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Home » Holidays » Christmas » Shrinky Dink Snowflake Ornaments with Cricut Explore

Shrinky Dink Snowflake Ornaments with Cricut Explore

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These cute Shrinky Dink Snowflake Ornaments are SUPER cute and easy to make with your Cricut Explore cutting machine! Whip up a whole bunch of them in about 15 minutes – they make a great homemade gift idea or n adorable present topper! 

shrinky-dink-snowflake-ornaments-with-cricutThis is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.

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A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to my newest cutting machine, the Cricut Explore Air, and I showed you how to create a Quick and Easy Customized Pencil Pouch (which makes a great gift idea!) and Easy Christmas Tea Towels (also a great gift idea!). Today I’m going to show you how to use the Cricut with a less conventional material to create these awesome and adorable snowflake Christmas ornaments in around 15 minutes!

design-space-snowflakesTo start, I opened up The Cricut Design Space and started a new project. The Cricut Design Space Image Library includes over 60,000+ images that you can choose from, so it’s easy to start designing your  project in no time at all! I select several snowflake designs and a Christmas tree tag that I wanted to work with, and the software inserted them into a new project document for me.

Supplies Used to Make Shrinky Dink Snowflakes:

 

  • Opaque White Shrink Plastic
  • Cricut Explore Air
  • Cricut Cutting Mat
  • Cricut Explore Deep Cut Blade

 

cricut-explore-air-dials-and-settingsOne of my favorite features of the Explore Air is the dial settings (you don’t have to worry about manually changing the blade depth or remembering which depth matches up to each material!). With the Cricut Explore Air, you simply turn the dial to select the material that you are working with, and the machine takes care of the rest – easy peasy! For this project, I set the dial to “poster board” because the shrink plastic is the same thickness.

cutting-shrink-plastic-with-the-cricut-explore-airThe shrink plastic starts out translucent, but after shrinking becomes opaque white. The plastic shrinks by about 50%, so I made all of my snowflakes around 4-6 inches before shrinking (this meant that I was able to fit 2-3 snowflakes per 8.5 x 11 sheet of plastic).

shrink-film-on-cricut-cutting-matThe poster board setting was perfect for this thickness of the shrink plastic, and everything cut cleanly and evenly with the deep cut blade.

shrinky-dink-ornamentsPlace the plastic snowflakes onto a foil-lined baking sheet, and bake for 2-4 minutes at 325 degrees. The plastic will shrivel and curl up as it melts, but don’t worry – it will flatten itself back out!

Note: If you do have any pieces of plastic that curl up and stick to themselves, carefully use a toothpick to push things back into place immediately after removing from the oven. 

shrinky-dink-snowflakes-and-christmas-charmsAs you can see by the quarter that I put in there for scale, the snowflakes are MUCH smaller than they originally were, and now they’re bright white!

shrinky-dink-christmas-treeI couldn’t resist shrinking the leftover Christmas tree and heart-shaped pieces that were the “negative space” – they’re so cute!

snowflake-shrinky-dink-ornamentsI added some lengths of red and gold twine to the snowflake ornaments, and they were ready to hang. SO quick and easy!

shrinky-dink-snowflake-christmas-ornamentsI really love how these turned out! I can foresee a LOT more shrink plastic and Cricut projects in my future!

 

If you like this idea, don’t forget to pin it!

 

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  1. Kathi Pohll says

    November 24, 2020 at 9:54 am

    Thank you. I think I will add a little glitter after shrinking. Each year my kids get a new ornament for their trees. This will be an easy one to do.

    Reply
    • Heidi says

      January 19, 2021 at 4:20 pm

      Thanks, Kathi! That’s a great idea!

      Reply

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