Another Year of Blooming SVG

About this design

Growing a year older is put in garden terms here: not aging, but blooming. The phrase is set in three lines of mixed type. ANOTHER YEAR sits at the top in small, widely spaced capitals, a small script of follows, and Blooming fills the width in a looping script. Flowers fill two opposite corners on a diagonal. In the top left, a layered peony sits on two sage sprigs with a small butter yellow flower. In the bottom right, a layered rose does the same.

The corner layout leaves plenty of space for the words and makes the design feel like a printed card. It is a kind thing to say to a friend who is starting something new in the year ahead.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 34 pieces and 23 cut-outs, the most openings of any design in the floral set. The capitals and the script letters make up most of them, and the flowers sit apart from the text in the corners, so use transfer tape or a backing card. Weed with a sharp hook and good light. It passes our cut checks from about 8.5 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines: dark slate blue-gray, the backing and outlines
• Leaf green: muted sage, the sprigs in both corners
• Blush: soft pink, the outer petals and heart of the peony and the outer petals and bud of the rose
• Rose: deep dusty pink, the peony’s ruffle and the rose’s cup
• Butter yellow: pale buttery yellow, the two small flowers
• Lettering: dark slate, all three lines of the phrase

Why it needs a larger size

The capitals in ANOTHER YEAR and the little word of are small compared to the rest of the design, so the whole piece has to be fairly wide before their details hold up. At 8.5 inches and up, every part passes our checks. That makes this a design for bigger projects: tote bags, shirts, framed prints and signs.

Size guide

For a standard card of 5 inches, print the color version on cardstock and cut around it with Print Then Cut. Printing keeps the small capitals crisp at any size.

Ideas

• A tote bag for a friend starting a new job, a new home or a new chapter.
• A framed print for a garden lover’s birthday.
• A shirt for a milestone birthday lunch with the girls.
• A sign for a garden or tea party, cut from wood or foam board.

Color ideas

• Peach and coral flowers with a deep green phrase
• All cream flowers on a sage background card
• Gold lettering for a fiftieth or sixtieth

Try them in the editor using our guide to changing SVG colors.

Pairs well with

Blessed with Another Year is the more thankful version of the same thought, and Grow and Glow Birthday keeps the growing theme for a younger crowd.