This Gnome was almost late, but he made it. I'll show you how to make it (Eng-Esp)

Christmas is almost over and I can't stop adding to the decorations, and I really love this time of year, its colors, the lights, and this year I decided to create certain decorative elements with my own hands. I hadn't done any crafts before, but this year I loved each one of my creations and I think that next year I will start preparing the Christmas decorations much earlier.

Today, I'm going to show you this character, which is a Gnome. It's the first time I've done it and I thought it was adorable. I'd like to make many more and with different elements accompanying it, but this will be for next year. For now, this gnome has a dessert-type foamy drink, like with whipped cream or chantilly. Now, I'll show you how I made it.

El Patrón del Gnomo lo tenía de hace años, de un trabajo escolar de mi hija, lo tracé todo nuevamente.
La silueta completa del Gnomo la tracé en el foami color piel, solo porque era el que tenía en mayor cantidad, pero realmente puede ser en cualquier color, esto será para darle más estructura o soporte.
Luego todas las piezas las corté en el color correspondiente.

It's all about simply cutting out the pieces. But the detail of the hat, if I want to explain better. I cut the hat twice, one in red and one in white, both in frosted foam material so that it stands out more. Then, I made equal cuts or divisions in both hats, I even did it by placing one on top of the other, this is so that they are exact and I can make the design of alternating colors in the hat, that will be seen later.

First I placed the clothes on the base, then the beard, the mustache, which are both plain white, and on top the first cut of the hat that I started with the red color for contrast. I also placed the shoes on black cardboard. This is too easy, just cut the pattern and start gluing, the biggest detail is the hat.

Here you can see that I placed the nose in skin-colored foam. These overlaps are important to give the Gnome more dimension and interest.

Now, I continued alternating the cuts of the hat that I mentioned earlier, which by cutting the two colors at the same time, allows the shape of the hat to remain intact.

I decided to make the dessert cup with whipped cream, I cut this red cup shape with a handle, the cream in frosted white, I glued everything. I cut half circles for the hands in skin-colored foam and glued them, on one of the hands I glued the cup.

The small piece of metallic gold cardstock was for cutting out some small stars to highlight the design, and I glued one on the cup and four scattered on the Gnome's hat.

On the nose I painted a white line and a pink shading. On the beard and mustache I painted some lines on the edges with a blue marker.

I wanted this Gnome to stand, so with a strip of recycled cardboard, I made a triangle to serve as a support. This is the easiest thing in the world, just fold the strip twice and place hot silicone so that it maintains its shape and in the most vertical part place hot silicone again to place the Gnome.

Here you have an angle so you can see how I fixed it to the back of the Gnome, and it already has all the stability to stand upright, you don't have to place it somewhere to stand upright, since with this base we can place it anywhere, even on the table next to a lamp or something like that.

Look how beautiful this Gnome turned out, I loved it. I wish I had started making Gnomes earlier because I imagine them carrying different objects or positions. As I told you, the pattern was from when my daughter was studying, but I loved the result of this Gnome, since now we have the frosted foam material that we didn't have before.

I hope you liked it, and I'll see you in a next post.