Thanks Toni for having me over for Christmas Wonderful!I’m so honored and happy to be among such talented designers and crafters.
Today I’d love to share with you and your readers these adorable Vintage Snowman I made.
I used crumpled tissue paper, glue and then Gesso
, to make the styrofoam balls look like actual papier machè (a technique of my own).
, to make the styrofoam balls look like actual papier machè (a technique of my own).
They have funny sheet music hats, embellished with vintage lace, wool and remnants of all kind, plus sweet rusty snowflakes and bells. I adooore that cheery jingle jingle!
To make the hats, just adhere sheet music on cardboard with paper glue, cut out a triangle, make a cone, and staple it to secure on the rear. Then finish off with lace, remnants etc and put on the head of your snowmen using hot glue.
To make these chaps perfectly wintr-y, I also incorporated wool yarn and scraps of mohair left from my handmade bears into their collars and to finish the hats off.
To make these chaps perfectly wintr-y, I also incorporated wool yarn and scraps of mohair left from my handmade bears into their collars and to finish the hats off.
My snowmen’s noses are made with little tree branches, sharpened and inserted in the styrofoam balls. You can add one or two bigger ones under the head to create the bodies, and insert bare branches as arms. Paint happy faces with acrylics and finally, a generous sprinkle of clear glitter to make them sparkle!
… and voilà! Ready to spread Christmas cheer!!
Happy crafting and have a wonderful Holiday Season, everyone!
Monica x
Monica is a full-time italian artist and photographer, avid crafter and lover of all things beautiful. To learn more about her creative life, see more of her work and enjoy her free crafting tutorials, you can visit her blog, The White Bench.
Shear Sensations says
these are so cute and its a great craft idea for me & my grand-daughters to do for our christmas craft. thank you.
DesignDazzle.blogspot.com says
Monica – Ooh la la I love these! Thank you for sharing the snowmen with our readers.
You are so talented!
mural paint enthusiast says
Lovely and creative artwork! I love that. 🙂
Partycraft Secrets says
these are so fun – you could easily translate these for the rest of the year as a circus-party craft by using bright coloured paper! thanks for sharing.
Joya says
Great work dude! I am very impressed with your work. Looks promising am going to give this a try.
Baby Shower Invitations
Deebi27 says
These snowmen are the bestest! I have the Gesso, so maybe I have a great project to work on over my winter break! Snowmen are welcome until at least New Years Day. After that I want warm weather!
rebecca says
Very cute. Going to get started on these for next year.
Jan BRANCHINI says
Love your retro snowmen. Jan