Corgi Silhouettes with Bridged Paper-Cut Outlines: 20 Poses, Portraits and a Name Plaque

Twenty corgis make up this collection of silhouettes, each with the breed’s long, low body, short legs and oversized pointed ears. In the solid artwork each dog has a dark saddle and mask, with the chest, muzzle, legs and inner ears left open.

Twelve poses and eight portraits

The full-body poses are standing side-on, sitting face-on and side-on, trotting, running flat out, holding a ball, sprawled in a sploot with both back legs straight behind, curled asleep, lifting one paw like a hello, and dropping into a play bow. Design 12 shows the dog from behind, looking back over its shoulder, with a heart shape on its rump.

Design 11 is the one Cardigan in the set, easy to spot by its long, brushy tail. All the other full-body dogs have the Pembroke’s bobtail.

The eight portraits are a side profile, a grinning face, a dog in a bow tie, a profile inside a large paw print, a pup with its paws on a blank plaque, a profile framed by a heart, a head in a laurel wreath, and a pup peeking over a ledge. The plaque in design 17 is empty, so the name is yours to add.

What the bridges in the outline do

Look closely at the outline files and the lines break in small places. Those gaps are paper bridges. When you cut the black lines away, the white paper on either side stays joined instead of falling out. The guide gives the bridge as about 0.06 inch at a 4-inch artwork width, and it grows or shrinks with the design. On the solid artwork, enclosed white areas such as the eyes are decorative holes and will come loose.

Outlines 11, 14 and 19 are separately redrawn, simpler line versions of their solid designs, so they won’t trace the solid shape exactly. The files have not been through a physical print or cut test. Try your size and material on scrap first.

Opening the files

Each format opens at a different size, so set the size you want in your software. The DXF files come in at 4 inches (101.6 mm) wide. The PNGs are 2,400 pixels, which is 8 inches at 300 dpi. The SVGs use a plain 1200 x 1200 pixel canvas with no inch size, and each separate piece sits on its own layer named Cut component 001, 002 and so on.

The PDF runs in one fixed order: cover, the 20 solid designs full-page, the 20 outlines full-page, then sampler sheets with four or six different designs to a page, and a guide page at the end.

Questions

Which designs show a Cardigan corgi?

Only design 11, the standing dog with the long, bushy tail. The other 19 are drawn with the Pembroke's short bobtail or show just the head.

Is the name plaque already lettered?

No. Design 17 is a corgi resting both front paws on an empty rectangle. No font or name comes with it, so you add the lettering yourself.