How to Address Envelopes with White Ink using Pens & a Cricut Machine

[@lilyskreinig6994]

Thanks so much for this! What a great tip about the machine not "caring" that the fine tip blade isn't in the holder!

[@taylorwhaley9901]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! this video is just what I needed: when I went to delete the shape of the envelope I pretty much had to blind eye/ guess where the text would be on the envelope but I took the blade out and just kept the square and it came out perfect! I'm helping my best friend address envelopes for her wedding and bridal shower

[@julielyons7172]

Thank you, Karley! I've used the white Gelly Roll 10 pen on several projects, and it has always worked well. I've used it for drawing images, too. And thanks so much for the reminder about the quick way to fill in "bubble" letters.

[@Pozorrogo]

I recently got a Cricut Air and I was using my Gellyroll pens and was very disappointed the rollers would roll over it and ruin it. I had NO idea you could move the little rollers to the side haha! Thanks so much!

[@susanfisch13]

Thank you for the tutorial! You are so clear with your explanations. I’m glad I found your channel. 😊

[@sharonyoung9390]

Karley, enjoyed your video. I use a Mac and would like to know if you know a work around to get a font to load when it says validation issue and won’t load it.

[@jennabentley6731]

Thank you for this video! I am planning to use these for our wedding invitations. One question, is it better to do them each one envelope at a time or could you do two or three envelopes with the standard grip 12x24 mats? I am new to using a Cricut but we'll have about 60 envelopes to do.

[@bluelunevideos]

This worked brilliantly! Thank you for the tutorial. I have about 30 Halloween invitations to address so this is super timely.

[@emmaregan]

Wow you have convinced me to invest in one for our wedding envelopes; can you link a baby blue pen that I can use for white envelopes

[@KaliHuntArt]

Thanks!! So helpful!

[@amael1224]

Great tutorial! which white toner printer do you recommend to print on colored stock paper - primarily to be used for printing labels, tags etc. thank you. :)

[@JulieThayer-i5m]

Hi Karley. I'm new to your channel. I was wondering if you have any video that explains how to use the scoring Pen using the Explore 2 machine?

[@JenniferJones-bv4yr]

Hello! Great tutorial! Do you have a recommendation for a gold pen like the ones you used in this video?

[@mjohnson9166]

Hi, Karley! I hope you see this 🙂 I finally got my envelope done after repeatedly having to restart everything because my machine kept timing out. I'm new, so I'm slow. But I finally got it! However, after drawing the address, my machine drew a "border" around the outside of the envelope. And it's not even centered. Can you help? Did I miss a step? Thanks for your tutorials. You are very helpful!

[@heathieboo9091]

This is great! Thank you Karley!

[@terri1716]

I just hide the cut for the envelope. No need to take the blade out. Just move the address to the envelope and then hide the envelope.

[@deliacrooks3702]

How do you hide the envelope?

[@terri1716]

@@deliacrooks3702 1- hit make it, 2- there are 3 dots on upper left 3- click on hide selected

[@jennylyn9482]

Im not sure if u can hide the cut line, they are attached. If you hide it, the writing will be hidden as well.

[@LilyMarie-v8c]

Can I use the Cricut Joy to do this?

[@rnguyen2516]

What size point did you use? 0.5, 0.8 or 10? Thank you SOO much for your tutorial. Wow! Sure beats handwriting envelopes, lol!

[@KarleyHall]

10 ❤

[@CassssyBelle]

Do you also use the circuit for the return address on the other side?

[@KarleyHall]

Yep! Absolutely!

[@CassssyBelle]

@@KarleyHall thank you!

[@Savvvy_t]

Hello! So I’m new to using a circuit but I’ve broken out mine that was given to me as a gift to address my wedding invitations. I followed your wonderful tutorial down to the fonts and when my cricuit is done writing on the envelope instead of “cutting” the square it uses the pen and outlines the envelope with the pen. How can I get it to not do that? 😊

[@KarleyHall]

Itll usually start by scoring- so I like to leave the pen out. And then it’ll prompt you to put in the pen :)

[@Savvvy_t]

@@KarleyHall it does it at the very end. It’s almost like it doesn’t lift the pen up like it does in your video. I’ll insert a picture of the envelope it did it on

[@KarleyHall]

So long as it’s set to score and write (two different actions) it’ll pause between so you can switch the tools (or in this case remove the tool)

[@Helena.3820]

Hi! Can you do this on a Cameo 5 as well? Thanks!

[@KarleyHall]

Yes! You just need the pen adapter :) amzn.to/3RdADvw

[@natalyfonseca6390]

What is the purpose of opening up the envelope and flap?

[@KarleyHall]

I found that when I didn’t do it, it was more likely to shift since it was a little thicker in that area.

[@chrislee6076]

This may be a stupid question, but does it cost more for postage since it may not be as easily readable vs black?

[@criticalpsyko802]

No

[@KarleyHall]

It does not! But the shape of the envelope can affect postage. Square envelopes require more postage🧐

[@rnguyen2516]

Can you do return address and mailing address at the same time?

[@KarleyHall]

Yes- absolutely!!

[@rnguyen2516]

@@KarleyHalldo you have a tutorial for that? Thank you so much for replying!

[@KarleyHall]

@@rnguyen2516 I do! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaDMkJuud8aJjbMsi=pBKbri32LULf_rwQ You’ll just make another text box and move it to the position you want :)

[@meredithgriffin7641]

Any suggestions on the envelopes getting stuck or ripped. I tried the blue mat and the envelope came off and got jammed. I tried the green mat and when taking it off the mat it tore off pieces of the envelope and it was left on my mat.

[@KarleyHall]

Are you opening up the flap and laying flat? That would be my first suggestion! If that doesn’t work- try blue painters tape!

[@ally.d123]

Can someone please help me 😢I’m trying to make my wedding invitations and when I add the rectangle it adds it to my black envelope 😢

[@KarleyHall]

I’d recommend rewatching that part of the video. You need to change the action to something other than write so it won’t actually draw it. You can also ditch the rectangle altogether and align it by eyeballing.

[@KarleyHall]

In this tutorial I leave the rectangle’s action as a basic cut and remove the blade from my machine so that it doesn’t actually cut it.

[@KristaShackleford]

I purchased the fonts from your product list, how do I access them? I am confused.

[@KarleyHall]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGbZZ6eVp9qIZ9ksi=mYNCAyopimHtE3kn this video will show you how to download and install a font!

[@KristaShackleford]

Where is my font book?

[@KarleyHall]

@@KristaShackleford are you using a Mac? If so it’s in your applications folder.

[@fatimarazon8407]

Why not use the Cricut opaque gel pens? there is a white one in that set.

[@KarleyHall]

Ooh! I didn’t know that! I didn’t see a white one listed in design space so I assumed they didn’t have one yet!

[@fatimarazon8407]

@@KarleyHall oh yeah lol the opaque set ( one for Joy one for the other machines) has a white gel pen. It’s 1.0 mm

[@KarleyHall]

@@fatimarazon8407 thanks so much! I’ll have to get a set! 😍

[@fatimarazon8407]

@@KarleyHall Michael’s has them :)

[@johntrevy1]

Why not use the guide function instead of basic cut? That way you dont have to take your blade out.

[@KarleyHall]

The guide wasn’t a thing when I made this tutorial :) that is a newer update. however- if I’m not mistaken- the guide doesn’t show up on the mat preview? I’ll have to look into it!

[@johntrevy1]

@@KarleyHall Ahhhhh. Got It.

[@aseal5511]

That's what I call fooling the machine! ☺☺☺☺☺ I use the text, no paper to cut, and place it the inches up or down as needed. It's fun to fool the Cricut.