The T-Shirts I Have Made
& Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Free SVGS For Making Your Own
& Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Free SVGS For Making Your Own
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Showing posts sorted by date for query Disney. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Where To Find Free Halloween Candy Holders & Treat Boxes
Where to Find Free Halloween Candy Holder SVGS
Sites With Free SVGS For Paper Crafting
An Alphabetical List Of Sites With Free SVGS for Making Paper Projects
- Awesome SVGS - there are some truly amazing projects here. You'll have to scroll a bit.
- Bearly Art
- Bich Paper Art (including a slice form Disney inspired globe)
- Craft With Sarah - Lots of incredible layered Mandala Designs, & more!
- Crafthouse - Layered 3d Section. There's also a nice selection of free egg holder svgs here, type "egg" in the search box.
- Cre8tive Cutz - Older site, hasn't been updated in years, but there are still some really nice designs here.
- Delia Creates - Just a few free files
- Designs By Miss Mandee (SO many incredible 3d Designs)
- Digital Gems - Regularly adds temporary freebies in addition to the regular all the time free designs.
- Domestic Heights - Can be difficult to navigate - use the search feature. Many files are not free, but there is a freebie library. Some lantern, tea light, and flower svgs here.
- Dreaming Tree - Amazing selection here. Cards, lanterns, tea lights, a bit of everything.
- Easy Paper Crafts - Some great files here - ranging from elegant, to kids crafts
- Essyjae 3D Paper Crafts
- Extraordinary Chaos Lots of fancy paper cut alphabets, and quite a few free layered designs too
- Gilded Stork - Just a few files, advent calendar, paper star, etc
- Gina Creates - although most of her designs are no longer free, there is a "forever free" section on her site
- Jennifer Maker
- LiveLoveDo - Lots of seasonal wreaths, and other layered paper designs
- Monica's Creative Room - 3d Section - Houses, gazebos, stars
- Papercrafts & Other Fun Things
- Simply Crafty
- Special Hearts Studio (I have made almost every project on this site. LOVE her designs)
- Sweet Red Poppy - A few layered Mandalas
- SVGCuts (great designs, but sometimes difficult to tell how great they are by the thumbnail svg. It's worth it to look around a bit though, I promise!)
- Tracy Lynn - there are a few projects here, including a 3d lighthouse
- Under A Cherry Tree
Where To Find Free SVGS For 3d Paper Projects
A list by Project Type
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Note - My long alphabetical list of sites with free svgs has been flagged as spam and removed by blogger. :-( I don't know if I will be able to recover it, or come up with a better option for posting it, so for now I'm attempting to split the list into smaller lists, and see if Blogger will allow that.
Tips & Tricks For Using Fonts In Cricut Design Space
Tips & Tricks For Using Fonts In Cricut Design Space
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An Index Of The Posts In The
Facebook 5pm Font Posts
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Where To Find Free SVGS
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I say it often - paying for Cricut Access is renting cut files. You cannot download them to your device, and as soon as you stop paying your rental fee, you lose access to all of those images, unless you purchase them. For some, this works great. It's like netflix for svgs. For me, I'd rather purchase one or two designs, than rent thousands I will never use.
And there is SO much available for free. You can spend hours each week just downloading free svgs, without ever paying a dime. Legitimate, real, layered cut files - not clipart you have to remove the background and clean up to use. Although you can certainly create cut files from clipart too. There are so many options. As with most of my posts here, I'll start with the "Quick Links" version - for those of you who want to get straight to it. Below those links is a longer, more detailed, explanation of where to find the lists, how to search, how to use my facebook group (I use topics and units there - so it's a little different than what most of you may be used to).
Quick Links:
- Free SVGS By Theme
- List of Sites With Free SVGS
- Sites With Daily Free SVGS
- Facebook Group Where I build the "Free by Theme" posts
- My facebook page Each Day I share a "Daily List Of Free Fonts & Free Svgs"
- How To Clean Up Simple Clipart to use as a cut file
- Sites and Software for converting an image into an svg
- Tips For Using Inkscape to Create SVGS
- TIP - SVG Files look like HTML files
- TIP - How To View Thumbnails Of SVG Files
- How To Quickly Sort SVG Bundles
- How to Use Free SVGS In Design Space
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First, How To Use Free SVGS In Design Space
Here is a step by step:
If you upload the SVG and you have the option to "clean it up", or the option to save as either a print then cut or a cut image - you probably uploaded the wrong file. SVGS look like html files.
For more information on what each of the files are that typically come in a download:
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Where To Find
The FREE SVGS
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Across the top of every page on this blog is a "header" with a list of options. If you click on "Free SVGS" a menu will drop down with some quick links, such as the list of sites with free svgs, the Free SVGS by theme index, etc.
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This Weeks List Of On Sale For Free
A good place to start is with my list, updated weekly, of "On Sale For Free" Svgs. These are typically svgs and fonts you would normally have to pay for, but that are offered "on sale for free" for a limited time, to introduce you to the site and the designers work. There are SO many freebies added each week. Most of the svgs and fonts on this list will come with a commercial use license, so you can use them on items you make to sell. I typically update the list on Thursdays, and I post on my facebook page when it is updated.
In addition, I keep a list of sites that frequently offer a new "Daily Free" svg, and sites that have a "freebie friday", new free svg each week.
Daily Free SVG:
Freebie Friday Sites:
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Free SVGS By Theme
I'm a compulsive list maker. On this site, and in my facebook group, I'veattempted to put my obsession to good use. :-) If you go to the Index of free theme svgs, there you will find categories such as Gnomes, Disney, Birthday, Paper Flowers, Earrings... and so many more. Click on each category to be taken to a page where I list the free svgs and where to download them. Typically the pages are in the format of Commercial Use svgs first, followed by Personal Use Svgs, followed by Projects, all in that theme.
If there is a theme you are looking for that is not in the index, be sure to check out my facebook group. That's where I "build" these themed posts, and there's a ton there that has not yet made it to the blog. In that group, I create a post, and then I add links as I come across them, in the comments.
Find the Group:
Cricut Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & More -
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Then there's the Site list.
Here I alphabetically list all of the sites I am aware of that offer free svgs. I try to add notes for each - labeling which is commercial use, which have mostly paper crafting designs, which require you to sign up to receive their emails in order to download, etc. The list is constantly growing, and I am constantly adding information. At last count, I believe there were more than 100 sites listed. I highlight my favorites at the top.
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Finding SVGS In My Facebook Group
I post a lot on both my facebook page, and also in my facebook group. In the group, everyone can ask questions, share projects, request me to watch for certain themed svgs, etc. In the midst of all of that, the Free SVG posts can sometimes get lost - but you can find them under "Topics".
On the page for the group, you will see options such as discussion, media, etc. Click on Topics.
When you click on any of the topics shown, it will take you to the posts that I have tagged with that topic.
There's also a Getting Started Unit in the group:
Clicking on each post in the "unit" will walk you through the basics of how this facebook group works, and where to find things.
You can also use the search box inside of a facebook group, to search for posts such as "making tumblers", or "free Dr Seuss Svgs".
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In addition to the facebook group, I have a facebook page.
The page is public - anyone can see that without joining. Every mornings I post a daily list of free fonts and free svgs here.
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How To Create Your Own
Cut Files
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Sometimes all of those options are still not enough, and you will want to create your own svg.
If the svg will be 100% text - just use Fontlab Pad. Type your text, save as an svg.
Quick and easy!
Simple clipart images are easy to "clean up" using the eraser and wand when uploading to Design Space. Here's a step by step:
Here's a comparison of some of the sites and software that will convert an image into an svg for you
Inkscape is the most popular free program for creating svgs from scratch.
But I, personally, do not find it simple to use. Here are some tips that may help -
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Tips For Sorting & Organizing
All Of Those Free SVGS
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How To View Thumbnails Of SVG Files
How To Quickly Sort SVG Bundles
And more tips for organizing your files:
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For an Index Of All Of My Cricut Related Posts:
Free Starbucks Inspired Coffee Ring SVGS
- You can buy the cups at any starbucks
- Dollar Tree sometimes has options that would work too!
- 12 pk Double Wall Tumblers With Lids & Straws $36 ($37 for color lids)
- 4 pk for $16
- Color Changing Cups
How To Use Free Dingbat Fonts As Cut Files
Did you know that there are many free fonts with graphics you can cut with your cricut? Not just flourishes and frames, but full sketches. For instance, here is Harry Potter & The Dingbats on dafont:
How To Use Free Dingbat Fonts As Cut Files
Every one of those images is already a "cut file". Use it just as you would any other font. For me, I open it in Fontlab Pad, so there is no need to install the font and clutter up my font list. You can use fonts right from the zip files in fontlab pad. (This will not work for ALL dingbat fonts. Sometimes you have to install them for FLP to read them)
For Dobby, I just had to type the letter K, as shown in the chart on the fonts download page.
Then I saved it as an svg, just as I would with any system font I want to use in Design Space. (Because, DS space does not read font kerning and never displays system fonts properly)
Then I upload it to Design space, just a I would any other svg.
Now, that does not mean this will cut well. Some of these images have a LOT of detail, and it could take awhile, or be a real pain to weed. But they will all cut.
More about Using Fontlab Pad
Free Dingbat Fonts
There are dingbat fonts for just about everything, from sports logos, to Disney, to Coffee & Unicorns. At Dafont, go to the Dingbat category - https://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=7
In the bar across the top you will see a listing for dingbat themes, you can click on any of these for more animals, or logos, etc. -
Please be aware that these are not all family friendly. Even in categories you might think would be.
Here's a sampling of what you will find:
There are 6 pages in the Tv & Movie Category. Star Wars, Hogwarts, Disney, Snoopy, Star Trek, Loony Toons, and so, so very much more
In the Games Category, you will find everything from playing cards, Poker, Chess, and Dice, to Mario Brothers and Sonic
In the Logos category you will find eveything from social media icons to football teams to fast food restaurants, and soda brands. All sorts of logos. (There's a whole category just for sports, too, find that here.)
In the Nature category there are mountains, leaves, MANY different flower designs (including the folk art style) and there was even a camper in one font.
Another example from the nature cateogory - fall designs, including Pooh & Hello Kitty
The Army Category has a lot of guns, ships, airplanes, targets... and even military designs such as the blue star mom flag, medal, army logo, and more.
The Horror Category is a lot of skulls and horror movie icons, but it's also where you will find several fonts full of sugar skulls
Here you will find everything from instruments and musical notes, to entire fonts dedicated to artists such as Bob Marley, Justin Bieber, and Michael Jackson.
This category is... diverse. Flags from various countries, drones, buses, buildings, more logos, cartoons, retro graphics, bicycles, watches... There's one called Transportation with everything from hotair baloons and trolleys to old cars, one of pirate ships, and one called "My town" that appears to just be everything in this persons town from a Burger King logo to a duck.
Also in Various -
The Kid Category is almost as diverse as the Various category. Everything from cartoons and cute animals, to babies, and animals on surfboards. Doodle Bears is especially cute.
Where To Find Loads Of Free Fonts
Where To Find Loads Of Free Fonts -
Even Ones With Glyphs & Commercial Use Licenses!
Even Ones With Glyphs & Commercial Use Licenses!
An Index
When you ask on any cricut list where to find free fonts, the first response, often the only response, will be Dafont. And Dafont IS an incredible resource! But before long, you will come across a font on Dafont, and wonder why you can't find all the pretty swirls and extras in the sample. That's because the vast majority of free fonts on dafont are demo versions. This is still incredible - SO many great free fonts, and often demo version is enough. But does that mean you need to purchase fonts, to get all of those swirls and extras? No. You certainly can, if there is one you love in particular. But there are SO SO SO very many free premium (with commercial use license included) fonts, loaded with glyphs, that it would be impossible to download and install them all. And that's before we even get to all of the $1 deals!
Reminder - I'm an affiliate for a number of sites, and it's possible that if you click on a link from this blog and then make a purchase, that I may benefit in some small way from that purchase. This in NO WAY changes the price you pay.
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Where To Find Free Fonts
By Type & Style
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Stencil fonts, wavy fonts, fancy fonts, farmhouse fonts, Halloween fonts, Monograms, fonts with hearts, fonts that work with the pens... so many options.
 Where to find free Disney, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and other popular themed, fonts |
 These are the fonts you typically want when cutting text from paper. The pieces will be connected, so no need to save the center of the e, for example |
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 This is an old post - but these are still some of my tried and true favorites |
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Fancy Fonts
Glyphs, Tails & Extras
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No Character Map Needed Use Keys like { } and ( ) To add the extras Find the free fonts, and cheat sheets
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Samantha Font Alternatives - Free Fonts With Lots Of Swirls & Glyphs [Character Map Required]
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Free Fonts That Work With The Draw
Or PEN Feature in Cricut
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 More than 100 free fonts tested by me, sorted by pen size, that work with the pens, without bubbling, in cricut |
 Often free fonts that work with the pens are not truly single line, but rather, fonts that are thin enough to "collapse on themselves" when writing. This is a list of TRUE single line fonts |
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 These fonts work with the pens in cricut, but are not traditional writing fonts They are fun fonts, great for posters |
 Options when choosing fonts that work with the pens in cricut |
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An Index Of Font Tips
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Ode To Typography By Paul Neruda
Entangled Gutenberg:
the house with spiders, in darkness,
Suddenly, a letter of gold enters through the
window.
Thus printing was born…
Letters,
long, severe, vertical,
made of pure line,
erect like a ship’s mast in the middle of
the page’s sea of confusion and turbulence;
algebraic Bodoni,
upright letters,
trim as whippets
subjected to the white rectangle of geometry;
Elzevirian vowels
stamped in the minute steel of the printshop
by the water,
in Flanders, in the channeled North ciphers
of the anchor;
characters of Aldus,
firm as the marine stature of Venice,
in whose mother waters,
like a leaning sail,
navigates the cursive curving the alphabet:
the air of the oceanic discoverers slanted
forever,
the profile of writing.
From medieval hands to your eye
advanced this N,
this double 8 this J,
this r of rey and rocio.
There they were wrought,
much as teeth, nails,
metallic hammers of language:
they beat each letter, erected it,
a small black statue on the whiteness,
a petal or a starry foot of thought
taking the form of a mighty river,
finding its way to the sea of nations
with the entire alphabet
illuminating the estuary.
The paper’s eyes,
eyes which looked
at men seeking their gifts,
their history, their loves;
extending the accumulated treasure;
suddenly spreading the slowness of wisdom
on the table like a deck of cards.
All the secret humus of the ages,
song, memory, revolt, blind parable,
suddenly were fecundity, granary, letters,
letters that traveled and kindled,
letters that sailed and conquered,
letters that awakened and climbed,
letters dove-shaped that flew,
letters scarlet on the snow,
punctuation, roads, building of letters.
Yet, when writing displays its rose gardens
and the letter its essential cultivation,
when you read the old and the new words,
the truths and the explorations,
I beg a thought
for the one who sets type,
for the linotypist with his lamp
like a pilot over the waves of language
ordering winds and foam,
shadow and stars in the book:
man and steel once more united
against the nocturnal wing of mystery,
sailing, researching ,composing.
Typography,
let me celebrate you
in the purity of your pure profiles,
in the vessel of the letter O,
in the flesh flower vase of the Y,
in the Q of Quevedo,
(how can my poetry
pass before that letter
and not feel
the ancient shiver of the dying sage?)
in the lily multi multiplied
of the V of victory,
in the E
escalated to climb to heaven,
in the Z
with its thunderbolt face,
in the near-orange P.
Love,
I love the letters of your hair,
the U of your look,
the S of your figure.
My love,
your hair surrounds me
as jungle or dictionary
with its profused red language.
In everything,
in the wake of the worm, one reads,
in the rose, one reads,
the roots are filled with letters
twisted by the dampness of the forest
and in the heavens of Isla Negra,
in the night, I read,
read in the coast’s cold firmament,
intense, diaphanous with beauty, unfurled,
with capital and lower case stars,
and exclamation points of frozen diamonds.
Yet the letter was not beauty alone,
but life,
peace for the soldier;
it went down to the solitudes of the mine,
and the miner read the hard and clandestine
flyer,
hid it in the folds of the secret heart and
above,
on earth he became another
and another was his word
Typography,
I am only a poet
and you are the flowery play of reason,
the movement of the chess bishops of intelligence
You rest neither at night nor in winter,
you circulate in the veins of our anatomy
and if you do sleep or fly away during the
night
or strike or fatigue or breakage of linotype,
you descend anew to the book or newspaper
like a cloud or birds to their nest.
You return to the system,
to the inevitable order of intelligence.
Letters!
continue to fall
like precise rain along my way.
Letters of all that lives and dies,
letters of light,
off moon, of silence of water,
I love you,
and in you
I gather not only thought and combat,
but your dress, senses and sounds:
A of glorious avena,
T of trigo and torre
and M
like your name of manzana.
Ode to Typography
—A Typographic Poem
Paul Neruda
—1964
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