Writing and Addressing Envelopes With Your Cricut

Today on the blog we’re going to give you a tutorial for writing and addressing envelopes with your Cricut. This is a highly requested Cricut tutorial and we get emails and comments about it all the time. This is one of our favorite Cricut tips!

Just think about how much time this would save when doing Christmas cards or wedding invitations or anything of that sort. Combine it with our easy Cricut technique for writing inside cards and you’ll be all set! There are so many things you can use your Cricut machine for.

Writing and Addressing Envelopes With Your Cricut

We’re going to use our Cricut Maker and Cricut pens to be able to write on our envelopes the return address and the address we’re sending our envelope to and it’s going to be a lot of fun!

This is about a 5×7 envelope, so we just created a rectangle five by seven and put it as our background. We’re using fonts from our membership site Makers Gonna Learn. This is our Gracie Lou font. I think it’s perfect for using pens and I love the quirkiness of this font.

We like to work with this so that what we see in Cricut Design Space looks just like our final product. So, we will create layers for our craft project. The first layer will be for the shape and size of the envelope. The next one will be for the return address. The final layer will be for the address of the person you’re sending it to.

To get started, go to shapes and insert a square. We’re going to take this square and select “edit”. Next, we’re going to make the width 7 and the height is 5. We’re going to go ahead and just change the color of the envelope to white by selecting the layer. Next, select “text” and choose System Fonts and then search for Gracie Lou.

Now, we’re going to type out the return address. Adjust the line spacing and then align it to the left. Size it so that it fits well onto your envelope and place it where you need it to be on your envelope.

Then what we’re going to do is to get another text box and select the Gracie Lou font again. Next, we’ll type in the address for the person we’re sending this to. Align this to the Center. Then, choose Line Spacing and move it down to where you want it placed on the envelope.

If you press “Make it” at this point, Design Space is going to put this on two totally different mats and we aren’t going to get the results we laid out on our canvas. What we need to do to make this stay together is to delete the white rectangle at the back. Remember, this was just for reference on our mat. Then select both sections of text and Attach.

Next, you need to go to Operation and change from Cut to Draw and select the pen you’re using. Here, we’re using the gel pen 1.0 black. So, just scroll through and find that pen and select it. Then, repeat that for the other text. Now, we can press “Make it”.

So now, we’re able to take one of our envelopes and place it down on our mat right up in the top left-hand corner. Then we can press continue. We’re going to connect to our machine and place the pen in the machine.

To do this, simply open clamp A and pop the pen into place. Close clamp A. Once you hear that click, you know you’re good to go. Next, we’re going to select the light cardstock for the envelope. We’re going to use Fast Mode to get our envelope addressed quickly.

Once you’re good to go we’ll press the flashing Cricut button and it’ll start our drawing. When the drawing has been completed, it lets us know this in Design Space. The flashing Unload button lets us know it’s time to remove the mat.

Look at how beautiful this turned out! I love the look of it. It is such a professional look and so easy to do. This is such a fun way to address envelopes.

If you’re addressing a lot of envelopes, you can save time by leaving the return address as is and simply changing out who the envelope is addressed to. By creating a template in Design Space, you can quickly copy and paste addresses in to that template and print off as many envelopes as you need!