Birthday Unicorn SVG

About this design

Here is a unicorn who has clearly found the cake first. Only the head and two paws show, resting on the edge of a tall lilac cake with dripping cream icing and a mint plate underneath. The front of the cake carries a coral heart, a butter-yellow star and a sky-blue heart in a row.

The unicorn’s face is round and cream, with big eyes, rosy coral cheeks and two small nostrils. A butter horn with two grooves points straight up between cream ears lined in peach. Around the head, the mane is a cloud of round puffs: coral on the outside, sky at the top and lilac at the bottom, with a coral and a sky swoop of forelock across the brow.

Pieces and weeding

This is one of the busier files in the set, with 26 pieces and 6 cut-outs. All the mane puffs, the decorations and the cake parts are separate shapes, so lay vinyl with transfer tape, or glue paper onto a backing card as you go. The horn’s grooves and the small face details take the most care when weeding. It passes our cut checks from about 4 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in cocoa brown: the solid backing and outline
• Mint in soft mint green: the cake plate
• Peach in pale peach: the inside of the ears
• Lilac in soft lavender: the cake and the lower mane puffs
• Butter in butter yellow: the horn and the star on the cake
• Sky in pale sky blue: the top mane puffs, one forelock swoop and the right-hand heart
• Cream in warm cream: the face, ears, paws and icing
• Coral in coral pink: the outer mane puffs, the other swoop, the cheeks and the left-hand heart

Size guide

For anything under 4 inches, such as a favor sticker, print the color file and cut only the outline. Our Print Then Cut guide covers the steps.

Ways to use it

• A unicorn party invitation, layered or printed.
• The birthday shirt, with the child’s age added below in vinyl.
• A large cutout for a photo backdrop, scaled up in foam board.
• Goody bag fronts cut in one color.
• A thank-you note for after the party.

Layering order

Work from the back. The coral outer mane goes on first, then the sky and lilac puffs, then the ears. Add the cake next, so the paws can sit on top of its icing, and finish with the face, cheeks, forelock and horn. Keeping the eight color sheets in a stack beside the mat saves hunting for small pieces.

Color ideas

An all-pastel mane in one color makes a calmer card, while gold horn and coral cake suit a brighter party. See changing SVG colors.

Pairs well with

The Birthday Narwhal is a sea-going cousin with its own horn, and the Birthday Owl perches on a cake of its own.