Hello my darlings,
Today I would like to share with you Alice in Wonderland Decorative Wreath project.
I even recorded the process video, so you'll be able to replicate this one if you'd like...
I picked up summer wreath at Michaels (on clearance)
Rabbit ears & tail + Witch Hat - Halloween costume from Walmart
Some floral from Hobby Lobby and Dollar store
Dry swirls from old aroma decor bouquet that I picked up at Home Goods (long time ago... pss, still using parts of it for my projects)
Ribbons, wooden A, tussles, bling (Xmas ornament) from Hobby Lobby
Candle, decor butterflies - Dollar store
Clock - local thrift shop
Pick up some 20 Gage wire, paint (white and black) to color wooden letter A + sealer
Oh Mad hatter and Alice from toys department
I think that would be it....
I absolutely LOVE how it came out....
perfect size for my front door....
I am impressed myself.... LOL
Enjoy the process video and try to make your own!
Hugs & Kisses,
XO-XO-XO,
Natasha
Hello my friends,
today I would like to share with you my Floating Outdoor Frames a-la Alice in Wonderland.
Those frames are created with 4 Dollar tree plastic frames, printed images, old chipped tea cup, wire, ribbons (wired prefer), glue and some bling trim.
I did recorded process video in small step by step segments, so you can get an idea on how I made those:
I enjoyed making those and here are few pictures of display, that I used in my outdoor decoration
Hope you will give it a try and create your own beautiful outdoor party decor....
Hello my friends,
Today I want to share with you how I made waterproof outdoor Card of Hearts Soldiers
(unfortunately I couldn't do a video recording of process, but I will try to walk you through the process)
Supplies for this project:
2 - Large white foam boards (at the school department/boards for presentation/Dollar Tree);
1 - rectangular white table cloth (Dollar Tree);
2 - red 12" by 18" foam thin sheets (any craft store/mine from Hobby Lobby)
1 - white A4 foam thicker sheet (any craft store/mine 1/4" thick from Hobby Lobby)
Proportional template of Card of Hears Soldier you can find here.
Shipping Scotch tape; scissors; E6000 glue (craft store); cardboard (any shipping box); wire (any wire).
Lets get started:
1. Wrap your large foam boards with white table cloth and seal edges with scotch tape (2:50 time frame in the video).
2. Cut out of red foam (3:10 time frame in the video):
- 2 pcs of Head/Face (1st just a solid shape & 2nd as a solid shape + flip heart element for the nose. Att!!! don't cut on fold line) see the template;
- 2 pcs of smallest heart (these will go in the opposite corners of your card under the numbers);
- ... pcs of medium hearts ("..." means - # of your card. Expl: if you are making Three of Heats, you need to cup 3 pcs).
- print # of your card using word document with font "MS Mincho" and size from 150 to 200 (#should be about 2" tall); cut out numbers; trace those on the foam and cut out.
3. Cut out of white foam: 1 pc of cheeks.
4. Take one of the red head foam pieces ( the one with flipping nose piece) and white foam cheeks.
- position your Head red heart piece upside down (pointy part of the heart up);
- flip nose cut UP and insert white foam cheeks inside opened flip (white heart positions correct way as a normal heart shape); close nose flip down on the white foam = you should have triple sandwich of the foam layers: red, white, red; (5:50 time frame in the video)
- adhere with E6000 all overlapping foam pieces.
5. Start adhering foam pieces to your wrapped large foam board (#1) with E6000 and putting some weight of top of adhered pieces (Expl: books/magazines)
I started with the Head/Face; you are going to create a sandwich of layers:
bottom layer - solid red Head/Face piece of foam + middle layer - body of the soldier (wrapped white foam board #1) + top/final layer of red Head/Face piece of foam with the nose #4.
Lets start:
- find middle of the shortest side of #1 and lay it down with front side up on the working surface (I did mine on the floor)
- take a solid shape (w/o nose cut out) of Head/Face red foam, apply E6000 all over it and place it under your soldier body #1 in the center with glue side up, slightly overlapping curved shapes of the heart with foam board;
- take #4 shape (Head/Face with cheeks), apply glue on the inside and place it on top of #1 body of the soldier & solid shape of the Face/Head trying to match all sides;
- adhere red foam #s in the opposite corners of the soldiers body (top left and bottom right);
- under numbers of the card adhere smallest heart shapes;
- equally redistribute middle size hearts (check on internet proper positioning of hearts according to the #) almost like buttons on the shirt;
- lay your soldier down on the floor, add protective layer of clear paper (just in case of glue goosing out) and press it with heavy weight books or magazines.
Let it dry over night ( or you can do #6 right the way).
6. Flip your soldier face down and adhere on the bottom back side all the way across L shape cardboard piece for a U shaped ground anchors and one or two smaller L shape flips somewhere in the middle of the body of your card soldier for the wire attachment (6:12 time frame in the video). Be sure let glue to set over night before putting your project on display.
Thank you so much for stopping by, hope it was helpful!
XO-XO-XO, Natasha
Hello my darlings!
Hope your Halloween was as splashy as mine....
I had a blast!
Lots of work though...
The outdoor decoration started to pile up just like that...
First to go was this gorgeous handmade wreath with working clock and candle by the way..
My puppies were watching me very carefully... If mom going to go bunkers, who is going to give us treats?
Second to go up this beautiful printed canvas background that I ordered on Amazon. We secured it with gorilla tape. Pss! you will need to pill it very carefully in order to save the paint on your house...
Than I placed Alice fouling down the hole handmade decoration (tutorial is coming up) in the corner... It looks just perfect...
Adding artificial roses that I picked up at Michaels: half red, half white..... And all the way on the back free walking flamingo.... Well, for now....
Lets put some Card soldiers on the both sides of the walk way... Hold on just a second, who is suppose to paint the bushes???
ME???
Well, what is next? Lets set up a Tea Party table...
Cupcakes, Drink Me funky bottles, miniature tea sets, hand painted pumpkins...
yummy!
Ooops, why is flamingo all tied up and looks like a croquet mallet? Who did it?
Well, well, well.... Look who is here.... Now that explains allot! The Red Queen herself is here...
Am I mad? I can't tell..........
I guess....
Moving along....
What else I can display???? Hmmmm....
How about Tea Party display in the window? That might look cool....
We have those cool sticking out windows, which are just perfect for that kind of display....
Below I used artificial cakes and cupcakes on real cake platter...
Tea party set up with tea pot, tea cup and mini characters from Alice in Wonderland cartoon finished this display nicely...
Ok, now what? Talking flowers????
Yep, perfect fit....
I will be posting a tutorial shortly on how to make this GIANT flowers.... The only missing part of it will be placing masks with eyes on it.
So let me briefly walk you though it: after flower is finished I drilled two holes on the bottom of plastic pot and fed through the rubber band from the mask, that I bought at Jo-Anns and adhered googly eyes (from Jo-Anns or you can find those even at Dollar Tree) with E-6000 + Glossy Accents
Well, is this flower talking to ME?
I can't hear a thing? Am I going death?
No. no way.. just did my physical ... everything was fine...
OMG, it was talking to the second flower.....
Well now it explains everything..
We are all going Down the Rabbit Hole (this altered frame is double sided). Tutorial is coming up...
ooph! I can smell that we are almost there.... Getting tired myself...
Lets hang something else on those tropical plants... Shall we?
Those paper balloons I brought from Japan.. And clock you can find here....
Looks so realistic. It's almost like I am in the movie....
Last preparations...
couple neon signs....
and WARNING plates....
And we are READY, SET, GO!!!
Time for pictures....
I absolutely LOVE how it came out....
Enjoy the process video and try to make your own!
