Spring clean your craft supplies and use anything you can gather to dress up these Gentlebeasts! Work with materials you have on hand to create the most dapper animal around!
Instructions:
1. Cut out cardboard portrait frames using your cardboard, scissors and pan lid
2. Choose what materials to use to create your frame and background.
A few ideas are: paint, fabric, ribbon, or crochet (see The Studio > Crocheted Picture Frame for instructions).
The following pictures and descriptions are the materials/methods I used:
Example below used paint and sharpie details for the frame and glued down fabric for the background (used a smaller pan lid for tracing).
Example below used paint for the background and a satin ribbon glued down, leaving about an inch spacing in between.
(Note: I used a casserole dish lid for this frame!)
3. Draw your animal free-hand or print out the templates below (choose 'fit to printable area').
Cut out collar pieces and animal silhouette.
Use the templates to then trace out the shapes onto your cardboard.
Cut out your cardboard shapes.
4. Cut the bottom of the animal to fit your picture frame and start creating your character.
Use fabric, ribbon, buttons, sharpie, whatever you choose to dress up your gentlebeasts!
The following pictures and descriptions are the materials/methods I used:
Example below used glued down ribbon for the collar pieces and a rounded bottom of the animal silhouette to fit the frame.
Example below used fabrics glued down to cardboard and then cut to the shape, the collar hides where the two fabrics meet.
Check out examples below for ideas!
Note: If interested in how to crochet around the frame, check out:
The Studio > Crocheted Picture Frame
Toodle Pip!