Girl Scout Bunny Craft with Plaid Paints

Hello Everyone! Today I want to share a fun and simple craft that I made with my Girl Scout troop! For this project you will need a 2x4 cut into 8" tall pieces, wood heart shapes, wire, wired burlap ribbon and a pretty floral ribbon, a hot glue gun Plaid Crafts Folk Art Paints in white, pink, gray and brown and paint brushes!

To begin you paint your entire block with the white paint. You can use brown to add a little distressing around the edges. While that's drying, paint the heart (for the nose) and centers of the ears pink. Each ear is cut from a piece of wired burlap ribbon. Then you'll take about 18" of wire and twist each end around the pencil, leaving about 1" in the center flat (to glue under the heart), repeat 2 more times. Then tie a bow from your floral ribbon. Now you're ready to assemble! Just add a blob of hot glue and stick the wires down into it, and the heart nose right on top before the glue dries. Then glue each ear to the back of the block. Finally add the bow. To finish it off, you can dip the end of your brush, a pencil eraser or your finger into the paint to make eyes. My daughter also wanted a mouth for her bunny so she painted one.

Here's my daughter with her finished bunny! All of the girls loved being able to create such a fun project that they will be able to display for years to come!

Here's a look at the bunnies I created as well! I used 8", 6" and 4" blocks to make this family of bunnies. Such a fun and simple project!

Paint Along With Plaid Crafts

So you may have noticed a new little button over there in my side bar === >

I'm super excited to announce that I'm an official Ambassador for Plaid Crafts! 

So in celebration, I want to share with you a fun event that I was able to take part of, and you can too! It's called Paint Along with Plaid Crafts and if you click right HERE this link will take you to the Facebook Event for the Lucky Llama Paint Along Party. Now technically it was a live party, but you can watch the replay and paint along still too, which is what my good friend Betsy and I did together!  

 To begin we each put all of these beautiful Plaid Paints into our palates. Following the instructions from our fabulous hosts we painted the background with this beautiful new Prairie Sunset color. You can find all of the supplies we used right HERE and you'll SAVE a few dollars if you order before 3/31/2018. We mixed a bit of the Prairie Sunset with Titanium White randomly while the paint was still wet for a fun background.

 

Next we followed the instructions for sketching out the llama's body with our paint brush. It's surprisingly easy when they break it down into the basic shapes with you. 

Then we continued to fill in our llama with paint and then used the gorgeous Metallic Rose paint to do the border. The border looks so complex but it's pretty easy. Four straight lines and then do the little dashes for leaves. Then add a little dot to the center of the leaves for more interest. 

I had to throw in an action photo so you could see I actually painted this! LOL! I'm not an artist at all but I sure felt like one. Here I'm adding some of the details to my llama. 

So my llama looks a little different from the one on the screen, but that's the fun of art. Nothing is perfect and you should put your own spin on things! 

 Here's a shot of the llama almost complete with some of his pom poms added to his blanket and reins. It was SO easy to do with the Detail Painters from Plaid. Seriously, I'm in love with them and know I'll be using them in the future... especially in my paper crafting...

To finish off this adorable little llama we added my very favorite product, Mod Podge Sparkle! Who doesn't need a little sparkle in their llama? I love the glittery shimmer that Mod Podge Sparkle adds to my crafts, with out the mess of glitter! Here we applied it pretty thick to give some extra texture to our llama.

 Here's my completed masterpiece, with all of the products we used to make it. You could get by with just 2 - 3 brushes for this entire painting, and see that green one? That's the Detail Painter! We used it for all of the big pom poms. The small ones were done with the wrong end of the paint brush.

I just had to include this photo of the Metallic Paints we used on this painting, they are really gorgeous! It makes me want to paint everything in beautiful jewel-toned metallic paint!

Here's one more look at our finished piece, with our Lucky Llama friend! You never know what fun stuff Betsy is going to pull out when we craft together... 

And finally here are both of us with our masterpieces! I loved how they both turned out, the same and yet different!

I can't wait for the next Paint Along Party with Plaid. You can check out all of their great products at their webpage: https://plaidonline.com/ and you can also get inspired on their Facebook Page: Plaid Crafts Facebook. I can't wait to show you more amazing projects that I create with my favorite Plaid Crafts products!

Girl Scout Troop Canvas

So today we are at the Girl Scout Cookie Kick Off Rally, attempting to break a World Record for the most people dunking a cookie in one place, with Girl Scout Cookies! So I thought it was entirely appropriate to share one of my Girl Scout craft projects!

Last Spring when I took my Girl Scout troop camping at one of our local camps, in a cabin we noticed that other troops had created artwork and left it behind. Since my troop was painting their own canvases, I decided that we should make a piece of art too. I used my Cricut and cut the words from Cricut Vinyl and stuck them directly to the white canvas. Next we coated the whole thing in a thin layer of Mod Podge to seal the letters so the paint wouldn't bleed under. Then we used varying shades of green paint to create our design. My troop loves all the sparkly things too, so we added a layer of glitter paint too. Then we peeled off the vinyl once it was mostly dry to reveal the words underneath.

After I took this photo all of the girls and I signed it and we are looking forward to returning in the future to see if our art is still there! Cross your fingers that we break that record today too!