6 Free Cactus SVG Templates

These Free Cactus SVGs are great for Cricut, Silhouette, or any other cutting machine crafts.

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Fun with your Cactus SVGs

The word ‘plant’ is a broad term. When one says the word plant, the other could think about a tree, while another would think about a flower. Plants are such interesting beings in the world. Such so that a lot of us forget that they are a living being. Plants also require sustenance as we do. They even ‘drink’ water like any animal being.

With people staying at home for most of their time, they found joy taking care of a variety of plants. And, this leads some of us to discover hidden gems to include in our plant collection. One of these gems is a cactus.

If you do not know yet, cactus is just a class of plants. It has different varieties to choose from. Cactus does not only thrive on a dessert. Or, that they all look the same. Now, let us uncover more interesting facts about the cactus.

Unknown to some, cactus have water-storing characteristics. However, it does not mean they do not require water. Cactus still needs water to survive. At the same time, note that even if the cactus have water-storing characteristics, it does not mean you can drink from it. The water-storing characteristic of the cactus is for its benefit. The water from the cactus is not safe for consumption. And, if you ever drink one, it could harm your kidney. If you found yourself lost in the desert, don’t ever think of drinking cactus water.

Interested in related tutorials? Check out my tutorial for how to make wood cactus earrings.

How to turn any image into an SVG template?

Interested in learning the easiest way to make your own SVG?

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to turn any image into an SVG format image without having to use any complicated graphics editing software.

First, a quick primer on what is an SVG… SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a way to store digital information about an image. Most images you see on the web and other digital devices use a bitmap or pixel-based image storage format. In other words, the image is captured with information about each dot in the image.

SVG format images are part of a category of images that are vector-based. Vector-based images store the image as a series of paths and nodes. Most cutting machines like the Cricut and Silhouette use SVG format images because the blade on the machine needs to know what direction (or path) to cut.

To turn a bitmap-based image into a vector-based image, you need special conversion software tools. This is an algorithm tricky conversion because there are lots of different ways to do it with varying degrees in quality. Most graphic editing software like Adobe Illustration make you manually decide on those conversion settings which makes it really difficult to use if you’re not already familiar with Illustrator.

I use a software tool called Vector Magic. With Vector Magic, you just upload your image (you can even copy and paste it in) and it automatically just converts to an SVG format for you. You can make editorial adjustments afterward if you’d like but there is a baseline conversion ready to go if that’s good enough.

Here’s an image for you to give it a try yourself. It’s a bunch of cute animal drawings I did the other day. I just took a picture of it with my phone. Try copy and paste this image into the Vector Magic interface. (Right-click on the image below, select “copy”, then head over to Vector Magic and past it into the window or just hit Ctrl+V)

After you pasted your image into the Vector Magic window, it will automatically start to convert your image:

This will take a few seconds. When the process is complete, you will see the vectorized SVG image on the right with the original on the left.

If you don’t like the automated conversion, there are a number of different adjustments you can make from the right tool panel.

After making adjustments, you can download your converted image as an SVG and then upload it to your cutting machine interface like Cricut Design Space below:

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