Free Santa’s Little Helper SVG

Santa’s Little Helper with a drop shadow SVG

Which one? SVG for Cricut and lasers, DXF for the free Silhouette Studio, PNG to print.

Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. What you can do with it.

Santa’s Little Helper with a drop shadow, in layered colours
Santa’s Little Helper with a drop shadow. The preview is the SVG file itself.

“Santa’s Little Helper” in Pacifico script in two colours: the words, and a thicker copy behind them shifted down and to the right as a shadow. The shadow layer is one solid piece, which makes the whole design easy to place.

What is in the file

Size70 × 100 mm (2.77 × 3.94 in), scales to any size
Pieces12 separate pieces
Outlines to cut37: 12 outer edges and 25 cut-outs
Cut length1,906 mm at this size
Narrowest part1.9 mm at this size
Nodes830 curve and line segments
Layers2: shadow and words

Measured from the file. PNG: 1,429 × 2,000 pixels, transparent. About the three file types.

Will it cut at your size?

Scaling a design scales its thinnest part too. Here is this one at seven sizes, from 1 to 12 inches on its longer side, with how many copies fit a 12 × 12 inch sheet or mat.

Size, width × heightNarrowest partCut lengthFit on a 12 in sheetRule of thumb
0.7 × 1 in (18 × 25 mm)0.48 mm484 mm130Too fine for most machines
1.41 × 2 in (36 × 51 mm)0.97 mm968 mm35Fine detail: vinyl and paper only, weed with care
2.11 × 3 in (54 × 76 mm)1.4 mm1,452 mm15Vinyl, card and thin sheet
2.81 × 4 in (71 × 102 mm)1.9 mm1,936 mm8Vinyl, card and thin sheet
4.22 × 6 in (107 × 152 mm)2.9 mm2,905 mm2Vinyl, card and thin sheet
5.62 × 8 in (143 × 203 mm)3.9 mm3,873 mm2Any material, including 3 mm wood and acrylic
8.44 × 12 in (214 × 305 mm)5.8 mm5,809 mm1Any material, including 3 mm wood and acrylic

The narrowest part is the thinnest neck that holds the design together; sharp tips are not counted. For wood and acrylic, keep it at least as wide as the sheet is thick. How to open the file in Cricut, Silhouette and laser software.

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