Valentine's Heart Puzzle - Victorian Cut

jamely · February 10, 2021, 9:02pm

You know you were just waiting for the next puzzle from me

Fresh n’ tasty, this is a two-in-one, since there is puzzle band around the outside, and the center is a fit-placement of 14 hearts (you know, for Feb. 14th?). This puzzle is more difficult than the Halloween Leaf and my Christmas Tree puzzles!

Also includes an alternate piece that can be engraved on the back with your custom quote, hand-written note, or artwork.

Files:
PDF: 3CatMax-HeartPuzzle-GFGIFT.pdf (120.1 KB)
Right-click and save for the SVG:

RyanD · February 10, 2021, 9:05pm

That’s a cool idea! Thanks for sharing the file!

jamely · February 10, 2021, 10:26pm

Thank you! I’m loving the puzzle shapes, and I added a little hole in the alternate piece so it could be displayed when not in the puzzle

deirdrebeth · February 10, 2021, 10:39pm

Ooh - that the internal puzzle isn’t solid is wicked - I it!

jamely · February 10, 2021, 10:56pm

It adds just a little bit of extra trickery! And makes it a family puzzle - let the kids do the outer ring, then the adults can figure out the center bit

dklgood · February 11, 2021, 12:33am

Thank you for your generous share.

arh2 · February 11, 2021, 1:57am

That’s such an intriguing design! Thanks for your generous share.

cynd11 · February 11, 2021, 11:05am

Very clever, and timely. Thanks!

rvogt · February 11, 2021, 1:30pm

Thank you, my family love the Leaf and Christmas Tree. I’m sure they’ll be excited about this one too!

reynoso · February 12, 2021, 3:36am

Thank you, most generous @jamely. Beautiful, inspiring and versatile.

pegkay53 · March 26, 2021, 12:50am

I have several animal puzzle like the squirrel but I can’t figure out how to get it to cut right.
I used Inkscape and save as a svg file but it would only engrave. What am I doing wrong.
Thank you,
Pegkay53

deirdrebeth · March 26, 2021, 1:02am

Can you upload your .svg here (instead of the .jpeg above)? If you created it in Inkscape it could work - but if you imported a picture from elsewhere then likely what you need to do is Trace Bitmap. We’d be able to answer for sure if you upload your art.

pegkay53 · March 26, 2021, 1:10am

squirrel puzzle
I can’t get it to load right.
Peg

jamesdhatch · March 26, 2021, 1:15am

Closed filled shapes default to engrave. Did you try changing to “no fill” in Inkscape and then in the GF UI specify cut for the line operation?

deirdrebeth · March 26, 2021, 1:15am

Yeah, the forum strips rasters from within .svgs so that’s definitely what you’ve got. You can zip the .svg and post that here and it’ll remain intact.

Or open your art in Inkscape, click on it, then click on Path (in the menu bar), then Trace Bitmap.
See what that gets you.

pegkay53 · March 26, 2021, 1:24am

I finally got it figured out thank you so much,
Peg