Free tulip SVG files

Stems, leaves and where they are thinnest

A tulip is a heavy head on a slim stem, and the stem is the part to watch. Here stems are 3 to 3.5 mm wide when the file is 100 mm tall, and about 2.2 mm in the border, where five plants share the width. In vinyl that is plenty at any size above 50 mm. For card, felt and thin wood keep single tulips at 80 mm or taller, or choose the simple tulip, whose stem is 4.4 mm wide.

The leaves are creased down the middle with a slit that stops short of both ends. On paper tulips, score along that line and fold the leaf slightly, and it will hold a curve the way a real one does.

Colour and season

Tulips come in almost every colour except true blue, so they are a forgiving flower for scrap vinyl and offcuts of card. Red and yellow read as spring from a distance, pink and white suit Mother's Day and weddings, and a row in mixed colours is the quickest Easter border there is. To cut the head and the leaves in different colours from a one-piece design, cut it twice and trim each copy where the stem meets the head.

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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