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Birthday sublimation designs

50 birthday designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. The set covers balloons, cakes, candles, party hats and milestone numerals. They are made for party banners, cake toppers, favour bags, milestone shirts, balloon vinyl and the number that goes on a one-year-old's onesie.

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What people make with birthday sublimations

Party banners, cake toppers, favour bags, milestone shirts, balloon vinyl and the number that goes on a one-year-old's onesie — those are the pieces this collection gets used for. In this format they go on polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks — polyester or a poly coating only, never untreated cotton.

Printing and pressing

Sublimation is not a cutting job — nothing here gets weeded. Print onto sublimation paper with sublimation ink, then press at roughly 385–400°F for 45–60 seconds depending on the blank. The ink turns to gas and bonds into the polyester, which is why it only works on polyester or a poly-coated surface, and why it will not show on cotton or on a dark garment.

Getting birthday designs right

Sublimation ink bonds only to polyester and polymer coating, so the blank decides the result more than the artwork does — the same file is vivid on a coated mug and washed out on cotton. Milestone numerals are the personalisation point — keep the numeral on its own layer for a one-field change per order. Cake toppers cut in cardstock need a deep-point blade and a strong-grip mat, and they need the design to have a solid base bar connecting the letters — an unconnected script topper falls apart the moment you lift it off the mat.

Exporting for your machine

Export PNG at final physical size and at least 300 DPI, then print onto sublimation paper. There is no cut line and no weeding — the design is pressed into polyester, not cut from vinyl.

Cut, score, draw and engrave operations are written as named layers, so Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio and laser software map them to the right tool without manual reassignment. For a printed sheet, the print-then-cut guide covers registration and bleed.

Birthday in other formats

The same theme drawn for a different medium — printed, pressed or cut.

More sublimations collections

All sublimations

Questions

Cake toppers are 5–6in wide and want cardstock, not vinyl. Onesie numbers are 3–4in. Banner letters read at 6–8in each.

50 files covering balloons, cakes, candles, party hats and milestone numerals, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. Every one is a true vector, so it resizes without quality loss and opens straight in the browser studio for editing before export.

Print them. Sublimation designs are pressed into polyester or a poly-coated blank, not cut and weeded — there is no cut line and no weeding. Export PNG at full size and print onto sublimation paper.

Yes — Edit in the browser and export print-ready PNG at 300 DPI for sublimation. In Design Space use Upload → Upload Image; layers arrive separated because each operation carries a distinct fill.

Yes on the paid plan, which includes a commercial licence for the physical products you make and sell — polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks included. Reselling or redistributing the design files themselves is not permitted on any plan.

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