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Author: Vic

Jun. 30, 2025

Electrical Equipment & Supplies

10 Best Image and SVG Subscriptions for Crafters

Are you looking for the best image and SVG subscriptions on the web? There are so many subscription options out there I wanted to share some of my favorite places to subscribe to get the files I use in my crafts.

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Some of these sites have both SVG and sublimation images and some only have SVG files. I would recommend really looking through each site before purchasing a subscription to see if it has the type of files you need for the projects you’ll be making.

If you’re unsure what an SVG file is, check out my “What is an SVG?” post.

Why Get an Image and SVG Subscription?

Whether you’re using a Cricut machine or a sublimation printer, you will need images or files to use with it. If you’re a designer, you may use your own designs. If you’re not, you’ll need a source for your images.

There are a variety of sources to choose from. You can try sites with freebies, purchase individual files, or choose a site that has a subscription. You do not need to have a monthly image and SVG subscription, however, it can be really convenient.

Watch me walk through each of the sites I’ll be covering by pressing play on the video below:

Commercial License

If you’re selling your products you need to have a commercial license. Often times free downloads don’t include a commercial license.

If you have an SVG subscription or a subscription to a website that sells images, you get a commercial license with your subscription. This means you can pick and choose the image or SVG you want and use it without worrying about licensing.

My 10 Favorite Image and SVG Subscriptions

Below are my favorite subscription sites. These are in no particular order. I encourage you to look at each site and see if it’s right for you. Some sites have free SVG files you can try out too.

If you’re in the market for a subscription, look into each different option, choose one that has the style you like and the type of files you need, and test it out. Get a subscription for a month or two and really pay attention to how often you’re using it.

At the end of the month did you use it enough to justify the monthly cost? Do you still love the files? If you did, continue your subscription. If you didn’t, maybe try a different subscription or take a break for a while. Which subscription is best for you is going to be an individual decision.

Cricut Access

If you have a Cricut machine, you likely know about Cricut Access. When working with a Cricut, it’s the easiest subscription to have.

Cricut Access includes thousands of images, fonts, and projects. These are all included with your monthly fee. With the Cricut Angel Policy, you can make finished projects for commercial use.

Remember, things like Disney characters that are not included in Cricut Access, are licensed files. They are files you will have to purchase separately, they are for individual use only, and you cannot use them to make and sell projects.

A lot of times, when you first purchase your Cricut machine, you can actually get a free month of Cricut Access. I encourage people to try it during that free trial to see how often they use it. Track the price of the files you use and see what it would cost if you didn’t have the subscription. If you’re not a fan of Cricut Access or you want to try something else, keep reading!

Creative Fabrica

If you’ve been here for any length of time you’ve heard me talk about Creative Fabrica. I have a subscription to Creative Fabrica because I love their images and subscription plan. They have a wide variety of fonts, SVG files, and sublimation files. The variety of files makes it convenient for me and all the different crafts I do.

The one drawback I have found is the actual volume of files they have. If I’m searching for something specific, I often have to dig through hundreds of different files to find exactly what I need.

This means that sometimes searching and filtering down don’t work. The excessive library is both a benefit and a drawback and that goes for my next site as well.

Design Bundles

Design Bundles is another site I actually had a subscription to at one time. The subscription works a little bit differently, which is the reason I don’t have one anymore. For me, it’s a little bit confusing. With your subscription, you actually get credits, and then you spend those credits. So it’s not like you have access to everything all at once. If I didn’t have enough credits for all the files I wanted to use in the month, I would have to buy the additional files separately.

In contrast, with Creative Fabrica, I can go in and download as many files as I want and they’re all included with my subscription.

I will say their files are very good, look around and see if their subscription model works for you. I just wanted to note that it is a little different and confusing.

Smaller Image and SVG Subscription Sites

Creative Fabrica, Design Bundles, and Cricut Access are all larger companies with larger sites and libraries. A large variety of smaller businesses are now doing SVG and image subscriptions. If you find that you like the files on these sites, a subscription can be an amazing deal.

Hey, Let’s Make Stuff SVG Club

Recently Cori from Hey, Let’s Make stuff opened up her shop for subscriptions. With the subscription, you get access to all of her files. I really like her files and have used them in a lot of projects. Definitely check out her shop and her files and decide if her subscription is for you.

Abbi Kirsten Craft Membership

I didn’t even realize that Abbi had a subscription until recently. I adore her files and think her subscription is well worth the money. Abbi includes digital images, files for paper flowers, and other paper crafts. Check it out and see if it’s the right subscription for you.

Weekend Craft SVG Membership

Michelle at Weekend Craft has an amazing SVG subscription. If you like her style, a subscription would be a great investment for your business. Michelle also includes a Facebook group and monthly live craft night with her subscription.

Lettered by Stephanie SVG Subscription

I’ve been a fan of Stephanie’s for quite some time. I love her hand lettering and her subscription is a great way to get access to all of her hand-lettered files. You can make so many projects with the files included in her subscription. I encourage you to check her out.

We Can Make That SVG Club

Next up is We Can Make That. I found this subscription while researching this video. The subscription looks really promising. I haven’t actually tried this subscription myself but I think it’s one you might want to check out if you’re in the market for an SVG subscription.

CraftBundles

CraftBundles I have known about for a while. I share their files all of the time and they have so many files. I think their subscription would be a really great deal. Their files have a certain style so look around and see if the style fits what you’re looking for. If it does, check out their pricing and subscription.

LoveSVG

LoveSVG is another site I’ve known about for a while. I share their files often. They’re not as much my style as some of the other sites I’ve listed but they do have great files. They also have a great freebie library if you want to try out their files before subscribing.

How Do You Decide Which Subscription is Right for You?

I’ve shared a lot of different image and SVG subscription options, you may be asking yourself “How do I choose?” I recommend that you look at each site and see which one has files you really love. I would start there. Sign up for a subscription for a month or two and see if you’re using the images enough to make the monthly fee worth it.

Is it worth the money?

Personally, I think having a subscription is worth the cost if you’re crafting regularly. I like having one or two places to search for the image I need instead of searching all the different websites. For me, a subscription works really well. I know if I want to sell my product I have the proper licensing to do that.

I hope I’ve answered the questions you have about image and SVG subscriptions. If you have additional questions, leave them in the comments below.

SVG Files: What They Are, How to Make One, and Why I Think You ...

Images. Designers know them, love them, can't get enough of ‘em. And we have JPEGs, PNGs, GIFs, and more, so why would we need another format? What’s an SVG, and why should you care?

Images are great at conveying messages, but not so great at changing sizes. If you've ever tried to add images to a website, you know that trying to scale up images often leads to blurry results. There’s no use in trying to add a clear, crisp image to your site if it looks low-quality and pixelated.

That's why I think every site owner should know about SVG files. SVG lets you serve images on your website that are lightweight, scalable, and visually delightful.

Despite these benefits, SVGs appear on only around 57% of websites, so let’s try to get that number higher. In this post, I’ll explain what you need to know about SVG files. You’ll learn how they work, why site owners use SVGs, and their pros and cons. Let’s dive in.

Table of Contents

  • What is an SVG file?
  • Raster Images vs. Vector Images
  • How SVG Files Work
  • How to Open an SVG File
  • What are SVG files used for?
  • Where to Get SVG Files
  • Advantages of SVG Files
  • Disadvantages of SVG Files
  • How to Make or Edit an SVG File
  • What is the best SVG software?

SVGs are something of a magic trick in website design. They’re programmable, usually smaller than other formats, and can even be animated and made interactive for visitors on your website.

Looking at the image above, we know that “graphic” means image and “scalable” means resizable. So, what exactly is a vector?

Raster Images vs. Vector Images

If we take all of the image file formats used on the internet today — PNGs, JPEGs, SVGs, GIFs, PDFs, TIFFs, etc. — we can divide these formats into two broad categories: raster graphics and vector graphics.

You're probably familiar with the most common image file formats, JPEG and PNG. These are examples of raster graphic formats, meaning they store image information in a grid of colored squares called a bitmap. The squares in the bitmap combine to form a coherent image.

Raster graphics are great for highly complex images like photographs because they can capture minute details pixel-by-pixel. However, they also have a fixed resolution, so increasing the size of a raster image lowers its quality.

Vector-graphic formats, like SVG, are different. These formats store images as a set of points and lines between points. Mathematical formulas determine the placement and shape of these points and lines, and maintain their relative distances as the image scales up or down.

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This makes the SVG format ideal for things like illustrations, infographics, icons, logos, interactive and animatable images, and even text. I’ll get more into what SVGs are used for in a bit

How SVG Files Work

SVG files are written in XML, a coding language used for storing and transferring digital information. If you’re familiar with HTML, the syntax looks similar to that language. The XML in an SVG file specifies all the shapes, colors, and text that make up the image.

Let’s see some examples. We’ll start with an SVG of a circle.

When I open the file for this circle in a code editor, this XML code appears:

As you can see, we only need one line of code to draw a circle. That’s because, instead of setting the color of each square in a grid, the XML only has to provide a color (where it says fill:#fb) and a radius (at the end where it says r=“20”).

When provided with an SVG file like this, a web browser (or other application) takes this XML and displays it onscreen as a vector image. All modern browsers and graphics editing software render SVGs this way.

You’ll also notice that this XML file is written in English, kind of. SVGs are text files, which makes them readable by humans, and we can change how a vector image looks by editing the XML directly. For instance, I could replace the fill value to change the color of the circle:

Of course, we can accomplish a lot more with vectors than just basic circles. Let’s look at a more complex image, the HubSpot sprocket logo:

Obviously, we’re looking at more than just a circle here. This graphic consists of 30 lines connected by 30 points:

Let’s open this SVG file in a text editor:

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There’s more going on here, but the concept is the same as the circle example above. We still see the color is set to orange inside the