Monday, December 6, 2010

Day 6 of 20 Days of Christmas: Alabama Snowball

For Day 6, I have a funny project to share for you that can be used for any hot state.  I live in Alabama, so we hardly ever have any snow here and if we do it is gone quickly.  So, I have made an Alabama snowball using a bottle of water.


I started out with a small bottle of water. I removed the label so you could only see the water.

Next, to make the hat, I took a kid's sock and glued a pompom to the top of the sock and then it could be slipped right over the top of the bottle.

Now, I cut a marquee cut from the storybook cart and then printed directly onto it my sentiment "Merry Christmas from an Alabama Snowball"  To print onto this, I printed the sentiment and then taped my cut over it and reprinted the same thing. 


To finish the snowballs, I hot glued google eyes to the front.  Then, I used the cricut to cut mittens from Simply Charmed and the smile from Smiley Cards.  I finally added some faux stitching around the sign and hot glued it to a skewer stick. 



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11 comments:

Norma said...

OMG this are so CUTE!! i love this project Jean:)

Rhonda Emery said...

so freaking cute.

greenbean said...

love this!...i'm so going to make this!...one of my best girly friends husband is from alabama....this is perfect!...

Besthobbyeva said...

I love this little guy. He looks real! Great job!!

Jamiecrafts said...

love these too, super cute!

Saundra said...

Oh! This is really cute! I love it!

abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...

So adorable!! Love how cute this is!

Rose said...

I just love this!!!I'm going make one for my sister she will get a kick out of it(we are getting hit with lake effect snow right now). Our grandma Daisy and some aunts & uncles live in Waterloo & Florence.TFS
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Anonymous said...

ah I LOVE that idea!! I could do that for TN too, right? Thanks for linking up to Handmade Tuesdays @ ladybug blessings!

Jean said...

There are quite a few hot states that this idea would work for.

Kristen said...

oh and I featured it today :) So head over and grab a badge :)