An Index Of Free Card Making SVGS & Resources ============ Card Making By Occasion ============= COMING SOON Anniversary/Wedding Birthday Graduation COMING SOON Get Well Sympathy Thank You ============ Card Making By Holiday ============= Christmas Easter Halloween Fathers Day Mothers Day Valentines ============== Card Making Tutorials =============== Addressing a Pre-Made Envelope With Cricut Making "Saying inserts" for cards How to use mail merge to address Christmas Cards Christmas Card Prep [Christmas In July Series] Converting a PDF card design into an svg These three cards are some of my favorites! I've used them for Thank you Notes, Mothers Day, Birthday, and more. See how I changed them for different seasons/events here: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-my-desk-christmas-thank-you-notes.html ============== My Favorite, Go To, Sites For Card Making ============= This site has a great variety of fun cards - but they are all pdf files https://sites.google.com/site/kagisippopopupcards/home_eng/free-template_eng You may be able to convert the pdfs to svgs here: https://convertio.co/pdf-svg/ ============ FREE SVGS FOR BASIC CARDS ============= Monica's Creative Room This page is absolutely amazing. On the right you will see options for Gate Fold Cards, Fancy Edge Cards, Four Fold Cards, and Misc Cards. Page after page after page of BEAUTIFUL, intricate cut files - all free. https://monicascreativeroom.se/category/cutting-files/cards/gate-fold-cards/ These free pop up elements could be attached to any card base to add a pop up flower https://www.joann.com/snowflake-cutouts-svg/ Caluya Design This is one of my favorite sites for Freebies - there are 3 "invitation" cards here - all blank, and all beautifully detailed. https://caluyadesign.com/free-7x5-floral-invitation-svg/ https://caluyadesign.com/free-5x5-folded-card-cut-template-svg/ https://caluyadesign.com/free-7x5-invitation-card-svg/ https://caluyadesign.com/free-floral-envelope-sleeve-svg/ ================= NOT FREE But Some Of My Favorites https://www.facebook.com/fieldsofheathercrafts/posts/1004896727114992 ================== A List of Great 3D paper cutting files for cricut https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/05/free-3d-paper-cutting-files-for-cricut.html ================== Where To Find Free SVGS By Theme https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/svg-freebies.html ========================== The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 15th century, handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe. The Germans are known to have printed New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines were being exchanged in various parts of Europe in the early to mid-15th century, with the oldest Valentine in existence being in the British Museum. The card was written to Bonne of Armagnac by her husband, Charles Duke of Orleans, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London at the time. Not surprisingly, its message is rather downbeat. Its opening reads: ‘I am already sick of love / my very gentle Valentine.’ By the 1850s, the greeting card had been transformed from a relatively expensive, handmade and hand-delivered gift to a popular and affordable means of personal communication, due largely to advances in printing, mechanization, and a reduction in postal rates with the introduction of the postage stamp.[15] This was followed by new trends like Christmas cards, the first of which appeared in published form in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a holiday card that he could send to his friends and acquaintances. In the 1860s, companies like Marcus Ward & Co, Charles Goodall & Son, and Charles Bennett began the mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists such as Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers. The extensive Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection from the Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards and 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early nineteenth century, printed by the major publishers of the day. Technical developments like color lithography in 1930 propelled the manufactured greeting card industry forward. Humorous greeting cards, known as studio cards, became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. In the 1970s, Recycled Paper Greetings, a small company needing to establish a competing identity against the large companies like Hallmark Cards, began publishing humorous, whimsical card designs with the artist's name credited on the back. This was away from what was known as the standard look (sometimes called the Hallmark look.) During the 1980s, reduced costs of small batch printing and die cutting together with a growing taste for handmade cards made it economically possible for smaller niche companies to set up in competition with the large established brands. Innovative companies such as Nobleworks and Meri Meri[17] grew from their foundation in the 1980s to becoming significant influencers in the industry. A thriving market was established for what were now called "alternative" greeting cards. The name stuck even though these "alternative" cards grew to embrace a vast range of styles and ultimately changed the look of the industry. The largest recorded number of greeting cards sent to a single person went to Craig Shergold, a beneficiary/victim of chain letters and later chain emails. =====================