How can you not love girl Christmas elves - especially when they're mixed media. They're just too much fun to make.
Unlike the other girl elves Betty is very serious about her job making toys for the good girls and boys. She concentrates so hard on the task at hand I'm afraid she'll develop wrinkles lines on her forehead way before her time. But, she's got to do what she's got to do.....
Her body is comprised of a paper-clay painted head, wood neck wheel cover by a large scarf, collage decorated Christmas wood block, and collage decorated Christmas papier-mâché box with top. Her entire body is accented with Alene's True Snow for a holiday and snowy effect.
Her face was painted with a combination of acrylic paints and watercolor paints. Modeling paste hair was applied to add texture to her hair and than painted a metallic bronze colored paint.
Her glasses are chipboard that were painted with metallic bronze paint to match her hair.
Her hat is fashioned out of scrapbook collage paper and musical tissue collage paper. A sparkly green pompom adorns the end of her hat and paper triangles adorn the rim of her hat and they are decorated with mixed media paper stickers and word saying stickers. Decorative Christmas ribbon was wrapped around the rim of the hat. Alene's True Snow adds a wintry snow accent.
Her neck consists of a flat wooden wheel that is covered by a large blue check paper scarf wrapped around her neck and ties in a large bow on the left hand side of her head.
Her body is made from an unfinished wood cube that is covered with scrapbook collage papers and decorative chipboard stickers.
The girl elves bodies are affixed to miniature papier-mâché boxes with tops and have collage scrapbook papers, Christmas mixed media decorations, and snow accents.
I glued the tops of all the papier-mâché boxes to the bottoms of the boxes so they wouldn't move and would be firm enough to hold the weight of the girl elves. Then I painted all the sides and tops and bottoms of the box with green metallic paint. After the paint dried I added Christmas scrapbook collage paper to the sides of the bottom box.
Decorative Christmas ribbon was wrapped around the sides of the top of the box and tied in a bow in the front. Alene's True Snow was added to the top of the box for snowy accents.
The picture above is a close-up of her back embellishments.
The picture above is a close-up of her right side and bottom.
The picture above is a close-up of her left side and bottom.
I was really pleased with the way Betty came out. I hope at some point during this holiday season she can relax a little and enjoy the season. We'll see..... That's totally up to Betty.
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