I counted last night, and there is still 7 more posts coming in the Valentine Love Circus series:
- Pierrots & Pierrettes, assembly instructions and display ideas
- Big Top Hearts w/printable & instructions
- Valentine Garland w/printables & instructions
- Valentine Rosettes w/printables & instructions
- Swinging Pierrettes w/printables and instructions
- Pierette Doll w/printable and instructions
- Pierrot & Pierrette Masks w/printables and instructions
Starting on top of this list, today will be some instructions on how I assembled and displayed the Pierrots & Pierretes that I have been posting day 1-5 🙂
To craft all this cuteness, I have developed a secret super power:
I use spray glue to attach my printed sheets to cereal boxes!
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Take a fairly large paper bag outside, with the colored side of the cereal box visible.
- Spray a generous amount into the paper bag, I’m careful to hold my breath.
- Put the tacky cereal box on a covered surface and attach your printed sheet.
- Let dry, my spray glue is dry enough to start cutting in about 2 hours.
- Cut out the shapes (I left a white border on mine, makes the cutting sooo much easier)
- Cup cake forms turned upside down are the perfect circus pedestals!
- I cut a slit on either side, carefully slid my love clowns into the slits, and ta-dah!!!
- Cuteness Complete!
For the hanging Pierrot, I used a pipe-cleaner to form his trapeze. A skewer and some thread or ribbon will do too!
If you don’t have the firm cup cake forms, you can use regular paper coffee cups, just cut them a little shorter to form the pedestals. If they don’t have cute red&white circus stripes, wait a few days, and I’ll have a printable that can be adapted to make paper coffe cup pedestals sooo easily 😉
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I am in love with these! Now I just need to remember where I put my stash of paper coffee cups from last summer……………
Thanks Hunny 🙂 I’m happy to be finished with the project, now all I need to do is present the last 6 posts about it here…lol! Send me pictures if you craft these 🙂 Another idea than paper cups would be to paint jar lids and make a simmilar support (out of cereal box cardboard) that I did with the Snow Cherubs and bottlecaps for Christmas… 😉
This is so cute. I’d love to make a few for Valentine’s Day. I saw your link at the Vintage Inspiration Party.