How to Engrave Acrylic Ornaments on a Cricut Maker

Learn how to make these beautiful DIY personalized engraved acrylic ornaments, perfect to give as a gift or to decorate your tree!  If you're looking to give that special holiday gift this season, these ornaments are a great project to make. And it's SO easy now that we can engrave acrylic at home using the Cricut Maker and the engraving tool. These simple, but beautiful DIY personalized engraved acrylic ornaments are a great way to personalize the perfect gift for friends and family.

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Ever since the engraving tool came out for the Cricut Maker this summer, I've been engraving ALL the things. And now that the holidays are upon us, I can't help but engrave some ornaments, too! It's just SO easy now. These simple, beautifully engraved acrylic ornaments are a great way to personalize the perfect gift for your friends and family.

Now, to engrave acrylic, you need the engraving tool, which only works on the Cricut Maker cutting machine at the time I'm making this video. The engraving tool goes into clamp B on your Maker and does all the hard work for you!

It is important that whatever acrylic you use, it's two millimeters or thinner -- that's one eighth inch or less. Any thicker, and it won't fit in your machine.

I'm using three inch acrylic blanks for this project -- get the link to where I found these in my supply list under this video or over on my blog at jennifer maker dot com.

In addition to the engraving tool and acrylic blanks, you'll need some painter's tape to keep your acrylic blank firmly on your mat. And then all you need some ribbon, string, and/or ornament hooks to hang your super cool acrylic ornaments on your tree.

The only other thing you need is a design! You can make your own in Cricut Design Space, or use my free designs. The cool thing about my engraving designs are that I've enhanced them so your engraving tool fills them in and the design is bolder! So let me show you where to get my free designs and then how to use them to engrave your acrylic ornaments!

Topics covered in this video:
00:00 - How to Engrave Acrylic Ornaments with Cricut
00:35 - Supplies & Tools
01:55 - Get Free Engraved Ornament SVG Files
02:26 - (Learn How to Upload SVG Files to Cricut Design Space)
03:09 - Add a Name or Year to Your Engraved Ornament Design
04:16 - Prepare the Mat to Engrave the Acrylic
06:21 - Engrave the Design with Your Cricut
08:41 - Remove Debris from Your Ornament
09:07 - Show it Off!
09:33 - Closing Notes and Link to More Information

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Credits:
Music: Cute by Bensound (licensed, royalty and copyright free)
Videography: Jennifer Marx on a Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000 DSLR 4K camera
Design: A Jennifer Maker original!

[lisadvorachek]

I'm so thankful you told us how long each ornament could take! I tend to procrastinate!

[Mariam-Mina]

Thank you so much Jennifer, would love to see more engraving videos ideas especially for family photos one and how to make filling for the lines as the result can vary so much. thanks heaps

[denisel]

Thank you for teaching me how to engrave on acrylic. I make ornaments every year for all of my family. I think these will be on the "To Make" next year list.

[joker_thee_gemini]

Appreciate your talent and gift. Thank you for sharing

[brandygeiman]

What a great way to make a handmade personalized gift! Love learning how to make new things!

[bjr]

You are a great teacher Jennifer and I really enjoy watching the videos. These ornaments are beautiful and don’t look hard to make.

[SueLD]

Very pretty ornaments. Thanks for the warning of how long this takes to engrave.

[bobetteturco]

These are so much fun! I love how the light makes the engraving really stand out.

[debbiestolkvis]

I love following your video's I just got the engraving tool, this is my first project on my maker 3, The only thing is this doesn't say 2mm when I went to chose acrylic only 1 mm so no choice. I hope it still works on this one. Thank you for all your help and making it so easy to follow even for older people ( I am 74 and just starting to learn about cricut maker)

[brasiliamedina]

I live this lady, I’ve learn with her, I’m new on this but oh how enjoy it. I’m saving for the maker machine... one day, one day. Thank you !!!

[sheilaharper]

These are beautiful and you have a knack for teaching

[susanparris]

I really enjoyed all of your YouTube videos. You have a teaching gift with very clear instructions. Thank you!

[helenroberts]

I am looking forward to being able to get back into crafting. Engraving acrylic is one of the project ideas I have in my notebook to do. Thank you for another great tutorial!

[AnnetteF]

Jennifer, learning lots watching your videos, thank you for all your hard work.

[jennifergamblin]

Your videos are the BEST. Thank you for doing what you do.

[elizabethreasoner]

I have tried so many of you craft creations and love them all.

[kathykey]

Hello from North Carolina! Excited to watch Jennifer she is wonderful and sweet as can be

[dianwright]

I'm going to do lots of them and hang down from the ceiling on a specific part of my home. Also, I'm going to make one for my daughter who married last month with her logo she designed for the wedding. I'm excited. This is my 1st project with my 6m old Cricut Maker. Woohoo!

[pamelasutherland]

Your right Jennifer, these are great! I'm excited that my engraving tool is under the tree- now only if I can wait till Christmas!

[aleidafernandez]

Loved this tutorial. It was amazing to also the live session earlier today because we all learn about all the materials and can even learn people ask questions about materials related to the project.