S.T.U.P.I.D. projects: Bug Party Flower Lanterns
Small Tasks of Unexpected Potency Imprudent Distraction (STUPID)
And today's post features the latest really stupid STUPID project. Ladies and Gents, I give you...
Bug Party Flower Lanterns
I have Brazilian Bell Flowers growing in my garden. They look like party lanterns, even after picking. I tried my best to ignore this fact for over a year. Finally, I STUPIDed and tried to see how quickly I could make some for the Bug Party set. The answer was, not that quickly. Took me several days, on top of trying to slog through multiple other really STUPID tasks. But here we are done. Changing the color from reds to pinks to not compete with the party mushroom tables, I kind of just glued the edges of tissue paper petal shapes together around a stiff floral wire. The inner tip of it was studded with chopped yellow cord.
I found 1/2" round waterproof balloon lights that could be turned off and on by inserting a tiny blade between its batteries. (normally, I avoid battery-op things for environmental reasons, but I caved from the lust to make these and use the extras to tuck unwired lights everywhere, like candles!) I wrapped yellow tissue paper skirts around the lights and fit them inside the outer flower, shaded everything with watercolor, sealed with matte medium, and thought they were done.
Nope! Apparently, I also needed to make tiny bead bugs to stick their butts into the flowers, causing them to light up for the party. So STUPID of me. But they didn't take much time at all. Just chose sets of random beads, ran 30 gauge steel wire through the centers in three passes, trimmed wires to leg lengths, threaded a bit through the head beads, glued both parts together, added tiny black paint feet to the legs, added four little vellum wings and dots for eyes, glued them onto the green tissue paper wrapped flower interiors, directly on top of the brightest tip of the lights, and boom.
Dammit, they're going to look great in that scene.
beautiful work!
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