Free ornament SVG files

Cutting ornaments that hang

Most shop-bought baubles are 60 to 80 mm across, so these files need little scaling. Every bauble here has a loop welded to its cap; at 100 mm tall the hole in the loop is 5 to 6 mm across, enough for ribbon or a wire hook. If you scale a bauble below 50 mm, check the loop: its wall is the narrowest part of most designs.

For laser cutting, 3 mm plywood and 3 mm acrylic both work. The blanks and the plain baubles have no fine parts. On the cut-out designs the bridges between holes are the weak points, so cut those at 70 mm or larger in wood.

Vinyl on glass and tile

To decorate a shop-bought ball or an arabesque tile, cut the design from permanent vinyl and size it to the object first. A ball curves in two directions, so keep vinyl for a ball under about half its diameter, or snip the edge so it can lie flat. The arabesque blank here is 80 by 100 mm; measure your tile and scale to match, since tiles differ by maker.

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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