Cricut Holiday Door Hangers 12 Days of Christmas DAY NINE GIVE AWAY
You can make your own door hangers!
I have wanted to make my own door hangers for a long time and I finally did it! YAY! This 12 Days of Christmas has been good for me. Last night the kids, DH and I all played several rounds of the Bingo game I made. They loved it! I walk past my vinyl angel decor and feel pleased that it’s somewhere we can all enjoy it (on the way to the kitchen, LOL). In the kitchen I have the advent calendar I made. It’s sitting on the island. Each day I notice that someone has moved the magnet to a new day. That makes me so happy.
To create these door hangers I used the My Community Cricut cartridge. You can also find door hangers in the Batman, Superman, Locker Talk and Sesame Street Elmo’s Party cartridges. They aren’t all shaped like this one, but they are door hangers. 😉 I used multi-cut 2 AND the deep cut blade. I’ve found that my Cricut prefers a fairly thin chipboard for cutting. I suggest looking for chipboard that is the thickness of a cereal box (or using a cereal box). 🙂 Here are some projects where I’ve cut cereal boxes with my Cricut.
After I cut the chipboard door hanger centers, I switched to the regular blade and cut some paper by Bo Bunny to cover each side. I cut the hangers and their covers at 8″. I was able to get 3 hangers out of one sheet of 12 x 12 cardstock.
I used my ATG (adhesive tape gun) to glue everything together. If you don’t lay your paper down just right and you’re a little off you can do what I did and sand the edges down a bit. I then went over the edges with some chalk. Problem solved! Hey, it happens to everyone. 😉
I love to use reversible paper. It’s such a nifty little trick to be able to flip paper over and know the other side will match. Easy as pie…not homemade pie from scratch, but store bought pie. Here I’ve also laid a little piece of red scrap paper behind an area I punched out using a Martha Stewart snowflake punch. That allowed the negative space to show as a snowflake.
I used the Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge to decorate my door hangers. Here’s Santa being assembled. I had to recut one of the red pieces because my Cricut freaked out and made a weird cut.
Winter Frolic is a pretty cartridge, but there are a lot of pieces to many of the cuts. I find it easier to use vinyl with this cart, but I heart vinyl so that shouldn’t really surprise anyone. 😉 I actually used vinyl on the bird hat and the ribbon over the birdhouse. I even used Stickles on the vinyl ribbon! The paper the birds are cut out of is paper I created using my Cricut Imagine. It’s leftover from this project.
Need vinyl? I like to buy mine from Expressions Vinyl.
Here are the cartridges, Stickles and Cats Eye Colorbox chalk I used. I love that Winter Frolic cartridge!
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Super cute door hangers! I really appreciate seeing what can be done with the various cricut cartridges.
I love the door hangers. They would come in handy on my door at school. One can be made up that says “SHHHH Testing” and several others.
The $25 would be very useful in helping fund my new hobby. 🙂
Joy, I always get a laugh out of your Zippy and sayings that you read when you hover over a picture! Thanks for the smiles. Your project ideas today were so cute. I will have to try and make some of these. TFS!
Monique
I need to make one for my granddaughter that says enter at your own risk!!!! LOL $25 Wow that would be fun …
Such a cute project and I have both of those cartridges so that I can make it too!
Wonderful door hangers! And where have I been? Winter Frolic doesn’t look remotely familiar, but does look super cute … hmmm …
I’m really glad you got Zippy. He is so much fun! The door hangers are great!
I am so glad santa pulled himself together. I bet zippy had a paw in it. I liked the idea about making a baby asleep door hanger to. Love what you did. [email protected]
Cute! I have thought about doing this as well, but the only cart I have is Elmo’s Party and now we have our house on the market, so I had to declutter – nothing like trying to craft out of a box 🙂 That’s what I get for deciding to have another baby 🙂
SUPER JOY…THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE SUPER GIVEAWAY….WOULD LOVE A CHANCE TO WIN!!! (i Heart custom crops!!!…maybe you could ask the nice people to open a call center so I could just hop over and pick up my orders…..LOL!!!)
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Love ‘Em!!!
Deanne G
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Another great idea. They look so nice.
very cute! I will have to make some of these! Thanks!
ashley
Adorable! I really love that Santa one 🙂 So cute!
This is another item I’ve thought about making but haven’t…. It’s like your reading my mind!!! SCARRY THOUGHT! LOL You better keep an eye on that zippy character….. I think he’s trying to take over your MACHINE! LOL 🙂 Love your Project Joy and the tips… Very useful…
Yah, I think I will give these a try!!! TFS!!
Joy these are just fabulous! I love that you used vinyl for the smaller detailed parts. I should have thought of that. I actually started using vinyl because of you. Thank you its awesome.lol
Hugs,
Raven
So awesome!!!!
There are Fabulous! I am making these to hang on gift baskets as a little extra present.
That is a great Idea! I would love to make these if I had one of those cartridges. lol! Thanks for sharing
~sarah
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Love the door hangers -fun idea!
I so love them and I actually own a cart that has this cut yeah.
Might have to make some of those 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Super cute….I just received the Winter Wonderland cartridge and now have a reason to use it.
Tks
Mickey
What a great idea…we (my sis’s or I) have at least one of the carts with the doorhanger on it. I will have to try this and let my daughter create a custome hanger for her bedroom!
“Santa pull yourself together” made me chuckle just a little 🙂
My son and I usually decorate his door with a hanger or plaque each season. These are so cute I might have to make some more… By the way, I love Zippy. It’s good to see he’s fully recovered from the laminating fumes.
Dear Joy,
These door hangers are delightful. Your house must be extremely beautiful by now. Merry Christmas to you and those you love.
With Warm Regards,
Carol Broney
Those are SO SUPER CUTE!! Nice job Ms. Joy!
Love the door hangers. Super cute and festive!!
Sherrie K.
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Joy,Those are a great Idea! I got to make some of those! joy
Wow they came out super pretty!! Loved the idea!!!
My granddaughters wanted to make door hangers for their rooms this summer – KEEP OUT – LOL – and they really turned out so cute! I saw how someone had used cereal boxes and now I saved all the boxes for future use! These are adorable. If I have time I am going to have to make some! Thanks!
These are really cute! The best part is I have ALL the supplies needed to make them myself… YIPPEE!! Thanks for sharing and inspiring! Happy Holidays!
Lori
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Really adorable idea Joy, my kids would love this as well and so adaptable to any time of the year.
Great ideas!
Nice. Thank you.
Thanks for the great tutorial, I love that santa!
Super-cute! I like the idea of sanding slight mistakes instead of trimming, which I’m terrible at. Thanks!
These are the cutest doorhangers! Love the santa one! Never thought of making them, I’ll have to give it a try for some quick teacher gifts.
I love these door hangars, just too cute. I have a cereal box, from my mom, that I have been saving for just such an idea. This may be the weekend the box is recycled into its new purpose! Thanks for sharing! Kelly
aww…isn’t it a great feeling when ur crafting is appreciated 🙂 it just makes crafting that much more fun for us
I love the Santa door hanger he’s so cute. It’s great that your family is enjoying your crafting so much. I can’t wait to see my family’s faces when they see some of mine!!!
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SUPER CUTE!! Thanks for sharing!
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Very cute! Thanks for the chance to win!
love the doorhangers. what a cute idea. thanks for sharing
Super cute but easy projects…I love them! Thanks!
Your door hangers are super cute!! Love the Santa workshop. You know Zippy is probably still a little disoriented from yesterdays fumes, give him more chocolate!! Awesome give away, love Custom Crops!!
Super cute door hangers and I love shopping at Custom Crops. I always need something new.
What a cute idea! I forgot about door hangers.
Love the door hangers, guess I’ll have to be getting a new cartridge as I have none of those. I have never shopped at custom crops but would love the opportunity.