Santa in the Chimney SVG

About this design

It is one of Christmas Eve’s best-known moments: Santa heading down the chimney. This design shows a tall brick chimney with a soft cap of snow, and Santa’s leg and boot sticking straight up out of the top, as if he is halfway through his dive. The bricks are drawn as individual blocks, with the mortar lines between them cut out.

That brick pattern is what makes the design charming, and also what makes it detailed. The chimney is built from twenty-four pieces, so it does not pass our automated cut checks at small sizes and is listed for print and web. It cuts well from about 6.5 inches tall, where the mortar lines are wide enough to weed.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the mortar between the bricks
• Design in red, with each brick a separate piece

Best ways to use it

• Printed cards and invitations. Download a 300 DPI PNG.
• Christmas Eve box. A large decal on the lid.
• Fireplace sign. “Santa stops here” next to a real chimney.
• Kids’ shirts with sublimation printing.
• Laser engraving on wood, where the brick lines become a texture.
• Shadow box. Layered cardstock with real cotton snow on top.

Size and cutting tips

For cutting, work at 7 inches tall or more and use the color version: cut the cream backing as one piece and place the red bricks on it with transfer tape. Because the bricks are separate, keep everything on one sheet of transfer tape so the pattern stays perfectly aligned.

Step by step: Christmas Eve box lid

1. Set the design to 9 inches tall and download the color SVG.
2. Cut the cream backing from white vinyl and the bricks from red vinyl.
3. Apply the white backing to the box lid first.
4. Lift all the red bricks together on one sheet of transfer tape and lay them over the backing.
5. Add “Christmas Eve” in a script font beside the chimney.

Color ideas

• Red bricks with cream mortar, the classic
• Brown or terracotta bricks for a rustic chimney
• Gray stone with white snow for a cottage look

Good to know

Because each brick is its own piece, this design is easier as layered vinyl than as a single-color decal: the backing holds everything together and hides tiny gaps.

Pairs well with

The Santa Boots complete the scene, and the Gingerbread House with Chimney offers another chimney design.