Making a Personalised Father’s Day Swing Card with your Cricut – FREE SVG

This Father’s Day Card project is super-easy to make but really effective – it’s a swing card that shows a circular ‘Happy Father’s Day!’ message that – when you open the card – swings open to reveal a message and – if you’d like, a picture of your dad from days gone by!

The one on the right is overlaid with fancy paper, whereas the one on the left is actually made from two different colours of paper laid on top of one another. The tools are cut out from the top layer – isn’t the Cricut clever? This option (as shown below) is especially good if you don’t have any fancy paper to hand – all you need are two sheets of A4 (or legal!) in contrasting colours! (And a bit of glue).

You can obviously mix and match, but inside this version (instead of the photo and message), we’ve left the circle blank, so you can write your own message on the circle that flips open:

YOU WILL NEED:

SUPPLIES:

• Cardstock in a variety of colours – though, if you prefer, you can use vinyl for the overlays. (I used A4 white card and more elaborate, embossed (though very cheap!) and glitter cardstock, as well as a bit of metallic vinyl for the two versions shown! Really – you can make a great card from any cardstock you have to hand!
• Sticker paper (though if you don’t have it, you can print on paper or card and glue it in)
• Glue
• Our FREE SVG (or whatever format you’re using) file
• A digital version of the photo you want to appear inside the card (if you’re doing the photo version!)

TOOLS:

• Cutting machine (we used the Cricut Maker) with a fine blade
• Stylus attachment
• Colour printer
• Cutting mat (make sure it’s clean and sticky for the intricate cuts!)

TERMS OF USE:

You may make and sell cards made from this pattern for personal use. You may not, however, redistribute this pattern either electronically or in printed form. Please respect my hours of hard work and send your friends and family to my website to purchase their own copy.