My nearly 3 year old grandson loves to craft with Grandma, and paper bag puppets are currently one of his favorite things to make. I haven't been able to find many free svgs for them, so I have been creating some of my own.
Easter Explosion Basket
This Easter Basket Opens in Layers, each layer having another selection of candy.
There's a free svg for making this, but I found that it's easier, and faster, to cut the majority of this by hand. All of my accessories were cut with cricut, and the handle, which is part of the svg, I also cut with cricut.
An Easter Candy Explosion Basket
On my desk this morning... the Easter Candy Explosion Box From Minor DIY . Trust me, it's easier than it looks to make this! Once you make one, it will be really quick to make more.
The explosion box svg is from:
It's made from Dollar Tree Posterboard, which cuts well on the medium cardstock, more pressure setting.
(I tried the posterboard setting and it did not work nearly as well)
For the rectangle cuts, I cut them by hand with an exacto knife. You have to cut the posterboard down to make it fit on a mat anyway, so since I was already cutting, I figured I might as well just cut to size.
I think it was a LOT faster than feeding all those mats into the machine.
I did cut all of the lids and the handles with the cricut. I changed everything to white, since I was using all white posterboard, and changed the mat size to 12x24. Then I cut posterboard down to 12x24 to fit on my 12x24 mats.
My machine made a weird extra cut in the handle. Just random - it doesn't appear in the svg. I have a strong love hate relationship with my new maker, it does a lot of odd things like this.
So I covered it with a flower that I had made when I was trying out a variety of free daisy svgs
All of the elements I added were things I had premade, near my craft desk. I was in a rush - so it was what I saw and could grab quickly. 🙂
The bunny card on top of the box was a limited time free svg - the card is no longer free, but the basic bunny is:
The Bunny Head free svg is from the slider card tutorial here -
The mandala bunny is a free svg from:
The Flower on the smallest box is from the free flower card svg here:
(I make this card a LOT - it's one of my favorites!)
I only used the extra insert support panels on the outside layer. I think it will depend on the candy you use, but that worked for me.
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NOT FREE
Dreaming Tree has a different version, here:
Easter Pie (Pizza Gaina)
Years ago a friend brought us an "Easter Pie"
Her recipe, from her grandmother, uses Ricotta, Romano, Pepperoni, Salami, Hard boiled eggs, Acini di pepe (a pasta), and salt and pepper. (That is not what is shown here)
An Italian dish, this is also known as Pizza Rustica. There are dozens of variations of the recipe, and I make it a little differently every time. They are most commonly filled with ham, salami, prosciutto, ricotta, mozzarella, and romano cheeses.. Hard boiled eggs are frequently used as well.
Some recipes layer the meats, others chop them and mix everything together.
Some even add spinach, or artichokes. Much like a quiche, you can make endless variations.
Note - many traditional recipes use "basket cheese". Basket cheese is very similar to fresh homemade mozzarella, but many recipes offer ricotta as a substitute. Either works.
I rarely use a an actual recipe for much of anything, much to my daughter in laws dismay. In recent years I've made more of an attempt to write down basic recipes that are the "starting point" at least. This is the "starting point" recipe for my Easter Pie in 2020. I'm going to try to remember to come back each year and add the different variations as I try them, but it took me until 2023 to finish this 2020 post... so we'll see how that goes. :-)
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Basic Pizza Rustica - No Pasta Nor Ricotta
1/4 lb slicing peperoni (sliced at the deli)
1/4 lb mortadella (bologna)
1/4 lb capicola or ham
1/4 lb genoa salami
1/4 lb prosciutto
4 hard boiled eggs
1/2 lb provolone (sharp or mild to your preference)
1 lb mozzarella cheese, fresh or regular or basket cheese if available
10 eggs, beaten
2 pk Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust (or make your own!)
THIS MAKES TWO PIES
Prebake the bottom crust. Layer the ingredients:
Pepperoni
Beaten Egg
Bologna
1/4 of the mozzarella
capicola
beaten eggs
provolone
sliced hard boiled eggs
prosciutto
beaten eggs
1/4 mozzarella
salami
rest of the beaten eggs
press down gently, top with pie crust
Pepperoni
Beaten Egg
Bologna
1/4 of the mozzarella
capicola
beaten eggs
provolone
sliced hard boiled eggs
prosciutto
beaten eggs
1/4 mozzarella
salami
rest of the beaten eggs
press down gently, top with pie crust
Brush the top of the crust with a beaten egg.
Some like to make this deeper, in a springform pan.
I like a deep pie dish for mine.
Cut vents into your top crust.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes, then either brush with more egg, or cover with foil, and bake for another 45 minutes.
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Free Fonts With Lots Of Swirls - No Character Map Needed
Free Fonts With Lots Of Swirls
No Character Map Needed
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Paper Crafts For St Patricks Day - FREE SVGS
Where To Find Free SVGS For St Patrick's Day Paper Crafting
Paper Crafting Tips:
- I mostly use cardstock from Hobby Lobby or Michaels. Paper is 40% off every other week at Hobby Lobby, that's usually the most inexpensive option for me. I like the textured 12x12 packs of paper there best.
- Wal-Mart has a colorbok brand 12x12 pack - the textured white is my favorite, and by far my most inexpensive option. I also like their black. The glitter pack there however, is terrible, and does not cut well at all in cricut, it's just a mess.
- For glue, I've tried the fancy Art Glitter Glue and others like it - but the tips clog constantly and I find them too annoying, if not used every day. I've switched to Elmers Craft Bond Precision Tip. Inexpensive, dries clear, and they don't clog up on me.
- For 3d craft projects, I often use hot glue.
- For 3d foam dots and tape - check the dollar tree! I buy almost all of mine there.
- If your project has score lines, and they are not deep enough, duplicate them, and attach the duplicate score lines on top of the first set. You can do that as often as necessary.
- Cutting paper is much harder on your blade than cutting vinyl. These are the replacement blades I buy - they work great, and are very inexpensive! https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/06/comparing-off-brand-blades-to-cricut.html
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FREE PAPER CRAFTING SVGS
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Free St Patricks Day Gnome Sign SVG , From
https://allthingswerecreated.com/st-patricks-day-gnome-sign-svg/
Free svg from
and more from her here:
Free Designs From:
St Patricks Day Card SVGS Free From
Fun for photos with the grandkids...
This site has several pretty, simple, layered designs like this.
Be sure to check out the flower design that is free here too.
Layered Shamrock Mandalas
No svg for this one
But you can just add rectangles in Design Space, no svg is needed.
It uses:
7- 12×2″ strips of paper
7- 10×2″ strips of paper
7- 8×2″ strips of paper
Find the instructions here:
Layered Shamrock Mandala
Layered Gnome with a shamrock
This site has an alphabet for every holiday.
Often more than one!
You can use them with vinyl too - but they are designed to cut from paper.
Perfect for school/office/community bulletin boards.
There are also layered gnome and shamrock designs, here, also free.
How to make a leprechaun trap
How to make an easy shamrock wreath
Make a Leprechaun Hat!
Also - check your thanksgiving svgs - you may already have a 3d Pilgrims hat that would work great as a leprechaun hat?
Celtic Knot Valentine
So it's not really St Patricks Day, but since it's a celtic knot, I'm going to put it here anyway.
St Patricks Day Shadow Box SVG
This is an older site, clicking on the download links will take you to mediafire, a file hosting site that was popular long before google drive was the norm.
I don't think this has an svg, but there is a free printable
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New Larger Print Then Cut Option In Design Space
The New Print Then Cut Options Are Here!
Only on the desktop version - not yet available on mobile.
Must be using the Beta Design Space [Instructions Below]
Click on the Red Error Message in the layers panel, that's where you will find the new options to choose a larger size.
Making Felt Roses With Cricut - Free svg
Making Felt Roses With Cricut & The Rotary Blade
This is what I bought the Maker for. Well, projects like this at least. I've been able to cut just about everything with my Air 2 - except felt. For felt, you really do want the rotary blade, which means, you have to use a Maker. The Air 2 cannot use a rotary blade. All the frustration I've been through with trying to get a Maker that works (THREE machines. it took me THREE to get one that works - and I'm not convinced this 3rd one truly works as well as it should.. but at least it works.) And I've barely made anything at all with felt.
It's time to change that. I started with an easy one - felt roses. These are really quick and easy to make!
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