So...I've been thinking about what to make my LOLswap partner all week. I came up with (what I think are) a few good ideas.
First off, I'm gonna make LOLspeak magnets. Like MagPo but for LOLz0rz. Words like "Hai!" "Moar" "Evar" "Wif" "Wuz" "Wat" "Sum". . .you get the idea. They'll be cute and simple. I already have the magnet strips. I just need to write the words on. Cute!
Second, she expressed desire for luggage tags. So I'm going to make some from those 25 cent wooden cutouts you can get @ craft shops. I got a few different shapes (cat and square) and I'm planning to cover them in fabric (with tons of glue to make more durable) and then write words on them like, "I can has vacayshun?" and "OHAI!" "Upgraded ur lugegge!"
Then, she has (on her wist) a shirt that says, "DO NOT WANT!" so that's easy. Simple stencil letters. I got more paint tonight.
Off I go!
Here it is. Just the front so far,
I'm trying to brainstorm for the swap but I seem to be having a little trouble. My projects have to be mailed by the 15th of October. I might be one of the last ones to ship at this rate.
I know I'm going to stencil a few tshirts (I think the swap has to be 2 medium items [1-2hrs each] and two smalls [>1 hour each] which gives me a starting point but still...). I think I'm going to do something with the Party Crashing theme from Rant. Check that out here.
I'm thinking a Graphic Traffic Radio shirt, made to look like a cheezy radio free giveaway shirt with crazy colors and a cheezy graphic. I will have to brainstorm on that. Maybe come up with a stupid catchphrase of my own. I don't think Graphic Traffic had a frequency or catchphrase listed in the book.
I will probably do another tshirt for the other medium. Maybe a shirt commemorating the opening of the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill (read about Survivor here).
I will dress up (collage, decoupage, modpodge to death) a journal to look like the Very Common Book of Prayer from Tender Branson. And probably another notebook for my other small. Though I'm not sure which novel I shall reference. Maybe just something simple and basic like "Cassie Wright's 600 Man Gangbang!" (snuff
I'm crafting for my partner's boyfriend and he's a musician who write lyrics, so I'm thinking notebooks can't be a bad choice. He also likes hats, I guess. I don't know if I could find a blank hat with much ease. I might be able to find a simple knit hat and applique something on to it. Hmmm...I haven't sewed in a looooong time. But that wouldn't be too hard.
As for me, I enjoy the more obscure references in literature. Something a little less surfacey and little more hidden in the shirts. I like for people to not understand what the shirt means. I made Greg a shirt a few years ago that says, "Sucks To Your Ass-Mar!" which he's worn the bejesus out of. One guy at the mall was a high school english teacher and he was seriously going to stencil himself a shirt. He was totally inquisitive about the method (freezer paper, fabric medium, x-acto knife) and it was a totally cool moment. It's a secret club--wearing these underground kind of shirts. So for me, I'd prefer a less popular thing. I wouldn't wear a shirt that just said "SNUFF BY CHUCK P." It's gotta be something like, "I banged Cassie Wright" or "Mr. 137." Hmmm that's another idea right there.
Jeez! This has been a great brainstorming session!
I'm planning on making a cute tshirt for my swap angel project. It's going to be video game themed--katamari damacy (best. game. evar!!!!)!
The front will say "I like to watch" (a little sexual humor for your Saturday) and the back will be the lovely King of All Cosmos with an excitable "Royal Rainbow!"
The End.
I volunteered to be "an angel" for Craftster in a swap that is themed "Completely Random". That means partners exchange lists of 50 random things about themselves and their partner made a package for them based off that.
The girl I'm going to angel for (make her a package because her partner flaked without receiving a package in return) is a mom in NH. She's revealed the following facts.
- She likes to watch her husband/kids play video games (I'm guilty of this too!)
- She has the words to How Bizarre stuck in her head. You know that cheezeball 90s hit?
- She loves birdwatching and flowers
- She loves color--but is afraid to use it
- She works from home @ the computer
- She prefers pencils to pens
So here are my crafts so far.
Paint Chip Desk Organizer
How Bizarre Journal
Flower Pencils
Flower Pencils II
Over the next few months, I have a few techniques I'd like to improve. I'd like to improve my jewelry making skills--most importantly, I'd like to branch into resin. I see so many great projects that look to be totally my style but I've just never tried the method.
I'd also like to try journalmaking. The supply investment is small. An awl, some linen string, paper. I think I could make some fantastic journals.
I would like to improve upon/expand my stenciling. I'm just starting to get back into it after a 2 or 3 year(!) hiatus. It's a great feeling to come up with an idea and follow it from inception to completion. Reading a great book, bonding with a quote whilst you stencil it out with painstaking love and care, applying those coats of acrylic paint. . .it's a good creative process. It's like body art in a way--the creative outlet and physical manifestation of a feeling inside you. But less permanent.
When I'm asked what I don't appreciate, craft-wise, my stock answer is "old lady stuff." No hens, no bears holding hearts, nothing "country". I'm sorry. To me, that's not art or creativity. It's boring and straight-laced and there's nothing personal about it. Hens don't speak to me, creatively.
Hopefully the next few weeks will yield a lot of image-heavy posts--chock full of the delectable crafting I am wont to create.
If not, I've def got some photos on the compy from old projects. . .
So I recently completed my first Craftster swap. I had a great partner--she was from Texas.
I sent her some great stuff and she sent me a great package too!
My favorite thing she sent me was this cityscape Counting Crows homemade journal.
The best thing I sent her was a great homemade piano bracelet from bamboo tiles.
Now I'm working on a swap angel project. I will post some photos later of the so-far stage that I'm at.
