Happy Snowman Door Hanger

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If you haven’t noticed, I have a thing for door decorations. Pick your season or holiday – I bet I have a sign for it. In fact, I have made so many signs and door hangers that I need to come up with some sort of system for displaying and storing them off season, but that will need to be a subject for a different post (mostly because right now I don’t have a good solution).

After I took the Christmas wreath off the front door, I realized that I had an opportunity for a new look, and my thoughts turned to a happy snowman.

Like most of my door hangers, this one is crafted from lightweight cardboard, which I like to use for two reasons – it’s really, really inexpensive (for me, it’s free because I get it from the recycling bin at work) and because it is so light, hanging it isn’t a big deal.

To create the snowman shape, I used a plate and two different sized bowls to trace the body onto the cardboard.

Once I had the rough shape, I sketched in a hat. The beauty of this kind of craft is you can erase and draw until you get what you want because it will be hidden under the paint.

Cutting the cardboard is pretty easy as long as you have a sharp Xacto knife. Be sure to get an Xacto that lets you tighten the blade at the back. They are a little trickier to find – I always have to get mine online because the local craft stores only the one that tightens down in the front. Those are riskier to use because the blade gets loose as you use it since you are handling that part of the tightening mechanism as you work.

Patience is important also – it’s impossible to cut through in one pass, so just make a light cut around the pencil lines the first time, and then go a little deeper the second, and finish on the third. Make super sure you are not cutting on your good dining room table (just sayin’ 😉 ). I have a good self-healing cutting mat that I work on, but before I splurged on that I used to cut on top of a salvaged piece of styrofoam packing material.

Once I had it all cut out, I used acrylic paint to do the hat in black with a red band, and all over white for the body.

I doodled a couple of face options before using my Sharpies on the actual snowman face.

I could have stopped there, but I have this new obsession with hand lettering on everything, and that white body was screaming for some detail, so I added the old standby “Let it snow” and punched a small hole at the top to hang on the door.

And of course, the day I put this on the door, it was a surprisingly warm 62 degrees. In January. Kansas City weather will really keep you on your toes!

Pin this so you’ll have it ready when the urge to decorate your door with a happy snowman strikes.

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