Design Your Own Greeting Card

In 2020 I joined a couple of memberships to expand my own crafting capability.  I also found it useful to have an opportunity to experience the online learning experience as a beginner.   In addition to learning new skills, the experience is helping me enhance the experience for beginners in Tech Know Quilters -- my online program for Electric Quilt 8.

Learning Inkscape

I purchased a Cricut Maker in 2020 principally to work with fabric.  I quickly learned that Cricut Design Space is fairly basic software and as a result it can be a challenge to create your own designs with it. 

I found that those who wished to create their own designs are using software called Inkscape.  Inscape is a vector graphics program that is free.  There are versions for both MAC and PC.  And it allows us to convert a pdf document into a svg file.   You can read more about Inkscape and download a version here. 

SVG files can be used by all the major cutting systems including Silhouette Cameo, Cricut Maker, and Brother Scan n Cut.  This means if I have any of those systems, I will be able to cut out Electric Quilt blocks and quilts that are printed to a pdf file.

The Inkscape class I am taking is from a company called SVG&Me.  

Greeting Card Design

I stumbled across another membership toward the the end of the year on learning to create your own greeting cards.  The instructor is big into Stampin' Up products.  But I have been challenging myself to take her concepts and apply them to the tools I already have -- Electric Quilt and Cricut Maker.

Today I will share how I used the concepts I am learning in the Confident Cardmaker membership to design my own card using Electric Quilt 8.

The video is focused on creating the EQ card design.

Here is the card/quilt from the video.

2021 New Year Card design in Electric Quilt by Kari Schell

After creating the EQ design, I saved it to a PDF file.  Imported the PDF into Inkscape.  Deleted the stuff I didn't need and saved it as an SVG file.  The SVG file was opened in Cricut Design Space and I cut the necessary pieces for my card.

I used glitter cardstock and added a few embellishment in the final card.

2021 New Year Card Created by Kari Schell using EQ8 and Cricut Maker

I hope this inspires you to design some non-quilt items using Electric Quilt.

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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