Tuesday 3 November 2020

Santa House Christmas Tree Decoration

I think this has become my basic “go to” Christmas tree decoration design for 2020, after having already put a snowman and two Halloween ones together. 

These is the fourth in the series featuring wooden Hobbycraft Santa embellishments (£1 for a pack of 6).

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I created the house shape first using small, coloured craft sticks (Hobbycraft £1 for a pack of 50), and Aleene’s glitter snow on the roof and shelf.  I have found that the colour from the craft sticks occasionally bleeds into the snow, but a quick flick of white acrylic paint usually fixes it pretty easily.  I added iridescent, micro fine glitter to Santa’s beard, top and hat bobble for extra sparkle.

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A plastic snowflake was added to the top of the roof and a ho, ho, ho made using my trusty old Dymo label maker ………

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……. followed by clusters of white dots here and there made using a white gel pen, and, as an after thought, a few tiny in the background. 


Finally I sprinkled some tiny, iridescent polystyrene balls around Santa’s feet secured with PVA glue.

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On the back I simply glued a small baille to hold a thread to hang the decoration from.