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Monday, May 12, 2008

BURST of Inspiration

AAAAaaahhh! Just ever so often I get so totally bored with life that I just suddenly have the need to create. It's much, MUCH more than a craving, it's really a neccesity that helps me recomit to my life as a Mother. You Mom's out there know...it's tough being a Mom. Sometimes you gotta just put the laundry down and do something that makes you happy. Today I painted, how REFRESHING! I loved Cole's expression in this lowsy picture I took of him and decided I would de-fuzz it with my skills. Not too bad for an hour of work. Two months ago I bought myself some mis-kit and finally broke it out and used it, along with all my other art supplies. Holy Cow I'd forgotten that I didn't own any real water color paints anymore. So this is my ode to Pentel.

7 comments:

kg said...: Fun!; May 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Wendy said...: you're awesome! I wish I had artistic talent like that.; May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Diana said...: Very nice!!; May 15, 2008 at 10:11 PM
TamBaum said...: I am so impressed!; May 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM
emily a. said...: You did this in an hour? It's fantastic. I love it! Keep it up.; May 16, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Angie Miller said...: You are too talented for your own good. One day you will implode with creativity and it will be our loss. :); May 19, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I love them. As a mom you really do have to just have a day that you let the kids run around and the house goes to pots and you do something else so you dont loose who you are. And you are so talented. Cant wait to see what else you do. Take Care; May 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM

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Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.