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Tips for Selling Personalized Ornaments

Tips for Selling Personalized Ornaments

Hi everyone,

Here's the latest with Cuttle.

How to Make and Sell Personalized Ornaments

We interviewed Bail Ansari and Gwynn Carla Jones, two makers who each sold thousands of dollars of ornaments created with Cuttle’s Family Names Tree template.

Bail shared her lightweight approach posting on Facebook Groups, taking payments with Venmo, and arranging for porch pickup.

Gwynn shared how she ran a giveaway contest to drum up excitement and get customers coming to her shop.

They also shared their tips for materials, pricing, and packaging.

Whether you’re just starting your laser business or growing it, you’ll find a lot of actionable advice and inspiration in these interviews. Watch the video!

Thank you Bail and Gwynn for sharing your experience!

For more from Bail, check out Just One More Project where she has free tutorials and hosts a supportive community of laser makers.

For more from Gwynn, join her Facebook Group where she posts weekly videos about how she does paint parties, DIY kits, ornament bars, and more.

Video Tutorial: How to Share Projects with Cuttle

In Federico’s livestream from last week, he explains how you can share your projects with the Cuttle community. He shows how we can modify the Read Me view of a project and make it public so it's ready to share with others. He also demonstrates how we can find, make, and remix lots of cool projects made using Cuttle on the Explore tab.

Federico hosts a live stream on our Facebook Group every Thursday at 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET. See you there!

Video Tutorial: How to Make 3D Laser Cut Name Signs

In Federico’s livestream from two weeks ago, he answered Terry-Ann’s request for a laser-cut name signs with an inset look.

He explains three different approaches, using the flatten, weld and score, and layered stack modifiers.

Made with Cuttle: Cutout Flipbook art toy by Traceloops

We love this limited edition Flipbook by artist and animator Matthias Brown, aka Traceloops.

Matthias shared his workflow about how he uses the Cuttle Editor and a Cricut machine to create physical animations. Read that interview here.

Other Improvements and Fixes 🐞

  • Improved the reliability of the Outline Stroke, Expand and Contract modifiers. This fixes some glitch issues with the Family Names Christmas Tree Ornament. Thank you for the bug report Yolanda C!
  • On the Cat Face Ornament, if you uncheck Santa Hat it will now show the year to be engraved on the backer. You used to only be able to include the year if you had the Santa Hat. Thank you Sandra H for the suggestion!
  • Added the new “Text Spaced Around Circle” example shape.
  • Fixed a bug that led to Remove Overlaps ignoring axis aligned segments near the edge of the input geometry bounding box.
  • Scripting: Added path.angleAtTime() method to Path.
Toby Schachman

Toby Schachman