Birthday Owl SVG

Perched on the cake

Owls are known for keeping watch, and this one is guarding the birthday cake from the best seat in the house: right on top. The cake is mint with cream icing dripping over its edge, standing on a coral plate. The owl’s yellow feet grip the top of the icing.

The owl itself is lilac with two pointed ear tufts, peach wings folded at its sides and a cream belly marked with five little feather curves. Its eyes are huge: wide cream discs with round cocoa-brown centers, and a butter-yellow beak between them. A coral party hat with yellow stripes and a mint pompom sits between the tufts.

Color layers

• Base and lines in cocoa brown: the backing outline and the centers of the eyes
• Mint in soft mint green: the cake and the hat’s pompom
• Peach in pale peach: the two wings
• Lilac in soft lavender: the body and ear tufts
• Butter in butter yellow: the beak, the feet and the stripes on the hat
• Cream in warm cream: the belly, the eye discs and the icing
• Coral in coral pink: the cake plate and the party hat

Pieces and weeding

The solid version has 23 pieces and 7 cut-outs. The feather marks on the belly are small, so weed that area with care. Every other part, from the beak to the wings and the hat, is separate, so place vinyl with transfer tape or assemble paper on a backing card. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches wide.

Size guide

Below 3.5 inches the smallest details get hard to weed. Print the color file and cut only the outline with Print Then Cut for little stickers.

Ways to use the owl

• A “whooo’s turning one?” invitation for a first birthday.
• A kid’s shirt in layered iron-on.
• A woodland party sign for the cake table.
• Book plates for a reading-themed party, printed and cut.
• Favor bag toppers cut in one color.

A note on the eyes

The big eye discs are what give this owl its expression. When you glue them down, line them up level and leave a small gap between them for the beak. If they slip even slightly, the owl looks cross-eyed, so place them with tweezers and press down only once they look right.

Color ideas

A brown owl with butter eyes looks more like a woodland bird, and a sky-blue owl on a lilac cake suits a baby boy’s party. Read about changing SVG colors.

Pairs well with

The Birthday Unicorn peeks over a cake of its own, and the Birthday Fox completes a woodland pair.