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3D Wood Star & Christmas Tree Topper

Wow! Wow! Wow! Check out these delicate Cherry Wood Star & Tree Topper created with our Thin Wood Veneer and a Cricut Maker!

Below is a materials list and a few details with how she created the DIY 3D Star and Christmas Tree Topper. Check them out below.

Materials Used:

1 – 11″ x 17″ Cherry .010″ Fleece Backed Sheet Long Grain (per star)
1 – 8.5″ x 11″ Cherry .016″ Paper Backed Sheet Short Grain (for cone)
2 – 8.5″ x 11″ Vellum (to line inside the tree topper)
Cricut Maker
Cricut Settings: NEW Fine Point Blades, 80lb cardstock with more pressure
SVG file from Etsy (We have no connection to the creator of the svg. We just love supporting artisans.)
Beacon’s 3-in-1 Glue
Small battery twinkle lights

The SVG cutting file from Etsy comes with all the instructions so we won’t go on about that. Below are a few helpful tips.

For the star, it doesn’t really matter if you use long grain or short grain wood sheets as the SVG file cuts in all directions.
For the Christmas tree topper cone, she used short grain because our wood sheets rolled into a tube easier with short grain. If the tube had been rolled the other direction, long grain would have rolled better. Roll with the grain. Not against the grain.
The SVG file comes with really nice score lines for folding. A Pro-Tip is to use just a little water on the wood on those score lines and then using a bone folder, score the lines on the back side of the wood. The wood creases beautifully.
Assemble 4 of the points, if using twinkle lights insert all the lights before adding the 5th star point.
If using twinkle lights with a battery pack and on/off switch, leave that out of the star when assembling. The tree topper cone will hide the mechanics but still allow you to access them to change batteries and turn lights on/off.
If adding lights, she did say she cut a little notch on one side of the 5th point to allow room for the wires to hang down into the cone.
The cone tree topper was just hand rolled into a cone shape. There is not a cut file for that in the SVG file.
The cone topper where it attaches to the star was a little finicky. The artist cut notches on either side of the cone to cradle the star while the center points were taller to cover the opening created for the wires.

3D Wood Veneer Mandala

This Maple Wood Veneer Mandala Flower is stunning, if we don’t say so ourselves! It measures out to be 10″ x 10″ of pure layered beauty of nature.

Real Wood Paper 3D Layered Mandala Flower

Below is a list of all the materials and Cricut settings we used to create this work of art.

Cricut Maker
2 – Deep Point Blades (We recommend NEW blades for best results.)
9 – 11″ x 17″ Maple Wood Back Veneer Short Grain
12″ x 24″ Cricut Cutting Mat (Or cut sheets down to fit 12″ x 12″ mat.)
SVG File from Etsy (We have no connection to the seller. We just loved the design and like to support artisans.)
Beacon’s 3-in-1 Glue
Sandpaper
Cricut Maker Settings: Natural Wood Veneer, Default Pressure

If you are at all familiar with Cricut, there isn’t much explanation needed for this project. Cut each of the 9 layers separately. Keep in mind this is wood and wood will have shavings and little splinters. You’ll need to go around the edges with a piece of sanding paper just to smooth out the edges to clean up the piece before you assemble. For assembly, we started with piece #9, the solid wood piece and slowly glued each layer onto the next. We didn’t really wait between layers for the glue to dry. Glued, Placed, Pressed, Repeat.

While writing this post, it did occur to me that if someone wanted to take this to the next level they could paint the flower and the background different colors. Since I see this flower as a poinsettia, I would paint the flower red and then the rest of the wood background a beautiful shade of green. I would recommend trying either acrylic paint watered down for a white wash effect or using watercolors. I think watercolors would be beautiful!

Wooden Cross Bookmarks Made With A Cricut

Making a DIY Wooden Cross Bookmark with a Cricut Maker couldn’t be easier than with Real Wood Paper! Whether you are looking to make one for yourself or to give as gifts, they are quick, unique and beautiful!

We used 2 species of wood for this project. We used 1 sheet of Walnut .010″ thick Short Grain and 1 sheet of Maple .010″ thick Short Grain.

The SVG Cut File was purchased from Etsy. There are 4 cut layers and we arranged them so that we could get all 4 layers out of one 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of wood paper.

While we do like to use the Strong Grip Mat, we also always use painters tape to tape down our Real Wood Paper sheets. We don’t want them to move. The wood is too beautiful to waste!

Below are the settings we use for all 3 of our Real Wood Paper thicknesses.

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Fleece .010″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Medium Cardstock – 80#
Pressure Setting: Default

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Paper .016″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Poster Board
Pressure Setting: More Pressure

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Wood .025″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Deep Point
Cardstock Setting: Natural Wood Veneer
Pressure Setting: Default

PRO TIP: Make sure your blades are new/sharp. Wood is hard on blades. For best results use new blades.

Here you can see each of the 4 layers of Real Wood Paper. We like to use Beacon’s 3-in-1 Glue as our adhesive.

DIY Wood Bow for Gifts

Who knew you could make a bow out of wood? We did! Our .010″ Thick Fleece Back sheets are so thin and flexible it’s easy to make a beautiful, natural bow for your gifts. Great idea for 5th Anniversary Wood Gifts!

We made a quick video to show you how we made the bow but if you are looking for more details read on below the video.

Below you will find step by step instructions on how to make a wooden bow for gifts and packages. We also used the Cherry .010″ Thick Short Grain Fleece Back 8.5″ x 11″ sheet but have other Fleece back options available.

Step 1

Start by choosing your wood specie. We recommend using our .010″ Fleece Back sheets for the best flexibility.

Step 2

Cut the wood into strips 1/2″ wide. You will need 6 pieces 11″ long, 2 pieces 10″ long and 1 piece 5″ long.

Step 3

Twist wood strips into a figure 8 and glue ends to backside of the middle of the wood stripe.

Step 4

Glue ends to backside of the middle of the wood stripe. We like Beacon’s 3-In-1 Glue.

Step 5

Use paperclips to hold wood in place while glue is drying. The glue dries pretty quickly.

Use paperclips to hold while wood and glue are drying

Step 6

If there is glue where you don’t want it, when dry, rub with your fingers and it rolls into a ball and can be removed.

Step 7

They hold beautifully when the glue is dry.

Step 8

Start staking the 11″ pieces by alternating the direction.

Step 9

Then stack the 10″ pieces.

Step 10

Add the 5″ center circle piece.

Step 11

It is done! Time to put it on your package!

Step 12

Cut more strips and a tag to complete the package.

And there you have a beautiful, one-of-a-kind bow for your packages!

Thank you for checking out our bow tutorial and if you make one, we’d love to see it! Send us a picture HERE.

How To Cut Wood Bookmarks With A Cricut

Making Wooden Bookmarks with a Cricut Maker couldn’t be easier than with Real Wood Paper! Whether you are looking to make one for yourself or to give as gifts, they are quick, unique and beautiful!

We used a variety of woods and thickness’ in this project. For the back pieces we used our Walnut .025″ Thick Short Grain Wood Back sheet. For the top intricate designs, we used our Birch .010″ Thick Short Grain Fleece Back sheet and Cherry .010″ Thick Short Grain Fleece Back sheet. We also used the Cherry .010″ Thick Short Grain Fleece Back sheet for the middle piece on one of the bookmarks.

For us, it doesn’t matter which mat we use, we always use painters tape to tape down our Real Wood Paper sheets. We don’t want them to move. The wood is too beautiful to waste!

Below are a couple of short videos of the Cricut Maker in action.

Walnut Wood Back .025″ thick with Deep Point Blade

Birch Fleece Back .010″ Thick with Fine Point Blade

Below are the settings we use for all 3 of our Real Wood Paper thicknesses. For even more information on cutting our Wood Sheets with a Cricut, visit Cutting Real Wood Paper With A Cricut.

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Fleece .010″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Medium Cardstock – 80#
Pressure Setting: Default

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Paper .016″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Poster Board
Pressure Setting: More Pressure

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Wood .025″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Deep Point
Cardstock Setting: Natural Wood Veneer
Pressure Setting: Default

PRO TIP: Make sure your blades are new/sharp. Wood is hard on blades. For best results use new blades.

For the SVG’s we used a couple of Freebies that we found on the Internet. They are a Damask Bookmark and Braided Bookmark from Get Silvered (Thank you!).

If you would like to order Pre-Cut Wood Bookmarks, you can find those HERE.

Cutting Wood and Vinyl With A Cricut

You know those times when you have an idea and then it turns out larger than you envision? Well, that is this project. It was intended to be a bookmark but kind of big for that so it could be used as an ornament or even a gift tag for a package. Use your imagination as the options are endless!

We pulled out the Cricut Maker and grabbed a piece of our beautiful Maple .025″ Thick Short Grain Wood Back Real Wood Paper. We needed the perfect SVG design and found this lovely Be Still and Know Free SVG at Hellosvg.com (Thank You!) and uploaded it to our Cricut Design space. For our wood cut out shape we simply used Design Space shapes. 1 circle and 1 rectangle copied & pasted 3 more times. Looked like this:

For us, it doesn’t matter which mat we use, we always use painters tape to tape down our Real Wood Paper sheets. We don’t want them to move. The wood is too beautiful to waste!

We used our Wood Back .025″ Thick sheet for this project but if you happen to come across this project and want to use a thinner sheet, below are the settings for our 2 other thicknesses.

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Fleece .010″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Medium Cardstock – 80#
Pressure Setting: Default

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Paper .016″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Poster Board
Pressure Setting: More Pressure

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Wood .025″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Deep Point
Cardstock Setting: Natural Wood Veneer
Pressure Setting: Default

PRO TIP: Make sure your blades are new/sharp. Wood is hard on blades. For best results use new blades.

Watch the short video of the Cricut Maker in action.

We know y’all are pro’s cutting vinyl designs with your Cricut so we won’t be redundant with that. Once you have your vinyl cut out, stick to your Real Wood Paper just like you would any other surface, press and peel!

We looped ribbon through the rectangle cutouts. There are a variety of ways to do this and depends more on the purpose of your project as to which way to do this. If you have questions, let us know but we are confident you know you way around ribbon too!

Cutting Real Wood Paper with a Cricut Machine

We are often asked, “Which Cricut Cutting Blade works the best with each thickness of Real Wood Paper?” Well, thank you so much for asking! We would love to answer your question! Keep scrolling for all the details.

Cutting Real Wood Paper Veneer Sheets with a Cricut Machine

Real Wood Paper Thickness Explained

All of our sheets begin as raw wood on one side, a layer of eco-friendly, biodegradable adhesive in the middle and then a backing of fleece, paper or another sheet of wood.

Fleece Backed (.010″ thick) Shop Here

is a very thin, sheer, flexible backing appropriate for dollhouse enthusiasts, candle wraps, lamp shades, envelope liners…anything where flexibility, luminosity and light-in-weight is a must. The backing material looks and feels similar to very thin vellum. It is also excellent for adhering to another material such as cardstock, wood, etc. (.010″ Thick = 10 PT/165 GSM)

Paper Backed (.016″ thick) Shop Here

is slightly thicker than the Fleece backing. The paper backing has a texture and is excellent for adhering to other backing materials such as cardstock, wood, etc. This thickness is frequently used as wedding invitations that are glued to a larger sheet of cardstock backing. It has great flexibility for printing, textured backing to ‘grab’ adhesive and creates a beautiful, sturdy invitation, announcement, etc. (.016″ Thick = 16 PT/265 GSM)

Wood Backed (.025″ thick) Shop Here

is very strong and sturdy yet still has the flexibility to run through laser printers using the straight feed feature. There is wood on both sides which is perfect for announcements, menus, invitations, programs and more. You get to see the beauty of the wood on both sides. (.025″ Thick = 25 PT/414 GSM)

Which Cricut Blade Do I Use?

For our Fleece Back and Paper Back sheets, we used the Premium Fine Point Blade. We just had to adjust the paper and pressure settings. For our Wood Back sheets, we used the Deep Point Blade.

Which Cricut Mat Do I Use?

Due to use, the mats get less sticky over time therefore we used painters tape on the edges of the Real Wood Paper to hold the sheets in place on the mat. Real Wood Paper is too beautiful to waste with mistakes! We want to be confident that our Real Wood Paper won’t slide during the cutting process. So in reality, we were less concerned with which specific mat to use (LightGrip, StandardGrip or StrongGrip) (StrongGrip is recommended) and just made sure the Real Wood Paper sheet wouldn’t move by using painters tape around the edges.

Project Details

We used the Cricut Maker and the starting project that’s included in the box because we know you’ve all completed that project and are familiar creating it with regular cardstock that Cricut provided. It’s also an excellent project to show that you can not only cut but also write on our Real Wood Paper.

To make this start project and any future projects, use the settings below for cutting Real Wood Paper sheets on your Cricut Maker machine.

Cricut Settings to Cut Real Wood Paper:

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Fleece .010″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Medium Cardstock – 80#
Pressure Setting: Default

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Paper .016″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Poster Board
Pressure Setting: More Pressure

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Wood .025″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Deep Point
Cardstock Setting: Natural Wood Veneer
Pressure Setting: Default

PRO TIP: Make sure your blades are new/sharp. Wood is hard on blades. For best results use new blades.

Fleece Backed .010" Thick

Paper Backed .016" Thick

Wood Backed .025" Thick

*Maple sheets were used for this project.

If you have any questions or would like to share your projects with us, please Contact Us! We’d love to see your creations and possibly add them to our Client Showcase.

DIY Thin Wooden Bookmark

Every sheet of Real Wood Paper is unique and beautiful in its own way. It is also extremely versatile and can be used for so many different projects, creations and art. Really, the only limit is your own imagination.

Real Wood Paper Wooden Faith Bookmark Cricut

Today, we pulled out the Cricut Maker, used scraps leftover from a previous project and created a fun wooden bookmark. We needed a quick project so why reinvent the wheel and create our own SVG file when there are so many already available for use on the Internet? We found this lovely Faith Cross SVG at Hello SVG (Thank You!) and uploaded it to our Cricut Design Space.

After getting it to the perfect size, we grabbed a sheet of Cherry .010″ Fleece Back Short Grain Real Wood Paper and taped it down to the Cricut Mat with painters tape. If you happen to come across this project and want to use one of our 2 other thicknesses the settings are all listed below for you.

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Fleece .010″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Medium Cardstock – 80#
Pressure Setting: Default

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Paper .016″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Premium Fine Point
Cardstock Setting: Poster Board
Pressure Setting: More Pressure

Real Wood Paper Thickness: Wood .025″ Thick
Cricut Blade: Deep Point
Cardstock Setting: Natural Wood Veneer
Pressure Setting: Default

PRO TIP: Make sure your blades are new/sharp. Wood is hard on blades. For best results use new blades.

After it was cut and ready for assembly, the supplies used were:

Adhesive: Beacon’s 3-in-1
Layer 1 Wood: Aspen .025″ Wood Back Long Grain
Layer 2 Wood: Cherry .025″ Wood Back Short Grain
Misc. Supplies: Circle paper punch, ribbon

If you happen to make your own Real Wood Paper Bookmark, please share your creation with us! We would love to see it! You can contact and upload your photo, HERE.

Using Stain and Vinyl Decals on Real Wood Panels

We are often asked if you can stain our wood paper. Our products are Real Wood shaved from Real Trees so the answer is YES! No preparation needed. Go ahead and apply stain to our wood like you would any thing wood piece.

For this project we used our .025″ Thick Maple Wood Back Sheet. We applied an English Chestnut stain leaving the center the original color. We purchased a Vinyl Welcome Decal from a seller on Etsy because we love to support small business crafters! The jar is a small recycled basil pesto jar because we love to recycle! The jar top was wrapped with twine and glued with Gorilla Glue. Pretty flowers, ribbons and bows added to soften the hardness of the wood. Voila! DIY Wood Welcome Sign for your entryway.

3D Wood Star & Christmas Tree Topper

3D Wood Veneer Mandala

Wooden Cross Bookmarks Made With A Cricut

DIY Wood Bow for Gifts

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How To Cut Wood Bookmarks With A Cricut

Walnut Wood Back .025″ thick with Deep Point Blade

Birch Fleece Back .010″ Thick with Fine Point Blade

Cutting Wood and Vinyl With A Cricut

Cutting Real Wood Paper with a Cricut Machine

Real Wood Paper Thickness Explained

Fleece Backed (.010″ thick) Shop Here

Paper Backed (.016″ thick) Shop Here

Wood Backed (.025″ thick) Shop Here

Which Cricut Blade Do I Use?

Which Cricut Mat Do I Use?

Project Details

Cricut Settings to Cut Real Wood Paper:

Fleece Backed .010" Thick

Paper Backed .016" Thick

Wood Backed .025" Thick

DIY Thin Wooden Bookmark

Using Stain and Vinyl Decals on Real Wood Panels

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