Fields Of Heather

Where To Find Free SVG Cut Files For Cricut or Silhouette By Theme

An Alphabetical Index

of my "Where To Find Loads Of Free SVG" Posts, by theme

TIP - CNTRL F will bring up a search box that will search the text on this (or any) page, on most computers.

I don't have the patience to create a circle in design space and then add one letter at a time to curve text. I like to use curved text WAY too often for that, especially on all of these Christmas ornaments.

So I use phonto.
http://www.phon.to/
Phonto works on Android and Apple. I use an android, so my screen shots are from Android.

Open that app. Tap in the middle of the screen.
Choose Use Plain image
choose the first white box you see. All you need is a plain background.
Click on the pencil at the top of the app.
Type the first half of your text.

(Helpful comment from an iphone user - Just an FYI on the iPhone, no pencil image comes up. You swipe left once you type the text to find the ‘curve’ option.)

Now choose style, then click on the little arrow to the right of "Text Color"
a menu will drop down, choose curve.

Once you get the curve for the top half of your circle, click on the pencil again, and add the bottom part of your text. This time when you choose curve, move the curve negative - to the left.

Once you have your text in a circle, you can click on the three dots at the top and choose share. Most people use email - I share mine to facebook messnger, sent to myself. It just feels faster to me.

Then go to your computer, save the image, open it in design space. I choose simple, then make sure to erase your background - don't forget to erase the areas inside the e's and a's..

That's all there is to it!

How To Use The Samantha Font In Cricut Design Space

The Samantha Font has more glyphs than any other font I know of

Here's how to find, and use them - Step By Step

I love these! I do wish I had used white glitter though. I think the white background is a better look. I didn't have white glitter, and I was too impatient to wait...

First, go to the bitmoji app -

https://www.bitmoji.com/

Bitmoji is available for Android, Iphone, & windows chrome. My screen shots are from Android.

Create your bitmoji, if you do not already have one. There are TWO style options:

Click on the three dots on the right - that's where you will find settings,

Then choose Change Avatar Style.

This is the difference:

Bitmoji's all look a bit alike - and extra cartoonish.

Bitstrips are a bit more distinctive, and usually the choice you want for this project.

The images on this screen have necks and collars - so it is easiest to go back out to where you customize your image, and screenshot that screen:

crop that down -

Send this image from your phone to your computer. (Most email it to themselves, I like facebook messenger for quickly sending photos between my devices. Just send the message to yourself.)

Open Cricut design space, new project, and upload your screenshot.

Now start to delete the excess. This takes a bit of experimenting, to see what you like. Use the preview button in the bottom as you are erasing things, to decide what you like.

This is what I ended up with:

When you go to make this, be sure it it set to cut, NOT print and cut.

I sized it to just under 2x2 for this ornament.

And that's how I ended up with this:

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Free SVG Files For Christmas Ornaments
(a collection of links)
http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/free-svgs-for-christmas-ornaments.html

How to Make Floating Acetate Christmas Ornaments
http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/making-printable-acetate-christmas.html

Free SVGs for Christmas Ornaments

Where To Find Free SVGS For Making Christmas Ornaments

Floating Christmas Ornaments
I love these so much! They are photos printed on acetate (Transparency sheets) that "float" in the center of the ornaments.

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Who, What, Where, When & How - 9/29/17

Who I am listening to; What I am reading, Using, Making ; Where I am traveling; and When New books are releasing or events are happening, How to's I discovered or used, this week.

Who

I've been listening to John Grisham this week. He did a 13 week book tour in podcasts. It is fabulous. Each week he is in a different bookstore, with different authors from the area of the bookstore, and they talk about the writing process, books, and all sorts of things. Stop 13, with Lisa Scottoline, was one of my favorites - she's very funny, I definitely want to look for her weekly column.

What
My favorites were Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, and The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell. (A lot of Bronte readers were disappointed by the book - but I am not familiar enough with the facts about Brontes to pick up on any discrepancies that would irritate me, and I thoroughly enjoyed this as a light read)

Little Fires Everywhere started slow for me, and I almost didn't finish it. I head John Grisham say, in one of his podcasts, that he gives a book 50 pages, and if he doesn't like it, he puts it down and reads something else. I immediately thought I should move on from this book, then I looked and saw I was only 30 pages in. I decided to give it 50 - and by then I was hooked and had trouble putting it back down until I had finished reading it.

Genuine Fraud was another one that I really liked a lot. The book is told in reverse. Week 9, then week 8... and it was fun to see how things we thought we understood had different meaning when we heard what had happened earlier. It kept me off balance, making it take longer for me to "figure out" the mystery. I kind of loved it. Some have said it's a pretty direct rip off of another book - The Talented Mr Riply by Patricia Highsmith. I haven't read that, but I have added it to my to read list.

I have never read a Harlan Coben book I wouldn't recommend. I love his books. He was on one of Grisham's podcasts too - so I got to hear him talk about the book, and about his writing process, the same week I read his latest book. I enjoyed that a lot.

From my goodreads list - what I have read in September:

Where
"Today's adventure was supposed to be a train ride to bike 25 miles on the Lehigh gorge. But they sold out before we got our tickets.

I try to push my knee a bit harder on our Sunday trips... so today we decided to tackle the red trail at Bushkill falls. 1267 steps. Not walking steps - 1267 stairs. It's not a bad hike at all - I'm just still really struggling with this knee. But it's progress - I could at least do this today!" - fb post from 9/24

We certainly have traveled a lot this month! We have this HUGE shed project, and a zillion farm projects in progress. But on Sundays, we do not do farm work. To get away from all the work, and stress of the half done projects, we often take trips on Sundays. These double as therapy for my knee (still recovering from MCL surgery - apparently recovery is not nearly as fast as I thought it would be). So we take hikes and try things that I know will stretch me and my knee out of it's comfort zone. This past week-end, we traveled to Bushkill Falls. It was 90 degrees, but not so bad on the wooded trail. That was a LOT of steps for my knee, but I did well.

Afterwards we went to a geocaching event in NJ - but we were the only ones who showed up, besides the organizers.

I'm working on posts on all of our trips - this month alone we have taken road trips to Bushkill Falls, Wellsboro & The PA Grand Canyon, Worlds End & The Forksville General Store.

When
Coming Up -
Fort Freeland Heritage Days in Watsontown Pa
Our sons wedding!

September Events In The Valley -
http://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2017/09/events-in-valley-september-2017.html

How:

I made a vinyl decal for our mailbox, using Cricut. Step by step how to here:
http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/truck-mailbox-decal.html

Old Truck Mailbox Decal - A Cricut Project

2023 Update - nearly 6 years later, the snowplow has taken out this mailbox twice - and yet the vinyl is still completely intact and not loose at all. :-)

Quick Links:

Free Truck SVGS
651 Vinyl (My Favorites & Where to Buy It )

Next up in my mission to "Cricut All The Things" was our mailbox. I purchased this, one, because it was before I learned that there are so many free ones! I have a list of free little red truck svgs here -

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/11/vintage-red-truck-free-svgs-project.html

I added our last name, and our street number - in the elephant font.

https://fontzone.net/font-details/elephant

The mailbox has ridges, it is not a flat surface, but that oracle 651 went on beautifully. This was the easiest project I have done yet. Others have suggested rubbing a tennis ball over the 651 once applied - to help it attach to the grooves.

For the second side, I flipped the truck, so that on our mailbox the truck faces forward on both sides of the box.

More Free SVGS For Mailboxes:

https://freesvgdesigns.com/ornate-font-514/

For great extras under your initial or name, look at the Free Bergamot Ornament font

https://freesvgdesigns.com/vintage-elements-168/

Fonts With Tails (Glyphs) Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheets for "Easy Glyph" Fonts with Tails. No Character map needed, for these fonts you simply type characters like [ ] or ( ) to add the extra tails or swirls.

Links to download each font are found under the photos

Quick Tips:

These are "easy glyph" fonts, but many fonts with extra glyphs will require a character map. you can read more about how to use those here
Sometimes a font preview on dafont will show pretty tails, but you will not see them when you download the font. Dafont Fonts are frequently Free Demo Versions of commercial use fonts. The Demo versions usually do not include all of the extra glyphs.
Some fonts, like All The Roll, have ligatures—special effects that occur when you type certain letter combinations. You will never see these features in Design Space—use a free program like fontlab pad to display and space your system fonts properly and save as an svg.

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Fonts With Simple Tails

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Wagged Shorelines Script Aesteh Broken Heart

Kl Cupid Millennial Solstice Flowers2

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Cassandra Sunset Beach
Zebra Advert Sweet Hipster Afrinuma

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Fonts With Fancy Tails

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Awesome Birds Earth Quest Belived

Kindly Jasmine Rhinos Land Play Day

Shink LillyBelle Vacations In Paradise
High On Fire White Festive
Old Photograph Old Story

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Fonts With Heart Tails
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Bunch Blossoms Countryside Kelya
Hello Lovely Crazy Love Nirvana Yessy

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Fonts With "Splashes"
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All The Roll Anggrelli Avocado Creamy

Beauty And The Beast Bubblegum Ink

Hello Sunshine Honey Cute

Linglelenglang

Plastic Beauty Sky Blue Splatch

Spongecake Sweet Purple Yellow Rabbit

Plastic Beauty comes in two versions. You want the LIGHT version if you are using a cutting machine such as cricut or silhouette. The regular version will probably work too - but it has so many extra cuts (distressing) in it that it will take a long time to cut, and will be miserable to weed.