Let's Make an Adorable Highland Cow/Highland Cow Gnome Pet/Cute Animal/Not a Toy

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel today, we're going to do something a little different today. I had many requests for a Scottish

highland

cow. I didn't even know what it was until I started getting these requests, you guys can do them. him with one eye or you can do it

gnome

style and have no eye and I'll show you at the end of the video how it looks both ways so if you want to know how to

make

it stay I'll show you. Thanks for watching I love you guys okay you're going to start with some faux fur and you need to

make

sure it's two inches long.

The stack measures two inches, then take the pattern and you can write it down in the description below and just print. Take it out and we're going to go ahead and cut this square. Now make sure you only cut behind the backrest and not through the faux leather. This will be for the body, then we'll start with each side. dragging it to comb it really good because we're going to glue these two sides together we want to make sure that all of our fur is inside the body and we're just going to run a bead down the side and then we're just going to flip the other side to that side and glue it on and then we're going to hold this here in a minute too, just roll it up into a tube and glue it on, just make sure the glue dries really well.

Before we start the next step, you're going to go ahead and take a piece of craft foam and we're just going to run it through the center of that seam just to cover it up and give it a little bit. more reinforcement and that's about a half inch of craft foam, then we're going to turn it over and then we're going to open up the section where you just glued, we're going to open it up and we're going to run a drop of glue right under the center piece and we're going to glue that fur on and this will make it completely solid and you won't see any more seams on your piece, so you can take a three inch circle and Let's cut it out and we'll put this on the bottom.

Now before you glue, make sure that when you put this on the bottom, you have everything tucked in and that the fabric on this side is tucked in as well and make sure that your fur that you are on the bottom of the fabric, not on the bottom of the fabric, because you want to make sure that your fur flows down, okay, so we'll start gluing it in and taking out the pins as we go. Now we're going to put some heavy beads in a sock, so in this step here don't worry so much if you don't get it exactly perfect because there won't be anywhere for the beads to come out because I'll put them in a sock, but just make sure you glue it on. pretty good there and then go ahead and flip it over, just fluff it up a little bit and then I'll take a 2.8 inch one.

Styrofoam ball and I'm going to cut it in half and this is what I'm going to put on the bottom. Now you don't want to skip this step. You can roll the foam on your cutting board or whatever you like. You're using it because you want to make sure it's small enough to fit into that tube and you want to make sure you put something that's Styrofoam on the bottom because we're going to use it to attach the legs. Now you could use a swimming pool. noodles if you want or some kind of floral styrofoam just make sure you put something on the bottom so we can push the legs towards the body when we're ready to do that and then I'm just going to take a sock, I'm going to put it up to the bottom and I'm just going to fill it with about 3 4 cup of heavy beads, you don't need a lot of heavy beads because the way that Anyway, I'm going to place the legs that he's going to put together, okay, so I'm going to continue go ahead and I'm going to cut this almost down the heel area and I'm going to put an elastic band around it just to hold those beads in, just go down to where the top of the beads is and put an elastic band around it, but leave the excess top fabric up because here we are also going to put a Styrofoam ball on top so we can make his head. just go down to where the heavy beads are and tie them off and then I'm going to take a 2.3 inch styrofoam ball and I'm going to place it right on top and that's what's going to make your head and we're going to make a separation between your body and his head here in a minute, but just make sure you push it all the way down because we're going to glue the top of that sock closed and you need to make sure. which is pushed down enough that we can close the whole body as well and then just go ahead and put some glue on top and just stick that sock right over that piece of Styrofoam ball, okay, so we're What I'm going to do is just a little bit of sewing, you can actually, you don't even have to sew this part if you don't want to, but we're going to make a sleeve around the top to draw it and then you're going to glue it on now, you could if you take your time, you put it in and glue the top on without making the case, but this was a little easier than doing it that way and I'm using a little heavier.

The thread is more like an upholstery thread, but go ahead and go in and out everywhere, you know, and maybe quarter inch stitches until it's completely sealed, just gather it in there and then we'll glue it on. We're going to glue it closed as well, so go ahead and tie it off and then we're just going to put a little bit of glue inside to make sure it's sealed properly. The next thing we're going to do is find the separation between where you just put that ball and the rest of the body and we're going to separate the fur so that the head part goes up and then the body part goes down and then we're going to tie a rope around to make that separation weird and just tie that pretty tight because you want it to pull in a little bit more and then go ahead and take your comb and just comb it through to make sure. that none of that fur got stuck underneath, there are two quarter inch by six inch sharpened sticks and then we'll mark them out at two and a quarter inches and then we'll just go ahead and cut them off and go To make the hooves now, okay, so we're going to take those two sticks and we're going to mark the bottom part about an inch from the bottom and that's the part that's going to go on our leg and the other part. it's going to go into our styrofoam that's in our body and we're just going to cut some strips of aluminum foil and we're just going to glue them together and roll them up and you're going to make sure it stays under an inch. crust there and it's going to hang over the bottom, we're going to fold all that over here in a minute and we're going to roll it until it's about the size of between a dime and a nickel, so probably about half a coin inch you want him a little chunky because his hooves should be a pretty good size because his body is a pretty good size too, you just push him around until he's pretty solid and using aluminum foil inside your clay really strengthens your project and you have less risk of it breaking, but you want to make sure that both pieces end up being exactly the same size, so we're going to take some baked clay and we're just going to roll two together. of them into one inch balls just make sure they're both exactly the same size and then we'll just take the palm of our hand and flatten them out and then we'll go ahead and start shaping them. like a hoof coming to a point in the front, you know, a blunt point and then we'll just take our foil and push it down into here, right in the center and just make your point stick out a little bit more and do the same with the other one and then we're going to cut a little slit in the middle to give some definition between the toe area, just make sure they're exactly the same and then go ahead and put your little slit in there all the way down, okay, so we'll take them out a little bit and put a little bit of Bacon Bond Glue in here before we bake them.

Now we're going to have to bake them at about 275 degrees for 15 minutes, but you're going to wait until we're done. We're going to do the front hooves here in a minute. We can bake them all at once, okay? For the front hose we're going to take two pieces of wire and we're going to cut them four inches long and we're going to go ahead and roll the bottom of them into a circle and then fold them up. We're making like a little foot, so just roll the end up and then fold them up and then we're going to take some aluminum foil over these and we're going to stick them down and then we're just going to start rolling them. these in a ball shape and you just want to go ahead and cover everything and just shape it into the ball and you want it probably around um I'm going to say maybe an inch it's all about how big those are. they are and then we'll cover them with clay and then we'll shape them, just to make sure that when you finish it they'll be similar in size to the first two that we made, okay.

We really push that aluminum foil until it's solid, it actually ends up measuring about three-quarters of an inch, so we're going to take some of that same clay and we're going to roll it into two one-inch balls just like we did in the first one. time and then go ahead and push your part um down there and then just start pulling on it until it's covered. Now make sure you put a dot on this one too because we're going to split the toe in the in a minute, keep playing with it until you seal it completely and then we'll go ahead and do the same split in half and then you'll bake both or the four of them. at 275 degrees for 15 minutes, then we're going to make your antlers and I'm going to roll some clay into a log and I'm going to cut it in half and I'm just going to roll both ends up and it'll probably be a 3 8 inch round piece and just make sure you have prongs on both ends and just cut it in half and then just wrap that side and then we'll run a piece of wire through it's just to make sure it stays in now you might have to glue the wire in after the fact because mine came off a little bit, but just make sure you glue it down a little when you get it.

Done, simply determine how long you want them and how wide you want them, you can make them as long or as wide as you want. This worked for me, just run it over there and then we can shape them. Put it back here in a second after you put the wire in there and then once you bake them at 275 degrees for 15 minutes, they're going to be really hard, just roll it out so it's soft again, roll the edges up and then just make sure Make sure they are both exactly the same size and then bake them.

Next, we're going to start with two pieces that are two and a half inches wide by one and a half inches tall and that's what we're going to do. Go ahead and cover our back legs with or our back hooves just wrap it around the two and a half inch side and then go ahead and glue it to the back and then when you've glued it down we're going to open it up. put it right there and we're going to put a drop of glue right in the center and squeeze it closed that way, you'll have a complete circle there and then go ahead and close the top part as well and then we're also going to lift the bottom part up by the hoof and we're also going to glue the fur to the hoof, we just want to make sure all of this is secure and then go ahead and open up the front so you can see the Hove and then go ahead and put a bead around the bottom and push it in down and do the same with the other one and I started with a 12 by 12 inch piece of faux fur and I'll give you the length of that one I got it from Etsy but you didn't even use a full so remember if you have a 12 by 12, you have a lot of strangers, make a separation between the upper body and the head, and that way.

You can have an exact idea of ​​where you want to place them and I'm just going to go down the bottom and go diagonally up a little bit into the Styrofoam that's inside the inside of the body and I'm sorry, I went off camera a little bit here, but you're going diagonally up and I'll show you here in just a second. I'm just trying to push it in there and I blurred it a little bit, but when I place the second one, you'll see that you make sure the toe is straight, but you're going in diagonally and you'll see in this how I made the foreigner stand straight and his your toes will point up and then you're going to go ahead and pull it out, we're just going to go ahead and glue them on, just make sure that when you glue it on, the toe is facing up, okay?

We're going to measure the front legs at two and a quarter inches tall by two inches wide and we're going to cut two of them off, just cutting behind the faux fur and then once you cut them, go ahead and clean them up. We'll remove all the excess hair, okay, so we'll just take them, fold them in half and glue them on the side. Now we're gluing the two and a quarter inch side and then going ahead and opening. them on the back, we're just going to loop a bead there on that seam and then we're just going to glue those two sides together, thank you and that'll keep you from seeing the seams while you're doing this, okay, next we're just going to loop in the back of these cables, just make it go from the front to the back, a loop, that's how we're going to attach it to thebody and then we're going to go ahead and put our legs through our fur and go ahead and glue the top down and then you're going to glue the bottom down as well right around the inside edge at the bottom. and just do it where you can see their foot and do the same with the other one.

Okay, so then we're going to run a string through one of these and then you're going to go ahead and take your piece and We're going to separate the head from the body again, so go ahead and comb it so that you have a separation and we're going to wrap this right between the head and the body, let's just open it up really wide and then we're just going to put it to one side and we're going to tie it really tight with a knot and then we're going to do the same thing with the other side of the foot or the other foot and then we're going to glue them to the body just make sure you tie them pretty tight but make sure their feet touch the ground in front.

Okay, now we're going to lift the legs and separate the fur underneath. them and we're going to separate the fur from the leg, just make sure your foot is facing forward, separate the hair from the back and then go ahead and put a dot of glue right in the center and hold it there until it dries and then do the same thing with the opposite side, just space them evenly along the front towards the ears and just take your pattern and we're going to cut two of the pieces out of one felt, so that you're just left with a tan colored felt. kind of contrast with your fur and then we're going to cut two of them out of the fur too okay, next I'm just taking some thinning scissors.

I'm just going to thin the hair a little bit for the ears, okay, then I'm going to comb all my pieces towards the center. I'm going to run a drop of glue down here and I'm going to put my backing here like this, just make sure all of your hair is nice. there really good on both sides, just get it all in and then stick it in, then we're going to turn it over to the right side here in a moment, just make sure you stick it in good and then go ahead and Trim the hair from there and then we're going to turn it around .

If you have pliers, it works a lot easier and just make sure all the hair is out of there and then go ahead and finish shaping it with your pliers. and then I thought I was going to cut it a little bit shorter because they were a little long, so I'm going to go ahead and cut another one about a quarter inch from the bottom and do the exact same thing. The same goes for the other ear, so we're going to take some sticks and we're going to cut them to the length that we want to fit at least an inch into our Styrofoam and about an inch to go into the ear.

So I'm going to cut them off about two inches each and I just went ahead and sharpened one side of them with a pencil sharpener. Okay, so we'll just take the blunt end and glue it on. inside the ear, just center it there, just put a line of glue right in the center and then we'll squeeze it closed and glue it to stick it all the way, just put a little bit of glue inside. up there and just squeeze it and then do the same thing with the other one, okay, so I'm just going to take my scissors.

I'm going to go down about an inch and a half from the top. I'm going to make a hole in the side and I'm just going to stick my ear right into the side, just make sure you have them even on both sides and you want to leave a little bit of room at the top so you have room to put the horns and then just put them in, get them in there and then we'll stick them here in a second outside, just take them out and we'll stick them in, just make sure you open it up. a little bit so you can keep the same hole because sometimes when you're playing with the spur it's very hard to find the hole that you made there and then you just stick this other one in there too and you can see I couldn't find where I had that hole so Look while you're taking it out.

Okay, next I'm going to go ahead and take an X-Acto knife and I'm just going to cut a hole in the top right. above the ear to put your little horns on and then do the same thing on the other side just make sure they're even on both sides, okay, so we're going to go ahead and take them out and we're going to go ahead and stick them on. If you want to get them in, you want a little bit of glue inside the hole and you also want to put a little bit of glue on the horn and do the same on the opposite side.

We're just going to take a 1.8 inch Styrofoam ball cutout. down the middle and then we're going to start squeezing it, you want to squeeze it lengthwise to make it a little bit narrower and then we're going to take some felt and we're going to start covering it, now you want to pull it tight as you do that because you don't want to It won't wrinkle, so start on one side and as you're gluing it, pull it so it's at the same time, go ahead and do both. long sides and then we'll do the two short sides and if you take your time on this, you can get it pretty tight and you won't have any wrinkles, just pull it out and let it dry in the middle. and keep going around until you have it completely sealed, just pull it pretty hard, you can get it pretty smooth and then we'll just cut all the excess off the back and just glue it up to the to the weird styrofoam itself just make sure it's pretty flat okay next I'm just going to take some craft foam and this is what I'm going to use for his mouth and then I'm going to take these little um cushion pins or little black pins and I'm going to mark exactly where his eyes are going to go and then I'm going to take an we're going to add a little bit of glue to put on each one of them and this is for his nose and once you have them exactly where you want them we're going to go ahead and take them out again we're just going to glue them on these are just little paper Brads is what they are and then I'm just going to take some glue and lightly stick it on this piece here and stick it around for his mouth, don't put too much glue because you don't want to see it.

Okay, then I'm just going to take another one. With those little sticks, sharpen it and this is about an inch and a half. I'm just going to push it into the back of my Styrofoam. I'm going to glue it and this is how I'm going to fix it. to his face I'm just going to take my . Now I'm going to finish these two different ways and show you the difference in this first part. everything is going to be like a

highland

gnome

cow without eyes. Now I'm going to show you what it looks like too, if you want to add an eye, I'm just going to go ahead and part her hair to the side and I'm going to make a hole here with my X-Acto knife and I'm going to add one of these little doll eyes and I bought them on Amazon.

I also give you the link for them, but that's what it would look like if you added an eye to it so you can do it either way and then I'll go ahead and glue the eye on, okay, and that's what it looks like with the eye, let me know in the comments which one do you like more with the eye or without the eye if you like this type of videos don't forget to give me a like don't forget to come back subscribe and ring the bell to be notified when I have a new one I upload the video thanks for watching it, I really appreciate it.