Free flower SVG files

Picking a flower for the job

For vinyl decals and iron-on, the bold heads are the safe choice: the simple five-petal flower, the retro flower and the seven-petal flower have no thin parts and weed in seconds. The tiered designs (double, rosette and dahlia) carry channels about 1 mm wide between their rings of petals, so cut them at 80 mm or larger and weed slowly.

For a laser, any of the single-piece heads makes a coaster, ornament or earring blank. Check the narrowest part on the design page and keep it at 2 mm or more in 3 mm plywood.

The paper flower templates

Five files here are templates, not pictures. The rolled flowers are spiral strips: cut one from 65 lb (176 gsm) card at 100 to 150 mm across, roll it from the outer end, and it makes a flower about a third as wide as the spiral. The layered template, the giant petals and the centres come as loose pieces to curl, stack and glue.

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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