My Three Angels

Well, here they are.  My next project.  They are 3 angels I rescued from a Dollar Tree store.  As you can tell, they are whitish and brownish and altogether boringish.  So let's get to work.

First order of business is to select colors.  I decide to be quite vibrant.  They will not be a uniform color but all different.  Orange.  Purple.  Green.

They all got the base white paint cover, then I painted the wings a metallic white with a little blue in it.  The dresses are painted of pearlized acrylic craft paint.  I learned a very valuable lesson here.  Pearlized paint needs a base undercoat of the color you want, otherwise you are painting layer after layer after layer of pearl to get the color solid.  Once this was done, I was ready for the details.


Little Miss Orange Angel got dots on her wings, dots on her sleeves, dots on her little dove, who also got a gold beak and brown eyes.  The original face had these slanted impressions for eyes.  I filled them up and added dot eyes and a mouth.  I hard a hard time with making uniform eyebrows, so I made them out of dots.  It works.  Gloss black paint for her hair and a nice red mouth.

 



 

For the bottom of her dress, I did more and  more dots, some strait and some in a zig-zag. You may also see some little rhinestones I added for sparkle.  And here she is all finished.

 

 

Little Miss Green Angel got dashes on her wings and more dots on her sleeves and collar.  The star was painted with metallic gold.

 

 

Her dress got a star pattern, big and small, with rhinestones added for sparkle.

 

 

 

On the bottom I did a three color "flame."  Not sure it worked, but there it is.  And here is Little Miss Green Angel all finished.

 

 

I really went bonkers with the dots on Little Miss Purple Angel. 

 

 

The book now has a brown cover, gold edging on the leaves, and on the page I added some gold notes to the white enamel.  When I first started this swirl, I wasn't sure it was going to look ok, but I just kept adding more and more color, green stippling, yellow dots and pink dots.  I like it.

 

 

On the other side of the swirl, I painted dot flowers and put rhinestones in the middle of them.

 

 

And here is Little Miss Purple angel all finished.

 

 

I found some small jewelry clamps that I thought might look like feathers.  I folded them over and glued them on to look like feathers in their hair.

All finished, before and after.  I think it's an improvement. 


Easter is coming.  Those two other bunnies from last year are calling my name.

Festival of Trees 2015

I'm back, and I'm sure you are all really, really curious to know how my Festival of Trees for 2015 worked out.  So here goes.  I got the wreath from on-line.  It was only 24 inches, because that is what the instructions said to make it, but there were plenty of wreaths that were bigger than that at the Festival.  I could have made a 36 inch wreath, no problem.  Oh, well.

 

Consequently, the door they gave us was tall and thin.  I could hardly reach to put the wreath on the hanger.  As it turned out, this was actually a good thing.  By the time we got the quilt set up it needed to be that tall.

I found this highway sign at Hobby Lobby in Idaho Falls when I went home for Thanksgiving.  Someone actually asked me where I had got that old sign.  I almost hated to break his bubble.  Hobby Lobby.

Let's see if we can get a close up of the wreath.

This might be a little fuzzy because I blew it up, but it should give you an idea.  There are eight little cars, fun bulbs, Blue ribbon and this big drippy thing I found at JoAnn's fabrics and a bunch of little route 66 and car travel stickers.  Those I actually had to glue on.

 

Here are close ups of a couple of cars on the wreath.  I really wish I'd taken better pictures of the orange tanker.  I used decals that were intended for skin tattoos.  It's fun what you can find when you are not really looking. 

 

 

Dad had also given me an ebony truck with a handrail tanker.  These I sprayed clear.  The green truck, tractor and trailer I made as a matching set.  I think they turned out very cute.

 

 

Here we both are.  All done setting it up and pleased as punch with how it turned out.  The night of the auction, it didn't sell right away, but it did sell that night for at least $475.00.  That's about what we put into it, financially.  The hours could not be counted.  Neither can the life of a small child.

 

 

Now, I wasn't going to do a Festival of Trees for 2016.  I was going to concentrate on supporting the Washakie Medical Center in Worland, Wyoming, where my brother is the CEO, which I still plan to do with the figurines I repaint.  However, I got an idea:  a wonderful, horrible, awful idea.  And it started with this...  Would someone please cut up my credit card!!!!

To be continued - in a few months.