How to Make Giant Easter Layered Cards

LEARN TO MAKE FUN GIANT EASTER LAYERED CARDS ON YOUR CRICUT CUTTING MACHINE

I love a fun graphic card.

This giant Easter card is not giant in size but the sentiment on the front is big and bold!

A great way to use up your scraps, too!

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.

This file is part of Happy Crafty Easter 2023.

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GIANT EASTER LAYERED CARD – MATERIALS LIST

Giant Easter Layered Card

Giant Easter Layered Card

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

This tutorial will show you how to make a fun layered card for Easter.

Materials

  • My Giant Easter Layered Card SVG Cut File
  • Cardstock
  • Glue

Tools

  • A way to cut out your cardstock. I am using my FABULOUS Cricut Maker but you can a Cricut Explore series too!
  • Cricut StandardGrip Cutting Mat (green)
  • Cricut Scoring Wheel or Stylus
  • Cricut Brayer
  • Cricut Scraper
  • Cricut Pen. I am using Dark Green.

Instructions

STEP 1 - PURCHASE & DOWNLOAD THE SVG CUT FILE

Purchase the SVG Cut File for the Giant Easter Layered Card 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.

convert the score line for the envelope

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

highlight the group and attach

Repeat this step for the card base.

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

find the text and convert to pen

Attach everything together 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

Click ON THE MAT and then CONTINUE.

im using the mats

Click the CONTINUE button.

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.

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

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, mat and layer the front cover panel.

mat and layer the front cover panel

Next, add the giant letters to the front cover panel.

add the letters

Mat and layer the messaging panel.

mat and layer the messaging panel

Fold the card base along the score line and burnish with your scraper.

fold the card base along the score lineburnish with your scraper

Attach the messaging panel to the inside of the card.

add the messaging panel to the inside of the card

Attach the front cover panel to the front of the card.

add 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.

fold the envelope along the score linesburnish with your scraper

Add glue to the back of the inlay panel as well as around the cutout.

add glue to the outer edge of the inlay

Place the inlay panel over the cutout on the envelope making sure to center it well.

place the inlay over the envelope flap

Add glue to the bottom of the side flaps.

add glue to the bottom of the side flaps

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

bring the bottom flap up 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!!

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  1. Never mind I logged into your site but see that I have to click in to the event too. All good. thanks for your creative mind.
    Vicki

  2. having problem downloading file it takes me to another place to download then what t has the other two days.

    1. All the Happy Crafty Easter event downloads have been on the same page. If you are unable to see the event page, that could mean you are not logged in to your account. Log in and head to the event page. Let me know if I can help further!

  3. Hi Nick! Thanks so much for this and all the other 12 days of Easter crafts! I’m a newbie so please bear with me. Can you tell me what size you made the Easter letters? I’m trying to gauge what size scraps I should dig out. Thanks!

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