How to Make Easter Basket Gift Card Holders

LEARN HOW TO MAKE CUTE EASTER BASKET GIFT CARD HOLDERS ON YOUR CRICUT CUTTING MACHINE

Whether you need a quick Easter gift idea or you want to add something special to those Easter baskets, this gift card holder will be perfect!

In this tutorial, I’ll give you my step by step instructions and tell you what materials I think work best when making this project.

You can purchase the SVG cut file for this project in my shop here.

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EASTER BASKET GIFT CARD HOLDER – MATERIALS LIST

Easter Basket Gift Card Holder

Easter Basket Gift Card Holder

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Active Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

This tutorial will show you how to make a cute gift card holder for Easter.

Materials

  • My Easter Basket Gift Card Holder SVG Cut File
  • Cardstock
  • Glue
  • Adhesive

Tools

  • A way to cut out your cardstock. I am using my FABULOUS Cricut Maker but you could also use the Cricut Explore series!
  • Cricut StandardGrip Cutting Mat (green)
  • Cricut Scoring Wheel or Stylus
  • Cricut Scraper
  • Cricut Brayer
  • Cricut Pen. I am using Sour Apple.

Instructions

STEP 1 - PURCHASE & DOWNLOAD THE SVG CUT FILE

You can purchase the Easter Basket Gift Card Holder SVG Cut File in my shop here.

STEP 2 - UPLOAD THE SVG FILE TO CRICUT DESIGN SPACE

If you aren't familiar with uploading SVG files into Design Space, take a look at my quick and easy tutorial here. Using your smartphone? Click here for my step-by-step guide on uploading SVG files with the Cricut App.

STEP 3 - UNGROUP CARD LAYERS

The file will upload into Cricut Design Space grouped together. You will want to hit the UNGROUP button to separate the layers.

ungroup the design

STEP 4 - CONVERT FOLD LINES TO SCORE LINES

Scroll down the list in the LAYERS panel and find the envelope. Click the fold line and change the fold lines to score lines by changing the OPERATION from BASIC CUT to SCORE.

find the score line for the envelope and convert to score

Attach the score line and the envelope by highlighting the GROUP the envelope is under and selecting the ATTACH option in lower right hand corner.

highlight the group and attach

Repeat for the outer card and inside pop-up.

Scroll down the list in the LAYERS panel and find the sentiment layer. Click the text and change the text to draw by changing the OPERATION from BASIC CUT to PEN.

find the sentiment and convert the text layer to pen

Change the pen color if you wish. Attach the text and the card layer by highlighting the GROUP and selecting the ATTACH option in lower right hand corner.

highlight the group and attach

Click the GREEN Make It Button.

click the green make it button

STEP 5 - MAKE YOUR MATERIAL SELECTIONS AND PREPARE YOUR MATS

You will see the layers for this card in the mat preview.

click continue

For this tutorial, I am using Medium Cardstock. Select your materials accordingly.

make your material selections

Attach your cardstock to the Cricut StandardGrip Mat using the Cricut Brayer.

STEP 6 - LOADING YOUR MATS AND CUTTING YOUR MATERIALS

To load the mat into the machine, press the double arrows button. Do make sure that the mat is positioned under the mat guides.

to load the mat press the flashing arrows

You will know the machine is ready to cut your material when you see the flashing "C" button. Press that to start the cut.

begin the cut by pressing the flashing "C" button

Follow Design Space prompts to change out the scoring wheel, pen, and fine point cutting blade.

Once the cut is complete, make sure to peel the mat away from the cardstock rather than the cardstock from the mat. This will prevent any curling of your design.

Repeat Step 6 for until all layers have been cut.

STEP 7 - ASSEMBLE YOUR CARD

Now that everything is cut, we can start to assemble the card.

time to assemble

First, layer the embellishments together including the sentiment.

layer the easter basket and the sentiment

Layer the green grass layer onto the blue cover panel.

add the grass to the blue sky layer

Next, add the embellishments to the cover panel.

glue the sentiment to the sky layernow the easter basket and eggs

Fold the outer card and burnish.

fold and burnish the outer card

Fold the inner card piece as shown.

fold the inside pop up as shown

Fold the card flat and burnish the folds.

Add glue or adhesive to one side of the folded inner card layer.

add adhesive to one side of the inside piece

Place in the outer card and press to adhere.

line up the score lines and attach to the inside of the outer card

Repeat for the other side.

repeat for the second side

Add the cover panel to the front of the card.

attach the front cover panel to the front of the card

STEP 8 - FORM THE ENVELOPE

To make the envelope, begin by folding along the score lines and press the folds with your scraper.

Add glue to the bottom of the side flaps.

Place the card inside the envelope. With the side flaps folded in, bring the bottom flap up and carefully press to form the envelope.

Your card and envelope are complete.

Post a photo in the comment section or tag your projects on social media @thebeardedhousewife using the hashtag #beardedhousewife! I’d love to see how yours turn out!!

Happy Easter!

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