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Where To Find Free Birthday Card SVGS

 
Where To Find Free Birthday Card SVGS

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Writing On The Inside Of A Cricut Card

 
Cutting & Writing All In One Step
How To Have Cricut Write On The Inside Of A Stencil Cut Card
Free Rose Edge Card SVG Download Below

When cutting a stencil cut card, you can simply flip the design and have it cut backwards.  Then place the cardstock upside down on the mat (just as you would if you were using HTV) and it can write on the inside of the card (the back of your card stock) before cutting your design.  

If that was confusing, just stick with me, I have a step by step below.

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Where To Find Free Halloween Cards

 

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Free SVGS For 
HALLOWEEN CARDS
Find More Free Card Making SVGS Here:
Reminder - I'm an affiliate for several sites, and if you click on the links for FREE SVGS in this post and then make a purchase, I could possibly make a few cents in commission.  As always, this is no way effects the price you pay.
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A Haunted House Halloween Candy Box SVG, free from


Haunted House Cascade Card
Free SVG From

Free simple insert card svgs from

Graveyard Card, free svg from


Set of 4 cards, free from

All free From Drizy Studio

Pop up Halloween card - Free svg from


Free svg from

Halloween Cat Box Card, free svg from

https://www.simplycraftysvgs.com/shop/cards/folded-cards/boo-halloween-card/



Halloween Pop Up Card - free svg from
https://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-spooky-halloween-pop-up-card.html

Halloween House Cascade Card
Free svg from:
https://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2018/10/halloween-haunted-house-cascade-card.html

Graveyard Gate Card, Free svg from
https://bearly.art/products/graveyard-gate-card

A Rubberband Pop Up Halloween Card. Free Cut files and instructions from
https://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-rubber-band-pop-up-haunted-house-for.html

Free from:
https://birdscards.com/haunted-house-card/

https://crazycricutlady.com/pop-out-cube-halloween-card/

https://melaniescrafting.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-halloween-witchy-footwear-card.html

Halloween Slider Card svg
https://www.papercraftermagazine.co.uk/papercraft-projects/halloween-slider-card

https://melaniescrafting.blogspot.com/2012/10/flap-card.html

Halloween Step Sides Card svg free from
https://crazycricutlady.com/make-this-3d-halloween-sideways-step-card/

Free svg from
https://pattyannesplace.blog/library/



Free svg from

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The History of Greeting Cards

The history of greeting cards from their early Chinese and Egyptian origins to Europe and the U.S.

The history of greeting cards dates back to the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of goodwill to celebrate a New Year, and to early Egyptians who used papyrus scrolls to send greetings. Key dates in greeting card history include:

  • 1400’s: Europeans begin selling and exchanging handmade greeting cards, including Valentine’s Day cards (1415)
  • 1775: Members of the Second Continental Congress appoint a Postmaster General for the United Colonies, creating the U.S. Post Office Department (predecessor to the United States Postal Service – USPS) on July 26. The USPS is the second oldest federal department or agency.in the U.S.
  • 1800’s: Valentine’s cards become popular and affordable; the Penny Post debuts. Click here to look at some card samples from that time period. 
  • 1840: Postage stamp is introduced.
  • 1843: First known Christmas card is published in London when Sir Henry Cole hires artist John Calcott Horsley to design a holiday card for his friends.
  • 1849: Esther Howland becomes the first regular publisher of valentines in the U.S. and sells her first handmade Valentine. Howland establishes a successful publishing firm specializing in elaborately decorated cards.
  • 1856: German immigrant Louis Prang opens a small lithographic business near Boston, and America’s greeting card industry begins. The GCA recognizes the Father of the American Christmas Card with its annual LOUIE Awards, the definitive competition of the greeting card and social expression industry.
  • 1866: By this time, Prang perfected the color lithographic process, as shown in his reproductions of famous paintings, surpassing the quality produced by craftsmen in the U.S. and England.
  • 1870s (early): Prang publishes deluxe editions of Christmas cards, sold mainly in England.
  • 1875: Prang introduces the first complete line of Christmas cards in America.
  • 1941: A small group of publishers, under the leadership of George Burkhardt of Burkhardt-Warner, established the Greeting Card Industry, predecessor of today’s Greeting Card Association.
  • 1943: The association cooperated with the Post Office, later to become the United States Postal Service, on the first “Mail Early” Christmas campaign.
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Holiday History - From Hallmark
Always celebrated October 31
First Halloween Cards in the US were produced in 1908

Halloween is a secular celebration based on ancient Druid customs, dating back to 700 B.C. The Druids, a Celtic religious order in ancient Britain, Ireland and France, believed that the souls of the dead returned to mingle with the living on “hallowed eve”. People dressed in costumes to disguise themselves from these spirits.

Halloween first was celebrated in the United States in the 1840s, when Irish Catholics, fleeing from the potato famine, brought Halloween customs with them to America. The tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns originated with Irish children who carved out the centers of rutabagas, turnips and potatoes and placed candles inside.

The first Halloween cards in the U.S. were produced in 1908. Hallmark produced its first Halloween cards in the 1920s along with a limited line of Halloween party accessories, such as nut cups and bridge tallies. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hallmark began producing Halloween centerpieces, masks, children’s things and paper partyware items.

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Christmas In July Week Two - Getting Ready For Christmas Card Making

Christmas In July Week Two
Getting Ready For The Christmas Card Making & Addressing

I keep a basket just for Christmas Cards.  In the back is a printed version of our card list, all of the printed Avery labels to address this years cards, return address labels, card saying inserts, and completed cards. Read more about all of those things, here:
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Making "Saying Inserts" For Christmas Cards

 
Christmas Card Inserts
On my desk this afternoon - inserts for some of my Christmas cards.  These get glued into the inside of my cards.
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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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Pop Up Puppy Card - From PDF to SVG

 

Making A Children's Birthday Card -
Using a pdf file converted to svg, and made with the help of my 3 year old assistant.  :-)  
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Where To Find FREE Sympathy Card SVGS

 
Where To Find Free Sympathy Card SVGS
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Sympathy Cards With Cricut

 
Restocking my sympathy card selection, these are the designs I made this time -
Some are free svgs, some are not free.
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Easter Basket Card

 
How to make an Easter Basket Card
With Free svgs, and Step by Step Instructions
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Nativity Pop Up Cards - Color & Light Options

 
A Light Up Pop Up Nativity Card
I made 8, in a variety of colors, and then tried a few different light options, after sizing the card down to fit in a standard envelope.  With a fairy light pack, this DOES fit in a standard envelope!  If mailing, I'd definitely check to make sure it doesn't require extra postage.

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Supplies:
  • [NOT FREE] SVG 
  • Lights - Options below - but for mailing, you will want these (these are also what we used for the light up nativity and angel from Special Hearts Studio in 2020, so you may still have a few left)
  • Three sheets of 8.5x11 cardstock.  
  • Glue - I used a glue stick and hot glue
This svg, as uploaded, will make a card 7.7 x 5.5
That's just slightly too large for a standard 5x7 envelope.

To fix that, make sure the svg is ungrouped, Select all, align center.
Then with all images selected, size to 6.9 wide.  It will default to 9.907 tall.

Now the finished card will fit nicely into a 5.7 envelope - even with the fairy light pack inside.  (There IS a card, with light pack,  inside the envelope shown here)

Aren't those envelopes gorgeous?  They come in green, blue, and other colors too
Find them on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Sfc67l

NOTE - When folded, the outside of this card is completely blank.  I haven't decided what I will do on the outside yet - but possibly something print then cut, to not add additional bulk.  But then again, maybe not...  I don't think I will be mailing these, I think all of mine will be hand delivered.

There is a pdf file in the svg download with instructions for assembling the cards.  They are pretty quick and simple to make!

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COLORS
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A variety of options in progress on my desk

Gold Foil for the inserts and background makes a HUGE impact.  It's my favorite, and much better in person than in the photos.

With the Blue, I did some silver foil background, but it really did not make much difference, when compared with the grey background.  If I were going to do more with the silver foil, I'd definitely cut the insert pieces from the silver foil too.

The Kraft Brown paper and white is probably my second favorite - but I have a rustic farmhouse, so this one goes best with my decor here.

Blue with a grey background and white inserts would be my go to color choice, if not using foil.

The original example uses yellow- which is nice, but not my favorite.

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LIGHTS
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Fairy Lights (currently on sale, a 6 pack is less than $10)
Battery Operated Tea Light (2 pack at the Dollar Tree) 
Mini Submersible LED lights (mine are color changing)
Dollar Tree Battery Operated 10 Light Set

My favorite is actually the tea light, in several cases.  However, that will NOT work for mailing and is not as bright.    It's a tight fit - I could barely fit it into the back of the card.

Overall, the fairy lights with the tiny thin battery pack is ideal - they fit right in the card for mailing.  These are the same lights I used in the light up angel, and light up nativity, from Special Hearts Studio (links at the bottom of this post) so I already had these on hand.

The mini submersible light fits better than the regular tea light, but still would not working for mailing.  Mine, a gift from my mom (I have BOXES of them!) are color changing, which I didn't love for this particular project.  

The Dollar Tree Battery Pack of 10 lights was my worst option.  They are not very bright, but the cord takes up a lot of room and looks messier.  The battery pack really does not fit - you need to put that behind the card for the lights to fit in.  

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More Projects That Use Those Tiny Fairy Light Packs

When I went to Amazon to see if they still have the lights I used (leftover from projects I made two years ago) they not only still have them, but they are on sale - a 6 pack is less than $10 right now.
The Lights - https://amzn.to/3Rb5zJz

Projects I've used these lights in:
Nativity Pop Up card shown above

Light Up Nativity (this folds down and stores in the base! Love that! ) FREE svg - https://specialheartstudio.com/3d-layered-nativity/

Light up Paper Angel - FREE svg - https://specialheartstudio.com/layered-christmas-angel/

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