5 Free Grateful Thankful Blessed SVG

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How to Make Your Own DIY “Thankful, Blessed, Grateful” Decorative Sign

2020 has been a challenging year. A lot of us found ourselves in a situation we never experienced before. It is quite hard as no one expected such to happen. Rules and Regulations are being implemented left and right. And, we all need to comply to protect ourselves and our loved ones. We can only hope such a disastrous event would pass away eventually.

Most of us are in the comfort of our homes with our family or loved ones. Some are in isolation and are alone. Being alone could mean that visiting your friends and family may be impossible due to some restrictions. We may find ourselves lonely at times. As for me, I decided to take some things into my own hands. Thankful, grateful, and blessed – three words that I have lived by recently. I am thankful that I was able to survive another year with my loved ones. I am grateful for all the blessings I have received. And, I am blessed because my family and I were healthy and safe. I could not ask for more.

But, there were still times that my loneliness was creeping in. Fortunately, I just had the outlet to express those emotions out. Crafting and designing have been helpful to me. I was able to make beautiful artworks, at the same time guide people to find enjoyment in them. There are no limits in creating art. So, you are not restricted from pursuing an art design you have been thinking about for a while now. So today, I’ll be sharing with you a simple DIY for you to create your very own “Thankful, Blessed, Grateful” decorative sign.

Interested in related designs? Check out my Welcome SVG templates.

How to turn any image into an SVG template?

Interested in learning the easiest way to make your own SVG?

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to turn any image into an SVG format image without having to use any complicated graphics editing software.

First, a quick primer on what is an SVG… SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a way to store digital information about an image. Most images you see on the web and other digital devices use a bitmap or pixel-based image storage format. In other words, the image is captured with information about each dot in the image.

SVG format images are part of a category of images that are vector-based. Vector-based images store the image as a series of paths and nodes. Most cutting machines like the Cricut and Silhouette use SVG format images because the blade on the machine needs to know what direction (or path) to cut.

To turn a bitmap-based image into a vector-based image, you need special conversion software tools. This is an algorithm tricky conversion because there are lots of different ways to do it with varying degrees in quality. Most graphic editing software like Adobe Illustration make you manually decide on those conversion settings which makes it really difficult to use if you’re not already familiar with Illustrator.

I use a software tool called Vector Magic. With Vector Magic, you just upload your image (you can even copy and paste it in) and it automatically just converts to an SVG format for you. You can make editorial adjustments afterward if you’d like but there is a baseline conversion ready to go if that’s good enough.

Here’s an image for you to give it a try yourself. It’s a bunch of cute animal drawings I did the other day. I just took a picture of it with my phone. Try copy and paste this image into the Vector Magic interface. (Right-click on the image below, select “copy”, then head over to Vector Magic and past it into the window or just hit Ctrl+V)

After you pasted your image into the Vector Magic window, it will automatically start to convert your image:

This will take a few seconds. When the process is complete, you will see the vectorized SVG image on the right with the original on the left.

If you don’t like the automated conversion, there are a number of different adjustments you can make from the right tool panel.

After making adjustments, you can download your converted image as an SVG and then upload it to your cutting machine interface like Cricut Design Space below: