Let it burn! Let it burn! Let it burn!

A quick little Festive Friday post from me - the last one before the big day - so I just wanted to show off a a couple of projects I made for the Left of Center Challenge blog. Firstly, here is my festive evil snowman candle - just light it and watch him melt. Mwwah hah haaa.

To make the candle, you're going to need a nice chunky white candle, some white tissue paper, and an image. I used the evil snowman from Delicious Darkness who are sadly closing down (although there is still time to get 50% off all their images before they do).

If you're using a normal rubber stamp, then you would just stamp your image onto the less shiny side of the tissue paper and colour as desired. If you're using a digi stamp or any other printed image, you will need to iron your tissue paper and then tape it, shiny side down, onto some regular printer paper as below. Make sure that there are no bits of tape sticking out - you don't want to jam up your printer.

Colour your image (I used Copic pens) and cut around it. You can leave a small border - it's not a problem.

To fix the image onto the candle use a small amount of glue from a non-toxic glue stick just to hold the image in place, then use a heat gun and gently run it over the image to slightly melt the wax underneath. This will seep through the tissue paper, binding it to the candle. Any of the tissue paper itself, such as the border, will also melt into the candle to become invisible. If you heat too much, the candle will distort, so start gently!

I'm entering the candle into the Altered Eclectics Challenge Blog and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for naughty Christmas.

The other project is just a wee card for a friend who always found Santa a little, well, creepy. I used the Skully Santa from Smeared Ink as it was the perfect creepy Santa Claws. I used the music from "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" - he sees when you are sleeping, he know when you're awake. Creepy or what! I hope they like it.

Anyhoos, have a lovely Christmas everyone, and we will be back soon with more weirdness for ya!

Bex

Skullflakes

Good Morning peeps. Today we have some sparkly skull flakes!!  Skull flakes I hear you say, that must be a typo Lou, surely?  Well folks, this is the Weird Scissors after all!!

1. Prep: Using a chocolate mould and air dry clay make up lots of skulls.  I usually make the skulls at least 1 week ahead of time, they can take ages to dry.

2. Cut out lots of snowflakes (Sizzix die) from mountboard, it has to be sturdy enough to take the weight of the skulls.

3. Paint the skulls and the snowflakes with white gesso and pale lilac paint, when dry slap on some sparkle.

4. Make a small hole in one of the 'arms' of a flake and attach a jump ring for hanging.

5. Using a hot glue gun, attach the skulls to the snowflakes.

6. Glue gems into the eye sockets.  

7. When dry hang up and enjoy.

I wonder what my guests will think of these or if they will even notice!

Fancy some skulls to play with? 

I am entering this into the Corrosive Challenge Blog for anything goes.

This is entered into the Altered Eclectics Challenge for the countdown to Christmas.

I'll randomly select 3 people who comment (on our blog or fb group) on this project. 

Deadline 17:00 Monday 8th December

TFL Lou x

Eye Baubles

WOW what an awesome project, thanks for sharing Jas.

Introducing the EYE Baubles. (Yes, eyeballs rock!!)

1. Cut out lots of Christmas baubles (Sizzix Die) from mount board.  

2. I painted both sides with white gesso, then painted with an irridesent white paint. 

The hangers where painted with gesso and then several layers of gold paint.

3. Using a permanent red pen, scribble on the blood shot veins.

4. Using scraps of my hand made tissue fabric (instructions can be found HERE) 

and black card cut out circles and attach.

5. Decorate the eyes with glitter, well it is Christmas after all!!

Next step is to try and make 3D Eye Baubles.  I'll let you know

if I'm successful!!  

TFL Lou x

Let there be lights...

Ollo and Seasons Greetings, Welcome to the Weird Scissors Christmas Weekender.

For me I wonder what Christmas would be without lights and corny films? so I had a go at joining them together and created a lamp/light as a nod to a favourite Christmas film,

I first mulled over this idea after seeing this project:

North pole sign solar light

And although a neat idea its just a bit 'normal' for my tastes. I picked my Mam's favourite and created my own take on 'the' lamp from the beloved film A Christmas Story,

If you haven't seen the film, its a must! A heart-warming tale of a boy who only wants a bb gun for Christmas. I admit it's been years since I last watched it but it's one that has stayed with us and is mentioned regularly in this house, especially when any fragile parcels arrive.

I don't want to go into lots of detail and spoil the plot for those that haven't seen it yet, but essentially at some point a parcel arrives in a massive crate and out comes a lamp.

Take a doll, Paint shoe black if not already, remove a leg or two.  Using a hacksaw remove hip joint if necessary.

using a very fine permanent marker create fishnet style design on the leg.

Cut out 2 discs for the stand, one around a centimetre smaller than the other and 2 disks of foam the smaller size. draw around the sole of the shoe in the smaller cardboard disks and one of the foam ones, this is so you can push and glue the shoe into the base to give it stability.

Glue shoe to leg and leg to a sturdy circle base. 

Re-purpose a yoghurt carton (oh that sounds so blue peter!) and measure your paper shade, 

 while the leg is drying, cut out your shade shape from a thick velum, and attach frill and glue the pot to the top of the leg.  

when every things dry drop in a battery tea light, prop the shade on the top and let there be lights!

Heres the original, 

What do you think?? What shape will your new lamp be??

Feel free to leave a comment on the blog or on our facebook page for a chance to win.

This is entered into the Altered Eclectics Challenge for the countdown to Christmas.

Have fun, and be sure to check out the blog later today and tomorrow, and if I'm not around before then Merry Christmas and all the best for a healthy and Happy new year.

Jas x 

Floods, spoilers and even more to give away!!

Hello there!!

Well like buses you wait ages for one post and two come along all at once :)

A little while ago I mentioned Scott Wong's flood the streets with art part II on our face book group, asking if any of you lovelies out there were participating. If you have, please share with us on the Weird Scissors FB page so we can see what you were up to..

Here's mine:

Ode to Neverland, 5x7 dylusions painted background, glitter paste, image transfer of the Newcastle skyline silhouette.
My take on a firstcovers.com image.

These are a couple made with some of my favourite new paints.
This one:

Ode to Cinders,  5x7 canvas board, deep blue glass paint and lightening medium, with sand 'Moon' Paint, Gold foiling done with gedeo Mixtion relief.  Lashings of encased glitter with ' a dream is a wish your heart makes' quote.

I had the best afternoon playing with the different effects you get when you add the vitrail and moon paint together:

Starting with a blank 5x7 canvas board, I outlined my main silhouettes and painted them in Paynes grey. Using the Pebeo Vitrails paint (I only mention the name as I don't know if this technique works with other glass paints - I am NOT on commission, mores the pity :) ) in deep blue, parma, rose and turquoise, along with lashings of the lightening medium I painted the 'background' over the top.

Next while it was all still wet, I used the Pebeo Moon paint -in sand- and using a pin I pushed tiny little drops into the already painted background (see the first image). I left it to dry overnight and when I returned the tiny pin drops had spread out and mixed into the surrounding paint, the bigger the drop the wider the spread, really easy but quite effective. (see second picture) I almost wish I had risked doing more as in the overall image some of this is lost, but now I know for next time.  Once it was completely dry, as I didn't want the next bit to mingle, and summoning my inner Klimt, I went in again with the moon paint adding the odd rectangles over the top, and lastly after adding the quote in Posca I added the Gedeo Mixtion relief over the wording and some of the moon paint.

to create this : a Tangled ode.

You will have to forgive my photography skills it really isn't showing the mirror foiling to its fullest, it really is shiny...

My last art litter is one for the boys and geeks of all denominations, its a print of one of MessyPanda's designs, with permission and added glitter. :)

SPOILERS - All of the weird scissors will be celebrating the festive season with a weekend of twisted Christmas fun on the 6th and 7th December, accompanied by the new regular Left of Centre posts on a Friday.

GIVE AWAY - because I was playing with these new paints and I wasn't sure how they were going to end up I created multiples, rather than leave them out and about as I can't go that far, I'm offering to put one of each in a draw and I'll even let you pick which one,

Leave a comment on here or on our FB page by midnight 7th December, including which one/s you would be prepared to give a home too (Neverland, Cinderella, Tangled or Starwars) and if we end up with more than one request for the same one I'll draw names out of a hat. Winners will be drawn and notified on Monday 8th December 2014,