Free Ornament Template: Felt Santa DIY

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With this Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift. #ornamentsdiychristmas #ornamentscricut #ornamentsdiy #handmadeornaments #handmadeornamentseasydiy This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift or handmade addition to your Christmas Tree.  Make the hats out of different colors for some variation and make an adorable set of Santa Claus ornaments or string them together to make garland.  Make several at a time to make a lovely set or to giveaway.

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For this project you will need:

Fleece fun’s Free files (available at the end of the post)

12″ by 12″ wool blend felt in red, white and the skin tone of your choice (I get my felt here)

A scrap of black heat transfer iron on

Blush or dry paint in pink or red

Paint brush or makeup brush

EasyPress Mini

Cricut Maker

Fabric Grip Mat

Light grip mat

or scissors

 Quick Dry Tacky Glue

Twine or ribbon

 

 

With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Free Ornament Template: Felt Santa DIY Instructions:

Step 1 –  Cut out the Free Pattern

Either using the Free Ornament template pdf pattern or the SVG file cut out the following. I’m making several ornaments at once.  So I’m cutting multiple items.  The SVG is designed to make two ornaments at a time.

If using a Cricut Maker use your rotary blade and from felt cut out.

Cricut maker cutting the ornament. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Cut out the homemade Santa Ornament Base (1 per an ornament)

With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

In addition you’ll cut out two small circles (these will be used for attaching the ribbon at the end to hang the ornament)

cricut maker cutting the ornament using the free svg files. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Cut out a face and a nose. (1 each per a tree decoration)

You might want to put the noses in a small cup or baggy for safe keeping.  They’re tiny and can get lost easily!

From the white cut out a beard/ brim, ball and mustache.

Again one of each item per an ornament.

machine cutting the eyes from Heat transfer vinyl. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Now switch out to the fine point blade and cut out the eyes to the Felt Santa Ornament.

weeding the HTV. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Weed the Vinyl

the chrismtas ornament's eyes weeded from HTV. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Now to make a single ornament your should have:

All of the layers to the Santa Claus felt ornament. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

1 hat/ back, 1 circle in red.  1 Beard/brim, 1 mustache and ball in white. 1 face, nose in skin tone and 1 set of eyes in HTV per an ornament.

Step 2 – Add the eyes to Christmas Decoration

testing how the layers work together. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

We need to figure out the placement of the eyes on the face.  To do this layout the ornament.  Hat/ back on the bottom, then the face , then the beard/brim. Notice how the flat side of the face is the top.  The base is there to help you with the placement of the beard/ brim.

Finding the placement of the eyes. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Put the eyes in place ( make sure there is room for the mustache and nose!

Eyes and the Santa face. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Leaving the eyes in place on the face , remove the other elements.

Ironing on the eyes. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Using a Heat press or iron iron the eyes into place.

Step 3 – Add some redness to the Santa Ornament Cheeks and Nose

Adding blush to the cheeks. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

This little step really adds a nice touch to the Santa Ornament. Using some blush or dry paint rouge the cheeks to the face.

Adding blush to the nose. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Then redden the nose.

Step 4 – Glue the Felt Santa Decoration Together.

Now it’s time to bring Joly Old Saint Nick together. I prefer to use the tacky glue as it dries clear and isn’t lump ( hot glue can often be lumpy).  

Gluing on the face. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Place the bottom of the ornament (the hat) with the ball on the right side.  The place several dots of glue on the back of the face and glue down.

Glueing on the beard. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Notice how the face is flat on one side to show the top.  Now it’s time to add the beard/ hat brim.  Make sure that you’re gluing the wrong side (it’s NOT symmetrical).  Again add dots all around.Adding the ball to the hat. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Glue into place, next add glue to the white circle for the ball at the end of the hat.

Adding the mustache. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Glue into place.  Next add glue to the wrong side of the mustache.

Gluing on the nose. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Using the back as a guide, glue into place. Finally add some glue to the back of the nose.

Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

and glue into place. Tip: the nose should be rounded at the top and fit against the mustache.

Adding the hanger. Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Now cut a 6 to 8 inch section of ribbon or twine and fold in half.  

Items needed. With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Add glue to the back of the remaining circle and glue the ribbon into place.

With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift. #ornamentsdiychristmas #ornamentscricut #ornamentsdiy #handmadeornaments #handmadeornamentseasydiy

Make it from all kinds of colors!

With a Free Ornament Template you can make this adorable felt Santa! This homemade ornament is no sew and makes for a wonderful gift.

Now your Free Ornament Template: Felt Santa DIY is complete! 

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