Grab the FREE teacher gift card holder SVG and learn how to make a quick Christmas gift
Check teacher gift off your Holiday to do list with this FREE teacher gift card holder SVG below. Use your Cricut machine to make a personalized Hot Chocolate gift card holder ornament for your child’s teacher.
If you are like me, each school year you are looking for fun and unique ways to give gifts of appreciation to your kid’s teachers. Teachers love to receive gift cards as gifts. But gift cards don’t allow for much creativity. That’s not an issue with a Cricut machine.
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A Cricut machine makes this teacher gift card holder Christmas ornament project a breeze. With Cricut Design space, use the text curve tool to add the teachers name to the bottom of the mug. The teacher gift card holder SVG project uses a scoring tool and is compatible with the Cricut Explore Air 3 or Cricut Maker 3.
With this project, I will share tips to combine both cardstock and vinyl to personalize the gift card holder.
Where can I find the cut file?
Grab the free teacher gift card holder SVG cut file from my resource library in the Christmas craft freebie section. Then upload the SVG cut file into Cricut Design Space.
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What do I need to make the Teacher gift card holder SVG with Cricut?
- Cricut Machine
- Cricut machine mats
- Scoring wheel (or a scoring stylus)
- Paper glue
- Cardstock
- Removable vinyl
- Paper bone folder (optional)
- Brayer (optional)
How do I make the teacher gift card holder SVG?
Start this project by uploading the cut file. The filename is SVG – Hot Chocolate Gift card mug.svg
Click on Upload which is on the left side of the screen. Then click Upload Image. You can either click the browse button or drag and drop the cut file into the Cricut Design Space window.
Click upload. Then select the design so that the green box is around it and click Add to Canvas.
Once the cut file is in Cricut Design Space, update the envelope lines to score lines and attach the score lines to the envelope shape.
How to personalize the teacher gift card holder SVG
At this point, the gift card holder is ready to make. However, you may want to personalize the project with the teacher’s name.
To personalize, use the text tool to add text and choose a font. I used the font Melody Stores.
Next, I used the curve tool to adjust the text around the bottom curve of the teacher gift card holder SVG mug.
Oftentimes, when curing text, you will also need to adjust the spacing between letters. This is because as the text curves, more space is added between the letters to create the curve.
Use the letter spacing feature on the top menu to adjust the spacing between letters.
Cut out the project with your Cricut machine
For this project I used a combination of smooth cardstock and foil cardstock. You can cut the teacher gift card holder SVG project with any cardstock of your choice.
Most of the gift card holder project is made with cardstock, however, I cut the name with vinyl and applied it to the cardstock.
Check out this post to learn how to apply both adhesive and iron-on vinyl to cardstock.
When cutting out the envelope for the gift card holder, add a scoring wheel or scoring stylus to the cricut machine to add score lines.
How to assemble the Hot Chocolate gift card holder
Once all the pieces are cut for the teacher gift card holder SVG, weed the vinyl to remove the extra parts.
Add the name in vinyl to the bottom with the mug using a transfer tape that is low tac or low stickiness. Or you can see my trick for adding vinyl to cardstock here.
To make the envelope, fold in the 3 score lines. Apply glue or double sided tape to the small flaps, then fold together to create an envelope.
Continue assembling the mug with the white top section, then add the red candy cane layer on top.
Lastly, add the envelope to the middle of the mug with glue or double sided tape. Leave space at the top of the envelope for the gift card.
And that’s it! Your hot chocolate teacher gift card holder SVG is ready to be gifted. I hope you had fun making this project.
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