Fields Of Heather

Free 3D Paper Cutting Files For Cricut

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Free Paper Cutting SVGS

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Where To Find Free 3D Paper Cutting SVGS

Listed By Type

Cliff Notes Version:

Fonts are typically Times New Roman (I used Obelix) & MF I Love Glitter
The closed heart in that font is the | key - look right below the backspace key on your keyboard, in I Love Glitter
Resize the I Love Glitter words to something huge like 200 wide before welding, to keep the centers of the letters from filling in. Size back down once welded.
I just use an iron, I've made hundreds of shirts now, all with an iron and have never had a problem.

The Step By Step Version

Use the | key to make the closed hearts between the names. (Optional - add the heart before and after the names) Here's a cheat sheet for fonts like I Love Glitter, with Easy Glyphs - http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/fonts-with-tails.html

Another font that is popular for these shirts is Unicorn Calligraphy. You can add text boxes for the hearts from I Love Glitter, between the names in the Unicorn Calligraphy font.

Below I show how I typed the names, in Times New Roman, with the second line being the same exact text in I Love Glitter

Change the text color to white, or any color you would like. I've seen this part done in teal and it was really pretty. Pink could be pretty too!

Next I went to Wordmark.it to see which of my system fonts I would like best for the word Mom. Times New Roman is the "standard" choice for this project, but I like to see my options. I then filtered my selections to all the ones I liked best:

From left to right:

Bernard, Bodini, Bodini Black, Broadway, Chuck Noon

Collegiate Black, Cooper Black, DK Jambo, Engravers MT, LilyBelle

Obelix Pro, Rockwell Condenses, Snap ITC, Times New Roman

I ended up choosing Obelix - one of my favorite fonts. But I started with Times New Roman, as shown below. To make the kids names better fit, I unlocked the text (bottom left) and resized just the height, making it about an inch tall, and 11.5 wide.

With the Obelix Pro font:

If making a shirt, you will be cutting this on HTV.

DON'T FORGET TO MIRROR!

I never trust myself to remember to mirror, so I always select all and flip horizontal - so my design looks backwards. Then I can just cut without choosing mirror.

HTV goes on the mat shiny side down.

Weed the design, press the black onto the shirt lightly - I pressed for about 10 seconds, with my iron set between cotton and wool, with a silicone baking sheet inside of the shirt.
Then place the white letters on top of the black, and press again - this time I did 15 seconds twice, all over the design. That was enough for the fibers of the shirt to show through the vinyl.

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More Projects & Free SVG's For Mothers Day:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/05/cricut-projects-free-svgs-for-mothers.html

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Geocaching Themed Novels - Part Two

Books To Read When You Can Be Caching - Part Two

Last year I compiled a list of geocaching themed fiction. This year when I went to update the post with the additional books that have been published, or that I have since learned about, there were just too many to add to the original post. You can see last years list here:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/geocaching-novels-mysteries-to-read.html

I've updated that post with my opinions of the ones I have read - my two favorites from that list were The Advocates Geocache by Teresa Burrell & To Cache A Killer by Karen Nortman

I also have a list of Young Adult Geocaching themed novels here:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/ya-geocaching-themed-novels.html

Hope You Guess My Name by Heather Harlen

If plucky heroines had their own secret society, Marina Koneyshna, Stephanie Plum and Bridget Jones would all know the handshake.
Life has gone to H-E-double hockey sticks for event planner Marina Konyeshna. A break up has forced her to move into her mom's basement, and her credit scores forecast she's going to stay there. When she meets Arman, a handsome client from Turkey, she jeopardizes her job for a date. Discovering the body of a young girl on the bank of the Susquehanna furthers her downward spiral.

When Arman invites Marina and her friends to participate in a geocaching competition, it's hard for her to pass up the possibility of prize money. As the competition unfolds through the backwoods, abandoned mines, and culm heaps of rustbelt, Pennsylvania, Marina discovers the link between her client and the murdered girl...and realizes what will happen if their team doesn't win.

Dead Place by Stephen Booth
I don't know exactly where geocaching fits in, as I haven't read it yet, but apparently this book does have geocaching in it. :-)

"This killing will be a model of perfection. An accomplishment to be proud of. And it could be tonight or maybe next week. But it will be soon. I promise."

The anonymous phone calls indicate a disturbed mind with an unnatural passion for death. Cooper and Fry are hoping against hope that the caller is just a harmless crank having some sick fun. But the clues woven through his disturbing messages point to the possibility of an all-too-real crime … especially when women begin to disappear.

This spine-chiller is perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and Robert Crais.

A Parallel Trust by James Stoddah

What begins as an exciting challenge turns into a countdown to save a young girl's life... As seventeen-year old Aril Ousby, the son of a renowned astrophysicist, embarks on a geocache treasure hunt in Britain, a series of kidnappings takes place in the United States. How are these events connected? Is Aril right to trust the enigmatic architect of the treasure hunt - or is he being led into an elaborate trap? Is the puzzle master motivated by altruism - or greed? And why has he chosen to involve Aril in his scheme? Aril and his friend Unity are drawn into a mystery that leads them to look at the Earth from a new perspective and to address a fundamental question: can future generations avoid the mistakes their parents made?

Why Casey Had To Die by L.C. Hayden
Link to the kindle edition

Harry Bronson is a retired detective drawn into investigating a case that has haunted him for over twenty years. The murder of Casey Secrist had been Bronson's first case. Her boyfriend was eventually implicated in her murder; however, Bronson never fully believed he was guilty. Bronson begins receiving mysterious notes and finds himself the host of a murder-mystery convention with an all too familiar plot. Following the murder of a convention member who appeared to have information about the case, Bronson finds himself with a group of suspects containing both familiar and unfamiliar faces. As Bronson becomes a suspect in the murder, his wife disappears and he must find a series of geocaches to find her and solve this decades old murder before the killer kills again.

Who wouldn't love the character of Harry Bronson? He is a smart, competent man who loves his wife and loves solving crimes. Throughout his career he was infamous for bending the rules slightly and he hasn't stopped now that he is retired. Drawn in from the first page, I was reluctant to put the book down until the very end. In "Why Casey Had to Die," L. C. Hayden has created a suspenseful tale full of interesting characters that will keep readers guessing. Every twist and turn adds depth to this well crafted story. All fans of whodunit mysteries will find a new series to devour. I am already anxiously awaiting the next Harry Bronson mystery.

Murder On Wheels (A Tourist Trap Mystery) by Lynn Cahoon

I'm not sure how much geocaching plays a part in this book, but it is part of the book, and the series reviews very well.

The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner—owner of Coffee, Books, and More—can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . .

Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there’s no curbing her enthusiasm—not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and steals her recipes. But when Kacey turns up dead on the beach and Jill’s best friend Sadie becomes the prime suspect, Jill needs to step on it to serve the real killer some just desserts.

Well Oiled By Reuben Johnson
It's 2041 in the potentially oil-rich southern California town of Mayberry. Cousins and triathletes, Joey and Frank, are in the throes of deciding about colleges and careers. At a triathlon, they make a new friend, Kodi, a triathlete and geocacher. Their world is rocked when they stumble on information that may explain the mysterious death of Frank's father ten years ago.

Follow the cousins on two distinct campbellian journeys through California, Mexican caves, and cyberspace as they try to unravel a mystery. Be thrilled as they try to follow the money through arcane bitcoin cyber-currency transactions involving mysterious foundations. Ponder the impact of Stabilization of Life unit medical technology. Check out how new drilling technology and oil money create havoc in an idyllic small town.

Serial Finder by David Klug
This is a novella that was originally posted online. I've heard a lot about it, but the online geocaching site it was originally published on no longer exists - So I was pretty excited to find it on amazon.

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Although not specifically about geocaching, this one may be interesting for those of us who do geocache:

Maphead by Ken Jennings
It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere. Jennings takes listeners on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. He also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been. From the "Here be dragons" parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. If you're an inveterate map lover yourself-or even if you're among the cartographically clueless who can get lost in a supermarket-let Ken Jennings be your guide to the strange world of mapheads.

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Read More About Our Geocaching Adventures & Tips Here
https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/p/geocaching.html

The Grass Is Always Greener... In The Pasture With Nothing In It

Tia & a few of the goats, checking to see if I opened the gate back up yet.

Yesterday, at my suggestion, Dan put a gate between the goat pen and the front pasture. The idea is that in the morning I can open the gate, the goats can go out to the front pasture to eat the abundance of grass there, and then in the afternoon when I feed them they will go back to their pen.

This is because we only have one cow currently. One lonely cow on 10 acres of pasture. And an abundance of goats, and a llama, in a very adequate, but much smaller, area. So we basically have 10 acres of free goat food, just out of reach of the goats.

Lets install a gate, and give the goats access to all of that free grass! What a great idea!

Day One: I open the gate, pet the baby goats, assure Tia the llama that it's safe, and watch them all happily munching on the grass in the front pasture. YAY! Success! This was such a great idea! I go back to the house and sit down with my laptop to work on a writing project.

Day One, 15 minutes later:
Piper, Meg's goat, trots purposefully past the living room window, straight to the feed barrel, and carefully opens the lid to eat straight from the barrel. Our backyard is not part of any pen or pasture. Neither is the driveway she walked in from.

I laugh, and head out to put her back in the pen. Piper's the oldest goat here, and a bit spoiled. She was originally raised in the house with diapers, bottle fed... and we've always left her choose her own pen, fences have never slowed her down much.

First I put the lid back on the grain, then I watched her easily open the lid once again while I was trying to unlatch the back gate.

Ok, so that's a TINY bit annoying. She can open that barrel in seconds, while it takes me no less than five minutes and three broken fingernails.

But she is pretty easy to work with, and I convinced her to go back in the pen, after putting some of the grain in the feeder for her.

A few more goats... and see how short the grass is here?

Day One, 25 minutes later:
Then I thought I had better check on the others, to make sure Piper had escaped through the fence, and not because a pasture gate was open.

As I walk out front, the first thing I see is the big billy goat in the calf feed barrel. This boy has a HUGE rack of horns, so this is physically impossible. The barrel is not that large. His horns have to be at least 4 feet across. He's a large Kiko billy. And yet, somehow he managed. He's also pretty tame (all of our goats are, for the most part) so when I hollered at him he went running... which scared the row of baby goats that were wandering down the lane.

In case it's not obvious, the lane is not inside the fence either.

This upset some of the mom goats, who then came through the pasture fence to the babies. And it got the attention of two more goats, who realized Horton the billy goat was no longer in the feed barrel, leaving it free for them to try.

So now the pasture has approximately 3 goats, one Scottish Highland cow, and, thank God, one llama. I'm not sure what I'd have done if Tia was loose.

I chase the goats out of the feed, lock the lid down tight, and head to the back yard, where I fill the goat feeders. I bang on the feeders and call... no response. I walk out front, and several are gathered around the feed barrel, working together to try to open it. Monsters.

Finally Sandy, who is not the oldest but is definitely Queen Goat, notices me holding a feed scoop and comes running to me. All of the others, including the llama, follow. Several jump on me and wrap around my legs as I walk. I feel like a master goat herder, if goat herders are supposed to look ridiculous and have no control over the goats.

As the goats finally notice the grain in their feeders, I head back to close the gate between the two pens... and Hilda, the very not tame scottish highlander cow meanders into the goat pen.

Day One, an Hour Later:
I could not convince Hilda that the grass truly is greener (SO much greener. Taller. And so much more of it.) on her side of the fence, so for now she's a goat. I did spend the next 20 minutes trying to get her to eat out of my hand... but she wasn't interested in getting that close.

To recap, after Dan spent a great deal of time installing a new gate so that the goats would have more grass to eat, I now have a cow, a llama, and a turkey in the goat pen with the goat, and I have 10 acres of completely empty pasture. (Did I mention the turkey? He didn't get in the way too much today, just followed along wondering what on earth I was doing, and taking advantage of the goat feeders being full with no goats around.)

Well that worked out about as well as most of my farm ideas.

But I got to pet Tia the llama, and I think Hilda the cow got a foot closer to me than ever before. I'm counting these as accomplishments, and hoping Dan still finds me amusing.... I had probably bake something, just to be sure.

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Day One - Lunch Time
I go to make myself lunch, look out the window and Tia is GLARING at the gate, ears back. So I go open it for her. There's still a cow in the goat pen, but now the pasture at least has a llama happily munching on it's abundant grass.

My Cricut Craft Space

I keep promising myself I'll get better pics of this area, but I never do, so this is what I already had, in answer to a popular question on facebook groups about small space craft organization. This is my space, how I organize it, and the tools I use.

This area is part of my laundry room. I'm standing with my back against the washer and dryer to take this photo.

The ironing board is where I iron on all of my htv, and I often use this as a table/work space for other projects as well. Yes, I know everyone says you cannot use an ironing board. I don't know what to tell them - I do. No problems. I use that iron sitting there, a silicone baking sheet inside/or under the item, parchment paper on top of the transfer sheet, and I iron. I've done at least 100 projects this way now - and none of them have peeled. I don't wash them special either - everything goes right in the regular laundry here, washer & dryer, unless it's nice enough to hang the laundry outside.

Before I got a cricut, I had a much larger sewing desk here. I had this old sewing machine cabinet (there's a sewing machine IN that stand, that I never use, as well as the one on top that I do use often) in the attic, and it replaced the desk so I had room to add the dresser for my cricut craft supplies. I use my sewing machine so much more now that I have a cricut! Pillow cases, curtains, tissue covers, key fobs...

The cabinet over the sewing machine is full of blanks. I do not sell - we just have a large family. On the inside of the door are sticky notes with project notes. Usually lists of things I am currently making, with measurements. I now have two command strip hooks under the cabinet, holding all of my cricut mats. (only one hook is shown here)

See that yellow fabric tape measure with the scissors, under the cabinet? Hands down, my most used tool with the cricut. I measure everything before designing, there's never a project where I don't use that tape measure!

The dresser was a facebook marketplace find. A little paint was all it needed. This is perfect for me. This is great storage for me - there's room for my phone on it's dock, my laptop, and my cricut. The drawers hold vinyl, projects, paper, and other supplies...
To the left is the counter where we have always kept the cats food dish. It keeps the dogs out of the catfood, but it also means that the cat jumps on this dresser, then on to the counter, to eat. He likes to sleep here a lot, so cat fur and cat foot prints are constantly an issue here. :-)

The top two drawers - on the left are extra tools, projects in progress, and mistake cuts - things that I cut the wrong size, or didn't mirror, and keep thinking I might be able to use some how, so I haven't thrown them out yet.... On the right is cardstock. (there's a basket of patterned paper off to the right, on top of the heater)

I never use the bluetooth option on my cricut. It's so convenient to just plug it in, I just haven't bothered. We use Bluetooth a lot here - Bluetooth speakers, and data transfers.. I notice the connection sometimes drops, especially in this room, so I just don't risk it not working well when using the cord is so convenient.

The middle drawers are my vinyl storage. These are 2-3 rolls deep. 651 & 631 on the left, htv on the right. Baskets for the scraps. I bought large bundles of colors off amazon when I first started. I don't really regret that, but if I had it to do over, I'd buy a LOT of black, white, Navy, and maybe two accent colors. I use so much black and white, I order that at least once a month. (LOVE amazon prime! free shipping!) The other color I have loved is that teal siser glitter htv. I never use much of it, I've only ever bought the one roll, it's an accent color, but it's one of my favorites! I don't really use cricut vinyl. I don't think the htv adheres as well, and I can buy Orcal 651 cheaply on amazon. Siser htv and Orcal 651 are what I use.

On the left is fabric for current or near future projects. Here currently is fabric for dog bandannas, pillow cases, and capes. I have more fabric in a closet in the downstairs bathroom. On the right is the contact paper (for transferring designs), freezer paper (for stencils), wax paper (for storing htv designs that are cut but nor ironed on) and some contact paper and fabric paper that I bought to play with but haven't actually used yet...

This room does not have great lighting. I found a shop light at Sam's club - it is easy to hang, plugs in, and is a great work light. It cost me around $30.
https://www.samsclub.com/sams/linkable-shop-light-honeywell-led/prod20590154.ip

The shelves over the windows hold more blanks and supplies.

To the right of the heater here, are my soap shelves. I use my cricut to make the labels for my soaps now, one of my favorite uses for this machine.

That's my space! I do keep a weeding tool, small scissors, and small garbage can beside my favorite chair in the living room. I do most of my weeding in front of the tv. I tried one of the light tracing pads for weeding, but it really isn't much help for me, I prefer overhead light. I think I'd like an ott overhead light, but I haven't purchased one yet..

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