Stocking Stuffer - EOS cards

 

To attach the EOS, you need to open it, put the back through the back, and then put the lid on the top front.

This all started when I saw these:
https://www.theidearoom.net/eos-christmas-gift/
But those are all printables, and then you cut them out by hand, cut the circle out by hand... I didn't spend all of this money on a cricut to cut things out by hand.  :-)

So I went looking for options.  And found a zillion ideas on pinterest, with links that do not work.  There went a good hour of my morning.  So I gave up and decided to figure out how to do this on my own - it couldn't be that hard, right?  Right.  it's not hard at all.  There are lots of free svgs that will work for this, basically you just have to slice a circle out of them.

I started with the basic reindeer silhouette svg found here.
Upload it into design space, unlocked it, and resized it to 5.034x4.804 - making it slightly thinner than the original, to better frame the round EOS nose.

For the EOS containers, you want a 1.460 inch circle

Don't waste your time, like i did, trying to drag the circle to the exact right size.  look at the top of the grid, see where it says size?  You can type the number right in there.

Then I created a 5.5 x 6.9 White rectangle, and sent it to the back.  I added the text "Merry Christmas". Looking at my list of 6  fonts that write in cricut, I chose Simply Glamorous.  Don't forget to switch it to write, over on the far right menu.  

Next select the red nose, and the white background, and choose slice.  This will cut the hole in the white card stock, for the red EOS container to stick through.  You can delete the red and white circles the slice created, I left the red one in the photo above, but you will not want that to cut.

Then last, select the writing, and the white rectangle, and attach.  If you do this sooner, you will not be able to slice.  If you forget to do this, it will not write where you want it on the card.

Here's another example.  I started with this file from Love SVG:

Santa, Snowman & Reindeer Singing
https://lovesvg.com/2017/11/santa-reindeer-snowman-singing-4871/

Ungroup.  Delete the musical notes. Create 3 1.460  circles.  Resize the images until it looks like the circles will work as the "noses".  Then on each image, ungroup, and ungroup, and ungroup until you can delete the noses and rotate and remove the rest of the facial features.  I rotated the snowman's hat too.

That left me with something like this:

The next step takes a bit of time.  It's not hard, but you have to ungroup, ungroup, ungroup...  so that you can slice.  You can only choose slice with two images selected at one time.  So if two images are grouped, and you chose the circle as the 3rd image, it will not slice.  Ungroup, ungroup, ungroup.  At this stage, I decide I did not need the pink face for santa, and I removed that completely.  Once the first slice is done for each face, I regrouped each face, so I can move them around without messing up the design.

Then I repeated the process of creating the rectangles, adding the text, and slicing the "noses" out of the white rectangles as well - leaving me with what you see above.  

Throughout this entire process, I was still obsessed with the original penguin in the print option at the very first link.  So I decided to convert it to a print and cut for the cricut.  First I cropped the graphic down to just the penguin, uploaded it to design space, and erased the circle, and all the white.  

Same as for the others - create the rectangle, slice the nose out... add text.  This time i told the text to be print, not write, since it will be printing the penguin.  Then when I had everything placed correctly, I chose select all, and flatten.

As you can see at the top right, that left me with one print and cut image.  

These are some other svg files I may try using for this project:
https://lovesvg.com/2017/12/penguin-and-reindeer-4942/
http://svgcuts.com/blog/2012/12/08/reindeer-candy-cane-free-svg/
http://svgcuts.com/blog/2012/12/14/merry-moose-cutie-free-svg/
https://lovesvg.com/2017/11/reindeers-are-better-than-people-4684/