How to Make Place Cards with Your Cricut

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Part of the A-type personality in me is to have everything labelled and organized. Place cards are an excellent, yet easy way to identify items or organize where things (or people) go. Here is how to make place cards with your Cricut.

Place cards are typically used at dinner tables to label where someone sits. It is usually a folded-over card with the person’s name on it and it is placed where they sit. But you can use place cards for other things as well.

Perhaps you have a display of items and you want to label what they are. You can use place cards to label them. Another way is to label food on a buffet. Instead of having people wonder what is in each dish, use place cards to label them.

To Make Place Cards with your Cricut is very similar to how you’d make a card – but on a smaller scale. It’s basically a piece of cardstock folded in half. There are also some similarities to making a print and cut tag.

What’s great about place cards is the simplicity of them – you don’t need fancy equipment. It’s just a folded-over piece of card and so it stands on its own. What’s a little different about this project is the use of the Scoring Tool with your Cricut.

What is the Scoring Tool?

A scoring tool is simply a tool that puts a crease on your cardstock, making it easier to fold. Previously, before I had a Cricut, I would use a bone folder. Believe me, this scoring tool on the Cricut makes it way easier.

Sure you can eyeball it and fold it over without the scoring tool, but if you’re like me, due to the thickness of the cardstock, it is not always even and it doesn’t always line up nicely. Also, the scoring tool makes a nice, clean fold – I find that by doing them by hand it doesn’t look as nice.

Using the print and cut feature is key in how to make place cards with your Cricut – you just need some cardstock and the information. You can make them in any size you want.

Supplies to Make Place Cards with Your Cricut

It doesn’t take a lot when it comes to how to make place cards with your Cricut.

Step by Step Directions on How to Make Place Cards With Your Cricut

Here’s how to make place cards with your Cricut. Start a new project on Cricut Design Space.

Using the “Shapes” tool on the far left, select the Square

“Unlock” the square in the bottom left so that you can resize.

Resize using the size tool at the top. Keep in mind that your height will be DOUBLE the size of what you want for the finished size (because you fold it in half). I wanted 3-inch square place cards and so my width is 3 inches, but my height is 6 inches.

Change the colour of your rectangle, to the colour of your cardstock – this just makes it easier to see and picture. I find that default grey so dark. I just made mine white. To change colour, do so at the top, left (next to “linetype“) – select that box and colour options will come up.

Enter your text in the bottom half – remember that the top half gets folded over and becomes the back. You can use colour if you have a colour printer.

Once you have all the information and it looks the way you want it, select all (both rectangle and text) and “flatten” (bottom right). This changes it into 1 item that you will see on your layers panel (far right).

Go to the “Shapes” tool again on the far right, select the “Score Line” – the bottom right.

It automatically comes out vertical – to make it horizontal, type in 90 using the Rotate tool at the top.

Size your scoreline to the width of your place card – in my case, 3 inches. Place it in the centre where it should be scored.

Now attach the scoreline to your card – bottom right.

Now you are ready to Print and Cut your place card. Click the green “Make It” button in the top right and you are good to go. Don’t forget to load the cardstock into your printer.

When it comes to scoring, be sure to insert either the stylus or wheel (depending on which you are using) into your Cricut.

The Maker defaults to the wheel, but you can change it to the stylus by selecting “Edit Tools” in the section that says “Load Tools and Mat”. There you will see the options for either the wheel or the stylus. Simply select the Stylus.

After they’re all printed and cut, simply fold them in half and you’re good to go. It’s easy to fold with that scoring line.

This is a fairly quick and easy project that can be done for a variety of uses and applications. I made these for the luncheon we hosted after my son’s Baptism. Look how nice they look on the buffet.

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