You are more than enough - rainbow greeting card

 

Rainbow greeting card

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You are more than enough 

Easy        |        15 minutes

This colorful card comes together easily with a few Cricut pens, cardstock, and a black marker

Finished Size

5x7 top folding landscape greeting card

Description

This project combines several Cricut pen colors and plain white cardstock to create a beautiful encouraging greeting card.

Cricut Canvas Link

You are more than enough rainbow greeting card- Cricut Canvas

Materials to Cut

• Two sheets 8 1/2 x 11 110lb white cardstock
• Cardboard or Craft Foam (Optional - this can easily be cut to 4x6 by hand)

Everything else

• Cricut Pens
• Fine Point - Bluebonnet
• Fine Point - Light Green
• Fine Point - Candy Corn
• Fine Point - Coral
• Fine Point - Black
• Adhesive
• An envelope that will fit a 5x7 greeting card
• Cricut Fine Point Blade
• Cricut Scoring Stylus or Maker scoring wheel
• Light Grip Cricut Mat
• Strong Grip Cricut Mat (Optional)
• Black Marker

Preparation & Cut (optional - card base - mat 1)

1. Place an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock in landscape orientation on the upper left corner of your Cricut mat
2. Click Continue and wait for your machine to connect
3. Set the Base Material to Medium Cardstock
4. Change the Pressure to "More"
5. Load the Single Scoring Wheel in Clamp B
6. Load the mat and press the go button on your machine
7. After Scorning is complete, remove the scoring wheel and insert the Fine-Point Blade
8. Press the flashing go button on your machine
9. When the cut is complete, remove the card base and extra material from the mat

Optional - You can use a pre-cut / scored 5x7 card base instead of cutting with your machine.

Preparation & Cut (card front - mat 2)

1. Place the second 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock in portrait orientation on the upper left corner of your Cricut mat
2. Leave the fine-point blade you loaded in step 1 in your machine
3. Load the pen color as specified in the onscreen directions
4. Load the mat and press the go button
5. Follow the on-screen instructions and change pen colors when instructed
6. Remove the card front and extra material from your mat when all pen colors have been drawn

Preparation & Cut (optional - dimension panel - mat 3)

1. Change the base material to the appropriate setting for the material you will be using (craft foam or cardboard)
2. Load the appropriate blade to cut the material you will be using
3. Adhere your material to the strong grip mat and load it into your machine
4. Press the go button
5. When the cut completes, remove the dimension panel and extra material from your mat

Optional - hand-trim cardboard or craft foam to 4x6 instead of cutting with your machine

Assemble

1. Using a black marker, add dots to the rainbows and fill in the heart
2. Adhere the craft foam to the back of the rainbow panel to create the card front
3. Adhere the card front to the card base