band of the week-October 15

Go Steelers! Happy Halloween!

There won't be a band of the week for a while now. This is his Halloween helmet and will be wearing it for his football costume and for his football themed birthday party. After that we will go back to the band of the week.

This is 3 coats of black acrylic paint. I used Creamcoat brand this time and got much better coverage. Over that is a layer of Mod Podge. The yellow stripes are printed from the computer on Avery Sticker Paper I would recommend the clear, I used the regular and it didnt stick well. The side sticker is an NFL collection from the party section of Wal Mart, all the others I could find were too big. This one seems dwarfed though so if the stripes hold up I may print out a bigger one myself. Over the stickers are 2 layers of Mod Podge, the edges of the stripes were peeling up taking the paint with them so have more mod podge there.

band of the week-October 8

Camouflage

A more successfull try at decoupage. This time I used a napkin (couldn't find camo tissue locally) instead of tissue paper. I carefully did small sections at a time and I didn't obsess as much about wrinkles (trying to smooth them too much ripped and smudged the paper last time). I also cut along the edge with scissors after the top layer of mod podge and then applied another layer and smoothed the edges out. For those not familiar with decoupage, an item such as a paper or cloth is applied using mod podge (similiar to white glue, available at any craft store, walmart, etc) and then another layer is applied on top to protect it. Decoupage was used with blue tissue paper to cover the whole thing in a disaster I didn't keep weeks ago. It was used again with wrapping paper to do the large Sesame Street characters in a previous band of the week, and then this week for the whole thing. When doing large scale like this you have the same issue as with large stickers, the curve of the band wrinkles and does not allow them to go down smooth. You have to just work with that or stick to small scale. I will be decoupaging again with John Deere fabric.

Band of the Week-October 1

Trains, trains, trains! This are the shiny plasticy stickers

Coming Soon:

camouflage

airplanes

John Deere

Pittsburgh Steelers

space travel

Band of the week-September 24

All decked out for Soccer Opening Day