Cricut, Vinyl and Ornaments

So, when you have a Cricut, some vinyl, and its near the holidays, you need to make ornaments!  Here are the ones I made this year:

I used the following:

• 3 inch acrylic discs for keychains
• Mod Podge
• Glitter
• Vinyl (white and black)
• Ribbon

To make the ornaments the vinyl was cut using various images from Cricut Design Space.  Mod Podge was added to one side of the ornaments and glitter added on top.  After it was dry, I repeated it so that there was a good thick coverage of glitter.   Once dry the vinyl images were added to the other side and ribbons added to complete the ornaments!

Iron On Vinyl

The Cricut Explore came with a sheet on iron on vinyl, as well as some removable vinyl.  I had never used either, so I cut a few images with the removable vinyl, added them to my Cricut and craft cabinets.  I had extra aprons so I used them with the iron on vinyl.  The included vinyl was black and the apron was dark blue which made the vinyl on the finished piece hard to see, but for a first try, I thought it came out OK.

I decided that I wanted to try more of the iron on vinyl, so I bought some in white, and made these two designs:

Using vinyl and iron on vinyl is fun, and I can see using it to make Christmas gifts.  Perhaps personalized aprons, ornaments, the options are endless!