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Free Easter card SVG files

Free Easter card SVG templates: card bases with the fold already in them and a rabbit, decorated eggs, tulips, a chick or a cross cut out of the front. There is a card shaped like an egg, a gate fold that meets in a zigzag crack, a pop-up and a version to print and cut by hand.

11 designs. Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. What you can do with them.

How the cards are made

Each file is the whole card as one flat sheet: back panel, front panel and the spine between them, which is a row of short slits that the blade cuts with everything else, so there is nothing to score. The art is cut out of the front. An egg is cut as two, three or four openings with bands of card left across it, zigzag and straight by turns, so that it reads as a decorated egg and nothing is left loose.

Glue a liner inside the front, a little smaller than the panel, and the eggs take its colour. Paper printed with a small pattern works well: each egg then looks painted. The card with five eggs comes with its liner as a second piece, already the right size.

Sizes and card

The files are 100 mm on their longer side, like the rest of the library, so scale each one up to the size its note gives. The A6 cards are cut 210 mm long and use half a sheet of A4; the A2 cards are half a sheet of Letter. The egg-shaped card is cut 200 mm wide and folds to 100 × 156 mm. The gate fold is 280 mm wide opened out, which fits A4 but is just too long for Letter, so cut it 270 mm wide there.

Use card of 200 to 270 gsm in a pale spring colour. Lighter paper sags where the rabbit is cut away, and board over 300 gsm cracks along the slits. The bands across the eggs are about 3 mm wide at these sizes, which a blade manages well in smooth card; avoid glitter card for those.

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.

Questions

Which envelope fits?

An A6 card (105 × 148 mm) takes a C6 envelope, and so does the egg-shaped card at 100 × 156 mm. An A2 card (4.25 × 5.5 inches) takes an A2 envelope, the tall card with the cross takes a DL envelope, and the square cards take a 145 or 150 mm square envelope.

How does the gate fold close?

Its two doors fold in from the sides and meet down the middle of the front along a zigzag, each tooth of one door fitting between two teeth of the other. Slip a band of paper round the closed card, or seal it with a round sticker over the crack.

Can children help to make these?

Yes. Cut the card and the liner yourself, then let them colour or stamp the liner before it is glued in: whatever they draw shows through the eggs. The print and cut version can be cut with scissors apart from the openings.

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