Free baby card SVG files

Cards for a shower and cards for a birth

Each file is the whole card as one flat sheet with its spine cut as a row of slits, so it folds on the line without a scoring tool. The pictures are cut out of the front panel, and a liner of pastel paper glued inside shows through them. The vest card is the odd one out: the card itself is the shape of a baby vest, folded along the shoulders, so it stands on its two leg edges.

For a shower before the birth, the pram, the footprints, the moon and the washing line suit any baby. Two cards carry the words for afterwards, cut in capitals with a bridge across each closed letter so that the middles stay in. Cut several bases in white and change only the liner: yellow, green, pink or blue.

Sizes and card

The files are 100 mm on their longer side and are scaled up to the size each note gives: 210 mm long for the A6 cards, from half a sheet of A4, 8.5 inches for the A2 card and 280 mm for the square ones, which fit A4; cut those at 270 mm on Letter card. Use card of 220 to 270 gsm. The toes of the footprints are the smallest cut-outs, about 3 mm across at full size, so use a sharp blade and a firm mat.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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