"Forever Young" - ink on paper.

[grammardog]

I made this tonight as a gift for my best friend's upcoming baby. I haven't drawn anything in many years and have never been good at it, but this was a satisfying experiment. I have been thinking for a few months about how to incorporate this Bob Dylan verse into some kind of baby gift for her and her husband. (It's a few lines from the great Forever Young. My friend and her husband are both bananas for folk music, and this song is the sweetest wish ever for a new person in the world, so it seemed like a good fit.) I was thinking about doing some kind of paper cut, but couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to do or how. Then I happened across this on Pinterest and felt inspired by the wavy lines of text and the graphics interspersed with the text, so I appropriated those ideas and went to town. (If anyone knows who did that work, by the way, I'd love to credit them properly! UPDATE: The original work is by libre_versalita of Flickr!) I don't know how these kinds of posters are actually created... probably using Photoshop? But like a chump, I did mine by hand with a Sharpie pen and watercolour paper:



( A few close-ups under here... )

I also handcut the mat for the frame! I feel very craft-capable tonight.

Like a dummy, I made this for someone who lives in California. Jeez. How am I going to mail it without it smashing into a million pieces?

Roses And Moonlight

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My name is Star Ultranova (well, my artist name is. My real name...IS A MYSTERY!) and I'm a budding jewelry artist. I'm here to share some of my creations with you. All of my creations can also be found in my journal. I will be submitting these to various art galleries around my area and state.

This one is my proudest work so far. It is called Roses And Moonlight and took about a day to complete. Most of my pendants are from Blue Moon Beads. The roses are from a discontinued Horizon Groups line called Black Lace.

Houndstooth Headband

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A week or so ago, a friend of mine brought up the idea of getting together to make headbands. Yesterday was the day and we had fun going to Hobby Lobby and Michaels picking out our materials! We got back late in the evening and I only had time to finish one headband, but we are going to get together again this week to make a few more. This one I made has a plain, thin metal frame with a big houndstooth-fabric-ribbon bow. I then put some vintage buttons in the center of the bow. I love the way it turned out. Look below and be inspired:

two questions

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

1:
So I have these headphones & long story short, they're cheaply made & frayed very quickly. I was thinking of taking off the little doggies (since they aren't glued very securely anyway) & turning them into earrings, but I'm at a loss on how to attach backings. Any ideas?

2:
Also, since I'm in a kind of crafty mood, I have another question. I was out shopping and saw a photo frame with some Halloweeny themed embroidery on it (like very simple. Just "Happy Halloween" and a pumpkin). What would be the best way of going about re-creating it? I wanted to buy it for a friend, but the photo I wanted to put in it isn't the right orientation, which is why I want to re-create it. Should I just get some cloth, embroider it & then glue it to some mat board & put it in the frame?


Sorry, I'm not good at being clear. There was a piece of cloth embroidered in place of the mat, and then that was within a frame

Thanks!

Fabric pinecones

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A fun way to use up all those little scraps of fabric you have lying around! I give you: FABRIC PINECONES.

These are the ones I made. I had a bunch of 1" fabric squares, so I used 2" and 1" styrofoam balls. I think i might tie a ribbon on them and hang them from our tree.

fabric pinecones!


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Finished Quilt

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I posted previously about a almost finished quilt my friend gave me. Well, I picked out the binding fabric based on your guys suggestions, and I finished the binding this weekend. Which happened to remind why I hate binding quilts in the first place!

Sorry about the large size for the photos.

( Pictures under the cut! )