Thursday 22 March 2012

Oo-er isn't that cute?

Boom, me here again (Well who else is it going to be?!)
Bringing you another tutorial. This time for a cute little cloud mobile.

Ingredients (Once again, i've forgotten the real word):
- A couple of sheets of nice paper, i chose three sheets of 12x12 scrapbooking papers
- Your trusty X-acto knife
- Cutting Mat
- Cloud Template from HERE
- Raindrop Template from HERE
- Clear thread (Or as i used, fishing line)
- Double sided sticky tape
- Some wire cutters or scissors



First print out (Or trace from the screen like I do!) your templates onto the cardstock or paper that you're going to use. You'll need two rain cloud shapes (One reversed so that the pattern is the right way) and times however many raindrops you want by two to get your total amount of raindrops to cut out.  I went for a blue for the cloud and green for the raindrops.


Once you've cut out your raincloud shape and your raindrops, flip one of your rainclouds over and strateigically place some peices of double sided sticky tape where you want your drops to hang.


As you can see, i chose to have three raindrops, but you can do more. Don't forget to put a peice at the top so that you can hang your cloud up as well!


Cut yourself some peices of clear thread (As you can see *Or in this case, can't see!* the thread is really invisible so you can't really see it. Don't worry, it's supposed to look like that!) and put them onto the double sided tape. Then get two of your raindrops and put some tape on them, put the end of one of the peices of thread on top of the double sided thread and then put the other raindrop on top of it to secure it. Continue doing this until you've done all of your raindrops. Don't forget to make yourself a loop to put on the top peice so that you can hang it up! Now put your other rain cloud on top of the thread to secure it.



Hang your creation with pride! You made that, and it looks really cute. Mines going to be a sort of dorm-warming present for my best friend. I notices that it does sort of twist to one side, but i think it makes it look all the more windswept! Also if you look in the background you can see my neighbours garden. Cute.

Hope you enjoyed, i'll be back soon! Ciao for now!



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