Free mountain SVG files

How the snow caps are made

In a one-colour cut file, snow has to be a hole: the white is whatever shows through. Each cap here is cut out below a zigzag snow line, with a rim of rock about 2.6 mm wide left round it at the 100 mm size of the file. That rim is the narrowest part of most of these designs. It cuts well in vinyl and card down to about 50 mm wide; in 3 mm wood, keep to 100 mm or more.

For solid white snow, cut the design twice. Use the whole mountain in a dark colour, and from a white sheet keep only the cap shapes that fall out, then press them back into the holes. They fit exactly because they come from the same cut.

Ranges, gaps and layers

Where one peak stands in front of another, a slim gap follows the edge of the near peak and stops just short of the outline. It lets the eye separate the mountains without cutting them apart. If you want real depth, use the layered landscape: three ranges in three colours, each cut from its own sheet and stacked from back to front.

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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