As a Cricut UK Ambassador, I spend a lot of time showing people just how much you can create with a Cricut, from personalised cards and festive décor to quick paper projects and vinyl gifts. I love demonstrating easy Cricut Christmas crafts in stores and helping beginners see how simple it can be to make something beautiful at home.
But like most people, I know real life sometimes gets in the way. Between work, family, and everything else, I don’t always find as much time for crafting as I’d like. And when you’ve stepped away for a bit, it can be surprisingly hard to dust off your machine and get your creativity flowing again.
This year, I’ve been chatting with other makers about keeping things budget friendly and beginner friendly, especially at Christmas. Whether you’re making decorations for your home, personalised gifts for family, or Cricut Christmas projects to sell, everyone loves ideas that are quick, affordable, and achievable.
So I decided to challenge myself and hopefully inspire you too. Throughout November, I’ll be sharing a brand-new DIY Cricut Christmas craft idea every day, a bit like a creative advent calendar. It’s my way of rediscovering my crafting mojo, using my Cricut to its full potential, and celebrating the joy of handmade Christmas projects one thrifty craft at a time.
Updated daily throughout November – keep checking back for new Cricut Christmas project ideas!
Each one includes a link to the ready-made design in Cricut Design Space so you can make it yourself.
1. DIY Christmas Crackers
Kick things off with reusable Christmas crackers made from cardstock, ribbon and simple vinyl details. This is beginner friendly, budget friendly and looks premium on the table. Cut and score the template in Cricut Design Space, roll and glue, then tie both ends with ribbon. Fill with sweets, jokes or tiny gifts for a personalised touch. Use metallic or kraft card for different vibes, and add names in vinyl so they double as place settings. Quick to batch make and perfect for gifting or selling as sets.
2. Ceramic Baubles with Vinyl & Iron-On Ribbon
For this make, I used plain ceramic baubles and gave them a personalised upgrade with adhesive vinyl lettering and a custom iron-on ribbon. It’s a simple way to create something elegant and gift-worthy without spending much. The Cricut cuts clean, crisp lettering that looks professional, and the heat-transfer ribbon adds a soft, handmade finish.
Ceramic blanks are inexpensive and you can use leftover scraps of vinyl or iron-on materials from other projects. They’re quick to produce in batches, making them perfect for classroom gifts, teacher presents, or small sets to sell at craft fairs.
3. Hot chocolate Station
This Hot Cocoa & Gingerbread Station is one of my favourite Cricut Christmas crafts – simple, affordable, and totally customisable. You can resize the design to fit any tray or board you already have at home, or grab one from a charity shop, car boot or high street bargain bin. Add a few repurposed jars, some leftover vinyl, and you’ve got a cosy festive setup that looks like it came straight from a boutique gift shop. Perfect for beginners, and ideal for creating a handmade Christmas on a budget.
4. DIY Nutcracker Mug Set with Infusible Ink – by Fi Thomas
This adorable Infusible Ink craft brings a classic Christmas character to life in the most creative way across four stackable mugs! Sent in by Fi from Katy Lou designs. If you own the Cricut mug press and have been waiting for the perfect project to use it then this is the one! When stacked, the full nutcracker design appears, making it a perfect festive gift or statement piece for your hot chocolate station. Created using Cricut Infusible Ink and a little patience, this project is bright, bold, and guaranteed to make you smile every time you reach for a cuppa.
5. Believe gift tag with bell
This simple yet beautiful Cricut project captures the magic of Christmas with a timeless message from one of my favourite movies – The Polar Express.
Using your Cricut, you can cut this elegant tag shape and lettering in just minutes. The design works beautifully in navy and gold, giving it a classic festive feel. A red ribbon and small gold bell finish it off perfectly, ideal for gift wrapping, tree decorations, or handmade hamper tags. I used these on goodie bags filled with treats when we went on the real life train ride – one of our most memorable festive days out ever! I kept the tag and now add it to my tree every year as a memento.
6. 3D Marbled Christmas Card by Chelsea Barton
This elegant handmade card combines simple Cricut cutting with traditional papercraft techniques to create a stunning 3D tree design. It’s perfect if you’ve been saving a special piece of marbled cardstock for something truly beautiful – because this is the one!
Cricut Tip: Use the score tool for perfect folds and symmetry on your tree pieces.
7. Personalised Stockings
For day seven of Thrifty Cricut Christmas, it’s all about personalised stockings, the easiest way to add a custom touch to your festive décor without spending a fortune.
Hobbycraft have a gorgeous range of stocking blanks, including these velvet styles for just £3 each, making them perfect for affordable gifts or family sets.
Using iron-on vinyl and your Cricut, you can personalise each stocking in minutes. It’s a brilliant beginner project quick, satisfying, and ideal for using up offcuts or leftover vinyl pieces.
Font used: BFC Happy Holidays
Cricut Tip: You can bookmark your favourite fonts in Design Space, just like projects and images, so you can find them again easily when you’re in festive crafting mode.
Thrifty Tip: Try mixing metallic and glitter vinyl for names or phrases like “Santa Stop Here” to coordinate with your existing décor – stylish, personal, and totally budget-friendly.
8. Christmas Reindeer with Lindt Chocolate Nose
This adorable Cricut craft by Sarah is guaranteed to make everyone smile! These shiny reindeer decorations with chocolate noses are a fun and thrifty make perfect for stocking fillers, classroom gifts, or even hanging on the Christmas tree.
Sarah used metallic card and her Cricut to cut the reindeer shapes, adding a circular cut-out for a truffle to sit snugly as the reindeer’s red nose . Finished with a red ribbon loop and personalised names in vinyl, they make the sweetest handmade keepsakes.
Cricut Tip: Use the curve tool to give you text the rounded shape and then “Attach” in Design Space to fix the name position before cutting.
9. Acrylic disc decorations
Today’s make is one of those simple but beautiful crafts that proves you don’t need to spend much to create something gift-worthy. These flat acrylic discs are available everywhere online, and they’re the perfect blank canvas for Cricut projects.
This time, I went for a Highland cow design from Cricut Design Space but honestly, you can find just about anything using the image search function in Design space. If you’ve got a friend who loves a specific animal, just type it into the search bar and you’ll be amazed at what comes up.
My advice would be to use colour schemes to give out a festive vibe. These discs are very versatile in that you could use them as a gift tag and then these can be saved to use as a tree ornament. I also think they’re effective for displays – if you have a classroom there, an office in home or want to add branding to a display in a store then this is the make for you.
10. Candy cane holders
These adorable candy cane holders are so easy to make, I can cut ten tree shapes out from a sheet of 12×12 card stock and batch make these. I find candy canes tend to be available in all of the high street bargain stores at about £1 for ten. As a teacher these make the ideal class gift and Arlo my son asked to give these out instead of Christmas cards. I’ll also tuck them in to ribbon on wrapped gifts just to add a little extra sprinkling of festive magic.
11. Insert Cards
This project in design space has been used by so many ambassadors during festive Cricut demonstrations because we love to showcase how the card mat and insert cards are used. They really are so easy and quick to make and this specific project also uses the pen too. I went for a pink vibe, and you can see two different colour versions here and how fabulous the holographic card looks behind as the colour and texture shows through the cuts.
12. Frosted Vinyl
This project has been shared by Rachel, from Peopermint Creations – another awesome Cricut UK ambassador who claimed this cake stand as it was about to be donated by a family member to a charity shop. It’s so true that one person’s trash is another man’s treasure – especially when you have a Cricut and can personalise anything Every time I’m browsing in a charity shop myself I’m thinking of the potential every item has. Rebecca decided to use permanent adhesive frosted vinyl for the first time on this project and wow! An instant new lease of life and a perfect centrepiece for a festive show stopper.
I’m already imagining the possibilities – for Christmas gifts this vinyl gives the appearance of etching! I’m feeling really inspired and wondering what this would look like on my actual windows now!
13. Do you want to build a snowman?
For today’s project of my Thrifty Cricut Christmas series, I wanted to share a project the kids can join in with, and this is a favourite of mine.
We used transparent fillable baubles, and I cut snowman faces from leftover vinyl scraps black for the eyes and mouth, and orange for the carrot nose. After I spent ages carefully weeding the designs, we spent a cosy afternoon sticking them onto the baubles and filling them with white pom-poms to create a cute snowman effect. The beauty of this is you can mix and match the pieces to make some fun faces, and design space has loads of different options to choose from.
It’s such an easy, affordable project, low prep and a fab activity to do with the kids. Maybe if you’ve got a Christmas party or gathering planned with children then this could be an activity with a lovely keepsake for them to take home and a great way to use up all those tiny leftover scraps of materials. I know I’ve got loads of orange and black leftover from Halloween!
14. It’s not Terry’s, it’s Cricuts!
This adorable gift box is the perfect size for the chocolate orange I always look forward to at Christmas and this project has evolved somewhat in the ambassador WhatsApp group so it is a team effort but Chelsea has tweaked it so the design can be made from a single sheet of 12×12 cardstock. You will have to use a 12×24 mat just to make sure the cuts go right to the edge as it uses every single millimetre of space! Then it’s just a case of sticking it together and then making the adorable matching gift tag to go with it!
15. Wreath making
Today’s beautiful project is a little bit different – shared by The Crafty Lass – Paula Milner a Cricut Uk ambassador who has recently published a book filled with 25 Cricut projects. Each one thoughtfully designed to give a gentle start to your Cricut Crafting journey and currently available on Amazon. This wreath is made from cardstock and the shapes used have been illustrated by Paula and are available in Design Space.
In her book Paula features step by step instructions with photographs as well as plenty of hints and tips – valuable information for seasoned crafters and beginners alike.
Day 16 – Gingerbread Bunting
Today’s project proves that simple supplies can create the most charming decorations. With just one sheet of A4 brown cardstock, a white pen, and your Cricut, you can make this adorable gingerbread-inspired bunting. It’s quick, cosy, and perfect for adding a traditional festive vibe to your home. Whether you’re decorating a mantle, a doorway, or a Christmas treat table, this bunting brings that classic gingerbread magic without the mess of real baking.