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Materials:
- Kringle and
Snowman Sculpey Flexible Push Mold
- Premo! Sculpey
Polymer Clay in
 White
5001 - Red Pearl
5259
- Seagreen
5305
- Beige 5092
- Black 5042
- Cadmium
Yellow 5572
- Ultramarine
Blue 5562
- Purple
5513
- Orange
5033
- Translucent
5310
- Silver
5129
- ~8" Wooden
Sled
- Super Glue
Gel
- Green Telephone
Wire or green copper wire (Artistic Wire)
- Acrylic Paint
in Xmas Green & Bright Red
- Flecto Diamond
Varathane Elite in Clear Satin
- Black Tiny
Hole-less Beads
- Cuticle Stick
(orange stick)
- Needle Tool
Instructions:
Paint
Apply two coats
of green paint to the body of the sled and two coats of red to the
runners. Allow paint to dry between coats and before attaching clay
pieces.
Mix Colors
Flesh = 3 parts
Beige + 1 part Translucent
Santa Mold
Fill nose with
Flesh mix, then fill eyebrows, hair tuft, mustache, and beard with
White. Fill mittens with Seagreen. Place tiny balls of Black into
the buttons, and then fill shoes with Black. Fill the face and head
with Flesh mix. Lastly, fill the legs, body and arms with Red Pearl.
Pop the Santa from the mold and add a tiny teardrop of Flesh for the
mouth using the cuticle stick to insert it point first below the mustache.
Press in black beads for eyes and add eye creases to face with needle
tool.
Roll a White snake
and flatten slightly. Place it across the top of the shoes where they
meet the pants. Using the needle tool, press the white fur into the
crease between the legs, then trim off the white snake on the other
side of the body. Roll a thinner white snake, flatten and apply short
sections between the sleeves and mittens. Make a hole through the
center of the mittens using the needle tool and widen the hole with
the cuticle stick.
Accessories
Mold a Ho first
with White, then Seagreen, and finally Red Pearl. Mold holly leaves
with Seagreen and berries with Red Pearl.
Mold light bulbs
by placing Silver clay into the screw top of the bulb, followed by
Cadmium Yellow in the bulb section. Make the other lights, one each
with Orange, Seagreen, Ultramarine Blue, Purple, and Red Pearl. Pierce
each light horizontally through the silver top section with the needle
tool.
Bake
Bake all clay
pieces on a ceramic tile or other smooth, flat surface for 40 minutes
at 275ºF. Allow to cool completely.
Finishing
 Using
the end of a toothpick, dot green paint on the red Ho, red paint on
the green Ho, and green and red paint on the white Ho. Using super
glue gel, attach each Ho to the top of the sled. Glue holly leaves
to the center top of the sled.
Coil telephone
wire ~ 4 times around a thin dowel or knitting needle. Thread first
light bulb on, continue coiling wire ~ 6-7 times, and add the next
light bulb. Continue until all bulbs are strung between coiled wire.
Glue Santa to
the center bottom of the sled. Bend, stretch, and arrange lights in
a pleasing fashion, glue ends of wire into holes in mittens.
Brush entire assembly
of clay pieces and painted wood with a matte or satin finish.
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