Christmas in March - Old-Fashioned Felt and Sequin Ornaments
24 March
Welcome back to 12 Months of Christmas Ornaments! We are now in our third month and today we are making an ornament for Christmas in March.
If you are new, in December last year I decided to create a new series on the blog to continue creating for Christmas all year. It happens to me every year... I run out of time to make all the Christmas crafts on my list. If you're a creative soul like me (and I assume you are since you read my blog) 😉 then I bet it happens to you too.
We've all heard of Christmas in July, right? Well, why not Christmas all year?!
Below you will find both a written and video tutorial for this month's ornaments. Be sure to watch the video because it goes into a lot more detail than I am able to in a blog post.
Christmas in March - Old-Fashioned Felt and Sequin Ornaments
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You can see January and February's ornament tutorials below:
There is a Facebook share thread where we can share our completed ornaments here: Share Your Ornaments Here, it's always so fun to see everyone's interpretations of each ornament! There is also a question thread here: Ask any questions here, where you can ask any questions you have.
Paper Size - Actual Size (NOT shrink to fit, NOT 100%)
Print Black and White
Pin each piece to the correct color of felt and cut it out with your fabric scissors. NOTE: Santa should be cut out as a whole and then each piece is also cut separately.
Cut Santa, his mittens, mouth, and nose from red felt.
Cut his beard, mustache, hat pom-pom, jacket and pants trim, and hat brim from white felt.
Cut his boots and belt from black felt.
Cut his face from peach felt.
Cut his cheeks from pink felt.
Cut his belt buckle from gold felt.
TIP: if you have trouble cutting out the tiny circle cheeks, you can use a sharp hole punch but it will take some brute force 😏.
Step 2 - Glue Santa together.
Glue each of the individual pieces that you cut out to the Santa body you cut from red felt. I used Aleene's Felt & Foam Tacky Glue but regular tacky glue will work too.
Since some of the pieces layer over the top of others, glue the pieces in the following order.
Glue FIRST: Coat trim, hat pom-pom, belt, boots, and face including the cheeks and nose (you'll have to mock him up in order to know exactly where his face, cheeks, and nose go)
Glue SECOND: Mittens, beard, belt buckle, mouth, and pant cuffs
Glue THIRD: Hat trim, mustache, and sleeve cuffs
OPTIONAL: You can add a piece of white paper doily or a scrap of lace to his beard for a fun look.
Step 3 - Add sequins.
Use regular tacky glue to add the sequins to Santa. You can use them anywhere you like, I put white sequins on the jacket, hat trim, and pom-pom and red sequins on his mittens. NOTE: my sequin packet included hearts, I didn't use those, just the round sequins.
I started by adding them to the cut-out pieces before gluing them to Santa but decided later that it was easier to add the sequins after all the pieces are adhered.
Step 4 - Add the eyes.
Use black embroidery floss to stitch some eyes (or follow the steps for the angel below to add paper eyes)
Step 5 - Finish the ornament.
Add a loop to the top with red embroidery floss to hang the ornament. This is a small loop so that a traditional wire ornament hook can be used. I think this looks better than a long thread hanger, but you can certainly use that if you want to.
Glue the back of the ornament to the front. You can add a little bit of stuffing if desired to puff him up a bit.
Step 6 - Sign and date!
Don't forget to sign and date your ornaments for future reminiscing! If you like to embroider, you could add your signature that way but do that before you glue the back to the front.
Tada! He's done!
How to Make an Old-Fashioned Angel Felt and Sequin Ornament
Follow the same steps that you did for the Santa ornament with the exceptions noted below.
The gluing order is demonstrated here.
I used gold sequins in my angel's hair, but you can use whatever color you like depending on the color you've chosen for the hair on yours.
You can embroider the eyes like I demonstrated for the Santa ornament or use some black cardstock and a hole punch to create eyes following the directions below.
Punch a half circle and throw it away... that's not the part we are using for the eyes. 😂
Now punch a crescent moon shape over the top of the half-circle punch.
Do this twice. These are the eyes.
You can see that orienting the eyes in this direction creates a very peaceful look (appropriate for an angel). Scroll back up to the snowman and the same eyes were used in the other direction which creates a happy, joyful look!
I cut a little heart from red scrapbook paper for the mouth. You can embroider a mouth, cut another eye shape from red for a mouth, leave the mouth off, etc.
NOT SHOWN: add a little embroidery stitch between the candle and the flame for a wick if desired.
For the angel, the weight of all her hair makes her neck a little wobbly so I stabilized mine with a piece of pipe cleaner sandwiched between the front and back pieces.
I chose to leave out the stuffing on the angel.
Aww, your sweet angel is done!
I loved designing and making these ornaments. They are really fun and easy, the most difficult part is cutting out all the pieces!
Thise are SO cute! All the finishing touches really take them over the top. There are so manygreat ideas on these.
ReplyDeleteThank you Vikki :)
DeleteThese are really really cute, Tania! The sequins and doily detail on Santa's beard add even more cuteness factor.
ReplyDeleteThank you Marie!
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