How to make a fairy for your fairy garden, might be another question that you have asked yourself when creating your mini garden?
I am not done talking yet about everything that has to do with fairy gardens, as you can see in my former blog posts.
Especially my loooong post on how to make fairy garden furniture took me some time to figure out and write, but I'm happy to do that for you!
Today, we are adding a topic: how to create a fairy, from different kinds of materials.
Updated 07/12/23
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But first: What Do You Need To Make Fairies DIY?
Materials needed to make fairies.
- For the fairies: all kinds of polymer clay (Translucent color, flesh-colored, black, teal, or any other color for her dress and hair)
- translucent polymer clay to create the gorgeous wings on the fairies
- pen and paper
- scissors
- clear embossing ink to create fairy wings (see further below in this article for this method)
- an embossing pen
- a metal wire
- a cutter or crafting knife
- embroidery scissors
- sculpting tools
How To Create A Fairy-Step By Step.
So this part is harder for me to explain, as I never crafted a fairy myself or even figurines.
Although I am planning on making my own figurines somewhere in the future, it probably will be too hard for me to do and I will just end up buying some haha!
Anyway, I have looked, and looked, and found some information on how to create a fairy and even beautiful fairy wings, so let's go!
Method 1: Create clear fairy wings with paper, aluminum, and embossing ink.
The following tutorial is made by Celidonia Studio, and here is her blog.
A little walkthrough:
- start by drawing the wings:
- cut them into squares like this to have better support:
- We will recycle an aluminum pan as support, and cut out two pieces of aluminum for this.
