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>> Hi and welcome to a new D.I.Y. tutorial from the 30 days of Christmas serie
today I will show how to create some lovely felt Christmas tree decorations
just like these ones.
For this project we will need:
some felt in white, black, brown, red and orange,
the shapes we want to create drawn on a paper,
some hot glue,
an acetate sheet,
some bakers twine,
a pencil,
scissors,
a marker,
some cotton string,
a needle
and some buttons.
First of all let's draw on a sheet of paper the shapes we want to create
I chose a snowman,
a gingerbread man and a gingerbread house.
We can now cut the shapes out.
Now we need to transfer the shapes on the acetate
so we use the paper bits as a mask
and we trace the outline with a marker
Once we traced the outline we can start cutting out the shapes
which will be on the inside of our decorations
and will make them more solid and firm.
Now we need to trace our shapes on the felt too
so we use the acetate as a mask
and we proceed like this.
Considered that the felt will cover the acetate
it's important to trace the shape
on one side at first
then flip it over in order to allow the two half to correspond perfectly.
Let's cut out the shapes from the felt
and let's start decorating them using the needle and the cotton string
to created a stitched line on all the contour this way.
At the end let's tie the string to hold it in place
and let's cut out the excess.
On a felt bit let's now draw the eyes of the snowman
using a marker
and let's cut them out like this.
From a tiny black felt bit let's cut out the pupils
Let's cut a triangle from the orange felt
which will be the nose of our snowman, like this.
It's time to assemble the details and finish our decoration
First of all let's adhere the acetate on the felt with hot glue, like this.
Let's cut out a bit of twine
and let's create a hook to hang the decoration
by hot glueing it on the acetate
Let's glue the felt back too
and our snowman body is done!
We can now hot glue the eyes, like this.
Let's glue all the other details too
the nose and the hat I cut from the black felt
Let's add some buttons
and using a black pen
let's draw the mouth like this.
Let's repeat the same procedure for the other decorations
As you see for the gingerbread man
instead of drawing the mouth with the pen
I sew it using the cotton string.
Here are our handmade Christmas decorations
cute and fun, you can use them for your Christmas tree or as a gift
That's all for today, I hope you liked this tutorial
and if so don't forget to share it with your friends
I wish you a wonderfull day and I'll talk to you in my next video...ciao!