Need a little gift celebrating Hanukkah? Make the Holiday Explosion Box with a cute mini-menorah standing in the center! Materials needed The free SVG (located in the Free Files Folder) – it’s design #61 – Mini-Menorah Heavy black cardstock or posterboard Cricut Maker or Explore cutting machine Blue LightGrip mat (for the card stock or posterboard) Green Standard Grip Mat […]
Miniature Snowman in center of Explosion Box
Download the free SVG to make the Holiday Explosion Box with a happy, cute snowman in the center! I’ve created another option to put into the center of your Holiday Explosion Box, as requested. Isn’t this little snowman fun and cute? Materials needed The free SVG (located in the Free Files Folder) – it’s design […]
DIY Holiday Explosion Box Gift
Learn to make an explosion box gift for the holidays with this detailed step-by-step tutorial and free SVGs.
Triple Stacked Photo Frame Pop-up Card
This DIY pop-up card is magical, and perfect to give to your Valentine or Galentine! Learn how to cut it on a Cricut; the tutorial shows how it’s assembled step-by-step. Six frames balance on each other and rise up when the card is opened. Fill the frames with photos of you together. Tip: Store your […]
DIY Christmas Pop Up Cubes Gift Box
Easily make this amazing DIY Christmas gift box with your Cricut! The pop-up cubes leaping out will delight whoever opens it! originally published December 12, 2019 updated November 8, 2021 Your special someone will love this handmade papercraft! 😍 It’s quite simple to assemble; you’ll get the hang of it quickly after making the first […]
Pop-up Halloween Ghost Card
A friend was making a notebook for her boyfriend, filling it with lots of cute little phrases and doodles. I thought this sentiment deserved a card, so I drew a ghost using Adobe Illustrator and made it into a pop-up card. After I created the “BOO-st of Positivity” card, another friend asked for one to […]
RBG Dissent Collar SVG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has thrown supporters of equal rights around the globe into mourning. RGB’s famous “Dissent” jabot (collar) has many copies available on Etsy. There are many jewelry versions of the collar too. In honor of her life, I’ve decided to create a version of her famous dissent collar and put it on […]
Countdown Banner Printable
Print out and color in a countdown banner to help brighten your days! With all this time away from the physical locations of work and school, and even away from all friends and family, I thought I would make a banner so that we can keep track of the time that passes. We are off […]
Cutting Explosion Box Photos with your Cricut
Finding photos small enough to use in Explosion Boxes is almost impossible! I’ll explain how to get photos in a smaller size and how to cut them to the exact size your design requires in this tutorial. This amazing Cricut hack helps you trim any photo to the perfect size. Even cutting non-standard shapes is […]
Cricut Pen Project – Your Relationship Infographic
Are you wondering how to write and cut with your Cricut Maker? Can the text look good, even if you don’t buy Cricut fonts? YES. I’ll show you how in this detailed step-by-step tutorial, with a fun Cricut writing project. When I created a simple explosion box for my husband on Valentine’s Day, I didn’t […]
Easy Starter Heart Exploding Box
Create a quick, easy explosion photo gift box for Valentine’s Day with this free heart explosion box SVG! Question: What do you do when it’s just five days before Valentine’s Day and you don’t have any gift at all for your spouse? Answer: Get to work with the Cricut. I made most of this photo-exploding […]
5 Tricks to Make your Explosion Box Fall Open
Learn how to make your explosion box fall open quickly and dramatically with these easy tips and tricks! Have you started to make an explosion box yet? Here are some tricks to make the sides drop away, revealing the next layer quickly and dramatically. 1) Use lighter paper for the base and burnish it VERY […]
DIY Heart Explosion Box Gift
Make a DIY explosion box as a heartfelt gift for a special friend with this SVG. A photo explosion box is the most amazing personalized gift! I have been working on exploding gift boxes for months. The first heart explosion box I designed was a gift for a good friend’s 40th birthday. We had about […]
DIY pop up gnome card
Learn how to use Cricut Design Space to score, draw and cut out everything for this fun pop up gnome card in the step by step tutorial below! It’s the perfect, most adorable DIY holiday card. Lots of Christmas cards arrive in the mail, right? Many of them with a peaceful winter scene, a printed […]