The journey continues on revealing an ornament from my collection (see related post).

Day 13: 2010 Santa Clothespin

Materials:

• Wooden clothespin
• Felt: red and white
• 2.5-inch screw eyes
• Paints: red, black
• Hot glue
• Black ribbon for belt and hanger
• Black button
• Santa template

Instructions: Start by painting the clothespin from the top all the way down to leave ½-inch at the bottom. Paint the remaining ½-inch with black. Paint the top of the head white, but leave the face part the color of the clothespin.

Carefully screw in the screw eyes to the top of the clothespin.

Download the Santa template. Trace the templates onto the red felt and cut out the shapes. Use hot glug to put the clothes on Santa. After it’s dry, add Santa’s belt and button. Trace the arms from the given templates and cot out four arms for each Santa. To make the arms thicker than the clothing, glue two of the felt arms together and let dry. Attach the arms to each doll with a dab of glue.

Cut out Santa’s hat, beard and mustache from the white felt and attach to the head.

Once done, thread the ribbon through the screw eye and hang on the tree.

The journey continues on revealing an ornament from my collection (see related post).

Day 12: 2009 Santa Paintbrush

Materials:

• Small craft paintbrush
• Piece of craft paper or linen paper
• Paints: red, flesh, off white, black, white
• Delta Decorative Snow
• Twine
• Hot glue

Instructions: Start by painting the handle of the brush red for the hat. Cut a piece of craft paper or linen paper to wrap around the brass portion of the brush. Glue in place. Paint Santa’s face with the flesh paint. Add an off-white mustache and black eyes. For the nose, I used white paint, but put a small amount on the brush, then dabbed it on a paper towel to get out the most of the paint. Then brush on a slight nose. With white paint on your brush, speckle it on the red handle to add the splotches. Then, with the decorative snow, dab it on for the brim of Santa’s hat and the tip. Add twine as a hanger.

The journey continues on revealing an ornament from my collection (see related post).

Day 4: 2001 Santa Bulb

Materials:

• White Christmas lightbulb
• Red felt
• Quilt batting
• White pom pom
• Paints: flesh, white, black, red
• Pink blusher
• Hot glue
• Ribbon to hang the ornament

Instructions: Start by painting Santa’s face. Paint a small circle with the flesh color for the main area. Use black to add eyes and a mouth. Use red to add a nose, and white to add a moustache. Cut a cone shape from the red felt and form into the hat; tack shut with glue. Glue to the top of the light bulb. Cut a piece of quilt batting to form the brim of Santa’s hat. Glue a pom pom to the top. Add a ribbon to hang the ornament.

The journey continues on revealing an ornament from my collection (see related post).

Day 2: 1999 Soup Can Santa

Materials:

• Soup can lid
• Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic paints: pink angel, burgundy rose, red, black, white
• Delta Decorative Snow
• Delta Sparkle Glaze
• Silver jingle bell
• Red bead, 6mm, one
• Raffia strands
• Wire, 20 gauge, 8 inches
• Nail, hammer, glue, old scissors, pencil, paintbrushes

Instructions: Cut two small slices from edge of lid to form a square corner for top of hat. Use hammer and nail to punch one hold in each side at bottom of hat. Paint face area with pink angel (or flesh colored) paint. Paint mouth and eyes with black, highlight eyes with white. Dry brush cheeks with burgundy rose. Paint hat on front and back with red. Glue bead nose on face. Wrap wire around pencil. Twist wire ends in holes.

I used the pencil eraser and the ends of the paintbrushes to dab on the decorative snow to the front and back of the Santa face. It worked well to just play with it until it looked fluffy. Pipe snow for the hair, beard, mustache, eyebrows, hatband and tip of hat. Apply Sparkle Glaze to snow. Tie raffia into a bow, glue to one side. Tie bell to raffia strand.