Hi Makers!

This holiday season, the Snapmaker community amazed us with their creativity! Users from around the world crafted stunning masterpieces, from intricate laser engravings to imaginative 3D prints, showcasing festive warmth and boundless talent.

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Christmas Gallery Giveaway and share their incredible works. Let’s see how they lit up Christmas with Snapmaker!

 

Tim Maxwell Think this was the first time I used a duplicate mode. Awfully nice for plowing through such a large print. Happy holidays, y’all.

Marius Ebbesen With a new addition to the family this Christmas, I wanted to with add a girl to my santa collection to keep the santa family up to date.

I made the previous three figures by hand, but with the A350 and rotary module in house this year, I wanted to try machining it.

3D scanning the previous figures served as a starting point for modelling the girl in Blender, before importing to Luban and running four passes (6,35mm flat end roughing pass, 3,175 flat end medium pass and two finishing passes with 2mm ball end). The result was really nice with only a little bit of sanding before assembly.

Fun project and super satisfying to see the nearly finished parts emerge in the rotar.

Marius Ebbesen Some 3D printed ornaments I added to the Christmas decorations this year, while testing printing with ABS. The layered snowman lantern is my favourite

Chris DeLima Quick set of cardboard Christmas coasters done with the 10W laser and clear coated for a friend’s bar for Christmas.

A couple gift card holder ornaments for our friend’s kids for Christmas. 3 layers of 2mm craft wood cut with the 10W laser and a coat of stain.

Marius Alin Something I made fast and simple with the SM 2.0, 10w laser

Rodney Shank This Christmas shadow box features a snowman shape with a winter town scene. This was made from 300g cardstock cut with the laser. 8 layers separated so the light give a shadow effect. The outside box is cedar.

Leslie Hahn Using the A350, 10w laser and acrylic paint I created Santa’s sleigh guided by my Border Collies. This is 4 feet long and about 1 foot high.

Leslie Hahn Made a wooden wreath on my Snapmaker 2.0 using the 10W laser. This took awhile to cut all the pieces and put together, but am very happy with the finished product.

Leslie Hahn Five foot tall nutcracker made on the Snapmaker 2.0 A350 with the 10w laser.

Leslie Hahn Christmas tree stand – made the box and the decorations using my Snapmaker 2.0 and the 10w laser.

Michael Winkler I have made another project. A Santa Clause mail box as a christmas ornament. The model I have designed in Blender. The print was done on my Artisan with Luban. Finishing was painting with acrylic color. Happy Holidays!

Michael Winkler I have created a “Angel christmas tree topper”. The angel was printed on my Artisan in PLA. I printed the angel upside down and slighty angled to have the front side with as little support as needed. The angel is approximately 250mm heigh. Approximately 11 hours printing time. I cranked up speed, reduced infill to 5% and used 0,24mm layer heights. Print was done with Luban. Afterwards i painted it with acrylic color to give it kind of a “stone-like” look. The finishing was adding some glitter. The model came out nicely. The original model is from CGTrader (royalte free no ai licence). I have adapted it in Blender. (I did some minor corrections with sculpting and used boolean operations to create the whole needed to be able to mount the angel later on our christmas tree.) My wife (contractor in this project) and me are happy about the result.

Chris Grime Christmas ornaments for the kids made on the Ray. Designed in Luban and coloured with paint pens.

Chris Coldbreath Lots of Christmas makes, all produced with the Ray. Prototypes of new napkin rings. A few tweaks to make to the files before production.

Marcin Zybowski A350 10w 5mm Basswood

Alberto Boz Rocking Snowmen. Printed in PLA and painted with acrylic colors, which adhere perfectly to the material. A great gift idea or decoration for the holiday season!

Alberto Boz Snowflake Christmas Ornament. A three-dimensional snowflake decoration for the Christmas tree. Snowflakes printed with glow-in-the-dark green PLA and white PLA.

Henry Martinez A new 3D printed “LEGO” style Christmas wreath for the kid’s room door! Printed on the J1S with PLA+ filaments from IIID Max, Overture and SunLu.

Santa’s workshop built seven marble mazes for those who are being nice!

Matej Markuš My Christmas Artisan decorated with small products. It’s something great to make on this machine. Happy and Merry Christmas to all creative people (of course, also those who are not creative but want to become one) You are all great.

Arjen Osinga Happy holidays!

Frans van Hoesel My Christmas Calendar. Every day a fresh puzzle. The candle is there to prevent you from stressing out too much during the solve of the puzzle.

Dustin Todd Slate coasters made with the 1.6W laser and some clear spray paint for increased contrast and scratch protection; first batches going out as Christmas gifts to family/friends. Custom designed the aviation themed ones in Photoshop, featuring collections for the US Army Helicopter Fleet and Lockheed Skunk Works Aircraft. Other collections include The Witcher Season 1 & 2 episode logos, and am working on some Star Wars Spacecraft ones as well.

Dustin Todd May the Force be with you these holidays! Star Wars snowflakes.

Dustin Todd Getting ready for a company Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza. I hear a guy named Hanz Gruber will be there. We are going to make this the best Christmas of his life! Die Hard Advent Calendar. Printed with the single extruder – SOOOO many manual filament swaps. Total print time was over 30hrs, not including the swap times about every 40mins.

Dustin Todd Christmas Bauble Ornament Candy Bowl. 3D printed in various Polymaker Silk PLAs.

LED candle light shadow boxes.

Christmas Articulating Dragon. St. Nicholas Day gift for the kiddo, now a part of our annual Christmas decorations/toys. 3D printed in Hatchbox PLA “True Gold”

Matthew Ryan Christmas is about family those here and those here in spirit whose love and sacrifice made us who we are. White ceramic tile edited in luban. Art by Loki custom engraving. Made on snapmaker 2.0 a350 10W laser 80% power 1250mm speed.

Peter Denis Christmas Decorations. The Grinch and Santa I made when I first got my snappy. The tree is new.

Kevin Christensen Using the A350 10W laser, and acrylic paint (applied with an airbrush), I made a Christmas ornament to celebrate my baby girl’s first Christmas. I sealed it with airbrushed UV cured resin. The image was designed by Meta AI (but mom and dad were missing arms so I had to draw those in).

Andrew Boucher Acacia wood chopping board turned into a mince pie serving platter.

Brian Scully Christmas coasters on black slate. Designed in Bing AI, put through imag-r. Lightburn Stucki. 1500 @ 30% for 10w laser.

Jeffrey Edgett Need a clever way to package small Christmas Gifts?

Introducing my Christmas Ornament with Storage.

With a quick twist, this traditional Christmas ball ornament opens to reveal a surprise inside!

What kind of surprise? Well that’s up to you. Gift cards? Money? Candies? An engagement ring? Keys to a new car?

If it is a gift card you are giving, I’ve got you covered with inserts that hold either 1 or 3 gift cards. If it is keys to a new car, well we might need to become better friends I have included a smaller design that won’t fit gift cards but may hold more diminutive items. Both designs are available on Printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1102815-christmas-ornament-with-storage (including Autodesk Fusion and STEP files so you can model your own inserts!) The dark blue ornaments below were printed on my Snapmaker J1s using Polymaker metallic blue filament. The caps on those were painted with Rustoleum Metallic Silver paint. The reddish-colored ornament was printed on my Creality Ender 3 V3KE with some free Giant Arm filament I had received. The cap to that one was printed with Sunlu Gold Silk filament. For both models, I would suggest utilizing breakaway or dissolvable supports to get the cleanest interior finish.

James Albert A little tree ornament made with the CNC and 10W laser on my a350t.

Birgit Querida Dnarbellih In the first picture you can see the finished product, in the second picture what it originally looked like. Only the plastic stand with LED light chain without picture was used. Glazed yesterday after 2 days of work creating the file.

Lilian Chamontin A few rotative laser gifts for Christmas. Also printed two TPU fixtures to hold the glass steady (115mm of diameter) as you can see in the video.

Negalein Christmas Gift for my family, 80 cm high lighthouse for my brother-in-law.

MarkJ My attempt. About 3.5″ (85mm) ornament with the 20W laser. Five layers; purple heart, mahogany, birch, walnut, and cherry woods. Designed in Inkscape.

Wyphorn I have collected at least one part of every function. Printing, CNC and lasering.

Wyphorn I got some urgent order from my emperor for her colleagues as christmas Gift.

Skymaster20 I´ve made an advent calendar for my girlfriend using Paper, MDF-Sheets and an Artisan with the 10W and 40W Laser.

Drew ~3″ (75mm) wood cut ornaments from 5mm pine plywood, finished with spray glitter and polyurethane on an Artisan with the 40W laser.

Lizziegolob Can lids I laser engraved for gifts!

GarbageMan Nativity Scene I found on Thingiverse, I’ve just started using my snapmaker so I am still in the learning phase and just dabbling in infill/slicing/walls/etc. I used a cheap PLA filament that glows in the dark from Amazon and it came out better than I expected. This is gonna make a great gift for my daughters teacher with a card!

Skreelink For friends and coworkers I’ve been printing a few black ornaments, then swapping to the IR laser to engrave custom images they send to me onto them.

Just to toss it in, was the “magic” ornament I did. Glow in the dark PLA with IR laser. From a distance it looks plain white, but when it glows, you can see the engraving clearly.

Marius.kif I had no time for new projects, so here is one from the last Christmas. Made 4 of these for friends and family.

tyeth Christmas Presents are gonna be late this year, got to get used to the rotary + CNC first, but a couple of spinning christmas tree ornaments should tide people over until then…

wcmbk I’m printing ornaments for my Christmas tree – using the multicolour function of my new dual extruder – an early Christmas gift for myself! Very fun and flexible.

HexaTrick I’m HexaTrick and I wanted to share with you this model that I designed and printed. It will become a Christmas gift for a friend of mine who is passionate about computers and specifically the Nvidia brand. Another one will follow, which I will publish for a console enthusiast. I decided to model the famous RTX 4090 Founders Edition in this custom clock version. If you like it, I would love to hear what you think and if you believe it will be an appreciated Christmas gift.

HexaTrick This is the other gift: I mentioned in the last post, for my friend who loves consoles. It’s a mini console, an Xbox Series X custom clock. It maintains the same proportions as the original but in a smaller version and is completely hollow inside, making it a nice storage box. I decided to call it ‘Xbox Series ClocX’. What do you think? Would you also give it as a Christmas gift to a console enthusiast friend?

HexaTrick I wanted to share with you the Christmas gift I made for my parents. The gift is divided into two parts: the first part consists of all the classic statues of a nativity scene in a minimal style. I found this model online and couldn’t resist printing them as I am sure they will fit perfectly in my parents’ home. The second part consists of stackable boxes with vertical stripes that I designed myself. In this case, they were needed to house the nativity statues, but I trust they will be used all year round in various rooms of the house. Merry Christmas!

RiverCrossDiorama Custom-made Christmas wood decoration to attach to a tree. Thanks to Snapmaker Artisan laser!

insomniac_designer This is a Christmas themed diorama/music box I made last December. The setting is a videogame store called “Babbage’s” during the Christmas holiday season. This particular store was usually found inside malls during the 90s and early 2000s and was one of my favorite stores to visit as a kid. The diorama has four independently working TVs displaying videogame commercials and gameplay, Christmas lights, store lights, and lo-fi/chillwave music playing in the background.

Linh FDM Printed 25cm tall dual colors Christmas Tree – created with Snapmaker.

Robota_Make This year I wanted some simple yet cozy decorations for the house, and what better way to get them than making them myself?

So, I designed these geometric and stylized Christmas tree tealight holders in 3D and printed them with my Snapmaker 2.0. They have clean lines and a modern look, perfect for adding a unique touch to my holiday decor. What do you think?

Merry Christmas to the whole community!

Malachai80 Just a little addition to the presents, instead of that little bought ornamaents, something 3dprinted for hanging onto the christmas tree. I prefer these over the bought ones. For what do we have machines if not for that?

auggieben I wanted to share the projects I worked on for some of this years Christmas presents. I decided to use the 10W and the 2W IR laser to make jigsaw puzzles from photos of my kids weddings this year. Both photos were cropped to fit a 12″x12″ (304mm x 304mm) piece of black cast acrylic. The jigsaw pattern was cut first using the 10W laser, then the 2W IR laser etched the photos onto the acrylic. The Quick Swap kit really came in handy for this job. I wanted to use Luban for the entire project, but it struggled when processing the pictures so I switched to Lightburn for that portion. We’ll enjoy putting these together when the family gathers for the holidays.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Here’s to more fun, creativity, and awesome projects together in the new year! 

Make something wonderful!

The Snapmaker Team