Sunday, July 24, 2011

Faux Deer Head

Oh Dear, I love this Deer Head. 

I've been inspired by paper mache lately.  I really love how you can make anything you want out of newspaper.  On etsy I have seen some really cool faux deer heads.  My room has been needing something quarky and fun.  I decided a faux paper mache deer head was the right way to go.  I started out crumbling newspaper into balls and using masking tape to secure them to eachother.  I rolled newspaper up for the horns. To secure the horns to the head I hotglued them and taped them.  After taping my deer head looked like this.
I then paper mached wrapping paper onto the deer head.  I used one bottle of watered down glue.  I did 3 layers. Here is the final product:
* The whole project cost less than $3.  I bought the wrapping paper for $2 from Tuesday Morning.  The glue was 40 cents at Target.

11 comments:

  1. Oh cute! Come take a look at my hot pink deer antlers! That would even be cute for a girl's room or a woodland theme!

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  2. I got to say... this is so fun! well done.

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  3. That is so impressive! I would never have thought to try that with paper mache.

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  4. I need to try paper mache. I'm just afraid that my kids would make the biggest mess ever if they saw me playing with it all! Thanks for linking up this week! Hope to see you back again! : )

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  5. I love this! I had to pin it to my Pinterest acct to save for a later project!!!

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  6. Very cute :) I posted a tutorial for my own deer head this winter - great job!

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  7. No way!! It looks just like the one that the Nester did! Great job! Thanks for linking to Thrifty Thursday! :)

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  8. I'm so honored that you chose to join the Creative Bloggers' Party & Hop. Thank you for adding this special masterpiece to rock my party :)

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  9. This is SO adorable!! Love it!!
    Thank you so much for linking this up to {nifty thrifty sunday} last week!! I would love it if you joined me again tomorrow! :)
    xoxo,
    Vanessa

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  10. What a riot! I'm an art teacher, do papier-mache ALL the time, and live in a part of the country where deer hunting is huge. But I'm creeped out by the concept of shooting the same pretty white-tail deer that I see peacefully prancing and grazing in a field, so this could be the PERFECT art project! Thanks!

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