Another Star Trek craft this week. For a swap, we were tasked in making stuffies of Star Trek characters in the style of marshmallow peeps. I am not a sewer, but I gave it a shot and ended up making two.
More photos, including close-ups, below…
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Jun 2014
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Jun 2014
As I seem to be in a Star Trek mood during this part of the month… I might as well take advantage of that with my craft posts (I think I missed the last scheduled one; oops!)
Here are some Star Trek ornaments I made last year for a swap. My partner said she liked The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine the best, so I made ornaments inspired by com communicator badges from both those series.
One is a stuffie, made of felt, the other made of sparkly pipe cleaners.
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May 2014
I made these ATCs for the Pixar in a Bag fandom swap in February. I used USPS stamps, obviously, and drew the backgrounds. Caution: I’m not too good at drawing! LOL
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May 2014
I’ve folded some Doctor Who cranes as extras in Doctor Who swaps:
You can make your own!
The paper: http://wheresthetardis.tumblr.com/post/5451135159/doctor-who-origami-maybe
(There are lots of other great patterns out there if you search around)
Origami tutorial: http://fliiby.com/file/587815/ewijf88eh6.html
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Mar 2014
Here are the other two ATCs I made during the same swap as Good Luck Bear.
The rhyme I wrote:
What bear is warm,
Jolly, and smart?
Look out for a charm
from Tenderheart!
Jolly, and smart?
Look out for a charm
from Tenderheart!
And Grumpy’s rhyme:
Just because he’s
Grumpy Bear
Doesn’t mean
He doesn’t care!
Grumpy Bear
Doesn’t mean
He doesn’t care!
I had a lot of fun with these, as you have probably guessed 😉
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Mar 2014
In honor of St. Paddy’s Day, here’s an early craft post.
For this swap, each person posted the name of a favorite Care Bear and we had to make ATCs accordingly. Here’s the one I made of Good Luck Bear.
I made the background, carefully cut out the bear, and wrote the little rhyme myself:
As long as you
Are good and kind
This bear will bring
You luck, you’ll find!
Are good and kind
This bear will bring
You luck, you’ll find!
For the other two Care Bear ATCs I made, stay tuned on next Thursday for my regularly-scheduled craft post.
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Mar 2014
This was my first matchbox book. My partner really liked Disney, so that’s the theme I went with when making it. The drawers open up to reveal Disney stickers. I recolored the photo slightly to work with the background paper color scheme.
How do you make a double matchbox book? It’s pretty simple. Cut out paper that’s a little more than twice as long as two matchbooks, lay the matchboxes out and paste the paper so it looks like a book. Then decorate. I followed this tutorial when making mine.
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Feb 2014
Last year, the swap-bot Doctor Who group had a swap to send a Doctor Who-themed card and a package of sweet treats. This is what I came up with…
Adipose card envelope for the card. And a box shaped like a book that I painted to look like River’s diary, only with blue hearts instead of blue squares on the front.
The card, however, was completely “Partners in Crime” episode-themed. The little baby adipose is another stamp I bought from dragonflycurls.
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Jan 2014
This is one of only a few matchbox crafts I’ve done. This one is based off The Secret World of Arrietty, a Studio Ghibli movie based off The Borrowers. I obviously used an orange-red theme and a mix of sewing and nature imagery. The yellow pin is like the one Arrietty uses in the movie. As it’s a matchbox to hold Arrietty’s Treasures, I included a lot of little items she might find useful.
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Jan 2014
Every time I join a new artist trading card series on swap-bot, I try to come up with a new look or style for the cards. Here are the ones I made for the most recent Supernatural character ATC series.
I started with a white background and my Supernatural tattoo rubber stamp, one of my best investments ever, created by dragonflycurls on Etsy.
I decided to keep the black & white look by going grayscale for all of them. I picked one photo of each character and then 2-4 smaller images that represent the character in some way. I cut them as best I could, so there was no whitespace around the edges of each image. The result looked pretty good, especially together as a group:
On the backs, I put another image of the character, in color this time. This was especially fun for characters like Meg and Ruby who then got to be represented one way on the front of the card and with a different “meat suit” on the back of the card.
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