Gardening Teddy Bear 🦋 Spring CC 2026

Gardening Teddy Bear SVG for Spring by Craft with Sarah

This layered cardstock project brings together a sweet little garden scene, with a teddy bear enjoying a sunny spring day.

The design shows a cute teddy bear in a garden setting, wearing little dungarees and a floppy sun hat, standing in front of a picket fence.

Butterflies flutter around in the background, adding that gentle springtime feel that many of us look forward to after winter. 🦋

If you enjoy making layered Cricut papercrafts, this project is a really nice one to work on. The layers are simple to cut and put together, but there’s still plenty of detail that makes the finished piece look really special.

It works beautifully with soft spring colours, though you can easily swap in your own favourite shades if you want to personalise it.

Spring Craft Countdown Day 14 Project

This cute teddy bear SVG makes such a lovely display piece once finished. But fair warning – there are LOTS of layers to cut!

They are all fairly simple shapes to cut, but in order to get a realistic layered effect, there are more pieces than I would usually include so it needs a fair amount of cardstock.

If you’re running low on cardstock now that we are at the end of the Spring Craft Countdown, don’t worry – I share a couple of ideas for simplifying the project further down this tutorial. 🌼

This Project was part of the Spring Craft Countdown 2026

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Spring teddy bear materials supply list

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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This project is suitable for the following types of Cricut machines: Explore series, Maker series, Joy Xtra, Joy and Joy 2. You will need to make the design smaller to cut on the Joy or Joy 2.

Spring teddy by Craft with Sarah

Foundation learning

If you're new to making papercrafts with your cutting machine, check out these links to get you started.

They include videos on topics such as: which file to use with your type of cutting machine, how to load the files into your cutting machine's software, how to cut cardstock with your type of cutting machine, how to recolor and modify/customize the cut files and tips for displaying your projects.

The following tutorials are Cricut-specific, but many of the ideas will work similarly with a Silhouette or ScanNCut machine and any cut files that are shared in them are compatible with all types of cutting machine.

Cricut teddy bear video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

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Written tutorial (with photos!)

Here’s how to make an adorable layered teddy bear using a Cricut machine.

Step 1) Download the cutting file & upload to Design Space

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Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

After unzipping, upload the SVG file(s) into your cutting machine software.

Not sure how to use cut files with your type of machine? The following links lead to videos on how to open cut files in:

The download folder also contains printable PDF versions of the templates for hand cutting.

If you are using Cricut Design Space, start a new project and then click the “Upload” button on the left of the screen.

You can then either click “Browse” to find the file on your computer, or drag-and-drop it.

Select the file in the “01 Cricut Version” subfolder called svg-01-teddy-spring-craftwithsarah.svg

Press “Upload” on the next screen.

After uploading, the design should be automatically inserted onto your Canvas.

To hide the left sidebar (to give you more space for designing!), click the arrow that’s about half way down the page.

If the design doesn’t get inserted onto your Canvas, it will show under “Uploads” in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Need help uploading SVGs? Get step-by-step instructions here in our detailed help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut.

Step 2) Size the design

Click the design on your canvas and use the width/height boxes near the top of the screen to make it the size that you want to cut.

TIP: Make sure the padlock icon above the width/height boxes is CLOSED before you resize. If it appears “open”, click it with your mouse to close it.

I cut my teddy bear at the size the SVG loaded in at, which is 7.8 inches wide and 7 inches tall.

I don’t recommend going smaller than 4 inches wide as some of the details will get hard to cut. Here’s a tutorial on how to cut designs really small with a Cricut.

If you are cutting this design on a Cricut Joy or Joy 2 machine then you’ll need to make it a maximum of 4.5 inches on the shortest side.

Here are some tips for making sure the design fits perfectly into a shadow box frame:

The below video has some tips on how to frame your craft project, including my Number One hack for making sure that your design will fit perfectly every time without wasting any of your craft materials.

Don't have a Cricut? Check out my top framing tips for:

Want to learn more about designing your own shadow box backgrounds? Check out this Papercraft Porch Class on creating custom backgrounds for frames and greetings cards.

There are matching versions of this video for Silhouette and ScanNCut machines on the Cutting Machine Help page.

To make the design simpler or to use less cardstock, you can delete the background layers.

“Ungroup” the design in the layers panel and scroll down to the bottom to see the background pieces.

Click them one by one and delete them.

To make an even simpler design, delete the body layers too and just cut the head!

Step 3) Cut out all the layers

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the pieces.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

TIP: New to using cardstock with your cutting machine? Check out these machine help guides for Cricut, Silhouette and ScanNCut that go through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your machine.

Step 4) Stick the project together

Use 3D foam pads and glue to stick the layers together.

Use this guide to see the order to stick the layers together in.

A printable version of this assembly guide is included in the folder when you download the cut files.

My favourite glues to use on papercraft projects are Bearly Art Glue and Collall All Purpose Glue.

These are great because they don’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

Bearly Art Glue comes with a tiny nozzle to make it easy to apply glue to small areas of card. The Collall glue doesn’t come with this, so it’s easiest to decant it into needle tip applicator bottles so that you have more control.

The foam pads that I use are from “Dot & Dab”, but any foam squares will work. If yours are big then you may need to cut them smaller with scissors to fit inside the edges of the layers.

When adding the foam pads to larger pieces of card, make sure you add some in the middles of the pieces of card so it gives stability to the middles.

If you don’t add any foam pads in the middles then it can “sag” under the weight of the other layers which doesn’t look as good.

Continue sticking the pieces together, following the assembly guide, until your papercraft is all finished.

Teddy craft project to make with a Cricut

After sticking all the pieces of card together, your gardening teddy bear is all finished!

You could then mount him in a shadow box or glue him to the front of a greetings card.

If you’d rather not mount your teddy in a shadow box, check out these free easel stands for two alternative ways to display it.

Or, go for a more simplistic approach by making a triangle stand or nail hook.

The triangle stands are completely invisible from the front of the project, making it look like it’s standing up by magic! The hooks allow you to hang the design straight on the wall without a frame.

Gardening teddy SVG from Craft with Sarah

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Happy crafting,
Sarah x