Meet My Novel Friend {Faux Deer Head}
Thank you lot all SO MUCH for all of your sweetness comments most the green china cabinet. It was a lot of work, but a project of dearest together with I really appreciate your encouragement along the way, together with your excitement amongst me for the finished product! Next calendar week I'll receive got i to a greater extent than affair to demo you lot inwards the Dining Room, together with thus we'll displace on for a while.
This is my youngest sis Sarah together with her BIG infant Denmark.
She drew my require Christmas, together with I knew simply what I wanted. We both receive got come upward to dearest all things antlers together with (faux) deer heads together with this creative, resourceful daughter figured out how to brand her own! I dropped approximately pretty expert hints :), but yet had no stance that she really made i for me until she lugged a really big box into the living room field nosotros were opening presents.
She was overnice plenty to percentage how she did it amongst us, thus I'll permit her accept it from here...
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Materials:
floral foam bricks
popsicle sticks or wooden skewers
knife
paper mache paste
strips of sparse paper
scrapbook newspaper from Hobby Lobby
liquid laminator
pipe cleaners
tape
wire hangers
wooden plaque
spray pigment (optional)
ribbon (optional)
Procedure:
Create a cube of floral foam bricks that is roughly the size you lot would similar your caput to be, non including the antlers. Stick a pair of popsicle sticks or wooden skewers halfway into each brick to secure it to the brick beside it. Once you lot receive got your cubes all set, start carving. This is exclusively freehand at this point. Grab a moving-picture demo or figurine to purpose every bit a guide. H5N1 serrated knife industrial plant best. The floral foam is extremely tardily to carve together with you lot tin plough your knife sideways to practise to a greater extent than of a shaving displace for the curvy areas. Leave a apartment surface on the dorsum of the caput or neck to mountain to a plaque or wall when you're finished.
To brand your antlers afterward the caput is carved, parcel 2 groups of pipage cleaners, 20-25, together with stick them most an inch downward into the reach of the head. Bundle 2 to a greater extent than groups of pipage cleaners, this fourth dimension 15-20, together with record each parcel to your outset grouping of pipage cleaners already stuck into the head. Trim the ends thus that the pipage cleaners are at to a greater extent than of a point, together with thus purpose your record to secure all the ends together, creating a precise point. Curve your pipage cleaners into the desired shape. If they are likewise heavy to remain upward because of their length, clip a wire hanger to the length of the pipage cleaners addition a piffling extra to stick downward into the head. Place the wire hanger within the parcel of pipage cleaners together with stick it into the head. Reshape your pipage cleaners amongst the hanger within now. Grab approximately other modest parcel of pipage cleaners together with cutting them inwards half. Trim together with record off the ends every bit stated earlier to brand points. Attach every bit many of these half-sized bundles every bit you lot wishing using record to secure them to the master pipage cleaners stuck inwards the head. Gently flexure the pipage cleaners amongst your fingers to practise your desired shape.
Mix upward a newspaper mache paste on the stove using water, flour together with sugar. Tear strips of packing newspaper or whatever other lighter weight newspaper together with dip them into the paste, wiping off the excess. Apply to the entire caput together with antlers, smoothing any wrinkles as much every bit possible. Once you lot receive got applied i layer of the thinner paper, cutting fifty-fifty strips of a thicker paper. I similar to purpose the scrapbooking newspaper from Hobby Lobby. Using a thicker newspaper at this indicate creates a smoother looking together with sturdier surface. The impress on the scrapbooking newspaper tin be the concluding hold off if you lot desire, or you lot tin spray pigment over it. Choose a fun impress for the entire caput or differing prints for both the antlers together with head. The paper mache paste that you lot coat the newspaper amongst volition dry out clear. Let dry out overnight.
After everything dries, pigment the entire affair amongst a overnice thick coat of Liquid Laminator from Hobby Lobby. This dries clear field hardening together with sealing the entire caput for to a greater extent than durability. This production gives the caput a nice, smooth, almost plastic feeling finish. Let dry. From hither you're either done, or you lot tin spraypaint the caput together with antlers, or as I did, spray pigment the caput together with comprehend the antlers inwards ribbon using a hot gum gun.
Use the apartment surface that you lot left on the dorsum of the caput to mountain to a plaque. You tin buy these from Hobby Lobby for a pair of bucks. I drilled a few of holes into mine together with glued approximately dowel rods in, then stuck the plaque straight into the dorsum of the caput or neck. Attach a hanger to the dorsum together with stain or pigment your plaque earlier doing this.
Done!
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And, hither he is inwards his novel home.
I've e'er wanted something big together with interesting together with unique for this infinite over the dorsum door. He's perfect!
Here's the outset i she made for her friend's infant shower...lucky baby, huh?
And inwards illustration you lot were wondering, I've moved this piffling guy together with these to other areas of the house, thus it doesn't hold off similar my living room was invaded past times a herd of deer. I know you lot were concerned. :)
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