Free succulent SVG files

How the rosettes hold together

A rosette seen from above is rows of leaves lying on top of one another. To show that in a single colour, each row is ringed by a channel about 1.5 mm wide that runs round the leaf tips. The channel is left uncut in the valley between every two leaves, and those uncut bridges are what keep the plant in one piece. On most of the rosettes they are about 3 mm across when the file is 100 mm wide; the spiral succulent is finer.

In vinyl the rosettes weed cleanly at 60 mm and above: lift the channels out with a hook, starting at the middle. For card and wood keep them at 80 mm or more, or choose the simple succulent, which has ten leaves and wide channels.

Colours that look like the real plant

Succulents are rarely plain green. Echeverias run from blue-grey to pale jade with pink or red at the leaf tips, and hens and chicks are often deep red at the centre. For the layered succulent, try a dusty green for the outer rows and a blush pink for the heart, or cut every layer in the same sage card and let the shadows do the work.

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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