I found a cool book at Michael's Craft store about how to make felt art scenes using wooden bead people and pipe cleaners! I so wish I could have bought the book - but it was a little pricey - so I had to come up with my own designs. This is so much fun to do - the sky is the limit! This is how I made mine:
- First I cut - to size - a piece of blue felt. To be on the safe side - I whip stitched around the edges with embroidery thread to keep the felt from fraying in the future...plus I think it gives it kind of an artsy/craftsy feel.
- I made the wooden bead lady from - yes you guessed it - a wooden bead and a body made from pipe cleaners. I wrapped the pipe cleaners with the desired color of embroidery thread.
- Then I made a simple outfit for my lady - I wanted her to look like a flower or like mother nature. So I made her outfit out of yellow, white, and green felt and put it all together on the pipe cleaner figure using a glue gun.
- Then I cut out a tree, some fall leaves, a fence post, a sun, and a few sun flowers out of felt - and tacked them down with thread - again just using a simple whip stitch.
- Then I made a few cloud swirls by embroidering with white embroidery thread.
- Oh...I used sharpies (fine point) to make her eyes and lips.
I still haven't decided how to frame this - given the diameter of the bead. Maybe I'll just hot glue it to a painted canvas !
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