Personalized Snowflake Ornament

Can you guess what this ornament is made out of?? Yep, paper! If you have a cutting machine, you can make one too – and I have the trick to using paper. I think one of the main reasons to have a cutting machine is to make personalized crafts, so I just love this Personalized Snowflake Ornament. Just think, these cost mere pennies and you could make tons and tons for unique gifts and more.

Let’s get started on the step-by-step tutorial – – you’ll need:

–Cutting Machine (I mean, you could technically cut it out by hand, but that would be crazy – snowflakes are so intricate) – I used my Cricut Explore machine for this project

–template – I grabbed this particular snowflake template from the Cricut options

–paper – I used cardstock, but you could use just regular paper too – you’ll just need more layers

–glue – I used Elmer’s cause it’s awesome

–spray glitter (optional, but really, glitter should be mandatory;) )

First up, design your image to cut the main shape and then to cut words out of the middle of the shape. (this took me a ridiculously long time to figure out!)

Then simply cut out the shape. And cut another one. And again – – with cardstock I cut a separate shape 4 times. If you’re using regular paper I’d say about 10 times.

Now, simply glue one layer to another, and repeat til the ornament is thick as you’d like. I originally thought I’d cut wood for this project, but I was worried it wouldn’t make the intricate cuts. With layering paper I achieved the same thickness as I would have with the balsa wood. You can kind of see the layers here:

Glued and ready for sparkle!

I simply sprayed it with a couple of coats of spray glitter and let it dry. That was it! I think I was a little thick on my first coat of spray, hence it’s a little blotchy, but I’m just going with it 🙂