I decided to make my first project a simple one, a greeting card. The one I made is a birthday card. I used the following materials: white card stock, blue card stock, pink glitter card stock, and my LightGrip mat.

Photo by Kasey Stockli

Below is a video of how I used Cricut Design Space to create my card.

Here is a time-lapse video I took on my phone of what the Cricut looks like when it cuts out a project.

From doing this project, I made a couple of mistakes but they made good learning opportunities. First of all, I initially made the card too small. When I pulled out my paper I realized I designed the card to be too small, that’s why I resized it in the video. My other mistake came when I tried to cut out my glitter card stock. I tried it first on my LightGrip mat but the Cricut destroyed my paper. Turns out the mat was not strong enough so the paper was loose on the mat. I then tried it on my StandardGrip mat and it worked perfectly. So if you ever try a similar project, anything glitter must be on a StandardGrip mat or a strong mat, LightGrip does not work.

After cutting out all my pieces, I glued the blue paper (which was perfectly sized) onto the inside of my white card. Then I had to glue in the little circles in the a, p, b, and d which had been cut out. Finally I glued on my glitter cake resulting in the card below. This website also has some great ideas for cards you can make with your Cricut https://domesticheights.com/cricut-cards/.

Photo by Kasey Stockli