This month I am doing a guest project for Altered Element, so thought I would start by showing you my first festive offering! I'm actually a jewellery maker, but love to experiment with various mediums and try out projects using a variety of materials. I dressed up this cute calico rabbit to make a snow bunny to sit on my mantlepiece above the fire this Christmas.
This is such an easy project if, like me, you're not yet confident enough to make your own dolls etc and just fancy dressing one up!
To make the rabbit's beautiful little dress I laid out some angelina fibres in 'green pearl' in a fairly even layer rectangle onto a piece of paper on my ironing board. I added a couple of curled pieces of wire in the centre to make the pattern on the front and added another light layer of fibres over the top, to seal the wire curls in. If you're not sure how thick to make your layers of fibres, I recommend just experimenting with the product first - you can always use these experimental pieces on the front of Christmas cards! To fuse the fibres, I gently laid another piece of paper over the top of the fibres and lightly ironed over this to fuse them together. It's usually best to iron briefly and lightly and then peel the paper back carefully to see if the fibres have fused well. You can obviously repeat this step if needed.
At this point, you can trim any loose or unfused fibres from the edges but I left my edges as I quite like the effect. I then wrapped the piece around my bunny, overlapping the meeting edges and secured them with glue and left to dry. You may want to sew the dress into place if you have time.
I'm also a bit of a ribbon fanatic, especially if it is dotty! So, I tied a couple of apple green ribbons around the bunny's ears and used some jade green polkadot ribbon to make her a scarf. I cut the length of ribbon and glued together with a green button from the 'emerald city' pack, putting the finishing touches to a lovely Christmas decoration!
Materials used:
Calico rabbit
Angelina fibre
Copper wire
Ribbon
Button
You may also need: glue, sewing threads
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