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Tuesday, September 03, 2019

My New Handmade Mixed Media Christmas Elves - Meet Pam



With the Christmas season fast approaching you need to get prepared for decorating - especially if you're making your Christmas decorations - which I always do. 


Pam is the oldest of the Christmas girl elves I made.  She feels she needs to set a good example for all the younger girl elves and takes her job seriously. However, she's experienced enough to know that you can't take it too seriously and need to reserve some time for enjoying the season.


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 white 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. Alene's True Snow adds a wintry snow accent.

Her neck consists of a flat wooden wheel that is covered by a large burgundy red 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 Pam came out.  She is definitely a great role model for all the young girl elves.

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