25 cards of Christmas - Day 13 - Santa's coat

This is my take on an idea that's been done many times - Father Christmas's coat.

I embossed a piece of red card slightly smaller than my card base with polka dots to make it a bit more interesting and then used square dies to cut out the shape of the belt buckle from silver card. I knew I wanted the buckle to be raised, so I stuck a piece of black paper behind the buckle and then a longer strip across the centre of the red card, wrapping the ends around the edges. Next I stuck the buckle on to the belt.

At this point I realised it would have been easier to do the white paper first, because then I had to put the white paper on, tucking it under the buckle and wrapping the ends over the edge of the red card. Next time I'll do the white strip first, then the belt. I added red buttons to the white strip - I think black would have looked better, but I didn't have any.

Finally I stuck the red card on to the card base.

You could vary the design with red and green to make an elf costume, or use white to suggest a snowman with a scarf instead of a belt.