A blackboard Christmas recipe sign with colorful baking images and text describing sugar cookies.

Create a dIY christmas recipe sign

Sharing Christmas craft projects is the highlight of my year. Today’s craft, DIY Christmas signs for recipes, is my favorite project so far this holiday season! Just last week you all went nuts for my Hallmark Christmas Movie blanket SVG and I can’t wait to see what you will do today!

I decided to apply the novel concept of vinyl wood signs as a Christmas craft/gift this year. New to Cricut? Check out my help section!

I absolutely love how these DIY Christmas signs, made from my favorite holiday recipes, turned out (this could also be a year-round gift for treasured family recipes too).

You can easily plug and play your own recipes in or use mine! For this project, I am giving you FOUR FREE SVG recipe cut files to use for your own DIY Christmas sign projects! Download below.

These sweet holiday cookie recipes pretty much get made every year in my house:

Gingerbread men and women
Snowball cookies
Sugar cookies
Fudge

Because we are making a sign that will hang in the kitchen during the holidays, it’s important to make it visually appealing, so I created some super adorable graphics.

Most of you will likely use your own recipes but the SVG graphics can add a lot of fun to any vinyl sign you create. Not sure the best place to buy vinyl? I can help with that!

Scroll down to the supply section for my free Christmas recipe sign templates.

A blackboard sign with colorful baking images and white text describing a gingerbread cookies recipe.

Supplies

Wood sign (depending on your chosen recipe and its length, make sure your sign is a decent size)
Vinyl in choice colors. I recommend white for most of the wording and complementary colors as well. You will also want to use vinyl for the graphics like the mixer, desserts, utensils, etc..I love to use glitter vinyl for the details!
Transfer tape
Cricut scraper
Cricut cutting machine (or any cutting machine that works with SVG files)
SVG recipe templates – download all four of mine below via the form below

An overhead image of a black sign with a fudge recipe in white text and colorful baking images. The sign is surrounded by baking ingredients and tools on a white workstation.

Get access to the Christmas receipt sign freebie templates below

Download these free templates by signing up via the form below. If you are already a member, log in and find it by searching ‘recipes’. Need help entering the vault? Read this helpful post.

DIY Christmas Sign Directions

A computer screenshot of Christmas baking templates and text.

Download your templates (via the red button above) and load the SVG cut files into your cut software.
Measure your sign and adjust the size of your overall graphic
Attach together any text or images that can be grouped for easier cutting and weeding.
Load your vinyl and cut all your pieces out.
Weed your vinyl (Cricut Brightpad can help you weed with ease!)
Use your transfer tape to burnish (rub) your vinyl and lift it off the plastic backing.
Make sure you have the image of the whole recipe SVG on your computer screen while doing the next step.
Start at the top and add your vinyl piece by piece. To keep things straight, work from the top down, not by color, or you may run out of room on the sign.
When you finish adding all your pieces fill in any unwanted spaces with small snowflake designs (included in the snowball recipe SVG).

A snowball cookies recipe in white text on a black tent sign alongside a light blue standup mixer.

This project only took me about 3 hours from start to finish. What I love most is not only can this make a last-minute Christmas gift but also a very unique and one-of-a-kind present that your loved one is guaranteed not to receive from anyone else! Or you can just make some for yourself to deck your halls, which is what I did!

DIY Christmas Recipe Sign

Active Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour

Difficulty: Easy

Create a DIY Christmas recipe sign as a unique gift or a fun decoration to deck your halls! This tutorial will walk you through all you need to know.

Materials

Tools

Cricut

Instructions

Step 1: Download your templates load the SVG cut files into your cut software.

Step 2: Measure your sign and adjust the size of your overall graphic.

Step 3: Attach together any text or images that can be grouped for easier cutting and weeding.

Step 4: Load your vinyl and cut all your pieces out.

Step 5: Weed your vinyl.

Step 6: Use your transfer tape to burnish (rub) your vinyl and lift it off the plastic backing.

Step 7: Start at the top and add your vinyl piece by piece.

Step 8: When you finish adding all your pieces fill in any unwanted spaces with small snowflake designs.

I’d LOVE to see how your DIY Christmas signs turns out. Join my Facebook group and show off your skills!

A black sign with colorful baking images and a recipe for fudge in white text standing on a white marble countertop next to a red paper poinsettia and light blue standup mixer.

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A blackboard sign with a recipe for sugar cookies in white text alongside colorful baking images resting against a red, green, yellow and black plaid blanket.

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DIY Christmas Signs: Custom Recipe Sign with Vinyl: Free SVG Files for Cricut or Silhouette