We’re going to combine those mats and then eliminate the cutting portion so it’s only drawing. When you hit “Make it” the machine automatically organizes what it thinks it’s cutting and drawing into two mats. I loaded it into the left slot of the machine and clamped it into place. I used a green fine tip pen for this job.

The envelope is loaded into the Cricut Maker. This is where I will place my actual envelope on a Standard Grip Mat and load it into my Cricut Maker. Using a Standard Grip Cricut Mat, you will line up the envelope on the same markings that you used in Cricut Design Space. so that everything looks the way you would like. You will use the fonts to adjust the address names/roads, etc. The rectangle is really only being used as a template for sizing and placement purposes and you will eventually be hiding the rectangle before you use the Cricut to address the cards. If you have a larger or smaller envelope, adjust the rectangle accordingly. You’ll notice my template is just a hair larger than 5×7 and this is because my envelope was just a hair larger, as well. Basically, I started by creating a 5×7 rectangle in Cricut Design space so that I had a template for my 5×7 envelope. You can use my Free Cricut Envelope Template here if you want to get started and have them look the same way as mine. How to Address Envelopes Using Cricut Step One This is super important! My template already has this taken care of for you, but if you’re going rogue, this is an important step!! This is what tells the Cricut that it’s going to Draw instead of cut. I LOVE the look of cursive fonts on envelopes, but it’s not overly practical if you’re addressing a lot of envelopes *unless you just LOVE the minutia and have tons of time on your hands! LOLĪnother important part, if you do not use my template, is to be sure that when you are adding text that you change the line type in the upper left corner to the Draw setting. I hope that makes sense.Īlso, cursive fonts can be tricky because you will have to do a lot of moving letters around to get them all to connect nicely. Writing fonts ensure that you get what you think you’re getting from a font versus just the outline of the font if you choose a non-writing font.

It’s a filter setting in the font selection process. See screen shots below of what I’m talking about. Side note about the fonts, if you decide to change the font, it’s important that at the time you are designing your envelope, you choose fonts that are “writing” fonts. Free Cricut envelope addressing templateĪ few important items to note first… Choose Cricut Writing Fonts.Learn how to address envelopes using Cricut.

How to use envelope address template