Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m making a Cricut Curve Text Baptism Card for my granddaughter.
Curve Text is the most recent addition to the Cricut Design Space tools – it is so easy to use and comes out awesome, adding a professional-looking appearance to my card. Above is the cards’ design in CDS – this is where I can lay out my card, playing around with sizing and placement before I cut anything out.
This is the inspiration for my card. It’s a sweet, simple card. BUT, I like to customize my cards and this is where curve text comes in . . . I’m going to add my granddaughter’s name around the circle with the cross on it.
There are crosses in CDS, but I was looking for something more detailed – so I went to Google Images, searched “cross drawing svg”. Why ‘drawing’? Because I want the image drawn rather than cut out.
Why ‘svg’? Because CDS image cleanup is so much easier with an svg image. Above is an svg I found – notice the checkerboard background? That means it will only draw/cut the black parts – none of the background – easy cleanup.
Keep in mind, this image is for personal use – I am NOT selling it. This is still, imo, a gray area as far as using it. However, there’s no watermark, which, if present, would definitely mean it’s copyrighted and I can’t use it without the creator’s permission. But, again, it’s for personal use and I’m making sure you know I did NOT create it.
Yeah, so . . . I ran into a little weird problem in CDS. I wanted the cross and the curve text centered in the cut circle. The top circles’ images were centered using the Horizontal and Vertical align tools – yeah, that IS NOT CENTERED. I tried that two times. UGH!!
Plan B: Images have a plus sign in the center of them, so I lined up the plus sign for the cross and the plus sign for the curve text and the plus sign for the circle. Still not centered!!
Plan C: I attached the cross and curve text and moved them slightly down and to the right . . . okay . . . I can live with that . . .
Here are the cutout pieces. I used Close To My Heart cardstock in White Daisy and Bashful. The pen is the new Cricut Black Extra Fine pen. The font is Cricut Sans, the circle and rectangles are free shapes, and the scalloped circle is from the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.
The embossed layer was created with the Cricut cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder from provo craft.
I wrapped some 1/4” pink satin ribbon around the embossed layer, adhering it to the back, glued the embossed layer to the pink layer, and adhering that layer to the card base.
I pop dotted the scalloped circle off center and tied another piece of ribbon, creating a faux bow. How sweet is this card? I think it came out even better than the inspiration. Thoughts??
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As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .