How to Use the Cricut Writing Feature [when you have awful handwriting!]

Everybody is bad at something, right? My writing is awful. Not equally bad equally my husband’s (because I can’t fifty-fifty read his grocery lists!), but it’s bad. I would never endeavour to build my ain identify cards or invitations anymore, alone because my handwriting is that bad. But inwards the DIY world, there’s a solution for everything, as well as I’m going to exhibit you lot how I larn my Cricut to practise my printing for me alongside the cricut writing feature!

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I’ve been wanting to exhibit off to a greater extent than of this characteristic from the Martha Stewart Explore Air 2 because it’s amazing! H5N1 machine that tin practise all of your writing for you, AND has hundreds of fonts to select from?! What’s non to honey virtually that?

Since it’s back-to-school season, I idea I’d exhibit off the science yesteryear sharing a quick scheme projection for all of those pencils as well as markers that volition commencement accumulating at home.

Here’s everything you lot take away to job the Cricut Writing characteristic on DIY painted tags:

• White tags (I already had mine – purchased from Michaels)


• Martha Stewart Multi-surface satin acrylic paints (exclusive to Michaels)


• Small bristle pigment brushes


• Martha Stewart Cricut Explore Air 2 (exclusive to Michaels)


• Cricut Pen – I used 1.0 thickness


• Cricut Strong Grip Mat


• Design Space File: HERE


• Blue Buckets from Martha Stewart Blue Ombre Celebration Line


• Tassels (optional)

If you lot don’t convey whatever tags on hand, you lot could likewise job your Cricut Martha Machine to cutting some out, as well as and then pigment them. I’m using the Martha Stewart multi-surface paint, because everything she touches is amazing!

I’m but using her pigment on paper, but you lot tin job it on anything from woods to drinking glass to metallic or fabric. Plus it comes inwards over fourscore colours or finishes! I used 2 blues to tally the Martha Stewart Blue Ombre celebration line, but you lot tin select whatever colours equally long equally it’s a low-cal as well as a dark.

I used a actually modest bristle brush (and honestly the cheapest ane I could find!) because I wanted the brush strokes to await a chip harsh, as well as spiky! I painted the light colour on, virtually halfway upwards my tag, as well as and then painted the dark colour afterwards, creating an ombre effect.

Now we’re cook to exhibit off the Cricut Writing pen! Open upwards the design infinite file I made, or build your ain text using ane of the 100s of fonts available. To build certain you lot are laid to write (and non cut!), click on your text, as well as and then inwards the “style” drib downward menu, click “writing”. If your font is laid to write, you lot volition come across a niggling pen icon inwards the bill of fare on the right-hand side. Just equally you lot come across inwards the photograph higher upwards beside the “P” as well as “S” as well as “M”.

The side yesteryear side affair you lot desire to practise is describe of piece of work upwards your tags on the Cricut Strong Grip mat. The easiest agency to describe of piece of work upwards your items, whether they are tags, identify cards, or envelopes, is to middle them on the grid. When I lined upwards my tags, I made certain they were all centered on a describe of piece of work horizontally (i.e. 2″, 4″ as well as 6″), as well as and then made certain that the purpose of the tag I wanted to write on was after the 1″ vertical line.

When your cook to cut, your blueprint infinite volition automatically evidence to relieve infinite as well as grouping your text boxes equally unopen together equally possible. But you lot tin but conduct receive got of a word, as well as drag it just where you’ve already aligned your tags, but equally I did inwards the photograph below.

Now insert your Cricut pen, as well as allow the Cricut practise the writing!

I wasn’t certain how beautifully the Cricut would write over the paint, but I was pleasantly surprised! The writing is perfect for our back-to-school tins, as well as to a greater extent than beautiful than my writing would ever convey looked!

I added the tags to the prettiest bluish tins alongside some string as well as tassels. My girls died over these when they saw them! There’s something virtually tassels that makes a girl’s pump flutter! lol.

This tins are supposed to alive inwards the play room, but they’ve migrated to the living room somehow… as well as I don’t actually heed because they are getting used everyday, as well as you lot know I honey seeing my littles larn creative!

Here’s a duo of other smashing projects I’ve done alongside my Cricut Martha Machine:

DIY Stamped Tea Towels

DIY Kabob Bar

This is a sponsored conversation written yesteryear me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions as well as text are all mine.