Free monster SVG files

How the eyes and teeth hold together

A monster is mostly eyes and teeth, and both are a problem for a cutting machine: the pupil of an eye and the teeth in a mouth are islands that fall out when the white round them is cut away. In these files every pupil is joined to the rim of its eye on the side the monster is looking, and every tooth grows from the lip. So each monster comes off the mat as one piece, and a sheet of white or yellow card behind it fills in the eyes and the mouth.

Every file is 100 mm on its longer side. The furry monsters have tufts about 3 mm high, which cut well in vinyl and card down to about 60 mm. For felt, foam or thin plywood pick the cute monster with feelers or the tall monster, which have smooth edges.

Turning a box or a door into a monster

The monster mouth, the monster teeth and the monster eyes are made to be stuck on things. Cut the teeth from white card and fix one row to the lid of a box and the other to its body, add a pair of eyes above, and the box becomes a monster that eats what you post into it. The same pieces scaled up to 400 mm or more turn a classroom door or a wheelie bin into a face.

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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