Help with overlaying two graphics

Graphic Design
#1

Please don’t eviscerate me on this one, but I haven’t done much graphic design work in over 15 years so I am a little rusty.

I am working on a log that has two crossed axes. Both are vector format and both do not have backgrounds. When I cross the handles, I can see the designs on the bottom handle. I know there is a way to make the top handle cut out the bottom handle, but I can’t remember what it is called in order to better look it up. I’m using both Canva Pro and Inkscape to work on the file. Any help is much appreciated.

#2

Rather than cut one of them up, you could place a white shape on the one beneath. If you need a cleaner solution than that, there’s the pathfinder tool in Illustrator that you could use to cut out the part of the handle you don’t need, but I know little to nothing about anything similar in Inkscape or Canva. Creating a mask could work too, but again, I’m unfamiliar with the tools in Inkscape or Canva.