Tuesday, July 21, 2009

ghost board

I made this little felt picture of a ghost. You could do the same if you want, or go in a completely different direction. What you will need to make your own type felt and wood piece.
A board or some type of wood panel.
Material, fabric of your choosing. It should be cut at least an inch larger then your board on all sides. Example, if you have an 8inch by 10 inch board the material should be at least 10inches by 12inches.
Felt of different colors.
Staple gun and hot glue gun.
Marker light color or vanishing ink.
Instructions
Place the material face down. Put the board on the center of the fabric. Fold up the over hanging fabric tight against the board. Using the staple gun, attach the fabric to the board. The board is set. board
Draw on the felt you character, mine is the ghost. I drew it out onto the felt. Cut from felt.
cutting
A suggestion would be to piece together the character first before gluing everything together. This way you'll have a grasp of what the character will look like. Glue on the parts to your character. I glued on the ghosts mouth and eyes.
glueing
Last bit, glue the character to the board. That is it. You could hammer on some sort of mount so you could hang the board up.ghost

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

May craft

May past with no post. It doesn't mean i wasn't building or working. here is what i did in May.
I had to take a guitar on board an aeroplane. The only thing was that the case was not finished. It was bare, there was no padding to secure the guitar. this is what i did. i first made a template of the guitar by tracing around it onto cardboard. then i measured the lid of the case and purchased foam from Jo anns. the top was easy, i just cut the foam to fit. the bottom on the other hand was a bit tricky.
case
I cut and formed pieces to allow the guitar to fit snug. if i had to do it again i would have bought a yard and a half of 5inch foam and cut to fit the guitar in one piece. it would have been easier and tooken less time to complete. I hot glued some of the pieces together. It worked very well. thank you