overview
Pencil Card
Updated: August 27, 2025
With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make gorgeous Pencil Gift Card by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills, in this opportunity the theme is “Back To School” or “Teacher appreciation day”, you can add the teacher’s name, a phrase, a sentiment, anything that you want to give to your kid’s teacher.
Difficulty: intermediate
Design: ~40 minutes
Assembly: ~25 minutes
Cutting: ~15 minutes
Material Cost: ~$10
Final Size: 7.3 x 7.7 Open Card
Skills
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following skills:
- Slice shapes
- Upload Fonts
- Add Shapes
- Resize Elements
- Add Text and Change Fonts
- Delete Elements
- Change colors
- Rotate Shapes
- Duplicate elements
- Align elements
- Change operations from Cut to Pen
- Use scoring lines
- Create Offsets
materials
- Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
- LightGrip cutting mat ($16.99)
- Scoring tool ($10.69)
- Cricut Pens ($12.87)
- Glue ($14.99)
- (Optional) Ink ($8.98)
- 1 Sheet Wood Cardstock Pattern 8.5” x 11” ($7.19)
- Cardstock 65 Lb 8.5” X 11”($11.99)
- 1 Sheet Black
- 1 Sheet Yellow
- 1 Sheet Dark Red
- 1 Sheet White
- 1 Sheet Gray
- 1 Sheet Pink