Good Morning Everyone I wanted to share this project post I did for the Helmar blog yesterday.
Homemade ornaments are all the rage and today I am going to show
you how Core'dinations Cardstock and Helmar make it look amazing! So,
are you ready to pull out the craft supplies and get ready for the
holidays? This would be a great low cost gift idea too! Lets call this
one a Decorating on a Dollar project.
Step 1: Take 1 12x12 sheet of Core'dinations Cardstock and cut it
into twelve 1" wide strips. Then cut those strips into 2" long pieces.
You should have a lot of 1"x 2" pieces of Core'dinations Cardstock...
You can find the rest of this tutorial on Helmar's blog.
This pretty Peacock Princess costume was designed and dreamed up by my 7 year old daughter. She sat down and drew up the design for her entire costume. She made the
tutu, her choker necklace and decorated her trick or treating bag and
gloves. Did I mention she is7?
"A real working peacock tail" was her vision. She wanted it to trail on
the ground behind her and be able to be lifted up and fan out like a
real peacock. Tall order, for a 7 year old. But in our house... maybe
not...
Here it is in action!!!! Check out this video!
To have me help walk you though creating this step by step please see my tutorial on Etsy. It comes with full customer support in a group on FB allowing quick and fast communication and responses to your questions.
Research was done for many hours online and I never found what I was looking for to engineer this tail they were all stationary either up or down. So I had to engineer it myself, after all it's not the first time I have made costume pieces with moving parts (Angel wings, Transformer costume). After some discussions with the Hubby about the mechanics, we figured it out how to make it work. The tail is 66" wide... that is 1.5' wider then my daughter is tall!
I made the crown after she figured out which of her crowns in her dress up drawer she wanted to use.
It was put together with none other then my favorite fast drying adhesive, Helmar 450 Quick Dry. Trinity also used it on her necklace to glue down the Velcro in the back and the large gem in the center and to attach the bows and trim to her gloves. There is no doubt she is definitely my daughter, no doubt about it! She also loves her Helmar too!
I have to mention while looking at these closeups... the shawl she is waring was made for me by my loving little sister. She knitted this for as my Matron of honor gift for her wedding. She is very crafty with yarns and fabrics. Check out her out on Facebook, Quilt Shakti.
The obvious choice was to have it pulled back. We did a sweeping french braid from the front left to the back right. Touching it all up with streaks of turquoise blue.
Next we researched her makeup and she decided on a simple eyeshadow technique. I wanted more costume type makeup. In the end she was right. Just enough to make her look like an exotic bird and not to much to hide her innocence she still has at age seven.
She won first place in the costume contest for the girl's age group at our local city event "Scarysville" My son won his boy section for his age group too with his handmade Iron Man costume.
Here is one last look at the front of the costume. She had a blast as her dream of a "Peacock Princess".
Which of our costumes did you like this year? Peacock Princess or Iron Man costume? Comment below or on my other post to let me know! UPDATE:
You can order these in my Esty Shop for children sizes or you can special order adult sizes too.
Well the holidays are upon us, Halloween is over and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Fun family times and many memories to be made. This month Helmar is hosting a sketch challenge to keep your creativity flowing.
This time we are going to be using a sketch and lots of Helmar's
adhesives. Let the sketch inspire you how ever you like, copy it as is,
or turn it, tip it, flip it....make a page, a card, a canvas.....what
ever takes your fancy!!!
Just load your completed project to the Helmar Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/groups/helmarlive/ ) and add your details- before the end of the month, for your chance to win a fabulous Helmar goodie pack! (Be sure to tell us what Helmar glue featured predominately in your creation) Above all else, have fun and Happy Helmar creating!!!
Tony Stark as Iron Man? Nope, it's my son in a Mark VI Iron Man suit, Avengers version. Watch out Tony Stark, Tristan is going to take over your job... with the ladies! I love my son so much. He is handsome, smart and quite a character. I am very excited to share with you my son's Halloween costume that was completely built by hand, out of foam mats, close to 500 pieces were cut out of paper, then traced onto foam, cut out of foam and then glued together and primed, and painted. I enlisted everyone, my hubby, my son, my daughter to help with the steps... even my neighbor for help with the lighting.
Here is the costume with helmet and lights.
Want to see it in action? Here is a video of the costume. My son was "so over and done with" the photo shoot at that point... LOL! Please excuse his enthusiasm.The music is coming from him too... The lights are hard to see but are all on, in his eyes, the arc reactor and the repulsor beams in the palm of his hands.
Back to the dashing smile of his...
Thank you for viewing this post today... please let me know what you think in the comments below.
PS. All patterns from Pepakura were created by ROBO3867 and Stealth from The Hero Tutorials. Please go check them out. They have fantastic files and tutorial videos.
I am sorry for the slow posts on my blog this month but the word "busy" is an understatement here at my house. I am going to give you this photo post and if you have any questions please leave them in the comments below.
Recology is our recycling company here in Norther California. I was honored to be asked to be their featured artist at their annual Evening at the Dump Event. Here are photos from my displays. Keep in mind I was a last minute addition to this event and the focus is Reusing or Up-Cycling.
Thank you for taking the time to look at these images. Please leave a message for me in the comments section below. Have a great day!
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