Owl and Stars Made From CardboardđŸ˜‰
6 Materials
$30
2 Hours
Easy
One look at the stars and you think they are metal but if you turn them around,youll find a cornflakes box and tomato sauce box. The owl well you know its corrugated cardboard.
Cardboard stars and owl.
finished products.
What I used: box,stencil,overhead projector.
using my overhead projector to enlarge a 1" star,from a stencil,to cardboar.
Tapped cardboard to wall.
traced star to cardboard.
Drawing lines & scoring along lines.
I used a ruler to draw a line from point to inverted point. Scored each line.
A ruler helps when fposing over,keeps a straight fold.
pressed my bottle of paint over folded area. Helped to keep a nice flat fold,made me happyđŸ¤—
Fold each scored line.
keep folding.
Folded stars,now to paint them.
You'll end up with this.
Painted stars,with template I made.
Then paint. For the rusty star I used: folk art in pueblo,antique copper & Anita's in: black,espresso,earth brown, with a 3/4" spouncers.
silver I used:Apple Barrel in White and dark granite. Folk art in sterling silver and ice blue.
Rusty star,I used a small brush to paint the entire star black. I then used a spouncer (sponge on a stick)to apply the rest of the paints. I used the same spouncers to apply all the paints.
Silver star: brushed on white paint to entire star. Load spouncer with ice blue and sterling silver paint and apply paint to stars till you like how they look.
Resources for this project:
Cereal & tomato sauce boxes, stencil,folk art & Anitas paints,overhead projector,scissors,wheel(pattern)tracer,3/4"spouncers.
Overhead projector I got on clearance years ago.
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2 comments
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Oh my how cute!
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These are just great!
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