Antler Split Frame SVG

About this design

This design is made for personalizing. A reindeer head with soft ears and tall branching antlers rises above a wide, solid bar, so the whole design looks like the reindeer is peeking over a banner. The bar is a ready-made space for text: a family name, a monogram, “Merry Christmas” or the year. It is the kind of split frame that is popular on shirts, mugs and signs.

The design is one connected piece with no cut-outs, since the bar is left plain for your own text. The antlers are thick enough to cut cleanly, and it passes our cut checks from about 4 inches wide.

Color layers

• Backing in gold, the same outline, hidden underneath
• Design in reindeer brown

With no cut-outs, this design is usually cut in a single color, with your text cut out of the bar or layered on top.

Personalized projects

• Family name shirts for matching photos.
• Mugs and tumblers with a name in the bar.
• Door signs with a family name.
• Christmas stockings with each child’s name.
• Ornaments with the year.
• Gift tags with a name.
• Car decals.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 4 inches wide. For a mug, 3.5 to 4 inches wide. For a shirt, 10 to 11 inches. Choose a bold font for the bar so the letters stay clear when they are cut out.

Step by step: name cut out of the bar

1. Set the frame to 10 inches wide and download the solid style.
2. In your software, type a name in a bold font and size it to fit inside the bar.
3. Center the name on the bar and use Slice (Cricut) or Subtract (Silhouette) to cut the letters out of it.
4. Cut from iron-on vinyl and weed out the letters.
5. Press it on a shirt; the shirt color shows through the name.

Color ideas

• Brown, the classic
• White on a red or green shirt
• Gold glitter for a sparkly sign
• Black on a buffalo plaid stocking cuff

Good to know

You can also place the name on top instead of cutting it out. Cut the frame in one color and the name in a second color, then layer the name over the bar. This keeps the design in one piece and lets you change the name for each family member without changing the frame.

Variations to try

• Use the editor’s “cut the design out of the shape” option with a circle for a round tag.
• Add a second line of text under the bar in your software.

Pairs well with

The Reindeer Antlers design is the head without the bar, and the Round Reindeer Face has room for a name too.