Hi I'm Paula and I'm in the Cricut Craft
Room today to tell you all about writing
with your Cricut machine. We're going to
spend our time in Design Space learning
all the different tips and tricks you
can use to make your writing project the
best possible. Let's get over in Design Space and get started all right so here we
have our blank Canvas screen so when you're  writing if you're choosing a text then
you are going to type click on your text
icon over there and then we're going to
add just a word so we'll say hello.
All right, so now we have our our hello
written in there. Now under line
type you can change anything into a
draw. What that's going to do is draw the
outline of the word that you have typed.
It will not fill anything in so it will
be blank inside of each letter
but it will just have the outline now if
you go down here to style you can select
writing if that is an option for the
font you chose. So if we click writing it
turns it into a single stroke writing
where it's not the outline it's actually
just writing out the letters in the same
font but without the same thickness for
each of the letters. So what you can do
also if you're not sure which fonts have
writing available to you, you can click
here in your fonts and it'll pull up all
the fonts you have. And right over here
under filter you can click on that and
go to writing. That will then only pull
up the writing font options that will
have the single stroke. As I said before
any one can be drawn and so it will draw
the outline for you but these are the
ones that will actually change it to a
writing font - a single stroke font. All
right so if we click on life's a party
as you can see it is
different then what the actual font
looks like. It still kind of kind of got
that whimsical look to it but it's
different than what you would have if it
were to be a cut. So now if we're on
writing and we move this to cut it is
not going to change your font it is
going to try and cut these tiny thin
little lines for each of the letters. So
you can't just change the line type if
you want to go back to an actual cutting.
You will need to go here and go back to
regular. And then that gives you the font
that you're looking for for cutting. All
right now we are going to talk about
colors with writing so you can choose a
different pen color for your different
words. So if we have 'hello friends' we can
have that be up here and we'll go ahead
and space those out a little bit more
because that I's getting lost under the
"E" there. All right. So now we have 'hello
friends' and let's move it over here so
if we wanted our 'hello' to be in a
different color than our friends we
would go up here where it says line type
and right next to where it says draw
there is this little box. That's where
our colors are going to be.You can pick
the size and style of pen that you have
along with all the colors that are
available. So if we wanted to do hello in
this pretty turquoise and then 'friends',
maybe we want to do that in a purple. So
now as you can see there are two
different colors. So now that we have our
colors chosen here, if we go to 'Make it'
it says 'friends hello' and that's okay
because maybe what we're doing it
doesn't matter. But you can change it if
you want to have it write out as 'hello
friends' exactly how you had it you can
do that. Now when we hit continue. It's
going to connect to my machine real quick...
All right and now so we have our material set to  paper and now it's telling us to load
our purple pen into the clamp because
it's going to write everything that's in
purple first. Then Design Space will
stop the Machine and tell us when we
need to switch to the turquoise pen. And
it's telling you down here under
'Additional tools' that you are going to
need the turquoise pen. That's the great
thing about Design Space it's going
walk you right through it and you are
not going to have to worry about where
do I put the pen when do I put it in. It
tells you you're gonna put it in Clamp
A and that the purple pen is going to be
the first one you use and then the next
one will be the turquoise one. So when
you're writing - that's why choosing your
colors is important because you want to
make sure that you're putting the right
pen in at the right time. 
All right. So if we're making this into
say, a card where we want to have it be -  say we're giving this to our friends for a
Galentine's Day party. You can go over
here and let's say we're gonna make a
shape and we want these to be written
onto little square postcards. So what
we're going to do is we're going to
group these two sets of words together
so that we can just move them around
wherever we need them and manipulate
them the way we need to. All right so
we're gonna make these words just a
little bit smaller to fit on our our
card. There we go. So we have it on our
card and ready to go. However if I head
over to 'Make it' it still has my 'hello
friends' being written on one and my card
being cut out on another. We definitely
want this to write on the card so we
want to make sure that we select all of
these and we attach. So now when I go to
'Make it' it's going to have the writing
be written 
on this card and then it will cut the
square card out. So when you go to
continue it's going to find my machine
again real quick. And as you can see we
already have it set to paper. It's
telling us that turquoise pen is
going to be in Clamp A, our fine point
blade is going to be in Clamp B and that
our purple pen will be our additional
tool needed. You do need to make sure
that any time you want
something written on something else that
will be cut out that you do attach them
or else it will come up on its own
screen. And you want to make sure that
you're writing on what you're supposed
to be writing on. All right we're so glad
that you were able to be here and join
us to learn all about writing with pens
and we hope that you'll tune in to our
other videos to learn more about using
your Cricut machine.
