@magpie – I love the way the fleece monster looks with his hair up. LOL! They are all so cute and I love their personalities.
@marionberries – The “ugly” striped monsters are fantastic. I love the horns!!! I also love their eyes and belly buttons! The pumpkin guy is amazing. What was he sculpted out of? And Mothera is very cool!
@Cindy – The Spouted Pea monster is my favorite so far. There is just something about him.
I started with a small plastic pumpkin party favor, you know the ones you can buy at any party store around halloween…6 or 8 to a package. Then I pulled the handle off and got out my trusty heat gun. I warmed up the little guy’s head and squished it with a book until i got the shape I wanted…less grinning pumpkin and more squinty.There was some whining and complaining and general grumpy muttering, but I don’t think I hurt him much, he was only a head at this point.
If I remember, I covered him with paper mache, probably tissue paper, added paper clay or polymer clay ( I can’t remember), more mache, lots of paint. I especially love the teeth.
The body is a basic pincushion ball shape, with arms. I attached the head through the bottom of the pumpkin using a button and strong thread to a button or maybe a washer at the bottom, pulling tight and squishing his body too. I think I may have put a heavy large washer inside the body at the bottom…or maybe a small bag of sand to help anchor him before I stuffed him. I solve these issues as I go and don’t always remember what I did.
His head is filled with candy corn, so you see, he is really harmless.
I thought this could also work for a snowman or elf or Santa too…maybe less scary, but then monsters are everywhere.
Pandy is a boy (even though he is pretty enough to be a girl). I have five cats and Pandy was the only one showed any interest in the felt stuffies. I rescued this one from him, that’s why I took their picture together. I am keeping them on the only shelf that the cats don’t get on now. Just in case.
I’ve been having fun doing the ATC weekend blitz. The first theme was myths, so I ended up making a set of fun ATCs with monsters from (mostly) Greek mythology. And @Bunny1kenobi suggested they might like to be part of the monster jam too!
1/6 myths (this one wasn’t my original idea, I saw a cartoon that made me laugh)
These monsters are utterly brilliant!!! I have a thing for monsters living their everyday lives (or what they do in the ‘offseason’), so these are quite appealing to me.
Oh my, @Magpie I had forgotten about her, They really are sweet. I will have to resurrect the scrappy monsters. I don’t have one of my own. I have lots of monsters from swaps, but all of mine have left home. I feel like a mother whose children have grown up and moved away…wait, I am a mother who’s children have grown up and moved away. Sigh. I couldn’t live with them anymore anyway. Nor could they live with me. Raising independent monsters and children has it’s price!
These little ones are so precious!!! They are very sweet. The later ones are in greys (MY FAV), but these are so happy scrappy, I can see why @Magpie remembers them!!
Actually the grey ones came first, but since making the fabric (painting it in grey stripes with black embellishments) takes so long, the scrappy ones were a variation. Monsters like chaos and change!