Cricut: How to Make Felt Christmas Decorations
Cricut your Christmas and create some beautiful handmade decorations for your home using Cricut felt sheets and mache blanks. These colourful designs will instantly brighten up your tree, so why not craft your own unique hanging ornaments this year?
This project has been created using the Cricut Maker, but it can also be created with the Cricut Explore Air 2.
Project and instructions by Emma Jewell.
Please note: This project contains paid-for content from Cricut's Design Space app. Screen reference images are taken from the desktop version of Design Space.
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How to make
You will also need:
* Cricut Design Space app installed on a laptop, PC, tablet or mobile device
* Rotary Blade that comes with the Cricut Maker or, if using the Air 2, use the pink Bonded Fabric Grip Blade
Start by painting the blank mache decorations with a white base layer of paint.
Once dry, paint each one a different colour. Paint a couple of layers to get an even finish.
Open up the project - https://design.cricut.com/landing/project-detail/5f4e2180ecb1b30ea0d713a0 - in the desktop browser version of Cricut Design Space once logged in.
Cut the vinyl shapes from red shimmer adhesive vinyl by laying it face up on the LightGrip Cutting Mat and using the shimmer vinyl cut setting.
Once cut, remove the excess vinyl using a weeding tool leaving just the vinyl cut shapes on the backing sheet.
Next cut the felt shapes; start by adding a sheet of green felt onto the FabricGrip Cutting Mat and set your Cricut machine on the felt cut setting.
Once the shapes are cut, carefully remove the pieces from the mat.
Layer up the vinyl and felt pieces onto the decoration bases, adhering the felt pieces with a hot melt glue gun.
Trim away the gold string from the top of each mache decoration. Trim a piece of ribbon to approximately 12cm in length, fold in half and glue the ends to the back of the decoration with a glue gun.
Repeat this process for all of the remaining decorations.
Open up the project - https://design.cricut.com/landing/project-detail/5f4e2180ecb1b30ea0d713a0 - in the desktop browser version of Cricut Design Space once logged in.
If needed, resize the birds as desired.
Cut the sheets of felt and iron-on for the project using your machine, you can cut felt using the fine point blade or the rotary blade in the Cricut Maker.
Once cut, using a weeding tool to weed the iron-on vinyl sheets, leaving only the designs on the clear carrier sheet that you want to transfer onto the felt birds.
Cut out the individual pieces.
Lay the iron-on vinyl pieces onto the corresponding pieces of felt and secure in place using the EasyPress Mini.
Glue the wings to the front and back of the body using a glue gun.
Cut a short length of ribbon and fold it in half. Glue it onto the centre back of the bird, then glue the back piece of the bird on top to finish.
Repeat this process for all of the remaining cut felt bird shapes.
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