Showing posts with label cricut card making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cricut card making. Show all posts

Lioness & Lions Club SVGS

 
I made these  specifically for our local  Lioness Lions club, while I was secretary.  Now that I am no longer a member, some of the members were wondering how to make more of the items. 
 I'm certain Lions Club is copyrighted, none of these items should be made to sell.

But to make for yourselves, you should be completely fine.  

Lioness Tote Bag



After uploading the svg, I deleted [contoured] the word "international"
Because it was too much of a pain to cut and weed at that size. In later versions, I deleted the "Lions" in that same circle, for the same reason.
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Lioness Thank You Notes

The purple were the favorites, but remember that if you use purple, you will need to add white on the inside to write on.  These did work nicely  to  print the thank you message on a white rectangle and glue it inside.
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Lioness Christmas Card
This is the Thank You Note, Minus the Thank you, and with a few additions.
I did not include the text in the svg.
The font I used is Montepetrum, it's free on Dafont.
I changed the text to "Draw" and had cricut write the text using the pen.

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DOWNLOAD ALL THE SVGS IN ONE ZIP FILE

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EPS & PNG versions of the logos can be found on the Lions Club Site here:
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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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Tractor Card - Free SVG

Free Tractor Card SVG
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Make A Side Edge Card with Offset

 

Here's a really quick look at how to make a side edge card with offset.

Add your shape [rectangle or square]. Add your text, or images. Add an offset to the text or images. Weld the offset to the base shape.
It really is super quick and easy!

Find an index of card making resources - tips, tricks, and free svgs, here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/01/free-svgs-for-card-making.html


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Where To Find Free Birthday Card SVGS

 
Where To Find Free Birthday Card SVGS

Affiliate Disclosure - As an affiliate for a variety of sites, if you click on the links in this post and choose to make a purchase, I may receive a small commission. This in no way effects the price you will be charged.
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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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