Creating Place Cards using the Top College font in Design Space and Cutting with the Cricut Explore

A new free font for stand up lettering 

ScrappyDew Live - Fontastic Fun - with Kay Hall - Jan 15th 2015 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHNrzQiNgM

font looks identical using caps or lower case.
The UPPERcase will produce a score line of its own, the lower case will not have the score line. 
In my template I have a line at the 2 inch mark that I use as a guide for placing the text on.



I continue by inserting a new text box for each name and place the names on each duplicate of the template
when I am happy with the template with the name on it, I select the 2 objects and "Attach"



Because I used an uploaded template that I made, Design Space is treating it as a Print then Cut Item,
have to make sure that the items in each attached set that I want Cut
that I change the icon to a Cut icon next to each layer in the set that needs to be cut



I for this example have changed the color for the template and the text to colors that will allow me to know which is which
I will save this different color place cards project using the File > Save As option.  Then when I want to cut any of these cards,
I can choose which ones or all of them that I want to cut, to select only specific ones, I would just cross out the eyes next to the
attached set layers, and leave the ones I wanted to cut.


Before saving I make sure that all layers in the attached sets are set to "Cut"



I use the File >> Save As option to name and save my projects to something that I will help me identify each project
Note: when the new Design Space 3 is finally released hopefully before the end of 2016, one of the new features will be
that when you look through your projects you will see a thumbnail image of it. It will be an excellent improvement over the current
Design Space program.



Next I have decided to place 4 place cards on 4 different 6x6 pieces of scrapbook cardstock papers.

I will arrange the 6x6 pieces on my Cricut Mat. So to get 4 to the mat, I will need to "SNYC" all of the different color placecard to a single color -
for my own purposes it doesn't matter which color I choose to snyc them all to, as I am cutting on different pattern papers.
If I just wanted to cut one at a time I could just choose which one I wanted to cut and place the paper for just that one image.
If I wanted to print multiples on a single card stock pattern or color - I would still use the "Synced" images

**Note too, I saved the "synced" images as a new project using the File > Save As and named it differently that the project with the different colors



I placed the 4 different 6x6 patterned cardstock paper on my Cricut cutting to cut out the 4 place cards
I will do this a second time with another set of 4 patterned 6x6 cardstock papers to complete 8 place cards.


After cutting I take each cut card and fold over in half - the text will stand up in the middle crease.
I use my bone folder to crease the fold


I proceed to cut and fold the 8 place cards I am making





After cutting all 8 cards, I print then cut some label/tags that I had created offline
using my favorite software program - the Discontinued software
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006. Note it is still available for sale on Ebay
but is no longer made or supported by Microsoft. For my purposes of compiling
images for uploading to Design Space to use the Print then Cut feature
I find MS Digital Image a very user friendly program.
I uploaded the tags to Design Space, sized them and then applied 8 to the number
I wanted and was able to get all 8 on one 8x11.5 sheet of white cardstock for printing
and cutting.  Note: I use an HP Envy 7640 printer for printing any compilations/images
of clip art I am going to use for the Print then Cut feature and upload to Design Space.

I will apply the tags to the front of the place cards with 3d taped pads for
dimension


and add a wee bit of bling


Taa-Daa - All done and ready for my Thanksgiving Table 2016


I have also made webpages showing my own experience with the Print then Cut feature
these pages were created when I first got my Cricut Explore in October 2014.
So the screen shots and some information may be outdated as Design Space has updated
2 times since I made the webpages.  Design Space 3 will probably be released by the end of
2016.  But the Basics of the Print then Cut feature should not be really all that different in
the new version of Design Space.
Cricut Explore Print then Cut - my own experience
http://sippingtea.com/tuts/cricutexploreprintncut.html