DIY 3D Love is Inspired Valentine's Day Card

I have been collecting Love is comic strips for the past ten years. I began collecting them when my mom gave me a comic strip with the girl turning her head and the caption said "love is... dazzling" and stating that it reminded her of me.  Recently I was on pinterest and I saw the two characters riding a motorcycle in one of the strips and it made me think of my friend Hope who rides motorcycles. I forgot to give her a birthday card and I'm closer to Valentine's Day, so I figured might as well give her a valentine's day card.

I wanted the card to have a personal touch, so I quickly became inspired to model the character after her and thought this would be a great DIY to share.

Here are the supplies you need. 

-construction paper in the colors you want your pieces to be

-comic strip of your choosing.

- paint; I used black and white for the dust and helmet shine

- Marker

- art knife; it helps with the detail cutting. 

First I printed out the comic strip I wanted to use.

I then cut out the parts that I wanted to stand out from the background. 

I chose the colors of construction paper I wanted to use and pasted the shapes to the back of the color paper I had chosen for it.

I painted the details on at this point, for example the tire stripes, dust cloud, and shine on the helmets. 

After cutting out all the pieces I arranged my cutouts in the shape that I wanted it and placed the foam dots on the parts that I wanted to stick out.

After I was sure everything was where I wanted it, I began pasting. 

I went back to look at a picture of my friend Hope and noticed she was wearing frill chaps, so I added those to the character as well.

After everything was finished I folded a piece of card stock pasted my character on the front and wrote the caption in gold marker.

I used different types of paper for different sections of the cutouts to give it texture, it's not necessary, but it's a fun touch.

Let me know if you make your own, I'd like to see it, tag me on instagram. Also if you'd like to see any other DIY's let me know down below.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is my absolute favorite time of the year. There are glittery hearts, colorful decorations, and my favorite cupcakes everywhere. I'm so excited about the upcoming month and I have many DIY's planned for you in the upcoming month, Valentine's day being the first. I hope your Christmas and New Year were as amazing as you are. I'll see you soon.

If you have anything specific you'd like to see, leave a comment below. 

Pumpkin King/Sentinels

So Halloween is just around the corner, this Saturday to be exact; and a month ago I decided to make my own pumpkin king/ sentinel. I was inspired by the pumpkin king hanging in line at Disneyland's Haunted mansion and the pumpkin sentinels from pumpkin rot. I'm obviously not a talented artist as Disney's imagineers or the pumpkin rot, but here is my own take on it. I loved how he turned out. By the way I want to thank my sister Laura and my partner for helping me out. 

Step 1: Get a trash bag fill it with newspaper and make the pumpkin shape by cinching the trash bag as tight as you can. Also, I shoved a wire hanger on top to act as the stem and give the stem support.

Step 2: Paper mache the bag. I think I did around 12 layers.( this is the part that took forever because you have to wait for each layer to dry completely) I can drop the head on the floor and it probably wont fall apart. To build up the stem and make it thick I added/ rolled paper towels/napkins. 

Step 3: I searched for pumpkin face templates. I had a hard time finding the one I wanted so I combined 2 templates and then made some minor changes. 

 Step 4: Cut a hole at the bottom or your pumpkin and pull out all the stuffing.

Step 5: Cut out your pumpkins face. His teeth were a bit brittle so I put paperclay around the cutouts to give it more support.

Step 6: paint your pumpkin. I spray painted him yellow inside so that the light could reflect. I also bought a mate dark orange-y color and played around with the stem color.

Step 7: cut your PVC pipe to your desired pumpkins body and put him together. I forgot the dimensions I did but he is pretty big. I also ended up cutting shorter pieces here and there to get my desired size for him. BTW I dont know what this tool is called, but it cut the PVC pipe so easily and quick. Mess free. 

Step 8: I used Pool noddles to frame his body and then wrapped the pool noodles in adhesive contact paper that I bought at the dollar tree. I used contact paper so that I would not have to paint the pool noodle.

Step 9: I Then wrapped reed fencing around his legs and body. BTW i'm the one taking the pictures my hubby is just modeling the steps.  

* Here he is put together

Step 10: I really wanted to make his shirt like the pumpkin king at Disney and in the movie, but I found it difficult and due to time and laziness I went with this look. * Hubby's idea. We used 2 yards of fabric.

*I was not sure how we were going to hold his head up, but my hubs came up with the idea of putting a wine cork on top of his head and pushing the PVC pipe into it. We did this for disassembling and purposes and it worked!!!

AND here he is he looks so cool and scary outdoors. These pictures don't do him justice. Hopefully this inspires you to make your own pumpkin king.