How to Make Pretty Christmas Bird Ornaments
Make beautiful Christmas bird ornaments like these in just minutes! Make these as red birds, blue birds, gold birds, or any other festive color you choose. These cut-out Christmas cardinals will look beautiful hanging on your tree. If you have a Cricut machine, an extra mason jar lid, and metallic vinyl, this ornament could take less than 20 minutes to make!
What You Will Need
- Cricut Machine with Cricut Design Space software (see the difference between the machines here)
- Little bird design by Jen Goode – available in Cricut Design Space
Instructions
- Open the pre-designed Cricut Design Space canvas to get the design already sized and ready to go. If you can’t access this website, you will need to look for image #M39BCB82 and create a circle to cut as well.
- Follow on screen instructions to cut out the bird and the circle. Weed the bird design to show only the bird, removing the eye circle and wing design.
- Place the bird on the circle cut out.
- Add glue to the inside rim of the mason jar lid.
- Place the circle art you just created inside the lid with the art facing out.
- Add a little glue (I used hot glue) to the outside of the lid and wrap twine around the lid. Make sure to start and stop the twine at the top so you can tie the excess twine into a hanging loop or bow.
- When the glue has dried, hang your ornament on the tree!
Notes
Note: if you add a bow to your ornament, add a little glue to the knot to make sure it holds in place and doesn’t come un-tied.