Gorgeous Layered Christmas Mandala with the Cricut

It’s amazing what you can do with a few sheets of cardstock and your Cricut! This gorgeous Christmas mandala is designed to look like a vintage Christmas ornament.

Ready for another decor project for the 25 Days of Cricut Christmas? We’re on Day 20 and today we’re making a layered Christmas mandala designed to look like a retro Christmas ornament!

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These layered mandalas are super trendy to make with your Cricut right now, and you can see why! It’s amazing to see a few sheets of cardstock and some adhesives come together to make something so intricate. This mandala is beautiful hung from a little hook on the wall, framed, or even make two and put them back to back to create an even more 3D effect.

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Christmas Mandala Supplies

• Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker
• Blue LightGrip mat
• Fine Point Blade
• Cardstock in five colors
• Tweezers
• Glue stick
• Adhesive Micro-Dots (optional)
• Christmas mandala SVG file

Grab the SVG for this Project

Christmas Mandala Instructions

Upload the Christmas Mandala File Cricut Design Space

We will start by uploading the Christmas Mandala file to Cricut Design Space (see Uploading SVG Files to Cricut Design Space if you need help).

Resize the file for however you’re going to use the mandala. This mandala is pretty intricate, so I suggest not making it any smaller than 5″ tall—your Cricut will struggle to cut the smallest holes if you make it any smaller. I made mine 7″ tall. You can also change the colors if desired.

You’re ready to make the mandala! Click Make It in the upper right. In the Prepare Screen you’ll see all of your mats. Click continue.

Cut Your Cardstock for Your Christmas Village

On the Make Screen, you’ll set your material. I like using the “Cardstock – Intricate Cuts” setting for this project. A new blade is also helpful here—lots of tiny cuts!

Cut all the layers of the project. To remove the project from the mat, flip the mat over and carefully peel the mat away from the paper, using your hand to keep the paper flat on the table. Go slowly and make sure that all of the pieces of the mandala are releasing from the mat as you go.

Assemble the Christmas Mandala

Here are all the pieces of the mandala. You are going to stack them starting with the white piece at the bottom, and working from left to right.

For this mandala, I’ve alternated using glue and micro adhesive dots. Here’s how I alternated them (from top to bottom, left to right in the above photo):

• Light green piece on white piece: glue stick
• Pink piece on light green piece: adhesive dots
• Red piece on pink piece: glue stick
• Light green piece on pink piece: glue stick
• Dark green piece on light green piece: adhesive dots
• Pink piece on dark green piece: glue stick
• Red piece on pink piece: adhesive dots
• Pink piece on red piece: glue stick.

You can also choose to use zero adhesive dots and have a flat mandala (much easier and faster) or you can add the adhesive dots for every layer.

Once you’ve added all your layers together, let dry and your mandala is done!