 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreatCrafts with the Valentine's Day quickly approaching I thought I would create a quick video showing you how to create some Valentine's coloring cards using your Cricut machine So let's get started Okay, so to get started. I'm starting in design space I'm gonna go to upload here in the corner because this is where I have all my uploads and I already uploaded this one I'm gonna show you really quick. I purchased these off of Etsy and design space and to be honest with you I'm not happy with any of them and I'll tell you why in a minute So I'm gonna select the one that I'm gonna work with now So I clicked on this one I'm gonna go add to canvas and it's gonna bring it up on my screen and it's gonna be really large when you first put it in Here because you need to resize it, but I'm gonna show you something really quick So if I bring this over I can show you guys Where I purchased it from so I got this one from design bundles It is on sale right now for $2 so go ahead and go grab it now. It's what you get here The reason I love this one so much more than the other ones that I was just showing you is because this is Actual print then cut. I don't have to do anything with this So I'm gonna get rid of that and when I mean with that is this is already all done The only thing you have to do is resize this and the person that did this said you can do like a The width six and then it will change the height for me But I figured out that I can do it to fill the rest of my paper I do about six by six so I'm gonna go up here to the size and I'm gonna go to the width and I'm gonna type in 6.6 and I'm gonna push enter and I did not unlock it because then it will skew everything and you have to figure out what the height is if You leave it locked. It will automatically figure that out for you So if you do a six point seven it'll come over here and I'll have a little triangle saying it's too large I'll show you what I mean So if I change this to a six point seven you get this little triangle right here So it's telling you it's a little bit too big for your paper So that's how I found it six point six works perfectly for this Like I said, this is the easiest simplest way if you want to find them like this I will leave the link down below to where I purchased this from like I said It's $2 you do get two images here, and I love it because that's all I had to do So this is gonna be really quick and easy video tutorial for you guys So that's it just change the size you can change the color if you want But the purpose of this is for the kids to color and so I just leave it the black and white I'm gonna go up to make it and then again if you're not familiar with printing cut. It's going to look like this It's gonna say print and cut. I didn't have to do anything to this one. I'm not mirroring it I'm not doing anything to this I wanted to make sure I get the full size of the paper on here if I did it this six by whatever it was It would have been a little bit smaller. So now I'm getting the full piece of the paper here I'm gonna go to continue because there's nothing I had to do there and Then here to send to printer right here. So I'm gonna show you guys I'm gonna set up my camera and show you guys what printer I use actually just purchased it a little while ago And I absolutely love it. I've never really done print and cut. So I'm really excited about this one So I'm gonna show you what it looks like here on screen. I just hit print and One thing you're gonna want to do is make sure that you get rid of this ad bleed This is always on and if you have it on it's going to make it look very thick and very dark And you're gonna waste a lot of ink on it So get rid of the ad bleed and then make sure that you change your printer if you need to actually Do you have three printers here every regular Canon that just prints out black and white? I have my sublimination printer that my husband bought me for Christmas very excited about it I will do a few videos on the sublimination to but here it is here the Epson Eco tank 8500 series. I'll show you what it looks like, but I absolutely love it So that's all I had to do over here Make sure that you're putting in the cardstock paper You don't want regular flimsy paper with this because it will not hold your crayons in place You want a thick paper? I'll leave a link down below in case you're interested in Amazon I buy a lot of stuff a lot of my things on Amazon or if it's on sale I go to join fabrics But I live in the country. I don't have a lot of stores around me So it's just quicker for me to purchase it on Amazon. So this is it with this screen I'm gonna wait to push print because I want to get my camera set up over there And I'm gonna show you guys what it looks like and all that So give me a second. I'm gonna put my camera up and I'll be right back All right guys, so I'm set up over here on my table. I have an eco tank 8500 all-in-one super tank printer I use the ink that goes in with this so there's nothing different that you have to do with this one If you look over here, I'm new with my camera. You see this black one. Please don't mind the mess behind there I'm selling all that stuff. This one is actually another Epson. That one is a 2720 that I actually Changed into a sublimination printer So it comes with the same ink that you get with this one the eco tank Which is nice because now I get to use the ink with this in here I'll actually show you really quick. So it looks like this sorry. It's in a bag that can show you really quick So it just says the Epson it tells you what color it is and all that it comes exactly like this with this printer So now I have double for this one if you're gonna use a one for sublimination You need to make sure that you get the correct ink for that do not So once you have this set up for regular printing you cannot change it into a sublimination printer Please be careful with that I will be talking more about sublimination printers in a different video, but I just wanted to show you really quick So I have that one as well. That is a sublimination printer, which I absolutely love I'm going to be doing a whole bunch more Videos on that but I want to show you with this really quick. I love this one. Like I said, it's the 8500 Very easy to do you want to make sure that you change your paper in it So it comes with the bottom is where the paper is so you just pull this out and You take out your regular paper that's in here because like I said, you need to use a thick card stock So I have some thick card stock that I bought I can try to find the package and show you what it is, but it's a lot thicker Then regular paper is what you want especially because you're going to be putting putting crayons into it So I'm gonna put it in the bottom and Shelf here and just close this and then I go back to my computer really quick I'm gonna push print and then I'll show you what it looks like So I really love this one. I don't know if you can see but it's automatically pulling this bottom Printer part out for me, which is so cool. I absolutely love this printer So if you do not have one, I highly highly recommend this one again. It's the epson 8500 So here it is here be careful that you don't touch it as much So you don't smear the ink at all, but I want to show you what it looks like So it has a border on it as you saw on cricket. If you're wondering what that's for and you've never done print and cut I just learned how to do print and cut is that is telling cricket where the border is and how to cut it So you're gonna see that and once you put it on your cricket machine or on your mat Rather and then send it to your cricket machine. It's gonna do a whole bunch of weird sounds and kind of collaborate itself So I'm gonna show you that next I want to show you this really quick how it's gonna turn out So it's gonna look like this make sure you're to your turn your bleed off With doing this because it'll make it really thick and not look good So I'm gonna go ahead and switch my camera and send you back to my cricket machine So stay tuned guys Sorry guys for all the jumping around, but I wanted to show you again at the computer Before you can do your cricket you have to come back here and do your set your base material Because this is thicker paper. I normally go for go for the card stock here the heavy card stock hundred pounds It depends of what kind of card stock you're using so please be attention to that I also use this card stock for intricate cuts as well But this is the one that I always seem to go to so I'm gonna click on this one And then sometimes I do better when I go to the default here and I just push more So I have it at heavy card stock and then I have the pressure at more I have a brand new blade put in here ready and then it's just gonna cut you see the border here I'll show you really quick you see the border So it's gonna cut around that so I'm gonna show you at the cricket how it's gonna look and how to do it So all I'm doing is putting my paper on a green mat and then flattening down with my hand I don't want it on there too tight or I can't rip it back up So I'm gonna set up the camera and show you the next step. I'm sorry guys for all this moving around on here Hope you're not getting sick, but I want to show you each step by step process So I do have it on my green mat already and I just flattened it with my hand So all I'm gonna do is put it in the machine the arrow is a flashing ready to tell me it's all ready to go So I just push that and then I'm gonna push to see once that starts Telling me it's time to cut so there it is there and I'm gonna be quiet for a minute and show you what it's gonna do So it's gonna try to find it's gonna have a light on here And it's gonna try to find these little lines to figure out where the carts cuts are So I'm gonna be quiet once I start this and then you'll kind of hear it So if you hear it your machine is not doing anything wrong this doing what it's supposed to be doing So in a second you're gonna see a light come on there it is And then it's just gonna follow the lines here and make sure that it's all set up correctly Again all student is reading the lines making sure that it's all on there properly if you do have an issue Your computer will come back up until you have to redo something again But then the next thing it's gonna do is cut it out And then it's gonna make the little score lines in and everything for you as well So I'm gonna let this finish up and then I'll show you guys what it looks like when it's all done Okay, so now it's finished. You'll see the little light flashing here. I'm gonna push it I'm gonna show you really quick what this looks like so I'm gonna peel it off and Show you How awesome this turns out so be very careful peeling this up you don't want to make a dent in it or anything So you carefully want to peel it up and it's gonna leave some pieces on your board Which you can easily take off later, but here it is here isn't that cute So what it does with the cricket machine is not only does it cut out the holes here needed to put in the crayons It also has a little edge here that you can fold this over and make it into a card Which I'm not gonna do yet So the next thing is I'm just gonna put a couple of crayons in here show you guys what it looks like But isn't that really cute? So the little kids could just color it in however they want they write their name to and from on there I think that is really cute. So there's the back and you can kind of see the line a little bit better here But I was able to get two of these off of each page. So I'm gonna show you the other one really quick again So unfortunately, you're gonna have a little bit of paper on your mat yet But you just want to take your scraper and just pull it off So we just easily pull up on here and then there is what it looks like as well So these are just a darling. I absolutely love these. I'm gonna have to find someone For boys, maybe they might have a different one This is a dinosaur one though And then this is also a gnome one so that could be for a boy and a girl But I think that's really cute So I'm gonna finish this up put a few crayons in and show you guys what it looks like so to finish these up I just put a few crayons in here And I love how this works because they do actually stay in place really really nice So I'm just gonna show you really quick how I did it self-explanatory But basically all you do is push these little holes upwards towards you And then you can easily put your crayons in there and then the crayons I'm using I just bought from the dollar store It's nothing fancy not the Crayola kind So I'm just taking you know random colors And just putting it in here But I think this is the cutest Valentine's thing you can personalize it any other way You know have you can go ahead and write their name in a forum or you know have the kids go ahead and write it in there So I'm just taking a random colors putting it in here And I think this is the cutest Valentine's card I would love to receive any of these at my At a young age So I'm just putting a few in here. We'll just pick one more color Just like that, but I mean these can go a really long way. I think that would be really awesome to get You know this instead of you know a piece of candy or something maybe not as a kid But I think that would be a lot of fun. So again, I hope you guys like this tutorial. Give me a thumbs up here They both are I think they turn out absolutely amazing. I love them. I'm gonna be creating some more I'm actually gonna try selling these at the store I'm at and then on local Facebook Marketplace, I'll let you guys know how it goes, but do you like this video? Give me a thumbs up hit that subscribe button and happy Valentine's Day everyone