Easy Felt Christmas Trees
Looking for easy Christmas decor? These felt Christmas trees are so easy to make using your Cricut! Just cut, assemble, and display—perfect for beginner crafters.
Equipment
- Cricut Maker 3 with the Rotary Blade or
- Cricut Maker with the Rotary Blade
Ingredients
- Cricut Felt in a variety of colors
- File in Cricut Design Space
Instructions
- Set Up Your Felt Christmas Tree File in Cricut Design SpaceStart by opening the file in Cricut Design Space. Three sizes of trees are included (1 big, 1 medium, 2 small) that will fit perfectly on a single sheet of 12" x 12" Cricut felt. Click Make It in the upper right corner. The Design Space program will sort your trees onto two mats in the Prepare Screen.
- Here, you'll use two tools to move all of the trees onto a single mat. The first is the rotate icon. Click on a tree and rotate it so that you can nestle it closer to its neighbor. If you hold down the shift key, it will keep your rotation straight.
- You can also use the Move to Another Mat tool to move the other trees to your first mat. Click the three-dot menu on one of the trees on the second mat.
- Then select the first mat and Design Space will move your image.
- Continue to rotate and move all of your tree pieces so they fit on a single mat.
- Cut Your Felt Christmas TreesClick Continue to move to the Make Screen. From here, select Felt as your material. Then click Edit Tools to change your blade to the rotary blade.
- Technically, the regular fine point blade can cut felt, but the rotary blade is preferred for this project. The two sides of the line for the slit are very close to each other. The rotary blade cuts this like butter, but it's a spot where the regular blade may get caught up.Then place your felt on the cutting mat and insert it into your machine. Click the blinking "C" and the Cricut Maker will cut your tree pieces.
- Assemble Your Felt Christmas TreesAssembling these trees is so easy—just slide the two tree pieces together using the slits.
- This project will fold flat for storage, making them easy to pull out and use year after year.
