Spring Fling 2013: Treetop Creature Shop *Lots of photos* *Loading time*

Good morning folks!

Last night was the deadline for entry to the Greenleaf 2013 Spring Fling and today we get to reveal our builds.

I have not had a lot of time to go through photos and plan my writing yet I will make a nice video slideshow today and discuss the build in future posts but you fine folks get the first look!

I present to you the:                       

Treetop Creature Shop

The concept for this build began back in the end of June where my fine friend Jenny of Darksideofaminiaddict and I discussed building our flings together. We brainstormed off of each other our entire build and worked side by side..a few hundred miles apart ;P

  

My first question to her was..should I do another treehouse, and would it be crazy? Also should I make a pet shop???... And Jenny has cheered me on ever since ;) Huggggsss!!

  

Everything in this build was handmade, refur'bashed dollar store furniture or balsa wood. Homeade paper clay and some papier-mâché..Obviously all the creatures are polymer clay..*shocker*.. and a lot of bits and pieces are from swaps and gifts from you friends around the world.

 

You will see a lot of the sneak peeks are pieces that I though I should focus on since they are sooooo small ;P... on the table made by gal pal Jenny

 

Other pieces you would never see unless I point them out or you see it in person. Jana sent me this amazing shelf and books that I decorated and incorporated into the build

 

A few of you gals have seen parts of the creations and know of my dedication and struggle via a few jokes ;P

 

Ok so on with the show ...these are scenes from decoration and finishing some construction.................

 

 

 

Michaels refur'bashed hutches..more in future posts 

 

 

A assembly of findings from Mary!  

 

Leather book 

 

Shelf and book by Jana 

 

resin bottles remade 

 

Dragon eggs

 

tree dude 

 

Griffon 

 

the rat 

 

Golden Goose 

 

Demon Cat 

 

Frog dude 

 

Alchemy Supplies

 

Sprite 

 

Tree creature 

 

Triple thick water splashes 

 

 

 

The Phoenix! 

 

Hope you enjoyed this romp into my mind! More details to come

 

Hugs around, Jane!

 

 

 

 

 



Jack-o'-lantern notes and me as Faora-Ul

Greetings!

We are close to Halloween now and a lot of people are making wonderful pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns for the season.

I will not go into a full tutorial as you can find quite a few good ones out there. I though I would just note a few thoughts.

While there are a few methods of using air dry clay and polymer clay the main two will be using tin foil or a marble.

 

The tinfoil method involves lightly crumpling tinfoil into a  ball or oval, you can also use a corkscrew so that it is easier to remove the foil after baking.

 

The tinfoil method is better for making oblong shapes and this way you can create a solid pumpkin without having to glue two sides.

 

I still prefer the marble method myself. I think searching out different shaped glass marbles next year will be my style.

 

A large medium or small marble is covered with a thin layer of clay. 

 

In this shot I, I am using a thin layer of glow in the dark clay first then covering that with the orange clay.

 

When doing your "carving" you may prefer to indent your face first if you have trouble with symmetry or position.

 

But basically this method is the same, cut your face out, line a perfect circle around the entire marble and then after you bake you will remove off the marble and glue the two sides back together.

 

A little paint along the lines and edges to give it more depth.

 

These few here are just some quick scraps but you can see they are all hallow and decently sturdy.

 

You can add your little flickering lights to them.

 

Or as I did with a thin layer of glow clay, have them smile in the dark at you;P

 

I encourage you all to try making your own jack-o'-lanterns with these simple methods.

 

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Now time to be embarrassed for eternity!

 

...here you go NSA... and time to feed the trolls... enjoy :P

 

 

 

Dressing up like a big dork: Halloween for us fanaticus...s

Good day good folk of the globe!

Halloween will be coming around the bend for us here in the fanaticus household soon and I thought I would show you folks some of the geek..that I am.

Anywhooooooooo, My daughter chose to be Lagoona Blue from Monster high: shocker right? ;P

We bought this complete costume already and I will be making a necklace and a few accessories that did not come with the kit:

My husband and I are also going to dress up this year...OMG!

So we decided to fly our geek flags high and buy costumes from "Man of Steel" The new superman movie. My hubby will be Superman: The good guy

 

I will be Faora-Ul: The bad gal...Ohhhh geesh....

 

Let me tell you folks..this *bioootch* is skin tight! Needless to say I have been surviving on air, water and good thoughts for the last three days, just to have the gall to wear this bad boy!

The suit came pretty basic, what you see and what you get are not exactly accurate, the suit appears to have armor..but not really.. its printed to the SPANDEX FRIGGEN SUIT!!!.. yeah..spandex.

So in order to use my crafting skills and keep being a nerd.. I started to create armor like they do at Comicon. EVA foam..aka Craftfoam.

I just marked up some paper patterns, cut out foam layered and dented...and dappled them in steel paint and hot glued them to corresponding panels on the suit.

It turned out pretty badass< that right I said it!

I am going to wear it for three days/ events and parties, if my resolve holds..and I guess if the ass of the suit holds as well;P

 

Shall I post a picture of myself in the suit..to be immortalized in embarrassment for eternity?? Let see how much wine it takes to squeeze me into it:P