DIY Christmas Fun for Hues n Shades

I was asked to make a Christmas ornament or some kind of do it yourself for x-mas.

I decided to show how to make a line with clips for Christmas cards.

What you need is wooden laundry clips, some kind of string (about 1.5 to 2 meters) acrylic paint, read, white, black, green and yellow. White glitter if you want. 

First I take few wooden laundry clips, about 20 pieces.

First I  take the half of the clips and start with red color, paint Santa´s jacket and Santa´s cap

then I make his beard and the fur edge of his cap with white color and the dusk too.

Next is to paint his face with skin tone.

Next step is to paint the other half of the clips green.

I do add red and yellow dots for lights and then I paint a yellow star on top of the clips

Next step is to paint dots for eye and nose and add a little red color for mouth in the beard.

Then I add a little glitter on the white color of Santa´s cap.

and this is how I hang my Christmas cards. 

This is the one I have. I do add this string between two nails on the wall (1 to 1.5 cm between) and hang all my Christmas cards one in each clips. This makes a beautiful Christmas decoration.

Sorry I don´t have picture of it hanging on my wall to show you but I hope this will do.

This is linked to Hues n Shades, Deepas world

Have a beautiful weekend

Namaste 

My doll is done and a wonderful girl bought two prints from my Etsy shop :) :)

It does not happen often but it did happen now....

Im sick, having a flue.

I hate being sick and not able to go to work, especial now when we, all the teachers and the staff are having a friend week at work and Im missing everything.... Im sad :(

This week I did sell two prints from my Etsy shop. It made me so happy because I have not been very active there, always forgetting to add new things out there. 

But now Im going to add new items in there as soon as I have made them :)

It would make me very happy if you would take a visit one day, just to see what I have there and maybe share my shop with your friends.

After sewing my doll, filling her up and adding the clay I painted her black, I found it a little strange but after adding other colors I saw how cool it looked. 

Here you can see how se look, kind of like her face but Im going to make a new skirt, think it will look better if I make her wear skirt in bright colors.

If you missed my last post you can see it now because there Im showing the process of making the doll.

My ETSY shop

Have a wonderful weekend where ever you are and a happy PPF

Namaste

How to add your artwork to a candle..

I have got many question about how I make my candles with my artwork so Im going to try to show you how I do. Hope you follow, my english is far from perfect but Ill try.. :)

This is what I use:

candle

siscours

tape

copy paper

silk paper

heat gun.. 

and 

a waxpaper 

see next photo..

The waxpaper, I forgot to add him to the first photo...

I take the copy paper and the silk paper and tape the silk paper on to the copy paper.

You can see the tape on the left side, I only tape it one side.

Next I take it to my printer and make sure that you are having the silk paper big enough for your photo and that the printer is going to print on the silk paper side.

Yes.. the silk paper drinks my ink... and Yes I did have to take my printer apart once so tape the silk paper nicely and add tape all the way not only in the middle.

Now I have printed my artwork on the silk paper and the next step is to cut the lady out..

It is good to leave few mm white in the bottom and 1-2 mm on the top 

I dont know what this is called but Im going to call it heat gun.

You see the tine white line on the top

I place my photo on the candle and wrap the wax paper around tight, but only one round.. 

Here I did have to move my hand to take the photo but I do hold the paper tight so my photo does not move. You can see where the wax has begun to melt from the wax paper, I did start above her eye.

I I do work like this till the wax has melted all the way, be careful, not come to close to the candle with you heat gun, If the candle is getting to much heat it will start melt and we don´t want that to happen. You can stop and move your fingers over your picture and start again, nothing will happen. Do the edge well. 

Da..ra.. remove the wax paper

And it is ready....

These I did yesterday, going to take them to the gallery. 

You are welcome to leave a message and tell me what you think :)

On the right you can see a badged from the class I have signed up to for next year. It is called Soul Food and is hosted by Mystele, Jeanette and Heater and I think it is going to be a wonderful class with lot of interesting teachers. If you click on the little beautiful bird it will take you to the class page where you can read about the class.

Happy PPF to all of you ;)