Art Break! - Unicorn Embroidery

This is just a quick one!

I started with a black horse outline.

A gold horn.

And a rainbow mane.

I finished it off with some silver stars.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

Art Break! - 'Die Mad About It' Embroidery

This is a fun little piece I made for Miss Buttons :D 

For this I sketched it up in my art ideas book.

To start I drew up some guide lines for the lettering.

These were too narrow.

Better!

I made this template for what I want the text to look like (on PowerPoint, because I'm a computer wizard).

I started doing the letters really carefully, but I soon found I was avoiding doing it all together because I wanted it to be perfect.

No, let's start again. This time keeping it fun.

I put it in a bigger hoop (when my hoops finally arrived) and started the surrounding decorations.

My new 2B pencil to sketch things out.

I washed the pencil marks off and cut away excess fabric.

How I sew up the back.

I also used this teal felt to back it.

My little sewn signature.

Done!

Verdict: She loved it!

Art break - Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow for S

I asked my friend S (who I have been bffs with for ~20 years) what she wanted for her birthday this year. She said money.
Money is nice, but I had to think of a way to make it more annoying. 
S loves leprechauns, so I decided to put $30 (in gold, $1 coins) into a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. 
I started with a large yoghourt  container and a clear piece of plastic:

Light reflection FTW!

Next I cut the plastic into an arch, to become my rainbow. I also cut the top of the container to make it more 'pot-like':

The arch is a little hard to see ATM.

I painted the arch up as a rainbow using acrylic paint. Acrylic paint would stick to the plastic well and give a good colour intensity:

There it is!

I also put a layer of modelling paste onto the pot, to give it a bit more of a bulge around the middle:

Pipe-cleaners were used to give the pot a bit more of a lip and some handles:

These were then covered in modelling paste to help blend them in and make them easier to paint: 

The inside of the pot was painted gold and the outside painted black (both using acrylic paint, for the colour intensity, ability to stick to the medium, and it dries quickly):

Finally the rainbow and some cotton ball clouds were stuck on using a hot glue gun. I also added some chocolate coins:

Final verdict: S loved it! :D