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Wood Craft for Christmas - Scroll Saw Project - Wooden Stocking Christmas Tree Ornament
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There is so much fun and fulfillment in crafting Christmas ornaments for your tree and wood gives your tree a charming country look. If you like using a scroll saw, then this project is ideal. It is a quick and easy craft and you will find yourself making more than just one stocking! If you choose, you can paint the names of your family members on the stockings so each person has his or her own personal stocking, or even use such stockings as gift tags with the names of the recipient painted on them. Decorate your stocking according to your own personal taste. Use leftover pieces of fabric, buttons and other embellishments for each stocking to make it individual.
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For this project you will need:
- Plywood - 4 mm thick
- white, green and light brown acrylic paints
- left over piece of green Christmas fabric
- wooden star in gold
- pinking shears
- stick glue
- thin gold decorating wire
- green ribbon
- drill with 1.5 mm bit
- thicker wire for hanging
- wood glue
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Instructions:
1. Print out the pattern and transfer the markings onto the wood.
2. Saw out the stocking and sand it smooth. Basecoat the stocking in white and let it dry.
3. Paint the cuff, toe and heel of the stocking in dark green and let the paint dry.
4. Dry brush light brown paint on the edges where the white paint is seen. Also drybrush the areas where the white paint touches the green paint.
5. Dry brush the stocking cuff, heel and toe edges with white paint.
6. Using pinking shears, cut a small square piece of fabric out and stick it onto the stocking using the stick glue.
7. Glue the wooden star onto the stocking slightly over the piece of fabric. Let it dry. Drill 2 small holes (to look like a button) through the wooden star and through the stocking.
8. From the backside of the stocking, insert the wire through both holes of the stocking and through the wooden star button, coming out on the front side again. Twist the wire and let around 3 cm ends hang. The rest gets cut away.
9. Make a ribbon bow and glue it to the stocking as seen in the picture.
10. Drill a small hole in the top of the stocking. Coil the thicker wire and insert it into the hole to use for hanging.
Free Pattern: Stocking Pattern
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How to Saw Wood Out Using a Scroll Saw
This tutorial demonstrates cutting along the outside edge of a piece. This example of a leaf hows how to handle sharp angles. Otherwise sawing with a scroll saw is easy and fun. Most pieces you will be cutting have smoother and gradual curves and longer lines to cut. Please work in a well ventilated room when using a scroll saw and avoid inhalating fine dust particles if possible. Wear a paper mask if you can.It is highly recommended to wear safety glasses or goggles to prevent eye injury from flying wood pieces or breaking saw blades. When sawing, avoid putting your fingers too close to the blade. If you have the necessity to remove excess cut away pieces that have fallen off, turn the machine off before doing so. Always use both hands when cutting the wood. Work with larger pieces and when cutting out a small piece, see that you have enough material to get a good grip on. Rather waste a bit more material.
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How to Dry Brush Wood
Drybrushing is one of many painting techniques and is easy to learn. It is very effective in shading or highlighting your painted items. Thus giving them a more realistic look. Color plays an important role in dry brushing. You may choose a light contrast for a dark color or a dark contrast for a light color. After practicing on a few pieces, you will discover which colors work best with each other. Consider the item you are painting and what color it is. Important is to dry brush the item with a contrast color and yet the contrast color should also enhance the color of the item you are painting. For example, let us choose the color white. An obvious contrast would be a darker shade. Depending on what you are painting, a shade such as light brown, grey, blue look well on white. On the other hand the color black can only be shaded with a lighter color. You may choose grey or white. When painting with other colors, you may choose lighter or darker shades. For example the color green can be shaded with a darker hue or a lighter hue depending on the effect you would like to create. Important is to experiment. The more you practice, the more secure you will feel about shading and highlighting. Not only can you dry brush wood but also plaster of Paris castings, pappmaché boxes, and other painted items.
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How to make templates and patterns tutorial
Find useful tips about how to create templates and patterns to use for all of your wood crafts. Learn how easy it is to make permanant templates that can be used over and over again for all of your craft projects.
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Wood Crafts on Christmas-Projects.com
If you like woodcrafting, then you will find lots of fun ideas here to paint and to cut out with a scroll saw.
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Next Craft >>> Merry Christmas Wooden Santa Claus
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