Pop Up Valentines Day Card

Converting the Free Mr & Mrs Card SVG into a Valentines Day Card SVG

[I've included an svg of the Happy Valentines Day Text I used, near the bottom of this post]

This is a free svg from

I love these pop up designs!  The Cricut does most of the work for these, making an impressive looking card with very little effort.

I thought this one would make a great Valentine! 

The Mr. & Mrs. is a lot of pieces, and took a bit longer to contour out than most text.  
I found it easiest to enlarge the view to 150% 
[on the bottom left, where it currently shows 86%]

Once I removed the Mr. & Mrs., there were two hearts on the right, and none on the left.
I used the heart shape, from the shapes panel in design space - so now there are 4 hearts.

Once you have added the new text, do not forget to attach!
You can slice the text, if you prefer, but it is not necessary.  If you just attach the text to the white card, it will cut where you placed it.

For designs like this, stencil fonts work best because they will cut the text without dropping the centers of the letters.  In other words, you do not have to piece these back together once they cut.




I don't install the majority of my fonts - I simply store them in folders by type.  So I have a folder of stencil fonts  to choose from, all of which I could view quickly in the free version of the Maintype Font Manager.  You can read more about how I manage and use fonts, without installing them,  here:

Here's a list of free stencil fonts

I use a lot of free fonts, but I also have a LOT of commercial use fonts, downloaded as part of my Creative Fabrica Membership.


The download includes 3 svgs - 
First is Happy Valentines Day in a single line font, meant for pens. 

Second is a Stencil version I liked, but for some reason when I used it on this card, my Maker would destroy the a in Happy every single time.  Not any of the other a's, just that one.  And it cut fine in my Air2.  I don't know what my Makers issue was with this - but I frequently have issues with that machine, so it may just be my machine.

The third svg is the one I ended up using on this card.


I frequently will cut the inserts [the red rectangle, for this one] using my paper cutter rather than the cricut, as I find it's quicker. and can be done while the cricut is cutting out the more intricate piece.

On my Maker I used the Intricate Cuts setting.
On my Air 2, I used the cardstock setting.

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