Instructions

1. Watch the video tutorial before you begin, and let that be your visual guide for this craft.
2. Paint the tile piece: Use a piece of a clean dish sponge to pre-paint the whole faux tin tile piece white, Use add a small amount paint to the sponge, and use an up-and-down pouncing motion to avoid brush strokes. Let dry.
3. Trace and cut the tile piece: Center the the cardboard gumball cutout on the tile piece. Trace with a sharpie marker, and then cut out the tile. Be sure to cut inside the marker line, so that none of the ink shows on your finished project. Use E6000 glue to adhere the tile piece to the cardboard cutout. Smooth down and let dry.
4. Make the snowman hat brim: Use miter shears to cut a jumbo wood craft stick down to size, just a bit wider than the gumball sign, forming two pieces of a hat brim.
5. Paint the snowman hat: Use another small piece of a clean dish sponge. Apply a small amount of dark gray chalk paint to the sponge. Dab onto a scrap of cardboard, and then lightly brush over the whole tile piece to distress. Apply more paint at the top (hat portion) and less at the bottom (face portion). Also paint the two wood craft stick pieces and the little heart gumball machine topper sticking out at the bottom of the snowman head. Let dry. Then hot glue the wood craft stick hat brim onto the tile.
6. Paint the snowman face: Use a pencil to lightly sketch the snowman face: two oval eyes, a carrot nose, and more ovals for the mouth. Then fill in the pencil markings with black and orange chalk paint and a fine point paint brush.
7. Embellish: Make a bow with gray ribbon, and hot glue it at the base of the snowman head.
8. Display your tin tile snowman in a winter vignette, in a wreath, or anywhere you like.