ScrappinGalz Cafe: Cricut Christmas Ornament

November 30, 2008

Cricut Christmas Ornament

While surfing online, I saw the cutest little ornament but didn't want to spend $ buying the kit when I had my trusty cricut sitting right next to me just waiting for me to do my next project. The ornament looked pretty easy to make so I pulled out all my cartridges and lo and behold I had everything I needed right on my Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge!

For this project you will need patterned cardstock, matching solid cardstock, 8 pop dots per ornament, a picture that you would like to use for the ornament cropped to 2 1/2" square, and a 6" piece of ribbon per ornament.

I started out by cutting a 3" scalloped square in a patterned cardstock and used the window button on my cricut, then I cut out a 3 1/2" rounded corner square in a matching cardstock and punched two holes at the top to run the ribbon through.

I started assebling the pieces by placing a pop dot at each of the four corners of the window of the scalloped square, then i placed the photo on top of the pop dots.

Next I placed another four pop dots on top of the photo above the original pop dots, and then placed the solid cardstock on top. I mounted the photo square slightly lower on the solid cardstock in order to accomodate the ribbon for my picture.

Simple and quick these make a terrific inexpensive Christmas present. I put a little note on the back of each telling the place and year the photo was taken. Now my DD can have a scrapbook on her tree when she has her first tree when she grows up!