Free Santa SVG files

How Santa works in one colour

Santa is red cloth, white fur and a white beard, which a single colour cannot show. These files tell the parts apart by shape: fur has a tufted edge, the beard is scalloped, and a thin seam is cut wherever fur meets cloth. Each seam stops short of the edge, so the face and the standing figure still lift as one piece.

Those seams are a little over 1 mm wide with the file at 100 mm. Cut the face and the figure at 100 mm or larger in vinyl, and at 150 mm or more in wood, or the lines close up. For small tags use the silhouette with the sack, the boots or the belt, which have no fine lines.

Footprints on Christmas morning

The footprint is made to be used as a stencil. Cut it from card or stencil film at about 250 mm long for a grown-up boot, keep the sheet with the holes in it, lay it on the floor and sift flour, icing sugar or fake snow over it. Lift it straight up and move on a stride. Flip the stencil over for the other foot.

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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