Custom Number Cards ⭐ Card Making Countdown 2026

Make shaped cards for any numbered occasion with this set of layered SVGs.

Welcome to Day 6 of the 2026 Card Making Countdown.

In this tutorial, see how to use the included number SVGs to make custom cards for those special ages or anniversaries.

You’ll see how to put the numbers together, how to make them into a lovely greetings card design with a fold along the top, and how to add extra decorations such as three-dimensional flowers.

These cards are fully customizable by you, so you can make them for any age or any theme that you choose.

In the second part of the tutorial, I show how to use your own images or SVGs to make cards for any theme.

Note – this project is intended for use with cutting machines (e.g. a Cricut) and is not really suitable for hand-cutting. I have included PDF printable versions of the number templates, but they may be difficult to use for making custom cards.

Custom number cards by Craft with Sarah

Custom number cards supply list

Here is a list of the materials that are used to make this project.

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Cricut machine
Light blue Cricut cutting mat
Coloured Card
Glue (I like Bearly Art Glue and Collall)
Patterned paper (optional)
Cricut scoring wheel or scoring stylus (optional)
Foam squares (optional)

This project is suitable for the following types of Cricut machines: Explore series, Maker series, Joy Xtra, Joy 2 and Joy.

Make any age cards with Craft with Sarah

Foundation learning

If you're new to making papercrafts with your cutting machine, check out these links to get you started.

They include videos on topics such as: which file to use with your type of cutting machine, how to load the files into your cutting machine's software, how to cut cardstock with your type of cutting machine, how to recolor and modify/customize the cut files and tips for displaying your projects.

The following tutorials are Cricut-specific, but many of the ideas will work similarly with a Silhouette or ScanNCut machine and any cut files that are shared in them are compatible with all types of cutting machine.

How to score with a Cricut (even without scoring tools)
Print then cut tutorial
Design Space tools (Combine, Attach, Slice, Weld, Flatten, etc.)
Pattern fill tutorial (for making backgrounds & cutting images to a specific shape/size)
Free envelope SVGs that can be sized to fit any card
Presentation boxes for handmade cards
How to write inside cards with Cricut pens
How to cut layered designs at a small size
Design Space tips & tricks
Cricut pens tutorial
How to mount multiple designs in the same frame with magic guides

Custom number cards cards video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

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PART 1: Number cards with flowers & butterfly

The steps below show how to bring your chosen digits together with the flowers and butterflies included in the download to make your custom shaped card.

Step 1) Download the cutting file & upload to Design Space

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Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

After unzipping, upload the SVG file(s) into your cutting machine software.

Not sure how to use cut files with your type of machine? The following links lead to videos on how to open cut files in:

The download folder also contains printable PDF versions of the templates for hand cutting.

If you are using Cricut Design Space, start a new project and then click the “Upload” button on the left of the screen.

You can then either click “Browse” to find the file on your computer, or drag-and-drop it.

Select the file in the “Cutting Machine Versions” subfolder called svg-number-set-craftwithsarah.svg

Press “Upload” on the next screen.

After uploading, the design should be automatically inserted onto your Canvas.

To hide the left sidebar (to give you more space for designing!), click the arrow that’s about half way down the page.

If the design doesn’t get inserted onto your Canvas, it will show under “Uploads” in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Need help uploading SVGs? Get step-by-step instructions here in our detailed help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut.

Step 2) Put the numbers together

Click the design and press the “Ungroup” button at the top of the layers panel.

This separates out all of the numbers.

Delete the numbers you don’t need.

Check the size of your remaining numbers and make sure that they are the same height.

I did mine at 5 inches tall each.

The numbers having the same height is important, as it is required for adding the score line to the top of the card.

Place your numbers together so that they overlap.

To make it easier to see where the pieces will join, Ungroup the number on the right and move the white layer and all above it to the top of the layers panel and the two purple scallop edge layers to the bottom of the layers panel.

Position them so that at least the bottom two purple layers are touching, but ideally the white layers too.

Re-group all layers of the right number together.

You should have two groups: one for the left letter and one for the right letter.

Select both and press “Align > Bottom” to make them level.

Step 3) Join the layers together

Ungroup both numbers.

Select the two darkest purple scallop edge layers and press “Combine > Weld” to join them into one single piece.

Move this to the bottom of the layers panel.

Weld the two lighter purple scallop edges together.

If your white layers are touching then weld those together too, and any other colours where the two numbers touch/overlap.

If any layers have small gaps in them, use “Contour” to hide them.

I hid the scallop edges in the middle of the “0” to make the design look a bit neater.

You do not need to join parts of the numbers that do not touch each other – so in my example, the light pink, dark pink and top lavender layers remain separate.

At this point, change the colours to match your card theme.

Delete any layers you don’t want to use.

My card will have a purple theme, with patterned paper for the top of the numbers.

I like to use lime green to show patterned paper layers in Design Space, to remind me when I’m cutting it out that these are the ones for the pattern.

Step 4) Finish the card design

Duplicate the bottom layer in the same place by hovering your mouse over it, pressing the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key on your keyboard and left-clicking with your mouse.

This makes a copy of the piece in the same position.

Group together all layers of your numbers apart from the second copy of the bottom one.

Duplicate that second copy in place once more.

Select both pieces and change them to a “Guide” layer in the Operations dropdown.

Move one of the pieces up a bit using the arrow key on your keyboard (don’t use your mouse as they won’t line up any more).

Flip that piece vertically to turn it upside down.

We are flipping this piece so that when the card is folded in half, it will line up along the edges.

Keep shifting the top shape (the one you flipped) up with your arrow keys until there is only the slightest overlap.

Check the pieces are still aligned by selecting them both and pressing “Align > Horizontal”.

Change the pieces back to “Basic Cut” in the Operations dropdown, then Weld them together.

Insert a score line.

Rotate it 90 degrees so that it is horizontal, then roughly place it in the middle of the card design and drag it so that it is wide enough to cover the whole middle of your card.

It’s ok if it is a bit longer than the card.

Select the score line and base card and click “Align > Vertical” to put the score line in the middle.

With the score line and card layer selected, click “Attach” at the bottom of the layers panel.

Attach tells the Cricut to do the scoring on the base piece.

Turn your Group of number layers back on by clicking the eye icon that appears when you hover over the Group in the layers panel.

Drag it into position on your base card.

Decorate with the flowers and butterfly.

Delete anything on the screen that you are not using in your final card.

Drag a box around the whole design and check the size.

Resize if needed. Make sure you have all layers selected before you resize so that all pieces change in proportion.

Save your project, then it’s ready to cut!

Step 5) Cut out all the pieces

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the pieces.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

However, be careful NOT to rotate any patterned paper pieces, otherwise they will not cut with the pattern the correct way up when you put the card together.

TIP: New to using cardstock with your cutting machine? Check out these machine help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut that go through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your machine.

Step 6) Put the card together

My favourite glues to use on papercraft projects are Bearly Art Glue and Collall All Purpose Glue.

These are great because they don’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

Bearly Art Glue comes with a tiny nozzle to make it easy to apply glue to small areas of card. The Collall glue doesn’t come with this, so it’s easiest to decant it into needle tip applicator bottles so that you have more control.

Fold the base card in half down the score line.

Glue the bottom layer (the one that’s cut in the same colour) on top to complete the scallop edge along the top of the numbers.

Put the rest of the card together in any way that you like.

I used a ball tool against a piece of packaging foam to give a 3D effect to the flowers.

PART 2: Custom cards with any images

You aren’t limited to only making floral cards with these numbers.

Combine any images or SVGs together to make different themed cards.

This part of the tutorial may be easier to follow by watching the video near the top of the page as I go into more detail about each step, including my reasoning for each part of the process.