Wooden Snowman Gift Tag

As you know when ever I am out and about charity shop shopping I just can’t resist a children’s wooden domino because they are usually such a cheap way of obtaining good quality craft materials.  Plain wooden rectangle blanks are so expensive to buy, so a box of 25 for between 50p to £1.50 is always a no brainer.  I recently found a box of square dominoes with a green gingham backing can you believe,  again 50p.  The holy grail for me at the moment would be to find a game that uses wooden triangles ……… for Christmas trees. Any ideas?

Anyway, while sorting out my craft drawers I found this box of large dominoes, to be honest I have no recollection of where they came from at all, but they are quite a bit bigger than I ones I usually find at ……… and I immediately thought Snowman gift tags.

…….. using a craft stick as a brim for the snowmen's hats.

Then started the long process of painting the dominoes white, using a white Wilko match pot – it took three coats both sides, but fortunately the paint dries pretty fast.

I edged the craft sticks using a black Sharpie pen before gluing them onto the painted dominoes to make sure every part was coloured, I didn't want a thin strip of wood showing on the underneath of the hat, if you know what I mean.

The hats were all duly painted, this time with a two coats from a black match pot, followed by two coats of Wilko quick drying clear varnish for a really “professional” finish ………

A little time consuming, but while waiting for everything to dry I made and cooked the snowmen’s noses using orange Fimo.

When I was dry I was able to add confetti holly leaves and small red flat back gems to decorate the snowman’s hat.  I used E6000 glue, as I wasn’t sure how PVA would hold on the varnish.

Then came the fun part when the characters of each snowman begin to show themselves, using ?mm and ?mm black, flat back gems for the eyes and mouth and the Fimo noses.  Soooooo cute!

I forgot about the scarves, made using a saddle stitch grosgrain ribbon and stuck into place using glue gun glue.

The last thing to do then was add a hook eye screw at the top of the snowman’s hat for a gold hanging thread.

These turned out even better than they looked in my head .........

....... so I think I am going to make another batch to use up all the other dominoes in the box. 

I think I may have some even large dominoes somewhere too, so I might experiment with them while I am at it.