a time to Spheal
I made Dave this little needle-felted Spheal as a Christmas present and I want to show it off.
It took a couple of tries to get his eyes right but I LOVE HOW HE CAME OUT!
sarah does crafts
painting day
Now the weather is warmer I can do some acrylic pour paintings in the garage at last!
I poured this one over an older one I didn’t like, I think it came out pretty good!
This one I’m not sure about, but I do like the gold/yellowy bits.
a new acrylic pour
Over the weekend I tried REALLY hard to do a successful acrylic pour on canvas. I tried over and over and wasted half the day (and loads of paint). While 100% on the verge of giving up I tried one more time:
Out of the unholy mess I made came something I actually like!
I think it looks a little bit like a lake from above.
My first ever successful acrylic pour on a canvas!
It’s still early days but I’m starting to get the hang of it. For this I used paint, water, Liquitex pouring medium, and WD40. (That stuff is AMAZING for creating cells.)
Painty stuff
I’ve been trying acrylic pouring recently. So far there’s been more disasters than successes. The only two pieces I’ve made that I’m happy with are this one,
which I gave to a friend and this one-
which wasn’t good at all until I threw gold stuff all over it, and now it’s hanging up in the bathroom.
But the good thing about acrylic pouring is that no matter what goes on the canvas you at least get a nice pattern of paint you can peel off of what your canvas was sitting on and use for something else. So that’s what I decided to do. I took a bunch of acrylic “skins” and cut them up and put ’em in resin! That’s how I got this…
It’s a colourful little Darth Vader! Didn’t expect him to come out this well at all.
There’s a few air bubble holes but they can be fixed!
Blathers!
Today is my husband’s birthday so over the past couple of weeks I’ve been needle felting him a Blathers from Animal Crossing.
It’s not GREAT but it’s still the best needle felting I’ve ever done.
The real Blathers for comparison:
“You Be Crafsman!”
The Crafsman held a YouTube contest where folks could make their own Crafsman puppet or do his voice. And I needle felted a little Crafsman and look, I’m in the video! I’m at 2:13!
It’s FAR from the best one, but I like him!
Things I have made recently
A little rundown of recent craft projects.
Another Cyborg Space Dad. This one isn’t nearly as good, though. He has bubble marks. :/
A necklace for one of my friends
These will be earrings eventually. In the meantime they look quite nice.
Assorted other necklaces! Terrible photo quality but what do you reckon?