Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Sleeping Beauty Ribbon Sculpture

So a few Saturdays ago, it was one of my niece's birthdays!
I wanted to create something special for her. SO I found out
her favorite Disney Princess is Aurora AKA Sleeping Beauty.
And I know how much of a hard time her momma has putting 
her hair up and keeping it out of her face.. so I decided to
create some ribbon sculptures, that I thought would help with
that! Now I have made a few ribbon sculptures before (you can see
the previous tutorials Ive done {here}) But I have never attempted
making any actual characters before! I just decided to go for
it, and see how it turned out.. I took pics along the way for 
future reference, and also to share the tutorial with you!

I think I did pretty good for making these for the first time!
Though I do admit these are a little time consuming, and by the end
my hand was cramping a little... but it was totally worth it! :)

I used supplies I already had on hand... 
here is what you will need:

  1. Scissors
  2. Glue Gun/Glue sticks
  3. Needle & Thread
  4. Rhinestone gems
  5. Headband/hair clip
  6. Ribbon in the following Sizes & Colors
  • Thin- Cream
  • Thin- Yellow
  • Thin- Silver or Gold
  • Thin- White 
  • (I only had wide white ribbon.. i just cut it in half!)
  • Wide- Light pink 
  • Wide- Dark Pink

Start out making the body:


Making the skirt of the dress:



Add skirt to body:


Making the top of the dress:


Making the collar of the dress:


Adding the arms:



Now I would like to mentioned that this was my first attempt, and
after doing it, I found it is better to do the "bangs" part of the hair
first... then do the rest! So the hair connects and flows better.






I ended up making 4 sculptures.. just in case I wanted to give
them to anyone else, or sell them. :)
Each are the same.. yet slightly unique.

For my niece, I decided to give her two. One on a alligator clip,
and one on a headband.. so she could choose how she wanted
to wear it in her hair! :)

The headband is just a regular plastic headband, that I wrapped
in the dark pink ribbon to match Princess Aurora!

I love how it turned out!
I know I keep saying that... 
but Im just proud of myself. :)

Here is a shot of the headband in my hair...

And a shot of the clip in my hair.

Cute cute cute!
I almost want to create a few more Disney Princess' just for fun. :)
I think this was the perfect first Princess for me to do, because
she has always been my favorite!
Who is YOUR favorite Disney Princess?

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7 comments:

  1. those turned out really cute, thanks for the tutorial. They look pretty easy to make.

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  2. Wow how very creative. Won't you share this at my blog.

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  3. So cute! Thanks for sharing, I'm going to attempt making these for my niece! :)

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  4. Wow! This is very good! Thanks for the tutorial (she is my fave princess too). I admire your dedication to the project!

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  5. These are super cute, will have to try this with my miss 5. Thanks for sharing.
    xoxox
    www.amandalynnedesigns.com

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  6. Very cute! My daughter will have me making these for her ASAP!
    Thanks for linking up to Making It With Allie! I can't wait to see what you have for next week!
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