Create your own personalized Christmas Ornament with acrylic blanks, adhesive vinyl and your Cricut cutting machine.
Every year, my husband and I make handmade Christmas ornaments. Actually, since my kids were toddlers, we’ve been making handmade ornaments.
In fact, I can remember making Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments with my mom when I was a little girl. Did you ever make beaded candy cane ornaments? Here’s the easy tutorial from Arty Crafty Kids. By the way, they’re super easy to make – even for children. (Just be sure to watch them so they don’t put the beads in their mouths.)
My husband makes these beautiful turned wooden ornaments. And last year he made me some acorn ornaments. They’re beautiful and I just love them.

DIY Acrylic Christmas Ornament
This year, I thought I’d make each of our grandkids some personalized Christmas ornaments using acrylic blanks and my Cricut Maker.
At first I thought I’d make them using the engraving tool with my Cricut Maker. But, I ordered the wrong size acrylic blanks. They were simply too thick to be used with my Cricut Maker.
So, I came up with Plan B. Plan B was to make these DIY Acrylic Christmas Ornaments using adhesive vinyl and my Cricut Maker. I was really pleased with the way they turned out.
Supplies Needed:
- adhesive vinyl, white (buy on Amazon | buy on Cricut.com)
- adhesive vinyl, black (buy on Amazon | buy on Cricut.com)
- transfer tape (buy on Amazon | buy on Cricut.com)
- Christmas ornament blanks
- rubbing alcohol
- paper towel
- ribbon
Tools Needed:
- Cricut cutting machine (the Maker is my favorite! Hint: Save $$ buy a bundle!)
- StrongGrip Mat
- weeding tools
- Cricut Design Space
- brayer
- scissors

Video Tutorial
Be sure to watch the video tutorial on my YouTube channel. And, while you’re there, be sure to subscribe to my channel so you’ll know when videos are released!

FAQs
Q. What size blanks should I use?
I used 3″ acrylic blanks. Good news, though! You can use any size because the images are scaleable within Cricut Design Space!
Q. How do I access this Christmas ornament design?
The Santa Sleigh with the custom name design is available exclusively in Cricut Design Space®. The images and fonts used were all found in the Design Space Library. Some images are free to Access members or you may purchase them. (By the way, I HIGHLY recommend the Access membership.)
Q. Do I have to use Cricut Design Space?
Yes. If you want to use the design I created, it is only available in Cricut Design Space.
Q. Do I have to use your design?
No. You can use this technique to create your own design within Cricut Design Space.
Q. What acrylic blanks did you use for your ornaments?
I purchased the UNIQOOO 3″ Clear Round Acrylic Christmas Ornament on Amazon. These blanks will NOT fit in your Cricut cutting machine as they are 4mm thick and your Cricut machine can only cut materials up to 2.4mm thick.
Q. Do I have to use 3″ acrylic blanks? Can I use different ornament blanks?
Yes and yes! You can use any ornament blank. I used these, but some of my favorite are these disc shaped Christmas ornaments, these plastic ball ornaments, and these flat white ornaments.
I was really pleased with how these acrylic Christmas ornaments turned out. And the acrylics that I used are nice and thick! You can, of course, embellish the ornaments as much as you like.
More Christmas Ideas
If you like DIY projects for Christmas, like these Acrylic Christmas Ornaments made using a Cricut cutting machine, you might also like these ideas from The Birch Cottage:
- 20 Rae Dunn Inspired Christmas Ornaments
- Four Christmas SVG Files for Use with Cricut or Silhouette
- Learn to Sew a Large Christmas Stocking
- Fabric Christmas Tree Sewing Pattern
And be sure to pin this idea to your favorite Pinterest board to save it for later or to share with family and friends.
