So, I am going to actually—before I start I just want to put piece of paper under here so that it will be easy for me to get my glitter back into my container later. I’m going to pop that open and carefully going to edge and you know if you don’t want to put glitter around the edges you can always bring out the paint markers and do some kind of coloring around the edges. It’s always nice to finish off the edges of a mask it just looks a lot better. Whether its glitter or you hot glue ribbon along the edges or put pipe cleaners on the edges or you know do some coloring with paint markers.
It just gives it a more finished look. The neat thing about making mask is that they’re just so many different kinds you can make and you can do animals, you can do some kind of a spirit, you can do a feeling like sadness or happiness or afraid or you know.
I’m going to set this aside. Now all this will come off this will brush off ones this is all dry on the edges we’ll be able to tap some of this off. A little bit of it off. So now, I’m going to set this down to dry.
Okay, while this is drying we have to wait a little while for this glitter to dry before I do any work on the interior of the mask. I'm going to go ahead and start to decorate the doll rod, so I think what I’m going to do is just cover it with some tissue paper and polymer and then maybe we’ll wrap ribbons around it or maybe we’ll wrap some pipe cleaners around it and then hang something from the bottom.
I’m going to go ahead and let’s see I guess I’ll use, I’ll use some yellow this should go pretty quickly and realistic. Just make sure that you paint the entire stick with the polymer and then I’m just kind of wrapping it and painting it at the same time. I’m going to set the stick aside and carefully I’m going to put some gold glitter around the mask.
And we’re going to have to let this dry a little bit before I flip it over. Because otherwise the glue will run, okay while this is drying were going to go back to decorating the stick, I’m thinking maybe pipe cleaners, and maybe a black ribbon and some orange curly ribbon will hang from the bottom.
So or maybe we’ll do let’s see this might be kind of fun. Well we might hang some of this we’ll see. Okay, so I’m going to take hot glue gun and I’m just going to glue the top of the pipe cleaner up here, glue it in place. And you know if you just want to be on the safe side you could just pull a little drop of the glue there but you know its not going to unravel. And we can just wrap the rest around here.
Okay, so there could actually be the bottom this part would attach up here to the mask. With the hot glue gun and we’re going to some of this ribbons I like a lot of streamers hanging from this. There we go, and I’m going to cut this loose and put this back again and then I’m just going to tie those bundle here into a knot and then I can hot glue the whole knot to the bottom of the stick.
Just like that, there we go. I just wanted to take a few of this since it is curling ribbon and just give this a little extra curl. So this is going to be our stick that you’ll use to hold up your Mardi-Gras Mask so it’s going to go like this. And this is definitely getting drier so I can come in here with my paint pan. And I want to do something above the eyes here, so you draw attention to the eyes. Okay, and I’m thinking maybe let’s put the nose on I have to decided where.
Get the nose right there and I just want you to see that this really just come off. And let’s see whiskers. Let’s see we could make them and we want to add some feathers here. Well I’m going to go ahead and glue those down and let’s see, let’s see what the yellow one would do in the center it might be too much maybe like that.
So I’m going to gently hold this up carefully and I’m going to go ahead and start to glue my feathers in place. Okay when this is totally dry then you can come in here and really brush off the little bits of extra glitter that you have there that maybe you don’t want. And the very last thing I’m going to do, so I’m gently going to turn this over and attached this stick. And I’m ready for some happy masquerading.
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