Celebrate Dad with customized crafts using your Cricut or Silhouette and these 3 free Father’s Day SVG files- best dad ever, best father ever, and best grandpa ever with a tools theme (perfect for the DIY dad!).
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to show your love and appreciation than with personalized gifts? The most professional way to do this at home is hands-down with a Cricut or Silhouette.
In this blog post, we’re thrilled to share three fun tool-themed SVG files that will make your Father’s Day crafts truly special. These free SVG cut files for Cricut will help you create unique wooden signs and simple DIY cards that Dad will love.
I’ve created 3 options for these free SVG files for Father’s Day. You can find a best dad ever SVG paired with a hammer, a best grandpa ever SVG paired with a saw blade and a best father ever SVG paired with a hand saw. As someone who loves tools almost as much as my dad, these were so much fun to create.
These designs are totally versatile too. Whether you’re creating a custom wooden sign or adding it to a Father’s Day card, you’re dad will feel pretty special. Here’s some DIY Father’s Day ideas we have created!
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DIY Father’s Day Sign
Use iron-on vinyl and your Cricut Maker to bring this design to life on a wood sign. Pair it with the text “Est. 2013” to commemorate the year your family began to make it extra personal. I like this in a dark blue vinyl but the black one is really fun as well.
This wood sign is just from the dollar store and the free father’s day SVG is ironed on to the back to make a framed look. The front looks like a wooden panel sign. You could also create your own rustic sign with wood panels or build from scratch with plywood and a 1×2 frame.
This tool themed ‘Best Grandpa Ever’ wood sign is perfect for dad to add in to his workshop or man cave.
DIY Best Dad Ever Card
These three free father’s day SVGs also make a great ‘best father ever’ handmade card. To create a background layer of cardstock with your cricut, just duplicate the design then create an offset (option in the top panel) and then contour the inside lines (option in the right hand panel) in Cricut Design Space.
The material I find the absolute easiest for making cards is adhesive backed cardstock. It is like cardstock stickers once you cut with your Cricut. I like to layer either using this or regular card stock with double sided tape but glue would also work.
DIY Best Grandpa Ever Shirt
You could also make a shirt with these free tool themed father’s day SVGs. We made a shirt a few years back that says ‘best dad ever’ so we didn’t choose to use the SVG for that this year, but since an SVG file is so versatile, you could use it to make anything. Just use iron-on vinyl– I love to make pocket tees where the design just goes where a pocket typically would.
Father’s Day Craft Ideas with these tool themed SVGs
There are so many projects that you could make with these best dad ever, best grandpa ever designs that I haven’t shown you today. Here’s a list of simple projects you could make using vinyl, cardstock, or by getting creative. I’ll link any tutorials I have on this site!
- Best Dad Ever Mug
- Best Grandpa Ever shirt or sweater (above)
- Best Father Ever hat
- Water Bottle
- Wooden Sign (above)
- Layered Cardstock card (above)
- No-Sew Pennant
- Felt Pennant (would be great with the hand saw SVG!)
- Notebook cover
- A Father’s Day cake topper
- A best dad ever christmas ornament
- Custom sticker for their laptop or phone case
- A simple card stock bookmark
This Father’s Day, get creative and make Dad’s day special with these three free SVG files. These tool-themed designs, including “Best Dad Ever,” “Best Grandpa Ever,” and “Best Father Ever,” will help you create customized crafts using your Cricut Maker.
From wooden signs adorned with iron-on vinyl to layered card stock cards, these designs will add a personal touch to your Father’s Day celebrations.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD THese free father’s day SVG files
To download these 3 free tool themed Father’s Day SVG files, all you need to do is enter your email below and have it sent to your inbox. When you click the confirm button on the email you receive, it will open the file directly.
Some browsers will start download immediately, others you’ll need to right click and save. The SVG file is uploaded as a compressed folder. Double click the zipped/compressed folder to ‘unzip’ it and see your SVG file. Once it’s in your downloads folder, you can upload it to your Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio or whatever cutting machine software you are using.
If you’re already subscribed to my e-mail list (hey friend!), you won’t get double emails, I promise, go ahead and pop your email in there and follow the same steps :)
Like all free SVG files available on Lemon Thistle, these Best Grandpa Ever/ Best Dad Ever SVG files are free for personal use. Think making projects for yourself, your dad, your classroom or as gifts.
HOW DO I UPLOAD A FREE Cut File TO CRICUT DESIGN SPACE?
Once you’ve downloaded your free hand lettered SVG files, it’s time to upload them to your cutting machine software. I use my Cricut to cut out my SVG files, but you could also use your Silhouette or other brand of cutting machine. To upload an SVG file to Cricut Design Space is super straight forward.
Open up Cricut Design Space and start a new project. In the left hand panel, select ‘upload’ and search for your file. You can add a name to your file at this point then upload it and insert it into your project. That’s it.
The SVG file has all the layers separated for you and Cricut reads all that information for you.
If you’re new to uploading your own images to Cricut and would like more information on the different types of files you can cut with your Cricut, this video walks you through all the different types and how to upload them to Cricut Design Space to use them in your projects.
* Are you new to Cricut? Or deciding which machine to buy? I wrote a whole post about the differences between the Cricut machines RIGHT HERE. And if you’re looking for more Cricut projects and tutorials, you can find them all here!
If you use these free SVG files to create something amazing… I would SO love to see! You can tag me @colleenpastoor on Instagram or shoot me an email colleen(at)lemonthistle(dot)com!
MORE AWESOME Father’s DAY FREE SVG FILES
Today I’m partnering with some amazing SVG designers to share even more free Father’s Day SVG files for you to use in your projects! Click the links below to be taken to their site and the freebie!
- Dad’s No Place Like Home from Weekend Craft
- My Dad is My Hero from Kara Creates
- Dad’s Against Weeds from A Girl and A Glue Gun
- Bruh, formerly known as Dad from Hello Creative Family
- Happy Father’s Day Stamp Design from Persia Lou
- Dad is My Name Grilling is My Game from Liz On Call
- Best Dad Ever + Best Grandpa Ever from Lemon Thistle (you are here!)
- I Tell Dad Jokes Periodically from Artsy Fartsy Mama
- Dad- The Man, The Myth, The Bad Influence from Crafty Blog Stalker
- Nacho Average Dad from The Girl Creative
- Dad Joke Loading from What Che Said
- Best Dad from Try it – Like it
- Dad level 99 from Life Sew Savory
- Found the Stud from Brooklyn Berry Designs
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