CCC Day 20 ❄️ Santa Stop Here Door Hanger

It’s already time for the final project of the Christmas Craft Countdown!

I hope you have enjoyed all the crafts that have been shared over the past 20 days.

For today’s project, we’re making a “Santa Stop Here” door hanger sign which is a lovely Christmas Eve project to make with your kids.

Materials supply list

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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• Cricut machine
• Light blue Cricut cutting mat
• Coloured Card (I use 160-240gsm weight of card plus a little bit of thicker gold card)
• Collall All Purpose Glue
• Needle Tip Applicator Bottle
• Cricut pens (optional)

Video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

Written tutorial (with photos!)

Here’s how to make your very own Santa Stop Here papercraft project using a Cricut machine!

Step 1) Download the cutting file(s) & unzip the downloaded folder

Before you upload the SVG to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that it comes in.

• How to unzip a folder on Windows computer
• How to unzip a folder on a Mac
• How to unzip a folder on an iPad/iPhone
• How to unzip a folder on an Android device

Step 2) Upload the SVG file into Design Space

Open up Cricut Design Space and start a new Project.

Click “Upload” and then find your unzipped version of the downloaded files for this project.

Select the file called svg-santa-stop-here-craftwithsarah.svg

Make sure you upload the file which starts svg- in the filename!!

This is how it should look after you have uploaded the file:

All the layers should appear “on top of each other” as per the image above. If you see all the layers next to each other instead, that means you’ve accidentally uploaded the wrong file type. If that’s the case, click “Cancel” on the bottom-right of the screen and try again.

After uploading, the design will show in your “Recently Uploaded Images”.

Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

The design should load in at a good size for putting over your door handle, but you can resize it if you wish by using the width/height boxes at the top of the screen.

The default size it loads in at is 3.656 inches wide and 9.281 inches tall.

TIP: Make sure the padlock icon above the width/height boxes is CLOSED before you resize. If it appears “open”, click it with your mouse to close it.

Step 3) Add a name to the bottom

Click on the door hanger and press “Ungroup” to separate out all of the layers.

There are two different ways to add your name.

The first is by getting the Cricut to write the name with a pen. The second is by cutting out the name (this is the one I prefer!).

Here’s how to add the name with the pen.

Go into the “Text” tool and type out the name.

Select the name and then go into the fonts dropdown.

Under “Filters”, tick the “Writing” box.

IMPORTANT STEP – make sure that the “Operation” dropdown is set to Pen and NOT “Cut”.

If your word ends up with lots of space between the letters, you can fix this by Ungrouping the word and then move each letter closer until they are touching.

After moving them closer, select all the letters and “Attach” them together.

Put your name over the white rectangle on the bottom of the sign and get it where you want it to go.

Select the text layer and the white rectangle and “Attach” them together.

This is what tells the Cricut to do the writing on that piece of card.

The second method of adding a name is to cut the name from the white rectangle instead of drawing it.

To do this, instead of selecting a “Draw” font after typing out the name, type “Stencil” into the fonts search box.

Stencil fonts have little “join lines” between the middles of letters (e.g. ‘o’, ‘a’, etc) to stop the little pieces in the middle from falling out when we cut it.

Choose one of the stencil fonts and position the name over the white rectangle.

Select the text layer and the white rectangle and “Attach” them.

This will change how the text looks, so instead of being filled in with a colour it will look like an outline on the white rectangle.

Step 4) Cut out the layers

When you’re happy with how the project is looking in Design Space, click “Make It” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the layers.

To change the paper size, go into the dropdowns over on the left side of the screen and choose the paper size that you want to use. You need to change it for every single colour.

To save space on your cardstock, you can move things around by clicking and dragging. Make sure when you’re moving things about that nothing overlaps because otherwise, it won’t cut out properly.

TIP: New to cutting cardstock with a Cricut? Check out this in-depth tutorial which goes through every step of the process, including tips for getting the best quality cuts from your Cricut.

Step 5) Stick the Santa sign together

Glue all of the layers together to create the finished Santa stop here sign.

My favourite glue to use on papercraft projects is Collall All Purpose Glue.

It’s SO good because it doesn’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

To make it even easier to apply glue to layered card projects, I highly recommend getting some of these needle tip applicator bottles to put the glue into.

The nozzles are REALLY tiny which makes them perfect for putting glue in the pieces of cardstock that make up this Santa sign.

Once all of the layers are stuck together, be sure to let the glue dry fully before putting the hanger onto your door to welcome Santa to your home on Christmas Eve.

Happy crafting,
Sarah x