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Starfish Outlines: 10 Sea Stars plus Sand Dollar, Seahorse, Shells and Coral
Ten simple sea star shapes, from a plump cushion star to a whip-armed brittle star and a knobby-edged star, plus ten shoreline shapes including a sand dollar, a seahorse, a sea urchin, coral, kelp and five shells. Each comes as a solid silhouette and as a hollow outline with small gaps left in the line so a paper stencil holds together.
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Ten sea stars and ten other sea and shore shapes make up these 20 plain designs for tracing, stenciling and cutting. Every design comes as a solid silhouette and as a hollow outline, and the outline is drawn with small breaks in it so you can cut it out of paper as a stencil.
Ten sea stars
The stars cover more than the usual five points. Design 01 is a classic five-armed star with slightly uneven arms, 02 a plump cushion star with short, rounded points, and 03 a thin star with long ribbon arms. In 04 the arms bend and curl as if the star is turning. Designs 05, 06 and 07 have six, seven and eight arms. The brittle star (08) is a small round disc with five whip-thin, wavy arms, the most delicate shape in the set. The ridge star (09) has a line running down each arm in its outline version, and the knobby star (10) has a bumpy, scalloped edge.
Ten shoreline companions
The other half of the set fills out a beach or ocean theme: a sand dollar with its five petal openings (11), a scallop shell (12), a queen conch (13), a tall seahorse with a curled tail (14), a sea urchin bristling with spines (15), a branching coral (16), a wide, flat clam shell (17), a stem of kelp (18), a tall spiral spire shell (19) and a nautilus curling into its center (20).
Solid shapes and bridged outlines
None of the drawings has text, and most are flat shapes with no inner detail. In the solid versions only the sand dollar’s petals and the nautilus spiral are cut out. The outlines trace the edge with a single line and leave short gaps, and the guide points to the brittle star’s arms and the urchin’s spines as the parts to keep large. Cut a scrap-paper test at your size first.
The print PDFs mix designs on the smaller sheets. Five four-up pages and four six-up pages put all 20 designs on paper in each style, so you can print a full set of smaller shapes without arranging them yourself. Choose actual size in the print dialog, not fit-to-page.
Questions
- Why are there gaps in the outline?
- The gaps are paper bridges. When you cut the outline out of a sheet to make a stencil, they keep the middle of the star attached to the paper instead of letting it drop out. The guide says not to add cut lines across them. It also notes that a software check found no loose pieces, while no physical cut test was done.
- What size do the files come in?
- Every DXF is 4 inches (101.6 mm) wide, so tall shapes like the seahorse and the spire shell run to about 9 inches high. The PNGs are 2,400 pixels on the longer side, which is 8 inches at 300 dpi. The SVGs have no physical size set, so scale them after you import. On US Letter, a full-page design prints between 6.3 and 8.2 inches on its longer side.
