Sample Club: Laser Cut Christmas Ornaments

This sample club item incorporates different designs and mediums to create a fun and sophisticated snowflake theme for the holidays! Mix and match designs and materials - including wood, glitter craft foam and holiday-inspired cardstock!

All designs can be resized to fit different preferences and materials.

Materials:

  • Holiday-themed cardstock - available at any scrapbooking or craft/hobby store
  • 6" x 9" Creatology™ adhesive-back foam glitter sheets purchased from Michael's
  • 14.5" x 4.5" x 1/8" wooden planks (we recommend a variety of wood types to create contrast between layers) available from Colorado Heirloom
  • Ornament Hooks - we purchased ours from Target
  • Wood glue
  • Double-stick tape

  

laser cut ornaments
These laser-cut ornaments can be resized
and created from nearly any material!
 


Files: Right click the files below and choose "Save target as." Open the file in CorelDraw 8 or later.

sc_snowflakes_glitter.cdr sc_snowflakes_wood.cdr sc_snowflakes_paper.cdr  


 

Follow the steps below to create the ornaments. You will need to refer to your owner's manual to help determine your correct speed and power settings. We used a 40-watt Zing 24 with the following settings:

Glitter Foam Ornaments:
Speed: 45%
Power: 15%
Frequency: 500

 

 

 Wooden Ornaments:
Speed: 70%
Power: 50%
Frequency: 500
 Paper Ornaments:
Speed: 80
Power: 15%
Frequency: 500

 

Before you get started, there are a few tips to help complete the project successfully.

1. For the glitter snowflakes, remove the adhesive from the back of two pieces and stick them together, back to back. You can use the same colors or use two different colors for a two-tone effect.

2. For the paper snowflakes, adhere two pieces of paper back to back with strips of double-stick tape to ensure the same paper design is visible from all angles of the ornament.

   snowflake designs
First, determine which snowflake you'd like to create first. Open the appropriate file and send it to the laser with the recommended settings for your system. The glitter ornaments will be the only ones that do not require any further assembly after they've been cut.

  
 

After the job is complete, you will have all the necessary pieces to assemble the ornament.

For paper ornaments, remove the components and slide the corresponding pieces together - this makes the snowflakes three dimensional. One side will have a hole for the ornament hook and the other will not, as indicated by the image to the right. These steps can be applied to both the smaller and larger paper ornaments.

  

 

snowflake files

When you're done cutting the design for the wooden snowflakes, you'll have several different pieces.

Use the piece with the hole for the ornament hook as your base. Then take the contrasting piece and adhere it to the first, as indicated by the image to your right.




  

intricate cut wood snowflakes


 
 

 
     
     
 


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