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Christmas Cat Tree Ornament
Instruction
Information
I have made 3 Ornaments with backing of my own designs for my friend to put on her Christmas tree.
I have individualised them with her cats names on them. I hand painted and glued both the backing and front together. All parts of this design are cut files.
I have the file for download where you can decide whether you want to engrave or cut names out. This has been made with the D1 Pro 5w machine.
Instruction
Step1: Designing the ornament
I took a jpeg image of two cats from one of my folders and traced the image.
I then discarded the image and used the outline tool to create an area with enough space to enable a good width of cutting area so as not to compromise it. I then did another outline and kept it as close the the original outline as possible and moved it over to another area of the workspace. This is the backing piece.
Step2: Adding to the ornament
I imported images of a reindeer, stars, and two different snowflakes to the workspace and traced those images and resized them.
I did a rectangle shape and two circle shapes (the circles are for hanging the ornament).
Once the images were resized and the rectangle was to size and width, I started to play around with where I wanted to put them and made sure that different parts of them were touching portions of the cats.
Once I had got them to where I wanted them I Combined and subtracted outline at overlap.
I then added a name to where the rectangle sits on the cat and combined that as well.
Step3: Cutting the design.
Once I was happy with everything, I made sure to Ignore the backing and set my machine up to cut the intricate part of the cat.
Once that was completed I then cut the backing.
Step4: Completing the ornament
I cut 3 different ornaments and hand painted the front and back of the backing and then painted the front of the Intricate part.
Once dried I glued the front and back together, glued on the crystals and the wrapped the two different strings around each other, tied the in a knot and looped them through through the hole.
I hope you enjoy making this design as much as I did!
Merry Christmas everyone.
