FREE WOMAN CHARACTER CLIPART
This is Holly, one of the stock character designs in my shop, available here in 4 sample variations. Dressed in t-shirt and jeans holding takeout coffee and planner journal book. You can find more versions of this design in my shop!
It's 30 Days of Freebies all month long! Get this set of girly character graphics, sized at 12" tall and 300 dpi. Perfect for so many projects! Use them in scrapbooking, digital crafts, branding and marketing or create physical goods to sell in your small business.
SMALL BUSINESS COMMERCIAL LICENSE - terms of use
Lovelytocu is a graphic design supply shop specializing in cute girly
character clip art. Our pre-made designs are ready to use and the
perfect addition to your small business branding and marketing, social
posts or creative projects with a diverse range of character styles.
Shop the current collection at www.lovelytocu.com and be sure to check out our current offers.
Shawnna
Everyone loves freebies, right? I mean, who doesn't!! The thing is, there are legit freebies, offered by very generous creatives as a way to promote their work (just like me on this blog!).
And then there are stolen freebies. These freebies may seem 'free' because you are not paying for them, but the person giving them away doesn't have the right to do so, is violating copyright law with their actions and in the process is causing harm to the actual creators of that work.
You'll often find these in Facebook groups as phone dumps or mega bundles - beware of these as often these contain trademark and copyright protected stuff and/or are being distributed without permission.
I don't want to get all lecture-y on you, but there's just one word for that kind of behavior - Greed.
And it's totally unnecessary because there are soooo many places you can get totally free totally legit SVG files, often with commercial use allowed, and you won't receive a take-down notice for using it!
Cutting machine crafts are super huge right now, making SVG crafting files extra popular and thankfully very abundant - they are virtually everywhere! So here is my list of the best places to get free cutting machine files, either completely free, or nearly free.
1. Craft Bundles - this site has a huge selection for every occasion.
2. Design Bundles - subscribe to their email for weekly freebies
3. LoveSVG - free for personal use only
3. The Navage Patch - access granted when you join their newsletter
4. Designs By Winther - loads of designs to choose from
5. Dreaming Tree - huge selection of 3D paper cut files
6. Printable Cuttable Creatables - a nice selection of original designs
7. Creative Fabrica - freebies can be time sensitive
8. Poofy Cheeks - a small selection of cute designs
9. Free SVG Designs - free for personal use with over 1000 design
10. Designer Printables - free SVGs and more
11. Maggie Rose Design Co.- free files and tutorials
12. Craftables - they sell vinyl cutting supplies but also have free SVG files
13. Gina C Creates - craft blog with loads of freebies
14. Kara Creates - another craft blog with more great freebies
15. Cut That Design - not the easiest site to browse but nice designs
16. Hey Let's Make Stuff - lots of cute quotes and monograms
16. The Girl Creative - cute and seasonal quote files
17. SVG and Me - another blog with tutorials and freebies
18. Caluya Design - freebies, $1 SVGs and well priced bundles
19. SVG Cuts - loads of free craft files
20. Burton Avenue - password protected, sign up to the email list
21. Designs by Miss Mandee - gorgeous freebies for 3D paper crafters
22. Pineapple Paper Co - free SVGs and printables
23. Cutting For Business - all types of quote files
24. My Designs In The Chaos - fun craft projects and files
25. Bird’s Cards - specializing in paper greeting cards and 3D paper crafts
26. Monica’s Creative Room - more freebies for paper crafters
27. Jennifer Maker - for paper and vinyl crafters, a little of everything in here
28. Happy Crafters - variety of freebies, focusing on vinyl crafts
29. So Fontsy - a marketplace with free files and $1 designs
30. Vexels - has both freebies and premium content
31. Crafts with Sarah - layered paper cut crafts and tutorials
32. the Design Store - from Silhouette themselves, loads of free files
33. Craft House SVG - free individual files and great deals on bundles
34. Kimber Dawn & Co - blog site with some fun free svg files
35. Free Pretty Things for You - free digital resources of all types
36. Michaels - the store... yes, they do free files as well!
37. Simply Crafty SVGs - more paper cut crafts and 3D paper crafting
38. Love Paper Crafts - card making and hand lettering blog, with freebies
39. 100 Directions - craft blog with free svg files alongside tutorials
40. Crafting in the Rain - another craft blog with original free SVGs
41. Everyday Party Mag - a party blog with hostess inspired SVGs
42. Artsy Fartsy Mama - craft blog with free cut files
43. Happiness is Homemade - craft blog with free cutting files
44. I Should be Mopping the Floor - craft blog with free SVG files
45. Liz on Call - craft blog with free SVG files
46. Persia Lou - fun and cute original craft files
47. See Lindsay - craft blog with cute free cut file
48. Sweet Red Poppy - layered paper crafts and more
49. That's What Che Said - craft blog with free cutting file crafts
50. The Craft Patch - one last craft blog with free SVG files on offer
As you can see, this is a pretty big list of resources for free SVG files! And if you keep looking, there are many many more (feel free to add your own links in the comments).
As with any site, always check the terms of use and comply with all licensing conditions, not only is it the law, but it's just good citizenry.
Happy Crafting!
Shawnna
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FREE WOMAN CHARACTER CLIPART
This is Eliza, one of the stock character designs in my shop, available here in 4 sample variations. Dressed in casual t-shirt, cat vest and jeans, holding closed laptop and waving. Great for teacher, student and cat lovers. You can find more versions of this design in my shop!
It's 30 Days of Freebies all month long! Get this set of girly character graphics, sized at 12" tall and 300 dpi. Perfect for so many projects! Use them in scrapbooking, digital crafts, branding and marketing or create physical goods to sell in your small business.
SMALL BUSINESS COMMERCIAL LICENSE - terms of use
Lovelytocu is a graphic design supply shop specializing in cute girly
character clip art. Our pre-made designs are ready to use and the
perfect addition to your small business branding and marketing, social
posts or creative projects with a diverse range of character styles.
Shop the current collection at www.lovelytocu.com and be sure to check out our current offers.
Get creative!
Shawnna
Enjoy half price discounts all autumn long with any in stock purchase from Lovelytocu.com!
Just use coupon code FALL50 at checkout. No order minimums.
Expires Oct 31st 2021.
FREE WOMAN CHARACTER CLIPART
This is Myrtle one of the stock character designs in my shop, available here in 4 sample variations. Dressed in Halloween witch costume, flying on a broom, great for October season or anytime you feel a bit witchy. You can find more versions of this design in my shop!
It's 30 Days of Freebies all month long! Get this set of girly character graphics, sized at 12" tall and 300 dpi. Perfect for so many projects! Use them in scrapbooking, digital crafts, branding and marketing or create physical goods to sell in your small business.
SMALL BUSINESS COMMERCIAL LICENSE - terms of use
Lovelytocu is a graphic design supply shop specializing in cute girly
character clip art. Our pre-made designs are ready to use and the
perfect addition to your small business branding and marketing, social
posts or creative projects with a diverse range of character styles.
Shop the current collection at www.lovelytocu.com and be sure to check out our current offers.
Get creative!
Shawnna
FREE WOMAN CHARACTER CLIPART
This is Clover one of the stock character designs in my shop, available here in 4 sample variations. Dressed in casual t-shirt and jeans with crafter apron and holding glue gun, so great for any type of craft themes. You can find more versions of this design in my shop!
It's 30 Days of Freebies all month long! Get this set of girly character graphics, sized at 12" tall and 300 dpi. Perfect for so many projects! Use them in scrapbooking, digital crafts, branding and marketing or create physical goods to sell in your small business.
SMALL BUSINESS COMMERCIAL LICENSE - terms of use
Lovelytocu is a graphic design supply shop specializing in cute girly
character clip art. Our pre-made designs are ready to use and the
perfect addition to your small business branding and marketing, social
posts or creative projects with a diverse range of character styles.
Shop the current collection at www.lovelytocu.com and be sure to check out our current offers.
Shawnna
FREE WOMAN CHARACTER CLIPART
This is Blossom, one of the stock character designs in my shop, available here in 4 sample variations. Dressed in casual t-shirt and jeans with a black apron as part of my Chalk Couture collection but equally useful for general craft or baking themes. You'll find more versions of this design in my shop!
It's 30 Days of Freebies all month long! Get this set of girly character graphics, sized at 12" tall and 300 dpi. Perfect for so many projects! Use them in scrapbooking, digital crafts, branding and marketing or create physical goods to sell in your small business.
SMALL BUSINESS COMMERCIAL LICENSE - terms of use
Lovelytocu is a graphic design supply shop specializing in cute girly
character clip art. Our pre-made designs are ready to use and the
perfect addition to your small business branding and marketing, social
posts or creative projects with a diverse range of character styles.
Shop the current collection at www.lovelytocu.com and be sure to check out our current offers.
Get creative!
Shawnna
The clipping mask tool in Photoshop is a wonderful little piece of magic that quickly and easily allows you to insert any image into a specific shape layer, while still being able to move or edit your image.
PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS
For this tutorial I'll be using one of my photo board templates, but you can apply this process to any type of design or file in Photoshop. I'll cover the the same process for Photopea and PS Elements below.
To start, open your Photoshop file and the image you want to insert into it, or download my sample files to follow along.
With both files open, select the PS file by clicking on it and take note of the layers palette in the lower right corner. Select the layer for the shape you want to insert your image into. In this example we will insert a photo into the top left corner of the photo board, so I've selected shape 1 with my cursor.
Now go to your image and drag and drop it into the PS file.
Your canvas should now look like the image below. You'll see that the photo appears in the layers palette right above shape 1 where we want to clip it to.
With your cursor hovering on the photo layer in the layers palette, right click the layer to bring up the shortcuts menu. You'll see an option called "Create Clipping Mask". Click this and watch the magic!
You'll also find the clipping command from the top menu options under LAYER>Create Clipping Mask.
All that is left to do now is adjust the photo into the exact position you want it in the photo box. You can simply drag it with your mouse until it's positioned and/or sized just right.
Now repeat for all other boxes on the photo board!
PHOTOPEA INSTRUCTIONS
The process in Photopea works very much the exact same way. The only difference here is that when opening your image to insert into the PS file you will use the FILE>Open and Place command instead, which opens the image right in your file rather than opening it separately and dragging and dropping it in. Otherwise everything else will look and work exactly the same.
PS ELEMENTS INSTRUCTIONS
Again, this is going to work almost exactly the same way as above. You will open and place your image in the PS file but here you will use a keyboard shortcut to apply the clipping mask - CTRL G does the magic! You'll also find the clipping command in the top menu options under LAYER>Create Clipping Mask.
And that's it! It's just as easy as that and you can do this with as many layers as you want.
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If you are brand new to Photoshop and are struggling to figure out what you are looking at, the following tutorials will help you on your way to becoming comfortable with simple tasks or projects.
Photoshop has a lot going on and there is a lot to learn, but rather than be overwhelmed and frustrated, with just a few simple tutorials you'll be well on your way to accomplishing whatever you're setting out to create. The following list should only take an hour or two and will be well worth your time if you are brand new to PS and feeling super confused by the whole thing.
1. Adobe Basics for Beginners - a series of video tutorials direct from Adobe that explain the very basics of the Photoshop software, from opening and saving documents to getting familiar with the work area. If you've never opened Photoshop before or just find it confusing and overwhelming this is a great place to start.
2. Dock or Float Your Windows - this helpful tutorial walks you through the difference of docked or floating canvas spaces and how to set that up. By default when you open a new document in PS it will be docked (attached to the top of the work area, and each new doc you open will do so in a series of tabs). Floating the docs (exactly as they sound) can make it much easier to work between docs and is often a preferred method to work with.
3. Photoshop Layers 101 - the layers palette is the powerhouse of PS so understanding everything that goes on here and all the options available is pretty crucial to working with the program. Once you master this you are well on your way to working adeptly in photoshop.
4. Adding Fonts in Photoshop - this is a pretty basic tutorial, but if you're unsure of what you're doing with installing fonts then this will have you rockin' it in no time.
The above tutorials apply almost exactly to the free online editor Photopea, which is a photoshop file compatible program!
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When purchasing digital files on Etsy it is advisable to do so through while signed into an account on their site. Using guest checkout is possible, but it has disadvantages. And while you can make digital purchases through the Etsy shopping app, you won't be able to download your files from there.
Sign into Etsy to Purchase
For the smoothest transaction, particularly if you're wanting to download your new purchase quickly, start by logging into your Etsy account (or create a new account) using your web browser to access Etsy's site. You can do this from any device, you just need to be using the website rather than the shopping app.
Once you make your purchase and the order has been confirmed, access to your download links will appear right on the confirmation page. Etsy changes what this look like from time to time and it can be easy to miss so if you've closed that page already you can find your files in one of two ways:
1. locate the purchase receipt in your email, links will be found in here
2. navigate to the purchase history of your Etsy account on the website
Here's what the website navigation looks like:
Troubleshooting Email Links
Etsy sends a purchase receipt and download links all in one email. These will come from transaction@etsy.com. If it doesn't show up in your inbox you'll need to check your spam folder, or in gmail check the promotions or social tabs for your inbox.
The email subject line will say "Download Your Etsy Purchase from..." if the seller offers instant download. If the seller is emailing you the files you will get a normal purchase receipt from Etsy without download links and the subject line will say "Your Etsy purchase from...".
Links in the email will only take you to the download page if you are logged into your Etsy account, otherwise you will most likely get their 'uh oh' page. Simply login and try again.
If you checked out as a guest on Etsy, you can only access your download files from the email, so it's important when ordering to ensure you are using the right email address and that you've typed it correctly. (mistakes happen!) If you can't find a purchase receipt from Etsy anywhere in your email, spam or otherwise, the only solution is to contact the seller to ask for assistance.
In this case some sellers may be willing to email the files directly to you. This isn't the approach I take personally as a seller though and you might find other sellers in the same situation, where emailing just isn't always possible.
Personally I prefer to refund guest checkout orders where problems arise and have the buyer re-purchase through an account. This is better for the buyer because they will have future access to download those files again and again if they need to. And it's just nicer not to have to rely on someone if you want/need something quickly!
Either way I recommend always reaching out to an Etsy seller for assistance or advice, most sellers will respond quickly and offer exceptional service to you.
Happy shopping!
Shawnna
p.s. If you are just about to open an Etsy shop, open it through my link here and we both get 40 free listings!