2016 #5 Daisy Rabbit {by Hazel Agnew}

 2016 Topic 5: Art Dolls

Hi everyone, Hazel Agnew from Mellifluous Meanderings here.

I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about Art Dolls.

I chose to work on this topic because I have had a certain little creature hanging around naked in my craftroom for some time, and I wanted to dress her up. Also, I wanted another excuse to show off the wonderful new stamps by Lin Brown which were launched at the beginning of February. 

Step One: May I introduce you to Daisy Rabbit.She is quite a large calico rabbit that I purchased a few months ago from Hobbycraft. I began by painting her all over with fresco  Vanilla, and then sealing on top with Gel Matte Medium. 

Step Two: I was keen to stick to the colour scheme that Lin provided when I did samples for her stamp launch. I painted the soles of her feet with Hey Pesto, stamped a daisy on each one from ELB26...

...painted the daisy with Snowflake and added yellow centres with stickles. 

Next, using Leaf Green and Plum Archival ink, I stamped Daisy all over with leaves also from ELB26 and "tattooed" her arms with sentiments from ELB28...

Step Three: Next, using Fresco acrylics in Claret, Yellow Submarine, Toffee and Caramel, I created a patterned fabric on cotton using my brayer and some of Lin's new stencils...

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 I then made a little pinafore dress for Daisy...

{edit from Leandra - As you do!!! LOL, did you do a Tabitha nose-twitch??? LOL}

Step Four: Next, I created a little daisy chain necklace using shrink plastic and painting the backs of the daisies with Fresco Yellow Submarine and Snowflake.

Step Five: I wanted Daisy to be a little different from the average rabbit, so I made a pony tail and a rabbit tail using some green wool....it was the kind that has lots of fibres and bits of fabric woven into it and I made a pompom and wired up her ponytail. I stitched both of these to each end! 

Step Six: Finally, I sewed buttons for eyes and glued on a fabric nose, dressed her in her best, with daisy chain and a few swanky beads and she was ready to meet her public!

So, this was another chance to play with the wonderfully versatile stamps from Lin Brown.  I must admit that it was not easy stamping directly onto a squashy animal, but, she didn't seem to mind and she is now totally unique. I hope that this might give you a few ideas about stamping onto fabric....maybe pencil cases or calico bags or to have a play making a daisy chain. Wouldn't really recommend the tattooing part though!

Thankyou for dropping by the PaperArtsy blog and for coming to meet Daisy. You can find details about her on my blog too. www.craftroomgran.blogspot.com. It has been a pleasure.

Hazel

Awww she is so flipping cute! I love her pony tail and her tail-tail...but the necklace!! And the stamps looks great I have no idea how you managed that onto such a squishy tummy, but it (and she) looks wonderful! She needs friends - you do realise this right??? Then she can have a tea party!!! Thanks Hazel for a delightful post! ~Leandra

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