Free mistletoe SVG files

What makes it read as mistletoe

Mistletoe is easy to confuse with holly in a drawing, and the difference is all in the leaf and the berry. Holly has spiky leaves and red berries. Mistletoe has smooth paddle-shaped leaves in pairs, narrow at the stalk and round at the end, and white berries that sit in the forks of the stem. The stem itself forks in two again and again, which gives a sprig its even, branching outline. These files keep to that: every twig ends in a pair of leaves, and the berries are clustered where the stems divide.

Mistletoe is hung upside down, so the sprig, the bunch and the monogram hoop all grow downwards from a bow. The berries are discs 6 to 7 mm across at 100 mm, each with a small round highlight cut in it so a cluster does not read as a blob. Those highlights are the smallest things to weed; in felt or wood, use the silhouette or the simple mistletoe, which leave them out or make them larger.

Colours

The leaves are a yellowish olive green, lighter than holly, and the berries are white with a waxy look. On a white card a pure white berry disappears, so the layered file uses cream; pearl or glitter white vinyl on a coloured backing also works well. A red or gold bow is the only bright colour a mistletoe design needs.

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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