Wildflower Birthday Wreath SVG

A meadow in a curve

Wildflowers never line up neatly, and this wreath does not try to. Small flowers and sage leaves sweep from the top of the design down the left side and across the bottom, leaving the upper right open like a crescent moon. The flowers come in different shapes: round blooms with five, six or seven petals, notched cosmos and one layered rose near the bottom. The colors change from flower to flower, mixing soft pink, deep rose and butter yellow. Happy Birthday sits inside the curve in a light, easy script.

It has the feel of flowers picked on a walk rather than bought from a shop, which suits a relaxed garden birthday or a friend who prefers things a little wild.

Color layers

• Base and lines (dark slate blue-gray): the backing that outlines every leaf and petal
• Leaf green (muted sage): the leaves set between the flowers
• Blush (soft pink): several of the small flowers, plus the outer petals and bud of the rose
• Rose (deep dusty pink): the deeper flowers and the rose’s inner cup
• Butter yellow (pale buttery yellow): the yellow flowers
• Lettering (dark slate): the greeting

Most of the small flowers are one piece each with an open round heart, so there is less to stack than the color count suggests.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 29 pieces and 16 cut-outs. Each flower, the leaves and the words are separate parts, so lift vinyl with transfer tape and lay paper on a backing card. The cut-outs are mostly the little flower hearts and letter centers; pick them out before you peel the sheet. It passes our cut checks from about 5.5 inches wide.

Sizes that work

The flowers are small, so do not go under 5.5 inches when cutting. For a smaller card or a sticker sheet, use Print Then Cut.

Where it shines

• A garden party welcome sign, cut large from card and set on an easel.
• A tote for a friend who keeps a vegetable patch or an allotment of flowers.
• A framed paper wreath with each flower raised on foam dots.
• A gift bag for a pot of plants or seeds.

Tips

The leaves sit apart from the flowers, so glue them down first to set the curve, then add the flowers, then the greeting. If the sheet of small flowers feels fiddly, cut them all from a single blush card and color the centers with a marker instead.

To try other combinations, such as all whites and yellows for a daisy look, read changing SVG colors.

Pairs well with

The Eucalyptus Birthday Wreath is a full round wreath in cool greens, and the Garden Party lines up a row of wildflowers for the same kind of event.