Making Cards With Cricut

  Tips, Tricks, Projects & Resources 

For Making Cards With Cricut

I am always telling new cricut users to NOT try to learn everything at once.  Choose one project you want to make.  Learn how to make that.  Then move on to the next thing you want to make.  What you need to know to make 3d Paper projects is so different than what you need to know for cutting faux leather, and what you need to know for making a t-shirt is different than what you need to know for putting a name on a tumbler...  

 There are a LOT of great designers with free tutorials and free svgs to get you started, with every type of project, in addition to the projects and resources I have here on this blog.  This series of blog posts is my attempt to direct you to the resources for each type of project. 

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Supplies For Card Making Projects:

My Favorite Glue For Card Making are plain old Elmer Glue Sticks

My Favorite Cardstock Brands & Where To Find Them

My Favorite Envelopes

This image from a printing site gives a quick overview of standard card sizes, and the envelope size needed for each.   If you want to make a 5x7 card in cricut, your base would be 10x7, so that the size when folded in half is 5x7.

Card Making Tips & Tricks:

How To Write On the Inside Of a Card	When cutting text from paper, for on the front of greeting cards in particular, stencil fonts often work best.   This style of font cuts away with no need to save the little inside pieces in letters like e, and a.	Making A Side Edge Card With Offset
Sometimes when you download a card svg, it's not really a card, but just a design to cut ON a card.  Here's how to convert that to an actual card	FREE fonts that work with the pens in cricut	Prepping For Making Christmas Cards
Using Mail Merge &  Avery Labels To Address Cards	Addressing a Pre-Made Envelope with Cricut	Making Sentiment Inserts For Cards

Using Slice & Contour To add your own shaped inserts

Converting a Layered Mandala Into a Card

Card Making Projects Here On My Blog:

Free Tractor Card SVG	Free Birthday Card SVG	Easter Basket Card Free SVG
3 of my favorite card svgs Modified for a variety of occasions	Turning A PDF card Into an svg	Combining Print Then Cut & Cut Elements in One Card
	Free SVG And Tutorial For Making A Stitched Christmas Card

OTHER CARDS I HAVE MADE:

This pop up photo card folds flat!  I made it for a 90th birthday card.   Free file from Minor DIY	NOT FREE designs But I love pop up elements!

An Index Of Free Card Making SVGS By Occasion

CARD MAKING CRAFTERS TO FOLLOW:

Minor DIY	Monica's Creative Room An amazing collection of  FREE blank cards.  Fancy edge, gate fold, 4 fold, and more.	The Bearded Housewife
Craft With Sarah LOTS of creative card tutorials!	Shirley's Cards A blog FULL of card making designs	Birds Cards Another Blog Full Of Card Making Designs