Tag: hand painted

Winnie the Pooh Baby Shower

Hello friends!  Last month was a very busy month for me and I know that I had mentioned a couple of times that I had some things that I was working on “behind the scenes”, so I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing.

At the end of last year, my son surprised us with the news of a new grandchild coming!  A few months ago, I was asked to help with some decorations for their baby shower and of course I wanted to help!  Here’s a photo of the soon-to-be parents in front of a back drop that my husband cut out and I hand painted.  My husband and I also put together the balloons around it:

You may also notice, on the couple, they’re wearing a corsage that I made for each of them to wear.  My son wasn’t too thrilled about wearing it, but he humored his mom.  LOL

On the left white panel, There are hexagon shelves that my husband put together and there are wooden letters of the baby’s name.  I decorated each of the letters with Winnie the Pooh papers and characters.  I wish I had taken a better photo of them, but I tried to zoom in a photo with the gallery below.

You can see how tall each of the panels are.  My son is over 6 foot tall.  I don’t paint much, so painting something this large was a big undertaking, but I enjoyed the labor of love doing all of these things for them.

  • Below you can see all of things that I’ve made for the baby shower and there is a brief description with each photo explaining what it is.  If you are on my website, please click on each photo to enlarge it and scroll just beneath it to read the description:
The full backdrop when finished with 3 large wooden panels cut out by my husband and hand painted by me. I added a hexagon stencil pattern with paint on the yellow arch panel. Eeyore and the bee were cut out from computer print and attached to a foam cut out by hand.
Left back drop panel with hexagon shelves. Each hexagon has the wooden letters of baby’s name that I decorated with Winnie the Pooh characters and papers. This photo is really blown up because I didn’t capture a good photo of the letters.
We made a large “hundred acre wood” sign that my husband cut out and placed in a clay pot. I used paper covered chipboard for the “welcome” and stenciled with black paint on the rest. The Winnie the Pooh character with all of the balloons was cut out from a computer print and flipped with each side on a cut out black foam piece. We staked it in the ground and attached the balloons around it. We made 5 different characters to line the drive.
This is one of three different prints that we had done on poster size that was hand cut out and placed on a foam board. To make the characters stand up, my husband made a wooden stand with slots wide enough to fit the cut outs with the foam board. Since the front of the wood showed when the characters were upright, I covered the wood with moss by gluing it to the wood that showed. This character is on a table about 16″ x 20″ large. (I didn’t get good photos of these either!)
I made 15 center pieces by painting the yellow honey drip over a clay pot. I also added some glitter paint over it and added the “hunny” letters. I printed and cut out the bees and attached them with wire to stick inside the pots with the fake flowers. I added some moss at the bottom to cover up the foam used inside to stick the flowers in. I covered the bee’s wings with glitter too.
For each of the center pieces, we added a charger plate underneath each one so the couple could add candies for each of the tables.
These are the corsages that I made for the mommy and daddy to be. I used the Cricut to cut the tie pattern from cardstock and then added some glitter papers, ribbon and cut out a cute Winnie the Pooh to go above the lettering. I had some wooden bee embellishments and added a pin on the back to attach the clothing with.
I made 50 of these pacifier necklaces for the party. I cut out the image with a circle punch, added the glitter scallop punch layer behind it. I used some green yarn to tie around the blue acrylic pacifier decoration and attached the image over it with hot glue. I also attached a ribbon bow as well as a blue gem in the center. The rule of the game was if anyone was crossing their legs, arms, hands, etc. they collected a necklace from someone else. Whoever collected the most necklaces won the game. (It was funny to watch everyone playing the game! I lost mine really fast!)
I made 50 of these hexagon tags and personalized sticker on top with the name and date for a party gift. Inside the jar was real honey combs from a local area.

They put in so much work having this baby shower with lots of food, yummy desserts and drinks.  I know with all of the set up and cleaning up they were wore out!  We were also wore out when it was finished up.  LOL  Now it’s just the waiting to meet the newest member of the family by the end of this month.  We are certainly looking forward to it!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my post today…and now you can see why I’ve had “BEEs” on my mind lately! LOL  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Art Journal Journey Host for February

Hello friends!  I have some really exciting news to share today!🎉  I’m so honored to have been asked to host this month’s challenge for  ART JOURNAL JOURNEY!  The winter months can be not only very cold over my way, but dark days with less sunlight hours can really take a toll sometimes.  I’m always searching for something at this time of the year and so I thought it only appropriate to help with that for this month…

The theme that I have chosen for this month is “LIGHT“.  Light can have so many different meanings and so many different ways to interpret it.  Here are a few examples to get you thinking:
1. sun, moon, stars, candle. lantern, bulb, illuminate
2. colors (subtle or subdued tones or shades)
3. an idea (‘shedding some bright light on a subject’)
4. interpretations (light as a feather, light snowflakes, let your heart be light, let your light shine, etc)

* Please be sure to catch the rules to enter on the left sidebar of the challenge blog* 

Here is my starting inspiration for this month’s theme:

I’ve started my page with a 5.5″x8.5″ canvas paper with pre-punched holes at the top using a Zutter machine. 

For the background:  Pulling out a white, black, grey, yellow and light yellow acrylic paints, I found the center point where I wanted it and painted my yellow spot.  I worked with each color while it was still wet to help it blend together.  I worked outward with the light yellow, then white, then grey and finally the black.  Some of it needed to blended in with the next color, so I just worked it back and forth until I got the look I wanted. 

After the blends were dry, I used the detail brushes to create the light bulb and cord.  I drew/painted the lightbulb in the center of the yellow and worked around from there and lastly added my black cord hanging down.  It’s hard to tell in the photo, but I covered the bulb with a glitter brush pen application to give it sparkle.  (I have never done a page that was completely hand painted…so this was a challenge for sure!)

The Dumbledore quote was added with a white gel pen.  One of my favorite quotes.

  • I hope you enjoyed my approach to the “LIGHT” theme and you’ve been inspired to create something in your art journal today!  I can’t wait to see how everyone interprets it!
  • I will be posting several art journal pages throughout the month with this theme, so please be sure to stay tuned in to see more inspiration with it!

I’m sure you’re used to seeing only one monthly art journal page from me, but this month will be filled with several of them throughout and I hope it helps inspire you to bring some LIGHT to your creation in some way.  

Hope you have a brightly filled day!  Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

  1. Crafting from the Heart – Anything Goes
  2. We Love to Create – Anything Mixed Media/Paper Goes
  3. Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
  4. Penny’s Paper-Crafty- Anything Goes