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DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt


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December 22, 2019

DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - final look at the shirt with fire cracklingUgly Christmas clothes have been popularly funny for years. You can make this video animated fireplace top for under $10. My best friend throws an ugly Christmas attire contest every year. We realized we were spending at least $60 on our outlandish tops, trying to outdo each other when shopping for these items. I came up with this top for this year's party and it was such a hit. Here is how you can make one at home on the cheap! Make sure you click on the video link below so you can watch the crackling fire on my belly!

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Total Time: 2 hours

Yield: 1

Link: My Animated Christmas Shirt in Action

Supplies:

  • 1 mobile phone or iPod Touch
  • black pen
  • tan felt, 9" x 5 ½"
  • ruler
  • double-sided carpet tape
  • hot glue gun with glue
  • mini Christmas present decorations (dollar shop)
  • tinsel pipe cleaners in green/red/silver (dollar shop)
  • red felt
  • white felt
  • miniature Christmas ornaments
DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt -supplies
 

Steps:

  1. To configure the glue zone for the fireplace pocket, place your mobile phone in the center of the tan felt. Trace the sides and bottom with your pen. This will show you what area should not be glued or taped so the phone can be dropped in at the end.
  2. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - trace around the phone onto the tan felt
     
  3. Now turn on your phone screen and see where the actual video will be playing. Make these markings around the phone.
  4. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - mark where the actual video will be playing
     
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  5. This cut-out area you're marking should be a bit smaller than the phone itself so the phone does not fall out. You could also add a clear plastic sheet from the inside if you want the viewing hole to the fire to be as large as possible. Now cut out this viewing area with your scissors.
  6. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - marking viewing area and cut out
     
  7. Now we will draw the bricks on the fireplace. Flip over the felt piece and draw evenly spaced horizontal lines across it.
  8. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - drawing horizontal lines for the bricks
     
  9. Now draw evenly spaced lines going down every other section of bricks.
  10. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - drawing vertical lines on every other strip of bricks
     
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  11. Now draw evenly spaced lines between each of those lines on the other lines of bricks.
  12. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - draw vertical lines evenly spaced on the skipped strip
     
  13. Put on your shirt in front of a mirror and measure the perfect hearth placement for your body from the bottom of the shirt. Mine was about 5 ½ inches. Take off the shirt and center the hearth on it, using the measurement you just took from the bottom.
  14. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - fine best placement for the hearth
     
  15. I used double-sided carpet tape to stick on the bulk of the hearth so it looked super smooth. I used the weight of the ruler to keep it down straight and added the adhesive one side at a time so there were no mistakes or chances of going crooked.
  16. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - stick in place with double sided tape
     
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  17. Add your mini gifts to the floor in front of your fireplace. I used hot glue, but used double-sided carpet tape for the teddy bear because it was a gift to me from my late grandpa. When I was done with the shirt, it came off nicely, unscathed.
  18. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - hot glue the toys and packages to the hearth area or use double sided tape
     
  19. To make stockings, cut out some fat looking socks from your red felt. Make sure they are the right size to hang off the mantel. It would look silly if they were hanging in the fire. :D
  20. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - two red felt sock shapes
     
  21. Cut out some white trim and hot glue it onto the tops of the red socks.
  22. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - hot glue white trim to the tops
     
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  23. Hang your stockings from the mantel of the hearth! I glued on some miniature ornaments I had on top of the mantel to give it some depth.
  24. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - glue stockings to mantel, small ornaments can also be added
     
  25. To make the wreath, take 2 pieces of green tinsel pipe cleaner and twist them together. Not too tight, as you want it to look a bit fluffy. Now wrap a red tinsel pipe cleaner around the wreath, from the bottom, up to the top, then down from the other side.
  26. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - making tinsel pipe cleaner wreath
     
  27. Glue on a mini ornament of sorts on the bottom. You can also add a ribbon here.
  28. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - mini ornament glued to wreath
     
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  29. I thought it would be extra ugly to make the tinsel garland hang off the chest towards the fireplace. While I was wearing the shirt, I marked the proper areas, and added an extra dot in the center where the wreath should go.
  30. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt -mark placement for the wreath and ends of the garland
     
  31. I cut an inch off one of the silver tinsel pipe cleaners to make one look longer than the other.
  32. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - cut one pipe cleaner shorter than the other
     
  33. Hot glue one side of the garlands down. Place a weight on them as they dry so they don't move out of place.
  34. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - hot glue one side of the garlands down and weight it down, with something like scissors
     
  35. Bend the garlands and secure the other side with hot glue. Use the weight again. It won't take long at all to dry.
  36. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - bend the garland and glue the other end
     
  37. I twisted a baby piece of green tinsel pipe cleaner and placed them on top of the ends of the silver garland to make it look more polished.
  38. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - tiny pieces of twisted green tinsel pipe cleaner added to the ends of the garland
     
  39. Grab your mobile phone and load up a video of a crackling fire. I used this 10 hour one from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LUpnjgPso
  40. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - load video of a crackling fire
     
  41. Put the video in fullscreen mode and pop the phone into your fireplace pocket.
  42. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - video in full screen mode inside the pocket
     
  43. Obviously, this shirt doubles as a great phone holder when you're at parties. Enjoy and let the laughs roll in!
  44. DIY Animated Christmas Hearth Shirt - someone wearing the shirt
     

Comments


Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,298 Posts
December 23, 20190 found this helpful

I love it!
I attended a ugly Christmas sweater party this year. But, I borrowed a friend's sweater she had instead. :) Because I could not justify spending $25 for a sweater.

 

Bronze Post Medal for All Time! 105 Posts
December 23, 20190 found this helpful

Now that one is cute and funny at the same time. Great job.

 

Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts
December 23, 20190 found this helpful

Thank you! Yes, the prices on these things get super silly. I will be DIYing for the rest of my life :D

 

Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts
December 23, 20190 found this helpful

Thank you so much!

 
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