I’m really not sure about these decorations, which is why I have only made four of them, perhaps they just don’t have enough fiddle fart for me!
There’s not a lot to them, I started off by painting wooden oblong building blocks (part of a charity shop find) with two coats of red acrylic paint.
I then added a black belt around the middle made using a short length of black paper and then applied two coats of Wilko quick drying clear gloss varnish ……
….. before adding a white, textured, 3D effect paint around the bottom for fur.
The buckle is an MDF shape, that I coloured with one of my new silver chrome maker pens. I only put buttons on one of the decorations as I wasn’t really sure about them re: proportion and I’m thinking about it, I’m not even sure Santa actually has any on his jacket?
The last stage was to put a tiny, silver eye screw in the top of the block with a short length of silver thread to it hang by.
DOH……. having just Googled images of Santa, I now know where I’ve gone wrong with these decorations and why I am not that keen on them, not only do I find that he doesn’t usually show his buttons but that I have completely forgotten about the fur trim that goes down the front of his coat, doh, doh, doh …… what am I like?
If I can find some largish wooden dominoes pieces on my travels I might have another go, but this time making gift tags, just to prove I know what Santa actually looks like!