Free zombie SVG files

Where zombie cut files work best

Zombies are a low-down decoration: they come up out of the ground. The zombie arm, the two zombie hands and the zombie climbing out of a grave all have a flat base of broken earth, so they sit along the bottom of a window, a door or a planter as if they had just broken through. Cut them from black or grey vinyl at 200 to 300 mm tall for glass, or from card to stand in a pot of soil.

The fingers are the part to watch. At 100 mm tall they are 5 to 6 mm wide, which is sturdy in vinyl and card and still safe in 3 mm plywood. The shambling zombie and the three zombies in a row are solid silhouettes with thinner fingers, so keep those above 120 mm in wood.

Eyes, teeth and brains

On the faces, each eye is a window with the pupil left joined to its rim, and each tooth grows from the edge of the mouth. Nothing falls out when you weed. Put white or yellow card behind the head and the eyes and teeth light up. The layered zombie gives you the same face in four separate colours, with a pink brain to stick on top.

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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