Design Team Project
by Amy Mayfield

Create a pretty pixie poppet

I had so much fun making today’s project. Lisa offers an AMAZING array of doll bits in her Artfire store and I had been dying to do something with my Charlotte heads. Using the small heads, I created a pretty pixie poppet. What is really wonderful about these is you could easily create your own parade of poppets and add a loop of ribbon to the back to create ornaments. For colorful trees, the assortment above is fabulous. If you want metallics or a more monochromatic look, the Fleur de Lis Flapper heads are a pretty choice and would make marvelous snow fairies or queens and I may have just convinced myself I need them…The set of basic Charlotte heads would be easy to customize for any color scheme–these pieces take paint and glitter extremely well.

For this project, you’ll need:
Your choice of doll heads from Lisa Kettell Designs
Doll bodies printed on cardstock (Mine came from Altered Artifacts on etsy)
Butterfly or fairy wings printed on cardstock (you could also use silk ones)
Crown paper punch
Adhesive rhinestones
Stickles in Diamond
Various fabric trims and ribbon
Thin wood craft sticks
Fine glitter (I like Martha Stewart glitters)
Glue, scissors, hot glue gun, etc

Directions:
I started by cutting out the doll body and attaching her head. I did sand the back of her head down just a touch to make it a little flatter. She was attached to the body using a glue stick and then I positioned the wings, legs and arms.

Next, I created her crown by using a crown paper punch and covering it in Martha Stewart glitter in Sterling. Shake off the excess and set aside to dry. I used a piece of trim for her skirt and held it in place with hot glue and accented the waist with a fun, fluffy bit of pink fiber. After this was attached, I outlined her wings and shoes in Diamond Stickles and created her a necklace with tiny silver adhesive rhinestones. Her crown is simply attached to the back of her head with a dot of hot glue and then it got accented with pink adhesive rhinestones. Once she was all together, I used hot glue to apply a craft stick–just to make her a little more sturdy. If you wanted your pixie poppet to be an ornament, just loop a bit of ribbon under the craft stick as you glue it in place.

This is a project that could easily be done with little ones–just help them with the hot glue gun and such. These would make great gifts for them to give for Christmas to friends and family. Here’s the finished project:

Doesn’t she look like she’s been sprinkled with a pinch of pixie dust?

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I love love love this project, so magical and enchanting I could see an army of these, a pixie army that is!, Love, off to make some of my own, thanks so much Amy! :-)

xoxo

Lisa

There's a Bear Carnival Over Here!

Meet Beethoven and Blue Bear, who love to attend parties and carnivals!

Beethoven is a bear from Vienna and Blue Bear is from Peapack. Both bears love the circus and to attend parties, Beethoven recently attended the Piccadilly Circus, he was named after the Circus star, Beethoven, who started at the Piccadilly Circus and eventually opened his own, Beethoven's Flying Circus.

Beethoven's favorite part of the circus are the cotton candy and the elephant ballet. Come join Beethoven at his next circus adventure.

Blue Bear, everyone's favorite bear, well at least to Ginny Le Bear who has a crush of Blue Bear as do some of the other lady bears. Today Blue bear is attending a party in Pink Woods and word has it, he might be named bear of the year. With all this buzz surrounding him, Blue Bear remains humble and loves to harvest honey on his honey bee garden, he even pays his bees wages, unlike some of the other honey garden keepers. Can't wait to hear what happens at the party.

Another party bear is Estelle, who loves a good dress up soiree, she was invited to Darcy Brimwell's Annual Holiday Soiree, the most talked about soiree of the year. The theme this year is royal pink, all are asked to dress in pink colors and wear crowns, Estelle is so excited about that. Here is a picture of Estelle where her pink best and a Bromley Crown, the finest crown makers in England.

All my boxes are made from handmade paper mache, paste, compressed paper mache boxes or wood boxes, tinsel or my handmade glass glitter, trims, embellishments and more.

Each piece is air dried for 3 days, sanded, painted and embellished. Look for more bear boxes coming soon. They are available in my store: Piddlestixs, 12 Morris Farm Rd, Lafayette, NJ 07848, some in my etsy and website as well.


Have a magical day,
Lisa!

P.S. See you at Flower Power Tuesday Tomorrow!