paper mache' letters

[jailbirdstamper]

Have you seen these paper mache' letters at Joann's? Very cute. I wanted to make one for my dd (17 years old tomorrow!).... I covered it with paper and then for lack of any other ideas... I smothered it in ribbon. If you have a second or two. Please look at it and offer some suggestions. I apologize for the link to my blog but I'm at work and cannot reduce the pic enough for this site.

thanks!

Stef's paper mache letter

[grammatroll]

That's cute. I like the ribbons.

[jranagel]

I actually bought one also, I was going to decorate them and put them on the wall in my craft room (create), but I ended up going with the wood ones from Michaels.

I love that paper you used, very nice.

[myhappyplace]

I LOVE it and I want some! How big are they? I might try putting a couple of pieces of ribbon in one place, I read in a decorating magazine that you should give the eye someplace to rest, maybe on that first bend, before the S starts to slant down to the right?

What kind of paper is that, it looks yummy and I think I *need* some of that too. It's beautiful and I just did some Making Memories letters but they are 8 inches and yours looks much bigger:mrgreen:

[Colleen Schaan]

Very cute...I left you a message...but for anyone interested in decorating altered "stuff" run over to Craft Critique...we just did a whole week or two on altered items...I did one on altered letters and give some other tips on how to decorate them too...

(the link is in my siggy)

[jailbirdstamper]

thank you for the suggestions and the CRAFT CRITIQUE was exactly what I needed before I started the project.

I ended up leaving the ribbons and tucking her cheerleading pictures in some of them. She loved it so that makes me very happy!

I think I would like to try my hand at some more letters after reading the craft critique - I love the HO HO idea (so ya know I'm going to do that one!)

[jailbirdstamper]

I'm at work now but when I get home I will see what size the letter is - it is very large... and the paper came from my stash but I think it was one of those stacks (I have it at home and will get you the info asap!)