This project was inspired by my love for FELT! I enjoy crafts that I can involve my toddler son in. He has a BLAST playing with the felt tree. It has brought so much magic into our home & it is ENDLESS fun! It did require quite a bit of work BUT none of which was difficult. My Cricut Maker cut out all of the pieces. The only piece I cut by hand was the tree itself but the Maker created the stencil so it came out perfect! A special shout out to Jumprope for helping me create this tutorial. Happy crafting, friends. TIPS
-When cutting out your tree go wider than your stencil to make sure none of the stencil will show from the back
-Cut your HeatNBond to fit each color felt sheet you’ll be using for ornaments.
-Allow HeatNBond to cool before removing the backing
-Attach all ornaments & lights together in the shape of your felt sheet & cut out sets of lights & ornaments by loading your mat with one color of felt at a time & cutting out the exact same pattern
-Use scissors to cut through any part of your felt that isn’t completely cut by your Cricut. DONT PULL! It stretches & ruins the felt
-Use heat press to melt HeatNBond sides of the ornaments & lights together. This creates double sided felt, which means both sides will stick to your tree. I used different colors together to make it fun
-I used a larger piece of yellow & I added the stars in DS when cutting out the yellow ornaments/lights
TIME STAMPS
00:12 Step 1: Insert tree from Cricut DS images & resize. Mine was 35 inches tall.
00:30 Step 2: Hide your tree layer & create 11x11 squares that will cover your tree
00:41 Step 3: Position squares on x/y or v/h axis: 0:0, 0:11, 0: 22, 0:33, 11:0, 11:11, 11:22, 11:33
01:04 Step 4: Position your tree over all the squares
01:16 Step 5: Hide all of the squares but 1, select the tree & the remaining square, SLICE! Delete extra pieces left behind
01:37 Step 6: Repeat the last step until your tree is sliced into pieces that will fit onto mat
02:07 Step 7: Move star wheels to each side. Cut tree stencil out of light chipboard with light chipboard setting
02:36 Step 8: Put your tree stencil together on top of the large green felt piece like a puzzle
02:49 Step 9: Tape tree stencil together on both sides for extra sturdiness using masking tape
03:18 Step 10: Trace the stencil on the green felt using a marker
03:44 Step 11: Cut out tree with scissors
04:03 Step 12: Layer felt tree on top of stencil & hole punch a hole at the top. Tie together with twine
04:10 Step 13: Use double sided tape or hot glue to adhere the felt tree to the stencil
04:40 Step 14: Trim HeatNBond to fit each felt sheet you’ll be cutting lights/ornaments from
05:12 Step 15: Use press to adhere HeatNBond to felt sheets
05:33 Step 16: Let it cool before peeling the backing off
06:03 Step 17: Add images of lights & ornaments from DS
06:29 Step 18: Add a square and resize to the size of your felt sheets. Mine were 8x11
06:34 Step 19: Arrange ornaments & lights to fit on the shape of felt sheets. Hide the shape, attach your ornaments & lights together, “Make It”!
06:48 Step 20: Load felt shiny side down onto mat, cut a set of lights/ornaments. I used Felt craft bonded setting & ROTARY WHEEL
07:12 Step 21: Repeat for all felt sheet colors
07:17 Step 22: Adhere HeatNBond sides of the ornaments/lights together
07:39 Step 23: Repeat for all ornaments/lights so both sides will be felt & stick to the tree
07:46 Step 24: Topper: when I cut out my yellow set of ornaments I used a larger yellow felt sheet and added 2 start shapes from DS to the project
07:58 Step 25: Hang three on command hook & enjoy endless decorating fun
SUPPLIES
Cricut Machine:
Light Grip Mat:
Easy Press:
HeatNBond:
Scissors:
Rotary Blade:
Double Sided Tape:
Masking Tape:
Light Chipboard:
Command hook:
Twine:
Felt in many colors:
Large green felt piece:
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