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How To Create Wavy Text For FREE

 

How To Make Wavy Text FOR FREE - No Cricut Access Subscription Required!
Lots of options for customizing the types of wave, and your projects can be exported as svgs.
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Making Perforated Tickets With Cricut

 
Making Perforated Tickets With Cricut

My husband needed 70 tickets for a banquet the Masons are hosting.

There are two dinner options, and they need to know how many of each dinner is needed..  so the ideal ticket has the information on one side, to be kept by the purchaser, and a tear of section for the name and meal choice.  

For just 70 tickets, this was easy to do with cricut.  For larger numbers..  I think I'd have called our local printer and placed an order.   Doing it myself was MUCH much cheaper.  :-)  Here's how I did it:

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The Many Uses For "Offset" In Cricut Design Space

 

How to, and Why To, Use Offset In Design Space

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Changing The Text on The Okadee Macrame Designs

 

Modifying the Okadee Layered Mandala Macrame Files

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How To Merge SVG Files Into ONE File For Upload

 
In Cricuts Design Space, you can only upload one file at a time.  That can be time consuming for some projects - including the Dreaming Tree projects.  There are ways to combine svgs into one file, so that it is only one upload.  Some options work better than others, some are free, some are not.  Here are three that worked for me:

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SVG Merge Software  
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This is the option Dreaming Tree recommends
I believe that is also because it was created by Leo, from Dreaming Tree.  :-)
It is NOT free.  But you CAN try it out for free, in demo mode.
In July it was on sale for $15.

This is software, and will only work on computers - not on your phone.

It's quick and easy to use - just add your files, then at the bottom choose "Export All"
Name the file, and choose where it is saved.

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FREE Website
This is a free website, and I've had good luck with it for most files.  There are a few I have tried that just didn't work.  Quick and easy - and there's an app for this site in google play, so you may be able to use this on mobile devices too.

Choose your files, then click Merge.

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Free Inkscape Software
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This was so tedious and time consuming that I find it faster to just upload the files to Design Space one at a time.   You have to import each file into Inkscape, one at a time.  You cannot, at least not that I could find, import all the files at once.  So you import the files one at a time, then save as one file.  

To Set Inkscape Workspace As 12x12
File/Document Properties
Display Units - Choose Inches
Page Size - Custom / Units changed to Inches / set to 12x12

File/Save Template / Name Template as 12x12 Mat - Set As Default

Option Two in Inkscape:
If you use "Open" instead of Import, Inkscape will open all of the files in separate windows.

So you create your master workspace, 12x12.
Open all of the files, all in seperate windows.  Minimize each of the windows, except the master workspace.
Open the minimized windows one at a time, and copy them into the master work space.

Once you have copied them all to your master workspace, "Save As"

I don't see how any of this was any faster than just uploading the files one at a time to DS - but I could be wrong.  :-)

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Find An Index Of Cricut How Tos & Free SVGS
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/an-index-of-cricut-resources-how-tos.html
















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Addressing A Pre-Made Envelope With Cricut

 Addressing A Pre-Made Envelope With Cricut

To address a premade envelope, simply type your address in a text box, choose a "writing font" [one that works with the pens ] and set the line type to draw.  


Choosing Your Font:
When using pens in cricut, the pen follows the path of the blade - giving most text an "outline", or bubbled look.  Most will tell you to use an official Cricut Writing Font - and for those of you who pay the monthly fee to rent images and fonts from Cricut, that's a good idea.   

But for those of us who do not rent our images and text...  there are HUNDREDS of free options you can download and install..  Hairline fonts that will appear single line, and true single line fonts (which actually, often do not work as well as the hairline fonts, in Design Space).

I've already tested hundreds of fonts, in a variety of pen sizes, and included links on where to download the fonts.  You can find all of my samples, sorted by pen size, here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/6-single-line-fonts-that-will-write.html


But for addressing Christmas cards, I recommend sticking to the list of fonts that write well with the super fine tip pens.  Find that list here:
I have 48 fonts tested, and listed there, that I think work extremely well.  Links to download each of the fonts can be found on that site as well.

But for me - my two "go to" favorites are AlwaysHere, and Montepetrum.  

Click Make it.  But do not actually Make it yet!

Place your envelope on your mat.  Look at the grid and decide where you would like the machine to write.  For my envelope, I decided on 2.5  inches in, 2 inches down.


Look at the screen, click on the mat, then click on the address, and drag the address to the spot on the grid where you want it to draw.  See the image above?  I've moved the address down.  

Now click make it.

This time I used a plain old bic pen to write.  I use these a lot!


That's it!  Addressing envelopes with cricut is time consuming.  It is MUCH faster to use a program like word, and a printer, to print labels for on envelopes, or print right on envelopes with your printer.  But it's still nice to know how to do it with cricut too.

This is how I actually address my Christmas Cards - Using Mail Merge and Avery Labels.
Here's a step by step how to:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/12/using-mail-merge-avery-labels-to.html

I gave up on using home made envelopes awhile back - too many of my cards were returned as "undeliverable" by our post office.  Instead, I purchase these.  They are not the most inexpensive, but they are so pretty!  A pack of 50 costs around $14.  They come in a multitude of colors - from dark blue and dark green, to Ivory and White, with either silver, or gold, accents.
Find them here: https://amzn.to/3rjxjV5





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TIP - Search Your Purchase History

 
Did you know that most sites keep a record of all of your purchases - and in most cases, you can re-download anything you have bought?  Here's how:

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Free Ligature Fonts & How to Use Them

 
This weeks free font bundle is ligature fonts.  Here's a quick look at what that means, and how to use them, as well as a list of FREE Ligature fonts, for when this bundle is no longer free.
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An Owl Candy Holder, Using a Free Egg Holder SVG

   
The Owl Egg Holder, Turned Into  A Dome Candy Holder

My 2 year old Grandson was concerned that I had not only made a craft, but a craft with CANDY without his help.    :-) 
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How to Use Contour & Slice To Create You Own Shaped Card Inserts

  

This bundle was a daily freebie from Creative Fabrica - Free 11/9 Only

If you downloaded this bundle while it was free, you will find it only came with the white parts as svg.  Those background colors?  They are not included.  [Not that I would evey pay $30 for this bundle, but if I did, I'd be REALLY annoyed...  but that's the great thing about these daily freebies, we find which designers create products that work best for our style of crafting. ]  For those of us who downloaded this, or similar designs, here's how to create your own solid backgrounds, in those shapes.  It's not that hard, I promise.  :-)
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Using Weld & Slice To Make SVGS Better For Paper Cutting

I am using a paper bag puppet svg, free from Easy Paper Crafts for the example, but these are the concepts that will work for almost any svg.  This, for me, began when my grandson asked if we could make a dog craft today.  Of course!  I knew he'd love these puppets I saw awhile back.

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Making Planner Tabs, Using the Fill Feature In Design Space

 
I use print then cut to cut my planner tabs on sticker paper, then coat the sticker paper with clear contact paper before placing on the mat for cricut to cut them out.  (I use the cardstock setting and cut twice)


You can use any shape, and weld them together..  or download a set of free tab svgs.
DOWNLOAD TABS SVGS HERE


Upload to Design Space, Resize.
I used 1.624 wide

At the top of the screen, under fill, choose Print
Then click on the box to the right, and choose pattern
Now get ready to lose some time.  You can scroll, and scroll, and scroll...  there are SO many options!

Choose Filter and you can select colors to narrow the choices down.

Then I used the shape tool to add ovals for behind my text
And the Text Tool to Add Text.  Select all three parts, and align horizonally.


Then FLATTEN.
You always need to flatten for print then cut. If you do not flatten the text to a shape, each letter will be cut out.    Once all three parts are flattened into one image, cricut will print, then cut out just the shape of the tabs.

Once printed, I cover them in contact paper.  The same clear contact paper I use as transfer tape.

I used the cardstock setting, and when the machine was done, rather than click the arrow to eject the mat I clicked on the C again, so that the machine repeated the cut.  

I should have used a ruler and spaced these evenly, but the reality is, I'll add sections throughout the year, and tabs will overlap.  I'm ok with that.  It's much less noticeable when this is being used, than it is in this photo.  :-)


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How To Make A Leopard Print Design In Cricut


Step 1  - Download/ Upload Free Leopard Print SVG
https://crafthousesvg.com/products/free-leopard-print-svg-fb108?ref=6959505

Notice that it comes in two versions.  You will need to decide how many colors of vinyl you want to layer.  I started by uploading the pattern on the left, and making the truck a dark brown.  That would have been a LOT of layering, and I quickly decided to just make the truck the lighter brown, and only use the black part of the pattern.  
Upload the SVG to design space.
Remember that you have to unzip the file first, then upload the one that looks like an html file - it will most likely have the icon of whichever internet browser you use (Chrome, safari, etc)

Step 2 - Weld
 The example is still using multiple colors - again, I chose to make the truck brown and only use the black part of the pattern.

FIRST - If Using Two Colors  - Ungroup.
You do not have to ungroup each color, just ungroup the two colors from each other.    So the black and the brown are no longer grouped. 

If  two colors are grouped together, even if you only select one color, it may disappear in design space when you weld. 
Ungroup the two colors from each other first, then weld.

See in the photo above, on the right in the layers panel, where the down arrow is beside "Leopard-print-pattern"?  Click on that line.  It will select all of the brown below.  Once the brown is all selected, click weld.

Step 3 - Duplicate
At this point I knew I did not want to use three colors, so I deleted the brown, and made the truck that shade of brown.  Now when I add the black, I will have just two colors.
How many times you duplicate your pattern will depend on how large you want the print to be on your design, placement, etc.  I used 4 copies to cover my truck.

Step 4 - Weld Again, Then Slice
Over in the layers panel, select all of your leopard print patterns, and weld them.  Remember that for slice, you can only have two items selected at a time. Welding the 4 leopard print images shown in the photo above made them into one image.  The truck is also welded, so it is one image.  1+1=2 - so now I can select the truck and the leopard print, and slice.   
One sliced, drag the pieces around, and delete the extras.

I had the tires for he truck hidden out of the way, because I did not want the tires to be leopard print. Once I deleted the extras, and lined up the brown and black pieces I put the tires back in my design and attached them to the black version of the truck.


 Voila - A Leopard Print Truck.

If you prefer not to weed two colors and layer, you can purchase Leopard Print HTV instead.

Be sure to read the instructions, often patterned htv is different than regular htv.  You often will NOT reverse your design but rather use a special transfer sheet (mask) like you would with regular htv.  Save your clear plastic from regular htv to use as the mask, if one is not included with the patterned vinyl you order.
Duct Tape also comes in Leopard Print

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Where To Find Free Leopard Print SVGS
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/08/where-to-find-free-leopard-print-svgs.html

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How To Use Font Glyphs On Android (& IPad too)


Quick Links:

  • Creative Fabrica Online Fontcloud (It's Free)
  • Free Watershed Font (what I used for this test)
  • How To Install Fonts On Android ( Varies by phone & It's a waste of time, don't bother.  But if you REALLY want to, try one of these apps - iFont, FontFix, HiFont, or Fontster.) Then Download a Unicode App to view the glyphs on fonts you have installed. (I'm still comparing apps to find the "best" unicode app)
  • How To Install Fonts On Ipad  - Download the Anyfont App for $1.99 (But you won't need to do that, if you use fontcloud) Then download the Unicode App, for fonts you install on your device.
How to add fonts to an android phone varies by phone, and even by model - and is really not a great idea anyway.  You don't want your android operating system to use those fonts - you just want to put them together to use in Design Space.


FontCloud by Creative Fabrica, while not perfect, is a pretty good quick work around - AND it allows you to use the font glyphs too! Instead of installing the fonts, you upload them to fontcloud, then screenshot your text, and clean it up in Design Space.  It's an extra step, as there is no way to just save it as an svg - but it does work!  And unlike Design Space, fontcloud reads font kerning, so your text will be spaced perfectly, just as if you had used fontlab pad.

As an added benefit,  this free service now has all of your favorite fonts backed up. So if you lose your device, or it crashes, you still have all of your fonts, from any device you login from!

Once uploaded, you can see your text in every font you have uploaded, choose the one you like, add any glyphs, then turn your screen sideways, enlarge so the text fills the screen, and screenshot it.   Upload the screenshot to design space, erased the white background, and voila! 

Step By Step:


Any font will work, but I wanted to start with one that was not from Creative Fabrica, so you can see that it works with any font.  And I wanted to use one with glyphs, so you can see that glyphs work with this.  And of course, I wanted it to be free.  :-)

When you download this in android, it will go to the downloads folder, in a zip file.
To locate it, find the "My Files" app on our phone.  (Use the search option at the top of your apps screen, if you need help finding it.)  

 

There are two photos above.  On the left, in the My Files App, choose Downloads.
Locate the zip file and tap on it.

It should open, and you will see a screen similar to the photo on the right.
You can uncheck the macosx file -  it serves no purpose, even if you are using an apple device.  Then at the bottom of the screen, tap extract.

Now go to fontcloud:
And all the way at the bottom, on the right, choose upload


This part will vary by phone, but on mine, it will take me to a screen with my "recent" items, and the font will not appear here.  Click on the 3 lines to the left of recent

A menu drops down, and I can choose "Downloads" from there.



There are three files here.  I want the one at the top - the folder
The two underneath are zip files - they can be deleted, since I have already unzipped those fonts.  In that folder you will see a few files - and in this view, you will not be able to tell which is the otf.  If you want to know for sure, you can go back to the My Files app, and search for "watershed".  There you can see the file size for the OTF file.  Go back to fontcloud, and upload the file that is the correct size. If I were doing a bunch of files at once, I would create a folder on my phone and move all of the otf files to that folder, then upload them all from there.

When you type sample text in fontcloud, you will see it in every font you have uploaded there.  Similar to using WordMarkIt for viewing your installed fonts on  a computer.

Click on  the font you want to use, which today, is watershed.  I changed my sample text to "glyphs"

Scroll down and choose your glyph, just tap on it to copy, then scroll back up and press to paste.  At the very top, see the boxes with the x?  That's where I pasted a glpyh.  Right under that is the preview, showing the tail glyphs.

Tip - if your glyph is not pasting, make sure you are pressing in the sample text box, not in the white preview box.

Turn your phone sideways, make the image as large as you can, then take a screenshot.

Crop the image

Then Upload it to Design Space.  When you upload, use the wand to erase all of the white background.  It uploaded as one image, so no need to weld.

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Need More Free Fonts?
Here's Where To Find LOADS Of Them!

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/05/where-to-find-loads-of-free-fonts.html

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