Creative Fabrica for Card Making

What is Creative Fabrica?

Creative Fabrica is an online market place for graphics, fonts, crafts and other creative projects.

Check out the Freebies pages - It is an awesome way to build up a stock of resources.

Go to the Freebies tab at the top right of the navigation bar. Click and scroll down and you will find a section for

• Fonts
• SVG’s
• Graphics (images and digital papers)
• Embroidery
• and Classes.

The selection of free products changes all the time and some of the larger bundles have a time limit on the download.

There is even a Daily Gifts page where you can get a free Font, Free Craft & Free Graphic every single day. These Gifts are only available for 24 hours.

You do need to register for an account before you can download the free items. So, the cost is the price of your email address.

How to use Creative Fabrica?

First scroll through the website to get a feel for what is on offer.

All of the products may be used for your own personal and commercial use. Check the License pages for full details so you understand how you can use the items.

You can join for a monthly All Access subscriptions or buy the images as you go.  

Use the search box and Categories sections to narrow down your search.

For example: The search "Digital Stamps" returns black and white images suitable for colouring and card making.

If you want to use a product you need to Download.

This will arrive in your “Downloads” folder as a zip folder. Just click twice on the zip folder to unzip the files.

For Graphics your file may have separate folders for jpg, png and pdf of the same images. Some graphic downloads will include a folder for Adobe Illustrator.

For Fonts you will need to download the otf file and follow your computers guidelines for uploading fonts. Once you have uploaded your font to the computer you can use it in software such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word.

To use your downloaded images for card making open a new word processing document on your computer.

Either copy and paste the image from your downloads folder or use the "Insert Image" option.

In Microsoft Word, you can find it by clicking Insert in the task bar, then find Pictures in the ribbon and select "Picture from File" from the drop down menu.

Once inserted into the document you can resize the image using the diagonal resizing handles.  By using the Picture Format option you can also crop, rotate and flip the image.

To Print your Graphics

Use good quality paper/card and set your printer to "BEST" settings for a sharper and crisper print.  This is especially important for colour images.

If using card check that your printer is able to print onto card.  Often card will print best from a rear facing feed.

If printing for colouring also check that your printer ink is OK with whatever colouring medium you want to use.

Creative Fabrica for Card Making Tips

• You will find all your Creative Fabrica downloads in your My Profile located at the top of the Creative Fabrica page.
• Colour graphics can be used as ephemera or die cuts.
• Follow Designers and get notified when they upload new products.
• In the Footer you will find links to Guides for the Cricut, Silhouette, and Canvas Workspace (Brother Scan n'cut) on how to use your images and SVG's.  
• Check out my page on Digital Card Making for more information.

Do take a look at Creative Fabrica for your card making - I think you will be surprised at the range of resources.  With the growth of digital card making it's another option for images, paper packs and sentiments that do not cost the earth.

Another big plus is you don't have to find space in your craft area for storage!  With all your downloads saved in your profile they are ready and waiting for you at any time.