Yay. Alright now let's go ahead and size our trees. I'm gonna make them a different color. This green color. And bring them to the front. I'm gonna put these at the bottom. So like this. I think that'll be super cute. Yeah. And then actually might like it a little bit smaller. And let's go ahead and select these and make an offset for them. That is smaller. I think that looks good. Oops. It went away. That was not a design space issue. That was me misclicking. So now with my offset and my tag function I'm going to go ahead to the bottom and click combine weld or unite. I don't think you need a contour. So you said that there's not a contour portion on Unite. Right. And so for this shape I don't need it. So I could unite it but I'll just weld it. That's what I did last time. So then I have this and I'm gonna send it to the back. I'll select both of these with the trees and the tag and go up to combine subtract. So then it cuts those trees out. And then I want a little bit of an offset on this. You wouldn't have to. I think it would be cute to have just this but I really like the glitter popping through. Yeah. So with this that looks good to me. I wish the hole was a little bit bigger. So I think I'll slice the hole myself. But okay. So then we'll click apply and this looks weird because we need to contour out these trees. So click the offset and then go to contour and click. We're just gonna get rid of these three. We'll leave that hole. Then I'm gonna change the color so I can see it better. It's red. And then I'm just gonna increase the size of this hole which the only way to do it is add a circle and subtract it from that layer. But you can use the black layer to help you center it. If you can center it in the black layer. Oh Design Space might not let me. It's like it's snapping. It's snapping. Yes. And Design Space used to never snap. And I don't like that function. Yeah. Some like programs do like snap to a grid. Yeah. I think I might be able to send. Okay. I'm just gonna go ahead and combine. Subtract this. It'll bring that to the front but you can send it to the back. And then I'll change this color so that we can see our text better. But look. That is so cute. I think I like this one way better than the snowflake honestly. But I like that. So let's see. Let's write Merry Christmas. This needs a little work. We're gonna do a kerning lesson I guess here. We need to spell Christmas first. Yeah. I was gonna say. Chipmas. Is that right now? No. There's still an R in it. Ah. C-H-R. Guys do not come to me for spelling. I should at least know how to spell my Savior's name though. No. Still not right. C-H-R-I-S. Guys I'm nervous about this live. Okay. It's okay. You're just getting back in the swing of things. It's all good. All right. I'm gonna decrease that line space and then see who's judging me in the comments. Nobody is judging you in the comments. Okay. This definitely needs to be manually kerned here. Oh yeah. I'm gonna bring it off the tag and then ungroup them to letters. We're gonna zoom in and we're gonna move these letters around. Okay. So this is a very, very important lesson that I feel like everybody needs a refresher on because kerning your fonts. I have seen some projects here recently where fonts have not been kerned and we really need to kern script fonts. Yes. So see this Mary. I moved this M so it touched nicely this E but this Y is detached from the R. This is just the way that some fonts load in Design Space. In most other programs they like type out better originally but for some reason I think Design Space like wants you to use Cricut fonts only or Access fonts but we don't need to do that because we know how to do this. So we're just moving them so that they touch and they look how you would write them if you are writing in cursive. See this I it's like way off. That needs to go up there. The S can go here. I'm not gonna be able to kern it as much as I usually can because of that snapping feature. Is it still is it snapping with the letters too? Can you move it with your keyboard? Yeah. Well let's see I think it just might move too much. Yeah. It's okay. Oh. Stay with us Design Space. See. Okay. Move it. Okay. Now I'm gonna take this Mary and move it over here. I would almost. Just my personal opinion. Yeah. Take that C and move it down to where it connects with the H like that. Yeah. Oh yeah. That looks way better. Oh yeah. Actually I'm gonna see what it looks like to have this M not attached. What do you think? I kind of like it not attached. Or either that or where it connects with the E. Nope I don't like that. Yeah. I like it not attached. I think the M looks really good not attached. But I do like it down there. Yeah. Then I'm gonna take this and I'm gonna attach them. I'm gonna move them onto here. Merry Christmas. And then you could write the person's name under it. But you need to with your text selected go up and make it a pen function and then with that pen function selected and your whatever you want it to write on you're gonna go to attach. That way it will write on that part of the tag. So now let's size this to four inches high and see how many of these we can put on the map. I guess we can put this one on there too and go make it four. Oh yeah. We can fit a lot. Yeah. Do you think eight? At least if not. Oh. Ten. Now I'm gonna try nine. No. Oh wait it's not. Oh let's doing eight or nine of each. Yeah. So let me go down to four. But that's not. Oh that's four of each. Five of each is two maps. That could go on the other map. Also something's not attached right? Oh really? Because you have a black map. That I think is the reindeer. I was gonna use on a different. Okay perfect. So we just need to take this and move it ourselves. Yeah. So now we're getting one, two, three, four, ten. Ten tags. Yep. Which is way better. I feel better about that. So I'm gonna check this map and you could probably squeeze a few more on there but I think this is what we're gonna do today. So we're gonna go ahead and click continue and I'm gonna go ahead and prepare my map. Move these out of the way. All right. I was just checking because I forgot that Celebration Warehouse paper is not actually exactly 12 by 12. It's like 11.75 or something. So I was just making sure that it didn't. I wasn't gonna cut off any of my shapes but I'm good to go there. So I'm gonna browse materials for glitter cardstock. Tanya says she just got the workshop. I cannot wait to hear your review because I think it's gonna be. It's so good. Deb said she did have a question about the sublimation course. You purchased it a while ago. Anyone who has ever purchased a sublimation course gets all of the updates and all of the new files. Yes you're correct. Can you go over making the small hole on the tag? So what she did is she just created the hole and then excluded that circle out of the file. If you are having questions we can't go back and go over it right now. Because the Cricut's cutting. Because the Cricut's cutting but you can go back and you can once we're done you can go back and rewatch like multiple times. You're just gonna use a circle and place it where you want your hole to go and then select it and the shape behind it and then go to combine subtract. Also can we talk about how well this cardstock this glitter cardstock cuts? And it is really truly shed free. We've never had one fleck of glitter come off of this cardstock and we use it all the time. Please tell us about the paper choice you use for the glitter and the craft paper too. Yes Deb they are linked in the description of the video and we are using Celebration Warehouse which they have a sale going on for the next three days. It's a stock up sale and I don't know the exact discount or prices off the top of my head but check them out now and they ship super fast. It's a company run by our good friend Ashley Falco and her husband does all of the shipping. I'm pretty sure you can use code MGL for another little additional like 10% or something like that. Yeah so definitely use the code MGL and see if it stacks with that stock up sale. Last time we did it it worked so. Yeah we did. I love all the programs that you have. Good Beth we love hosting programs for you all. I had a couple mishaps. Many failed cuts in a row I'm sure some of you have been there too and I don't know if it was the Cricut or us. Some of it we had a dull blade. That was a dull blade and then I tried a different technique for a sign that just didn't work. And then you had an issue with something being off centered. Yeah. So it was a little bit of both. It was a mixture of us and a mixture of the Cricut. But we've been having fun crafting. Oh for sure. So I'm flipping my mat over and like peeling the tags off this way one by one because then you'll have less curling than if you try to peel the paper right off the mat. It's a great little hack. There we go. So look at all of these tags. I'm going to kind of sort them into two piles for which one gets the trees and which ones need snowflakes. Did you do you have your Cricut pen in here? Yes. Okay perfect. All right I do want to go ahead and peel these circles off so our next cut goes smoothly. You could get under the blade and mess it up. Also if you've ever wondered what to use the spatula for this right here is one of the main reasons I use the spatula. It's getting those extra pieces of cardstock off of my mat. It can be annoying. All right so we got that. I got this fresh sheet of craft cardstock and my brayers right here. Just for good measure. I love using a fresh mat and this is a fresh mat. So good to know the craft cardstock is 12 by 12. The glitter is like 11.75 or 11 and a half by 11 and a half but the regular cardstock from Celebration Warehouse is there is 12 by 12. Right okay so I'm going over to my Cricut and I'm putting my pen in clamp A. It clicked in. Good to go. All right and we use our medium cardstock setting to cut this. Now this one is going to take a little bit longer to do because it is going through and writing on the cardstock. Maybe not that much longer because I saw that it like double, triple cut on the glitter. No it's not. The pen isn't going, isn't touching the paper. What? See I'm telling you guys this is what was, this was the energy level we had yesterday. Ah! Okay let's see. Look. What happened? It's a bummer. Since we're gluing these onto the glitter I'm gonna flip it over and try to fix the pen. So was it doing the pen first before the cuts? Yeah I was doing the pen first so that kind of saved our piece of paper for us. But I have to see. Just not down in the. Yeah the tip wasn't touching the paper it didn't. But I swear it clicked in there. I think it wasn't clicked in. Okay we're gonna try this again. Sorry guys. It is weird there's not a place for a code but I swear there was before. You might need to ask her. Maybe it's just during the sale. Maybe so. Alright I got some made. Yay! It was a little ambitious to make ten on a live so. I'll finish my other six later. Let's do this trick. This mat is fresh and new but it's stickier than I'm used to. Mm-hmm. I need to use my spatula. The snowflake is delicate. This is another good use for the spatula to gently pry off your design. I also love the looks of that on the mat. Like how it's just saved like that. Yeah. So like I was saying this alone I feel like could be a tag on its own. And if I'm being honest this is how we originally designed the project and then at the last minute we were like that looks better on glitter. Yeah. So either way I'm gonna add some of Tanner's go-to ATG and then a little bit of Alicia's go-to as well on the smaller parts. Deb yes you will get a link for the virtual in our in your email. I understand not being able to come here but you you will get a link in your email for the live event. Yes. Alright so here is the snowflake. I'm just centering it on that hole. Oh and I didn't make it. So the ribbon will cover it. Okay then on the Christmas trees I'm putting some of this on the smaller little parts at the bottom. So my go-to if it's wider than an ATG gun I'm gonna use an ATG gun and if it's not then I'm gonna use a zig 2A glue pen. Nobody else goes for the A-Lanes. No. I don't know why it's just been I mean I guess it's because it's an OG for me like I even used it when I like we would use it scrapbooking when I was little like that's what we always used. Right. Did you use to scrapbook when you were little? Oh yeah. Did your mom? My mom was a huge scrapbooker. We had like the we still have a tub full of so many of those hand punch like dies. Yeah. That they would sell at Hobby Lobby. That's actually what my mom bought our first Cricut with although we never used it. She you know she got her tax return. She was in her scrapbooking era. Did you not with the I guess it's the expressions the Cricut like the one with the cartridges? Yes expression. My mom got me into cricketing because she was a scrapbooker and my grandfather saw a commercial for a slice on TV and it was like this thing and you would set it on top of your paper there was no mat I don't think and then you would push a button at the top and it would cut out and then you would move it onto a different piece of paper. Really? Yeah and so he's like I think you guys would like this and so we started looking at it and then we're like I think we'd like the Cricut better so we ended up getting Cricuts. Uh-huh. Yeah but we we started with a small one the six-inch one what was it called Cricut. Cuddle bug? No that's the crank one. Okay. Gosh Cricut mini? I don't know but with that thing that thing that the Cricut we had sat in the basement and I don't think it did not get used. Oh me and my mom we wore our Cricuts out. I mean I just at the time like I was into it but I also just didn't have I was also playing sports and everything else and I don't know but here I am now teaching people how to use a Cricut. Alright four tags done in no time at all I think you can see that these would definitely be great to make in bulk and get ahead for the holidays. So Kathy said how much do you think you would be able to sell these for? If you were personalizing them I would obviously sell them in packs of like five or ten probably in packs of ten and I think for a pack of ten like you could do twenty dollars easy. Wouldn't you think two dollars for each for one I mean or at least a dollar fifty per tag because if you're adding the ribbon and everything else that's just my thoughts. But just see what your time take like how much time it would take to make them and how much the supplies cost and I would kind of go from there yeah instead of the other way around. So there you go that's what it looks like with the ribbon again a four inch tag and a five inch tag so do whatever size you want there's no right size for any of it. I love them. I'm gonna come join you. Yeah I want to see them close up. Oh my gosh these look like I wish they translated better on screen because they look good on the screen but they look so much better in person they look amazing. I definitely think this is yes this is a great craft to make to sell at like if you're because I know a lot of people go to markets and stuff that's coming up for Christmas stuff I would for sure even me personally knowing how to use a Cricut if I didn't have the time or energy I would for sure buy a pack of ten of these for twenty dollars just to make my presents look that much better.