Friday, December 17, 2010
Make Silhouettes.
Our living room was looking a little barren so I decided to do some portraits of my roomies. It is very easy. I just prepped the canvases by putting down a base green coat. Then, I forced my roommates to pose for side profile pictures. Then I printed them out to scale and traced them. Painted the silhouette in with some black acrylic and done.
Make Mesa Verde Ruins.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Make toast shaped cakes.
So people have been telling me a lot lately that I should drop out of school and...
- become a movie star
- open a custom cake bakery
- become a prostitute
- work at McDonalds
- become a fashion designer
Brownie bread!
Make door window stair.
Make ATΩ Build a Bear
So every year there is a Build a Bear competition at Alpha Tau Omega. I entered last year with my bear, "Bearnormal Activity" (Refer to Paranormal Activity) and sadly did not win.
This year, I decided to test my luck again. I entered with "Bear Force One." I taped together an airplane out of cardboard and paper mached it. Then I painted it with my sorority letters. I also made an aviator hat with the same pattern at big/little reveal and a little leather bomber jacket. Finally, I cut up a t-shirt for the scarf.
Annnnddd guess what? I won! My sorority also won overall!
There were also some other great bears there: frat bear, free Weezy bear, cupcake bear...
This year, I decided to test my luck again. I entered with "Bear Force One." I taped together an airplane out of cardboard and paper mached it. Then I painted it with my sorority letters. I also made an aviator hat with the same pattern at big/little reveal and a little leather bomber jacket. Finally, I cut up a t-shirt for the scarf.
Annnnddd guess what? I won! My sorority also won overall!
There were also some other great bears there: frat bear, free Weezy bear, cupcake bear...
Make aviator hats.
So for big/little reveal, we have a whole week of surprises before our littles find out who their new family is. We make them goodies throughout the week.
So day 1, I snuck outside her dorm and chalked the sidewalk for her (with some help!)
So for the actual day of reveal, we come up with costumes for our littles. I came up with the idea of an aviator theme. We wore all black, purchased some white scarves, maybe some aviator sunglasses here and there. Then the hat. I found a tutorial on-line one morning. http://www.threadbanger.com/tb-projects/episode/THR_20091127/how-to-make-a-bomber-hat-threadbanger-projects
Make piggy bank.
Big Little Reveal was a time of a loooottttt of crafting. One of the items I made for my gorg., funny, perfect little was a piggy bank. I just went to Michaels and got one of those plain white, ceramic piggy banks.
1. The piggy banks are preglazed so you need to paint a lot of layers of your base coat. I chose green so I caked on green acrylic paint.
2. Then paint your design. I made my piggy a turtle because that is our mascot.
3. Once dried, paint on a clear glaze.
Super easy!
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