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Picture of final project which displays two wood slice ornaments - one side with red newborn footprints and the other with the child's name and birthdate
Print Recipe
5 from 2 votes

NEWBORN FOOTPRINT ORNAMENTS

Use your Cricut Explore, Cricut Maker, or Cricut Joy to easily cut your newborn’s footprints out of iron on vinyl (HTV) and make sweet keepsake footprint ornaments.

Equipment

Ingredients

  • Iron On Vinyl brown
  • Wood Slice Ornament 3.5" or larger
  • Ribbon or Twine

Instructions

  • Upload your footprint ornament to Cricut Design Space and use the tools to remove the background.
    Cricut Design Space screen shot of a newborn footprint
  • Save the image as a Cut File.
    Cricut Design Space screen shot of a newborn footprints
  • Use the Contour tool to separate the footprints, and re-position to fit on an ornament.
    Cricut Design Space screen shot of a newborn footprint's being resized and background removed.
  • Cut the pieces from iron on vinyl.
    Image of Cricut machine cutting out a design on brown vinyl that is pressed onto the green Cricut mat.
  • Weed your iron on vinyl pieces.
    Picture of a person weeding the brown vinyl design of a newborn's footprint
  • Adhere your iron on pieces to the wood slice ornament.
    Picture of a person using the Cricut scraper to adhere the vinyl newborn footprint to a wood slice ornament
  • Add a ribbon and hang!
    Picture of final project which displays two wood slice ornaments - one side with red newborn footprints and the other with the child's name and birthdate

Notes

You can use a variety of iron on colors, depending on your style. Add the name and birthday of the baby on the back. See the post for more detailed instructions on turning the footprints into a cuttable file.