#Christmas crafts

[1lifeinspired]

~ Fantastic Gingerbread Houses ~

[smasterilli]

Hello, friends! I'm in a hurry to show you my new design for Christmas. This is a pattern for cross-stitch with a cat and snowflakes around. It is quite small - only 70 * 70 crosses, which is about 5*5 inches for 14 canvases. I plan to dismiss it in the near future. I think this ornament will look great in small round hoops on a Christmas tree.

You can find this pattern on my web site: https://smasterilli.com/product/winter-cat-and-snowflakes-cross-stitch-pattern-pdf-easy-christmas-ornament-0422/

[girlwhofellfromthemoon]

Kid-friendly holiday crafts !! 🐣 I've created a list of all the crafts i want to do this year for the holidays. Most of them are kid-friendly as well and especially fun to do with regressors 💕 I've also included difficulty ratings of one to three stars. If a craft is more difficult littles might need some extra help to make them ! Homemade Gift Wrapping Difficulty: 🌟 Such a cute and easy way to make Christmas more creative !! And a good way to use the cute paper and stickers I've been hoarding all year because I don't know what to do with them 😖

Felt Christmas Cookie Ornaments Difficulty: 🌟🌟🌟 These ones are a little tricky but they're so cute, I love the colourful beads on them that look like sprinkles !! And a Christmas tree would look so good with lots of these hanging up🎄

Scented Salt Dough Ornaments Difficulty: 🌟 I only gave these a one star difficulty because they're very easy to make. But keep in mind that they do use the oven ! Other than that, they're cute and smell nice, it's like the best of both worlds 😆

Christmas Bunting Difficulty: 🌟🌟 I love bunting, not only Christmas themed, but all year round !! It's my favourite wall decoration and makes my room feel like I'm having a party every day 🎉

I also found some other bunting patterns in different shapes, these ones are more holiday themed ! But that means that they're a little more difficult to make. Here's the links for star and Christmas tree patterns. Difficulty: 🌟🌟🌟

And also, another one because I just love bunting. This one's Christmas tree shaped but is much easier because it doesn't require any sewing ! Difficulty: 🌟

Gingerbread House Gift Wrapping/Advent Calendar Difficulty: 🌟 These ones are very similar so I grouped them together. Decorating brown paper bags with white markers to make little gingerbread houses ! Which you can use for wrapping presents but also to make a whole village for an advent calendar 🏡

Fabric Paperchains Difficulty: 🌟🌟🌟 I love paperchains but they always tear when I try to make them. These one's won't though and because they have velcro you can mix and match the patterns when you get bored of them 💭

Gingerbread House Card Difficulty: 🌟 You can probably tell I love gingerbread houses. I just think they're so cute and Christmassy ! And it would be so fun to make these cards but also everyone would be so happy to receive such a cute card ! 🌈

And that's all !! I might update this post as I see more crafts during the month but I think this is a good list to start off with. Also if anyone does any of these please post a picture ! I'd love to see them 🥰💖

[goodmorninglovelies42]

Very proud of this Heartstopper ornament I’m working on for my sister!

[proveitonme]

I wanted to experiment with a Xmas project idea in my head…

[blackbird-brewster]

My partner really loves Mari Lwyd, so for this year's holiday card I had a wild idea.

It started with a printout of a horse skull, which I sort of mapped out the bone structure of in a few different layers.

Then I started cutting the different layers and stacking them to give it some depth.

When I had the general skull shape, it was time to make teeth. Now, I've done a lot of wild crafting stuff but let me tell you, there's something very cursed about carving teeny individual horse teeth out of cardstock, then using tweezers to glue them in place.

Once I had the skull, I gave the shadows a bit of a run with a pencil and blended that into the cardstock for some dimension.

Now it was time to finish it off. I used tissue paper to fold and mold like fabric and braided some ribbons to decorate. Found a random rhinestone for the eye and...

Ta-da! I love the final product 😍

[theworldinstitches]

A couple of freebie cross stitch charts for you!

Kits are available on my website (buy-one-get-one-free).

[indigopines]

Linked Universe-themed stockings!! Wanted to get all the Links/Link-adjacent characters :3 Late for Christmas, but ready for next year!

Doll-sized and usable, I'm so proud of how they turned out. Next year's project is probably going to be some ridiculous fireplace apparatus that fits at least 14 stockings... or more because now I wish I'd done Spirit Tracks Link, Cadence of Hyrule Link, etc '^^

Inspired by, and following the guide of, Dollightful! vvvvv

[thenerdysewist]

I Made My Dog a Christmas Cookie Sweater!

Everyone look at her! She’s so cute!

(You can find the process on how I made it by following this tutorial called “Making My Dog a Denim Jacket”)

[fledermaus-art]

Thank you for participating in 2023's Christmas Tree Decoration! I had a lot of fun drawing your suggestions!

PARTICIPANTS: @blightts, @spookyowlman, @pointdointy, @emmybeebs, @sunglooow, @riiese, @bluestar-of-thunderclan, @civicrphub, @feral-soup, @gmcfloppins, @houseflyy, and @pompedia !!

Reblogging this post is 100% fine and okay ! <3

[intothestacks]

An easy activity to plan/execute for Littles who believe in Santa

I covered for a coworker at last year's winter festival at our elementary school and the craft she had was genius.

What you'll need:

A bag of plain instant oatmeal (uncooked!)

A large bowl for the oatmeal

1 or more baking scoopers

Glitter of as many colours as you'd like

A ziplock bag

What to do:

Give each participatting kid a ziplock bag. They then scoop some oats and sprinkle glitter on it.

What did you just make?

Reindeer food! :D

You sprinkle it outside your house the night before Christmas so they have a tasty snack to eat while Santa delivers human goodies. (plus the glitter helps tell them where to land like an airplane runway). :)

I had a couple kids worry about whether it was safe for reindeer to eat glitter and my response was that this was special reindeer-safe glitter (we checked!). It's not safe for humans but for reindeer it's fine; kind of like dog biscuits.

They seemed to find my explanation pretty legit and solidly logical.

[cupofmin]

i made a christmas garland that you can print at home ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ here!

[smasterilli]

Hello everyone! I made this dog a few years ago, but it is still relevant. you just need to change the year.  You can find the cross stitch pattern and tutorial in our store on Inspire Uplift and BuyMeaCofee

More about this pattern on my web site:

[msnogood]

Albert the Christmas Star

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! This is Albert.

You can see how he was made here!

Materials we used:

Upcycled shiny fabric that was a gift bag from some random purchase as top fabric (strange but often where I get novelty fabric scraps)

Used shirt with holes on it as lining fabric

Random non-stretch fabric as Albert's guts

Poly fill (best to use the silky smooth kind)

Recycled poly batting from grocery delivery padding material as core wool (or other coarse poly fill would also work)

Carded acrylic yarn in yellow as top wool (hand-carded with a cat hair remover thingy)

Glass sewing pins

Polyester sewing threads

Some paper and pencil for mock-up

Optional: jingle bells from abandoned cat toys

Tools we used:

Sewing needles

Felting needles

Seam ripper

Scissors

Wire cutter

Felting foam platform (recycled packaging materials)

To make Albert:

Use shiny fabric.

Cut fabric into a star shape with a flat bottom (for his bum).

Line your star cut-out with your liner fabric (you may skip this part if you feel like your shiny fabric is strong / thick enough).

Sew the star with back-stitch. Leave the bottom hole open.

Flip that star through the bottom hole and set it aside.

Draw a mock-up of Albert's face and cut a few layers of poly batting in approximately his shape. If you are using poly fill instead, you can skip this part and start needle felting a rough base shape shown in next step.

Stab it some.

To speed up the felting of the base, use soap and hot water to gently massage it until it starts feeling noticeably more felted. You may skip this step if you have more patience than me at stabbing.

Add facial features with core wool such as cheeks, chin, and forehead.

Add top wool.

As well as smaller facial features like lips.

Cut glass pins to length so they don't poke through the face. Bend them downward a little and pin at a slight angle downward so they more secure (than poking them straight towards the back).

Sew your optional bells at the five tips of Albert’s body.

Stuff Albert with poly fill.

Sew Albert's face on his body. Put him aside.

For Albert's guts, it's just a small pocket. Cut out a piece of rectangle that is roughly the width of his bottom hole and cut the length at double however long your christmas tree tip is. Mine was around 6ish" long that folded into a 3" deep pocket. Sewn with running stitch back and forth.

Flip his gut pocket inside out. Shove it at his bottom. Sew it onto its body (make sure to sew it to the top and lining fabric together for strength cause that part will need it).

And you have yourself an Albert*.

*Albert means noble and bright!

[reincarnatedasacupcake]

Some gifts that I made for Christmas this year

[wierd-art-stuff]

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