When, I started to see Jessica Hische's The Daily Drop Cap everywhere in the blog world, I knew I had to create something with her awesomeness as my inspiration. Everything is all about peace and love around here, so here's some LOVE. This took me about 10 hours to complete. I printed out the letters and drew them onto the painted canvas. Then, I painted for hours and hours. I love to paint, and found this to be very enjoyable. Thanks Jessica for your Daily Drop Caps!
We're doing a few classroom art projects around here for an auction coming up. This one is for the preppy K class. I used a die cut machine and punched out 19 2" butterfly out of black scrap- book paper. Next, I had the kiddies place their little finger prints on the wings of the butterflies with white acyclic paint. Then I took pipe cleaners and cut them into 1 1/2 "strips and twisted them 1/3 of the way down to make the antenna and body of the butterfly. Next, I bent the butterfly in half and hot glued the silver pipe cleaner bodies down the center of the die cut. I found a nice wallpaper sample from a discontinued book, and wrapped and hot glued it to the backing of a shadow box frame. I arranged and hot glued the butterflies into a swarm pattern onto the wallpaper. I cleaned up the glass and was done. Super easy, inexpensive, and quick. I would totally hang this up in our home!
When I saw these girls dressed up like trolls on the Internet, I knew my destiny! I ordered my bodysuit on Amazon, and started doing research on the hair. I did purchase a wig, but some of my friends were not too keen on it, so I had to figure out how to DIY it. My research led me to using egg white and gel craft glue. Both of these sounded a little crazy. So, I Facebooked an old friend who owns the Den Barber Salon. She had her Mohawk specialist give me the scoop. It worked out perfectly, here were my instructions:
I started this project a couple years back. Back, before Martha introduced her awesome line of glitter. So, I had to use some inferior plastic glitter I found at the craft store. I have also since learned the correct way to glitter objects ala Martha Stewart. I have had these spiders on my to do list for over two years, that's a long time for a crafter. I thought it would be best to tackle this project close to Halloween, procrastinate ensued. My fake plastic spiders are done!!!! I did this over a week ago and I still have black glitter all over my work station. The clean up is going to happen today, so I can move on to other spooky things.
The blog world inspires me daily. Back in April, one of my favorite bloggers The Fab Miss B posted the cutest little pincushion she made with some recycled materials. I started saving the materials right away. I've been patiently waiting for one of my crafty neighbors to come over and craft with me.
