I did nothing but paint ornaments, and clean out my closet just enough to find a paintbrush to paint the ornaments today. The closet adventure is more than one should safely take on but I am too cheap to go buy another brush, when there are likely 100, or so, in THE CLOSET. I am going to post these ornaments and if anyone wants a play by play on their construction, I suppose I could put one together. The basics~~~
What I used:
*2 pounds of Crayola air dry clay
*2 oz. bottles of black, white, red, flesh color (or clesh according to Sophie), and a metallic brown.
*fairy sprinkles
*an exacto knife
*one girl hand (right) and one boy hand (left)
*Black Sharpie and a Red Sharpie (I capitalize the Sharpies to show reverence. I am in love with them.)
*the elusive paint brush (and I used an eyeliner brush from an old eyeliner)
*A fondant roller 1/4 inch
*shiny Modge Podge (I need to brave the closet to find a wash brush. I am scared.)
* parchment paper
*straw to poke the holes
*Christmas ribbons and red sparkly cord. Not on them yet.
I rolled these suckers out 3 days ago. Forced the poor children to make 16 acceptable handprints each. Flynn had to make a few extras. I cut them out around the prints with the exacto. It took 3 days to dry enough to paint them. Mostly because I didn't feel like painting them until today but it is probably good I waited.
Here is a view of the monstrosity of this project. This is just the end product. We also suffered a few mishaps, as is the usual in this house. Sophie tried to paint her furniture before we got started. Flynn drew a mural on his bedroom wall while I was ignoring him and painting. I would share a pic but I made him Magic~ally Erase it all already. Sophie ended up sent to her room and Flynn followed to make his artistic statement.
I just love the way they turned out. I stole the Santa idea from a pin, on Pinterest, and I made up the reindeer one because the ones I Googled look ugly and challenged. I am pretty sure they never won ANY reindeer games. Darrell thinks these reindeer look happy to see me, but I don't really care. They should be happy to see me since I gave them the very eyes on their smug little faces.
The two white ones are the rejects. Flynn was far less then cooperative with my mission. He did not appreciate my vision. Sophie was far more cooperative and interested in this project. She participated quite a bit, including covering most of my dining room, herself, me and her dad with fairy dust.
Sophie did her very own and there is no surprise that hers is mostly pink and sparkles. I am so honored for hers to grace my tree. She is so awesome. She also told me she doesn't like her skin color because it isn't "clesh" enough. LMFBO!!!
Tomorrow I seal them and add the ribbons. I will put final pics on that are taken in far better lighting. 9 P.M. on a Monday just doesn't offer great photography lighting.
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| Final Product minus Modge Podge and ribbon. |
What I used:
*2 pounds of Crayola air dry clay
*2 oz. bottles of black, white, red, flesh color (or clesh according to Sophie), and a metallic brown.
*fairy sprinkles
*an exacto knife
*one girl hand (right) and one boy hand (left)
*Black Sharpie and a Red Sharpie (I capitalize the Sharpies to show reverence. I am in love with them.)
*the elusive paint brush (and I used an eyeliner brush from an old eyeliner)
*A fondant roller 1/4 inch
*shiny Modge Podge (I need to brave the closet to find a wash brush. I am scared.)
* parchment paper
*straw to poke the holes
*Christmas ribbons and red sparkly cord. Not on them yet.
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| Flynnie The Red Nose Reindeers (Darrell thinks the noses look happy to see me.) |
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| Sophie Clauses |
I rolled these suckers out 3 days ago. Forced the poor children to make 16 acceptable handprints each. Flynn had to make a few extras. I cut them out around the prints with the exacto. It took 3 days to dry enough to paint them. Mostly because I didn't feel like painting them until today but it is probably good I waited.
Here is a view of the monstrosity of this project. This is just the end product. We also suffered a few mishaps, as is the usual in this house. Sophie tried to paint her furniture before we got started. Flynn drew a mural on his bedroom wall while I was ignoring him and painting. I would share a pic but I made him Magic~ally Erase it all already. Sophie ended up sent to her room and Flynn followed to make his artistic statement.
I just love the way they turned out. I stole the Santa idea from a pin, on Pinterest, and I made up the reindeer one because the ones I Googled look ugly and challenged. I am pretty sure they never won ANY reindeer games. Darrell thinks these reindeer look happy to see me, but I don't really care. They should be happy to see me since I gave them the very eyes on their smug little faces.
The two white ones are the rejects. Flynn was far less then cooperative with my mission. He did not appreciate my vision. Sophie was far more cooperative and interested in this project. She participated quite a bit, including covering most of my dining room, herself, me and her dad with fairy dust.
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| Sophie, age 4 |
Sophie did her very own and there is no surprise that hers is mostly pink and sparkles. I am so honored for hers to grace my tree. She is so awesome. She also told me she doesn't like her skin color because it isn't "clesh" enough. LMFBO!!!
Tomorrow I seal them and add the ribbons. I will put final pics on that are taken in far better lighting. 9 P.M. on a Monday just doesn't offer great photography lighting.
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