DIY Vintage Shutter Snowman, Easy Project
Just in time for winter and the holiday season I have an easy project for you, an upcycled shutter snowman. All you need is a shutter some white spray paint and a few other items I hope you have in your craft stash.
Picture in your mind where your snowman should sit. Think about 3 large snowballs and a top hat. If you have trouble picturing the snowman, lightly pencil an outline.
This is how far my leftover white spray paint got me. Where I thought I had all my supplies on hand, I now had to make a quick trip to the store. You could also use leftover white paint but I do like painting all the nooks and crannies of a shutter with spray paint and I love the slightly softer edge of the spray.
Finally back with my spray paint. Painting the body of the snowman probably took about a minute.
I had an almost empty can of gray spray paint in my stash and highlighted the shadowy areas between the snowballs. Where I thought I got carried away with the gray, got a slight recoat of the white.
The gray is of course optional.
Take black paint and paint buttons, a hat and eyes. Like coal, the eyes and buttons don’t have to be perfect circles. Have the buttons follow the shape of the snowball, don’t put them in a straight line.
Water down some white paint and with an old toothbrush, flick the paint onto the background of your snowman to create the illusion of snow. If the snow falls in one great drippy blob, wipe off immediately with a wet paper towel.
Just under the uppermost snowball, drill a series of small holes. I’m really just making the space between the shutter slats large enough to fit a scarf.
Thread a scarf thru the holes you just created and tie. Any excess can be pulled thru and tied on the back of the shutter.
If you don’t have an old scarf hanging around, use a piece of old fabric, or scarf one up at the thrift store (see what I did there 🙂 .
The nose is created from another shutter slat.
Paint the nose orange and let dry.
I was just about to paint on a stick arm when I spied a stick laying around in my workshop. Why do I have a stick laying around…don’t ask. Gluing a stick to my snowman was even easier than painting.
The stick is adhered with E6000 glue, a clear heavy duty adhesive.
The nose is glued on with the same adhesive.
If you would like to paint holly on your snowman’s hat, start with 3 red dots (berries). Add a dab of white to each berry as if the sun is reflecting off of them.
Around the berries add 3 holly shaped leans in a grassy green color. To the tops of the leaves add dark green and white highlights and leaf veining.
Finish off your snowman with white highlights on the hat brim, the top of his carrot nose and eyeballs.
If you like, you could also add snow highlights to the top of the hat and brim and stick arm. Or think about adding a nice friendly smile.
He’s all ready for greeting guests.
Or add hangers and a wire, find a nail and he can add to your interior holiday display.
Hope you will have as much fun making this project as I did.
As always, stay inspired.
You have to travel all the way back to 2017 to find my last snowman made entirely of logs. If you have extra logs laying around, he’s pretty easy as well.
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I love this idea…….makes a great decoration for the entire winter.
I like it, too! ❄️☃️❄️
Love it! So clever! Brava!
Wasn’t sure about that nose til you stood it up and then it was like magic, a nose!
Great project.