Holly Heart Sugar Cookie SVG

About this design

Hearts belong to more than one holiday, and a sprig of holly is all it takes to claim this one for December. Red icing fills a generous heart, a line of cream piping traces the shape just inside its border, and two spiky green leaves meet at a cluster of three gold berries under the cleft.

Count the bands from the outside in and you get dough, red, cream, then more red. That stepped border gives the flat shape some richness, as though someone took the time to pipe it twice.

Who it suits

This is the cookie to send with a note. It works for anyone you would bake for on purpose:

• Teacher gifts, as a tag on a tin of homemade treats.
• Sweetheart cards with the heart layered on the front.
• Oven mitts and aprons for a favorite grandmother, in iron-on vinyl.
• Cookie exchange invitations sent to close friends.
• Recipe cards for a dough passed down the family.

The colors, layer by layer

• Base and lines in dark cocoa: one unbroken backing that peeks through as the linework and a fine outer border
• Cookie in baked tan: the baked edge around the heart
• Cream icing in warm ivory: the piped ring
• Red icing in cherry red: both the band outside the ring and the large field inside it
• Green icing in deep holly green: the pair of leaves
• Gold icing in honey yellow: the three berries

Pieces and weeding

Expect 9 pieces with 3 cut-outs. That total covers the dough outline, two red areas, the cream ring, the leaves and the berries. Since nothing joins them once the lines are cut away, hold them in position with transfer tape on vinyl projects while paper versions want a sturdy backing card behind them. It passes our cut checks from about 2 inches wide.

Size guide

At the 2-inch end, the berries are small enough to want a careful hand. If you need something smaller still, the color file with Print Then Cut keeps every detail intact.

Making the card front

1. Cut the backing in dark brown, sized to sit on a 5-by-7 card with a margin.
2. Glue the golden heart over it, then the outer red band.
3. Add the cream ring and the inner red field, lining up the cleft first.
4. Tuck the two leaves into place and top them with the berries.

Recoloring ideas

• Soft pink icing with a white ring, for a sweeter look
• Burgundy with a gold ring for a formal card
• Cream icing with a red ring, leaving the holly as it is

Our color-changing guide covers swapping one layer at a time.

Pairs well with

Its piped ring also appears on the Star Sugar Cookie too, and the Linzer Heart Cookie offers a second heart for a plate. Add tags from our Christmas gift tag collection when the cookies go out the door.