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Beautiful hand-drawn tree of life SVG designs for Cricut and other cutting machines...
I have two designs for you:
As well as a tutorial to help you make the tree of life shadow box from layers of cardstock...
SVG, DXF, EPS & PNG file formats are included
For personal & small-business commercial use
Physical (craft) products only - no digital products or sharing
I love Celtic art (see my artworks page here) - and I love nature - so I really love the Tree of Life symbol.
It's a symbol that we also see in lots of other cultures and is usually in a circle, representing the circle or cycle of life, death and rebirth.
The branches reach up to heaven and so represent the celestial plane. The roots reach into the earth and represent the 'Otherworld' below. The trunk represents the earthly plane between.
In Celtic culture, the tree also represents longevity, strength and wisdom - a sense of stability and security in the seasons of year or the seasons of our life.
After creating the circle tree of life design, I was really inspired to also make it into a shadow box design - incorporating some of my hand-drawn Celtic knotwork too.
So you can take your pick whether you want a simple circle tree of life SVG design for your craft project, or if you'd like to make your tree of life into a complete shadow box to display or gift...
Maybe you'd like to make both?
I'll take a closer look at my tree of life SVG designs below - the simple circle design first, followed by the shadow box design with full tutorial. There's lots of colour inspiration for your own makes here, too!
This is a simple circle design that you can use with or without the background circle (included in the file)...
I love to cut my designs in cardstock with my Cricut Maker - it allows me to test the design and make sure it all works as intended - and also to try out some colours to inspire you too...
I cut this design first in a brown card (Sizzix textured cardstock) with a lovely yellow circle background (Cricut cardstock from the Jewel pack - Sizzix also do a similar yellow, but I'd run out). You can see that above. This shows the design cut at the size supplied (about 8 inches height).
I also tried it in an off-white card (very pale grey) against a black circle background (both Sizzix textured cardstock) - which you can see below. This is a slightly smaller size (around 6 inches height). I also think it looks fantastic against the royal blue too (Clairefontaine cardstock 160gsm) - also below...
You could also make other projects with the tree of life SVG cut file - I think it would look really effective on a T-shirt or sweatshirt in HTV vinyl - or how about on a tote bag, or a cushion?
If you've got a project in mind for the simple circle tree of life SVG design, you can download the file from my store, link right below...
Get the tree of life circle SVG from my store here
SVG/EPS/DXF/PNG
Personal & small-business commercial use
Physical (craft) products only - no digital files/products or sharing
I think this might be my favourite shadow box make to date! I loved designing and making this - I've done it in three different colours and had lots of fun experimenting so I hope it will be inspiring for you.
I'm going to show you how to make my tree of life shadow box. It's pretty easy with just four layers to cut - but so effective and looks so intricate and complicated!
I'll show you how to make the version below - off-white, red, and yellow - which is the version in the template. I also made it in other colours - greens seems a great colour choice for the tree of life theme, so I tried out a couple of these, too, so I hope it gives you some inspiration for further colour choices to make your own tree of life craft project.
You will need:
We'll start from the back and build up - so that's the bright yellow square as the very back layer - and the mustard/tan layer as the one to fit on top of it...
We just need to add double-sided sticky tabs to the back of the mustard/tan layer. I usually do three or four per side - you could even get away with just two. The important thing is to try and keep them fairly evenly spaced, but also to try and keep to the same positioning on each layer (so there's no sagging or bulging). It certainly doesn't have to be perfect, but if you can keep them roughly in the same position, your shadow box will come out much better...
Then, we need to stick the mustard/tan layer down on top of the bright yellow layer - position it carefully! I find it works well to line up the top edges of the two layers together carefully and then lower the top layer down. There's usually a bit of leeway in being able to pull the layers apart and reposition if you don't get it right first time - but be very gentle doing this so you don't crease your card!
It should look something like this, below - when you're happy with it, press to stick down firmly...
Next, it's the dark red layer - we do just the same, adding the double-sided sticky tabs around the edge on the back of the red layer. Try to get them in a similar position to the ones on the last layer!
And line up the top edges to position - and stick down the red layer on top of the mustard/tan layer...
It should look something like this (below)...
So we just need to add the final, top, layer that will bring everything together. We just need to repeat exactly the same process, adding the double-sided sticky tabs to the back of the top layer, around the edges, trying to get them in the same or similar positions as the previous layers...
Then carefully position and stick into place - and your tree of life shadow box project is complete... (well, very nearly)!
The one final thing we need to do is just to pop the project into a nice frame - now it's ready to display or gift...
Here's some more colour inspiration for your tree of life SVG shadow box project...
I hope you feel inspired for your own tree of life shadow box project by all the different colour ideas. If you'd like to make the project, you can get the Tree of Life SVG template for the shadow box in my store at the link right below...
Get the Tree of Life SVG shadow box template in my store here...
SVG/DXF/PNG/EPS formats
Personal & small-business commercial use
Physical (craft) products only - no digital use or sharing
Find each of my tree of life SVG designs in my store at the links below...
Lotti Brown's Designs & Templates
How-tos...
If you like my Tree of Life design, you might also like my Green Man SVG design - find out more about him here...
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