Rolling Pin and Cookie Cutters SVG

Before any tray goes in the oven, there is a floured counter, a pin and a tangle of tin shapes from the drawer. That moment is what this picture is about. A golden rolling pin runs corner to corner across the top, with chocolate handles and one long streak of cream to give the wood a shine. Below it lie two open outlines, a star in red and a tree in green, drawn the way a metal cutter looks from above.

Those two shapes are pictures of cutters, meant for paper, vinyl and fabric. Their open centers are the charm of the design, because whatever color sits underneath shows straight through.

Color layers

• Base and lines (very dark cocoa) is a solid backing, seen only in the linework and along a skinny outer edge
• Cookie (golden tan) is the barrel of the pin
• Cream icing (warm cream) is the highlight on the barrel
• Red icing (bright red) is the star outline
• Green icing (holly green) is the tree outline
• Chocolate (milk chocolate brown) is the pair of handles

Pieces and weeding

Only 6 pieces and 3 cut-outs, so this is a quick one to weed. You get a barrel, two handles, the highlight and the two cutter outlines. Even so, cut lines leave these parts unconnected, so the group needs transfer tape when it is vinyl and a backing card when it is paper. It passes our cut checks from about 2 inches wide.

The recipe binder

This is a natural fit for the family recipe collection.

1. Cut the design at 6 inches in layered cardstock for the front of the binder.
2. Repeat it at 2 inches in a single color for each section divider.
3. Make tab stickers showing the star or the tree on its own, ungrouped from a copy at least 2 inches wide.
4. Add a small version in the corner of every handwritten card.

Using one color across the dividers keeps the pages tidy, and the full-color version on the cover does the decorating.

Other things to make

• Oven mitts and aprons, with the rolling pin across the chest and the outlines beneath.
• Tea towels in a single color of iron-on, which suits the open shapes.
• Kitchen wall signs on a plain board, with the wood grain showing through the star and tree.
• Baking class invitations for a school or community kitchen.
• Hang tags on a bundle of wooden spoons.

Size guide

Keep to 2 inches or wider for cutting. Tinier than that, Print Then Cut on sticker paper is the better route.

Quick recoloring

A silver star and tree look more like the real tin ones, and a pale birch barrel with dark walnut handles makes the pin feel old-fashioned. For a one-color print, keep just the solid file and let the open shapes do the work. Our walkthrough on uploading an SVG covers getting any of the three versions into your software.

Pairs well with

Hang it with the Christmas Cookie Jar, or give it to the Christmas Cookie Crew on a matching set of aprons. Bakers with a gingerbread habit will find more shapes in the gingerbread collection.