Making Christmas Ornaments - An Index Of Tips, Tricks, Tutorials & Free SVGS

An Index Of Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, & Free SVGS
For Making Christmas Ornaments


Decal Sizes for Ornaments

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Where To Find The Free...
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TUTORIALS 

Find an index of Christmas Ornament Tutorials here:

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Tips
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Polycrylic & Polyurethene are not the same thing.
You want Polycrylic for  making glitter ornaments.
Comparing Mop & Glo to Polycrylic, for making glitter ornaments. Both worked, but I like the coverage with the polycrylic better, personally. See the comparison here:
Pull the wire up, as shown on the right.
Place the lid on the ornament, then press the top down. 
You are less likely to scratch the glitter this way!
A Free SVG For A Bow Making Tool
There's A Video Tutorial for how to use it too.

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The Christmas Index
Where To Find: Free Christmas SVGS By Theme (Nativity, Grinch, A Christmas Story, Etc), Where To Find Free Christmas SVGS By Project (Gift Tags, 3D Paper, Earrings, etc) and Where To Find Free Christmas Project Tutorials & Gift Ideas.  Including an entire extra index just for making Christmas Ornaments.  Find it all here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/12/free-christmas-themed-svg-files.html
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Making Floating Christmas Ornaments With Vellum Instead Of Acetate

On the left is vellum, on the right is printable acetate.
Neither ornament is done here - to be finished they will get vinyl names on the outside, and bows..  and possibly the birth date/height/weight on the back...

While making our grandsons newborn ornaments today, I tried them on both the printable acetate, and the inkjet vellum.  For this project, I still prefer the acetate.  Although when I hung them both on a  lighted tree, the vellum does show up much better.  I think I am going to like the vellum a lot better for the Memory ornaments I am making this year.

Quick Links:
This is a good thick vellum, perfect for use in Inkjet Printers

I use a Cricut Air 2, and it refused to acknowledge this vellum for print then cut today.  It insisted it could not find the sensor marks.  I turned the lights on, I turned the lights off, I pulled the curtains, I switched from a green mat to a blue mat...  no luck.  I tried on the clear acetate, it cut perfectly on the first try.  So I placed a sheet of white paper behind the vellum, and sure enough, it read the marks and cut just fine.  Why it can not find the marks on white vellum, but CAN on clear acetate, I just simply do not know.

So to make this easier, print yourself a print then cut frame.  This is very simple to do.  Go to Design Space, Choose the "Add shape" tool on the left, and choose a square.  At the top of the screen, click on the lock to unlock the size, then type beside the W 6.75 and beside the  L 9.25  That is the largest a image can be for print then cut.


I use HP Instant Ink, which means I pay by the page no matter what is on the page.  It costs me exactly the same to print the word "test" on a sheet of paper, as it does to print a dark full color photo.  So I didn't bother to try to save ink here.  But if you pay for your ink, you will want to make this a very light grey color, or slice the center of the shape out, so that you are not printing a full page of color.  
At the top left of the screen, under fill, choose Print, to make this a print then cut project.

Next, send your project to your printer, printing it on a piece of good white card stock,  then place it on a mat and insert it into your cricut to cut.  

Now you have a print then cut frame.  Make your print then cut project on the vellum, place it on your mat, then place the frame you just made from cardstock (which has a black outline to show the machine where to cut) over your vellum.  Use Painters Tape to tape the "frame" to the mat.

This is NOT following my directions above.
This was about my 5th attempt to get the machine to cut the vellum.
I simply stuck the white sheet of paper underneath
Then I taped the vellum on top. I do not recommend this.
Because the vellum is not stuck to the mat in the middle
It will move when cut, and it gets bent and crinkled.

This is a comparison of the prints - vellum on the left, acetate on the right.

If you are looking for how to get the photos on the shape, follow the tutorial found here:

And here's a comparison of them held up in the light.
Left is vellum, right is Acetate.


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Where I post LOTS Of Free svgs each day, and more tips and tutorials
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Pay By The Page, Not The Cartridge - Saving Money With HP Instant Ink


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When you sign up for an HP Instant Ink plan, you pay a monthly fee to print a defined number of pages per month. The plans are based on the number of pages that you print, not on how many ink cartridges you use.  

 My ink costs will be under $50 this year. Total.
 It used to be twice that, at least, and I wasn't even printing nearly as much.   I've printed at least a dozen cookbooks this year alone.  

 The only catch is that you have to have an instant ink compatible HP printer, but I think all of the newer printers are compatible.  I've been using this for 6 months now, and wish I had learned about this so much sooner!  The 

When you sign up for an HP Instant Ink plan, you pay a monthly fee to print a defined number of pages per month. The plans are based on the number of pages that you print, not on how many ink cartridges you use. 

 Your monthly fee pays for ink, shipping, and recycling.

  If you do not print all of your plan pages in a month, you can roll over up to two times the number of pages per month in your plan. ( For the $0 plan, only unused additional pages that were purchased roll over into the next month. Free pages do not roll over.)

  If you print more pages, there is an additional charge but you are still paying the same price per page as your base plan.  OR, you can login and up your plan to the next level before the billing cycle.  When I realized I was going to go way over my 50 pages last month, I simply logged in and bumped up to the $4.99 a month plan, giving me 100 pages.  I'll stay at that rate through the holidays, when I print a lot more, and I can go back to a lower plan for the summer months when I am not printing nearly as much.

  A printed page counts the same whether it’s black and white, a color document, or a photo. 

Check it out here:
I use an HP Envy 7800  - I love this printer.

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Solving Simple Print Then Cut Problems In Design Space
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/03/solving-common-print-then-cut-problems.html

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Where To Find Free Thanksgiving SVGS


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Where To Find Thanksgiving Themed Free SVGS
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Lets Stay Home Pillow

A quick pillow this afternoon. I sewed this cover a year ago, it's just been sitting here blank all of this time. Today I went through my downloaded svgs & this one was perfect!.

https://bit.ly/45AmEVN

Don't forget to mirror the image - always mirror when using htv.



Envelope pillow cases are so quick and easy to make!  Four straight seams - they are the perfect beginner project
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-sew-simple-envelope-pillow-cases.html

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Thankful, Grateful, and Oh So Blessed Pumpkin Stack


Quick Links:
These are the pumpkins at the Dollar tree.
The stems are held on with toothpicks, so they are very easy to remove!
Remove the stems, paint the pumpkins antique white.
I painted one stem brown.
Then using the toothpicks that held the stems on, stack the pumpkins once again, placing the brown stem on top.

Each line of text is approximately 1 inch tall.
Fonts are

For transfer tape, I use contact paper from the Dollar tree. 
 (Not the duct brand  contact paper from wal-mart - that's too thin for my liking)


Quick, easy, and cheap!

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 Looking for more ideas?
Five Fall Projects To Make With Cricut
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/09/five-fall-projects-to-make-with-cricut.html

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/03/cricut-dollar-tree.html


Find an Index Of Fall SVGS, and Project Ideas with Cricut, Here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/08/crafting-with-fields-of-heather-in-fall.html


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Ranch Au Jus Peppericini Crockpot Roast


This recipe popped up in my facebook feed this morning, and I kept thinking about it until I finally went to the store and bought the ingredients. I stopped at the BiLo in Watsontown, where it's 55 cents for their store brand au jus and another 55 cents for the store brand ranch dressing. Peppericini cost me $2 for a jar - that might be cheaper at Dollar General? And roasts were on sale today.
You just dump this in the crock pot. Just the dry ingredients on top of the roast, throw the peppers on top, turn the crock pot on and walk away. That's it.
At supper time I pulled the beef out and sliced it, and I put the broth in a pan, heated it to boiling, and added a little corn starch that I had mixed in cold water, to make a gravy.
This was SO good. SO, SO good. Tender, with great flavor.

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