Madeline Rose Wreath

A version of the Christmas wreath I did last year--I'll add that one to this blog a little closer to Christmas--this one is themed for the arrival of baby girl, Madeline Rose. I'm not going to go too in depth on how I made this--again, I'll save that for the Christmas wreath I'll add later. But some of the supplies I used were a wreath form, ribbon, an award pin, large/3D stickers, wooden lettes, favor boxes, paint, pipe cleaners, and hot glue.

For more pictures of this project--and a little bit more on how these items were used--please visit its posting on cutoutandkeep.net here!

Next project from me will be my "Afraid of Rats" pumpkin.

Ear Bud Earrings

This craft was inspired by one I found on cutoutandkeep.net. The original can be found here. For my version, you will need a pair of old earbuds that you don't want anymore, scissors, xacto knife, two hook earrings, and hot glue. I started by cutting the buds off, leaving a little of the excess wire on them. Using the xacto knife, I carefully--and I can't emphasize enough how carefully--opened up some of the white casing, exposing the copper wire underneath. Once I had a suitible length of wire exposed, I cut off the slit casing. I then threaded the wire of one earbud through the opening at the bottom of one of the hook earrings. I pulled the wire through and down, twisting it around the otherside. I then secured it in place with a dab of hot glue. I did the same for the other bud.

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Masquerade Mask

Another one of my "older" crafts. This was done for the Vampire Halloween Masquerade party I held in 2008. I used a lot of materials for this: wooden dowel, cut to wanted length; black acrylic paint, red acrylic paint, red glitter, colored jewels, 3 red feathers, hot glue, fake eye lashes, spray glue, hot glue, red ribbon, black ribbon, red fabric rose, black fabric rose, full cover mask.

First I painted the mask all over black, with the exception of the eyeshadow areas and lips. I think I had to do a couple of coats to get the color of black I wanted. I then painted the eyes and lips...again doing a few coats until I achieved the right color. After drying, I sprayed the mask with the spray glue and sprinkled the amount of red glitter I wanted on it. Again, after drying, I glued the jewels on to give the appearance of crying blood, using hot glue. I glue the three feathers on the forehead with hot glue to give the apearance of a saloon girl's headband. I put red glitter on the clump of hotglue used to hold the feathers on to disguise it some. I sprayed some of the spray glue into a paper plate, dipped the adhesive eyelashes in it, and applied them in the appropriate spot. I then evened out the red and black ribbon, reserving some of the red, on either side and hotglued them on to resemble the pigtailed hairstyle. I hotglued the red rose on top of one set, and the black on the other. I then painted the dowel black, hotglued the red ribbon on it in a spiral, and then hot glued it onto it.

Holiday 2008 Ornament

This is the ornament I did for Slinky last year. I did one for all my friends, using their favorite colors...or colors that fit them, in Slink's case. The materials I used were colored plastic beads, white sparkly pipe cleaners (they have a real name for the craft kind...I just can't remember it), red ribbon, hot glue.

The making of this ornament is simple. Take two pipe cleaners and twist one end together a little. Then, take two beads and put one on each one of the pipe cleaners. Twist the pipe cleaners together a litle bit above the beads, and repeat. You can do any pattern you want with the beads. As you can see, I chose to do two of like colors side by side and to alternate colors each turn.


Photo by Slinky.