Get ready for Fat Tuesday celebrations with these Mardi Gras SVG files. Whether you’re throwing a Mardi Gras celebration full of long beads and loud music, or just plan on staying in with your king cake and beignets, grab these Mardi Gras cut files to add a festive addition to your Fat Tuesday!

Hint: I’ll be staying in with my beignets!

Get the Mardi Gras SVG Bundle

Get ready for Fat Tuesday in all it’s glory by February 25 with these four fun Mardi Gras SVG files! Make a t-shirt, hat, tote, or mug to celebrate the last day of the Carnival season.

These cut files are designed in traditional Mardi Gras colors—purple, green, and gold!

Make a simple tee to celebrate or add it to a fancy costume if you want to go all out! You can also customize a large tote to haul away all the beads you’ll catch from the parade!

There are four cut files in this Mardi Gras SVG bundle including:

• Parade Vibes!
• Bring on the Beads!
• Here for the Beignets
• Mardi Squad

How to Use These Files

You can cut these files on a Cricut Maker 3, Cricut Maker, Cricut Explore 3, Cricut Explore Air 2, Cricut Joy, Silhouette, Glowforge, or other cutting machine! Here are detailed tutorials that will help you use these SVG files in your crafting:

• How to Upload an SVG to Cricut Design Space
• How to Upload an SVG to Silhouette Studio
• How to Organize Your SVG Files
• Best Blanks for Cricut & Silhouette Projects
• Best Places to Buy Cricut Supplies
• Learn Your Specific Cricut Machine

Iron On Vinyl (also called Heat-Transfer Vinyl or HTV)

• Using Iron On Vinyl
• Layering Iron On Vinyl
• Warm Peel vs Cool Peel Iron On Vinyl
• Weeding Iron On Vinyl
• All About the Cricut EasyPress
• Iron vs. EasyPress vs. HeatPress

Adhesive Vinyl

• How to Use Adhesive Vinyl
• Weeding Adhesive Vinyl
• Layering Adhesive Vinyl

Cardstock

• How to Cut Cardstock and Paper

Other

• How to Use Print then Cut

I love this raglan tee I made to be part of the Mardi Squad. I can wear it with my colorful beads and pretend I’m in New Orleans eating beignets!

Use these files if you’re hosting a Mardi Gras party or celebrating Fat Tuesday with friends! It’s the perfect way to be festive for Mardi Gras without going over the top!

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I was getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day over here when I realized I’d skipped right over doing something for Mardi Gras! Mardi Gras falls on February 13 this year—let the good times roll!

I always thought Mardi Gras was held the day before Ash Wednesday as a last night of eating and revelling before the Christian fasting season of Lent starts 40 days before Easter. But I did a little research and for some locales, the Mardi Gras festival stretches much longer than one day—starting on the first day of Epiphany, just 12 days after Christmas! Depending on when Easter falls that year, that’s some serious party time! I’d love to make it to one of the big Mardi Gras or Carnaval festivals sometime—what an experience!

(Plus, I plan on eating more beignets than is probably reasonable!)

For this week’s freebie, grab this cute “my first mardi gras” SVG for a little one in your life!

Purchase the Mardi Gras SVG Files Here

More Mardi Gras Fun!

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Easter’s early this year, which means that Mardi Gras is too! Get ready to party down Bourbon Street on February 9 by making these fun and easy masks with your Cricut Explore. They’re perfect for a Fat Tuesday party, either as part of your ensemble or as photo booth props. They make great decor as well, since you can cut them at any size you want!

I’ve never used Cricut’s adhesive foil before, but it’s definitely one I’m going to keep coming back to! It’s one of my favorite materials that I’ve worked with so far. They have almost a stainless steel quality about them — a little like they’ve been brushed. I had purple, gold, and silver, and I added black and green card stock to make the masks sturdier and round out the Mardi Gras color palette.

Supplies + Tools

Cricut Explore + cutting mat
Cricut Adhesive Foil in purple, gold, and silver
Black card stock
Green card stock
Wooden dowels
Black spray paint
Spray adhesive
Mini duct tape (or another strong adhesive or glue)

Instructions

To make these, I used three masks from the Cricut Design Space. I searched for Mardi Gras Mask and if you scroll down a bit you’ll see the three I chose. I think they are technically not Mardi Gras masks, but I changed up the colors and they scream Mardi Gras now!

Insert the three masks into the Design Space. They import in around 5″ wide, but I expanded them to make them 9″ wide, which seems to be the right size for a mask an adult would wear. You could also make them a full 12″ wide for big decorations.

Using the scissor icons next to each individual element in the masks, change the colors to make them Mardi Gras. I used yellow to represent the gold foil and gray to represent the silver foil. You’re also telling the Cricut which layers to cut together to save time and material (so, for example, all the purple layers will be cut at the same time in purple adhesive foil).

Then click the green Go! at the top of the screen. You’ll cut each layer individually and remove them from your cutting mat. And then it’s time to assemble them!

The foil is a little delicate to work with — just be careful when you’re peeling it off the backing paper not to tear it. Many people use transfer tape when using adhesive foil, but I just peeled it off and carefully lined it up and placed it on the green paper backing, and then layered the other foils on top of that. To adhere the paper layers, I used a bit of spray adhesive.

Spray paint some wooden dowels black, and use the mini duct tape to adhere them to the back of each mask, off centered so you can hold them. Obviously you can skip this step if you’re using them for decor and not props.

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