Easy Christmas Luminaries
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Decorating our home at Christmas is one of my favorite things to do to kick off the holiday season.
Luminaries are a staple of Christmas decor. I thought it would be fun to develop a few designs and light them with fairy lights. A battery-operated tea light could also be used.
The designs have been saved in two formats. One version has a scoreline. The second version does not require a scoring stylus or wheel, as I added a perforated line right in the design.
These pretty luminaries are easy to make and look cute when lit or off.
I don’t mind if you use these designs for personal or small business commercial use up to 200 items, but please do not re-sell or re-distribute the files. I’d ask that you direct your crafty friends here to download the files themselves. Also, I don’t allow my designs to be used in print-on-demand shops or on transfers that will be sold. Click HERE for complete Terms of Service.
Materials Needed for Christmas Luminaries
- Cardstock
- Vellum
- Fairy Lights
- Adhesive Rhinestones (optional)
- Zots
- Tape Runner
- Scoring Stylus or Scoring Wheel (optional)
- Light grip mat (Cricut blue mat)
- Cricut Maker – or your favorite cutting machine
- Design #151– Christmas Luminaries SVG – The free cut file (available in my freebie vault—get the password at the bottom of this post).
Christmas Luminary Tutorial
Download the luminaries from my Freebie Vault and upload them to Design Space.
New to Design Space and looking for help with how to upload? Click HERE to find directions to get started.
Setting Up Design Space
The below instructions will need to be followed for those using the scoreline version. The perforated version is similar, just no need to modify score lines.
Determine the size you’ll cut and if resizing, do so while still grouped. This will ensure the pieces all stay in the same proportions. Once sized, click ungroup.
The next step is to select the layer with the scoreline on the star.
With star’s lines still selected, click score under Operation.
Next, select both the star and the scoreline, then click Attach.
Repeat the process on the tree pieces.
Once scorelines have been selected and attached, select both, then duplicate.
How To Assemble The Luminaries
Once cut, it’s time to assemble.
To remove the paper from the mat, gently bend the mat away from the paper. Keep the paper as flat as possible on your work surface.
I used a tape runner to attach the vellum pieces to the inside of the luminary.
Once the vellum was attached to the back, I turned the piece over and added some pretty adhesive rhinestones.
Fold the tree pieces along the score (or perforated lines).
Next, we’ll focus our attention on the star. I was pleasantly surprised that I could see the score lines on the glitter cardstock. Fold the star along the scorelines.
I couldn’t get a good photo but placed two Zots on the flap that goes inside the star to adhere.
After both sides of the star are formed. I attached the tip of my light string with a Zot. Then added a Zot on each of the star tips. Use these to adhere the two sides together. Make sure to line up the little slit that will sit on top of the tree. If you’re not using lights, I suggest using a toothpick in the star to hold it at the top of the tree.
The star is done.
Now it’s time to glue the two sides of the tree together. Place the star near the top of your tree. Then attach the two sides. On the green tree, I used a tape runner to adhere as I didn’t want to have to wait for the glue to dry.
I wasn’t sure if the tape runner would hold on the glitter snowflake tree so that one was assembled using low-temp hot glue.
The last step is to finish off the bottom by attaching the square base piece.
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Download My Christmas Luminary SVG By Subscribing Below To Get The Password To My Freebie Vault
DOWNLOAD the Christmas Luminaries SVG– Design #151 by entering the password to my Freebie Vault. Click HERE to go to the freebie vault, my library of free downloads. To sign up for a password to my free designs, enter your name and email address below. ⬇️
Thanks for the lovley cut file.You make some awesome creations
Blessings
Jocelan
Beautiful – Thank you! Can’t wait to make these.
I am a big fan of you. Your designs are beautiful!
Thank you 😊
Thank you so much. I love the tree and will work on it this weekend.
Oh, this looks like fun! When I get my Christmas decorations all out of the boxes and up where they belong, I hope to try this. Thanks for all the hard work you do in designing these projects for us!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Merry Christmas ❤️
Thank you so much! I love your creations. The luminary trees are amazing! I can’t wait to make them. I still have my angel from last year.
Have fun! If you have extra lights from the angel last year, they’ll be perfect for the tree. I used the same ones.
I downloaded and added the snowflake luminare to design space. I ungrouped it. When I select the tree, I cannot find the layer with the score lines. They seemt o be part of the image. I then tried it with the Christmas tree and I am seeing the same thing on the tree and the star. Am I missing something?
Hi Jody, I included two versions of each tree. One with score lines and one with perforated cuts. It sounds as if you may have uploaded the perforated version. Check the file name to determine which one was uploaded. Sorry for the confusion.
Thank you so much! I can’t wait to start these.
Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous! Tomorrow I want to try the Christmas tree. Tonight I made the snowflake!! Thank you so much for sharing your talent. This was my first project, thank you!!
I, unfortunately, had problems with the Christmas Tree. Until trying to assemble, I did not know to print two of the star and of the tree with cut outs. I had “extra” pages (15 total) that apparently have nothing to do with this tree (included pretty poinsettia cut outs!)!! Will try again!!
Hmmm. Is it possible you had other items loaded to cut too? I didn’t have poinsettias included in this design. Hope you get it sorted out.
Having trouble getting the password.
Hi Fay,
You may request the Freebie Vault password and receive it instantly on this page of my site:
https://specialheartstudio.com/get-a-password/
Gjoa
Hi I carnt find password…I’d like the tree svg
Hi Julie,
You may request the Freebie Vault password and receive it instantly on this page of my site:
https://specialheartstudio.com/get-a-password/
Gjoa
I am looking at these beautiful tree luminaries and it looks like it requires a cricut which operates off of a computer……what if I have an old manual one lol???? anyway to make it from there ?
Unfortunately, I don’t know of a way to make the luminaries with a Cricut that doesn’t use Design Space. Sorry!
I don’t have a Cricut or any other cutting machine. Would you be open to selling a kit comprised of the pieces already cut and scored? I’d happily pay for production time and shipping and do all the rest – vellum, taping, etc – on my own. If so, I’d be so grateful. If it’s not possible, I completely understand.
Thank you!
At this time, I do not have the capacity to ship kit pieces. I’m so sorry.
Free vault
You may request the Freebie Vault password and receive it instantly on this page of my site:
https://specialheartstudio.com/get-a-password/
Gjoa