What??? It's made out of Duck Tape!!!!

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So last month I went to the Chicago Craft Social and took a class with Marissa Pawelko also know as the Modern Surrealist she showed us how to make purses out of duck tape.  Well it was so much fun, I had my daughter Nicole with me at this event - she's my crafty buddy!!! she took the class first and was so very proud of what she made so I had to take it too.  She came back and joined us because she wanted to make another one, so really once you start having fun crating with duck tape, the possibilities are endless, and you become addicted.  I know we are.  I am showing you pictures of the purse I made, and all the headbands, and hair clips showing flowers.  See I love making flowers of anything I can think of, and when I realized that I could make flowers with this tape, well it's been something I've been working since this Social.  Hope you enjoy these, I was asked to make a video, I have to see if I can do it.  Really if you make flowers out of fabric, ribbon, paper, you can make them out of tape too.
YELLOW FLOWER ON TOP OF A PEN - "FLOWER PEN"


THREE WHITE FLOWERS ON A LAVENDER METAL HEADBAND" IN THE CENTER YOU CAN SEE I ADDED A CENTER TO MATCH THE COLOR OF THE HEADBAND AND ADDED WHITE BEADS

THIS IS A PRETTY BIG SILVER FLOWER - MUCH BIGGER THAN ALL MY OTHER FLOWERS IS  SET ON TOP OF A PEN - "SILVER FLOWER PEN"

THIS IS THE PROJECT THAT INSPIRED IT ALL - THIS IS WHAT I MADE AT THE CHICAGO CRAFT SOCIAL FOLLOWING MARISSA'S INSTRUCTIONS

THIS IS MY FIRST TRY AT MAKING A COVER FOR MY IPOD, WILL BE MAKING A NEW ONE, I DON'T LIKE THE EDGES ON THIS ONE. 

HERE IS A PICTURE OF SOME OF MY FLOWER PENS


Working on making new flowers by adding wire to the petals and thinking about what else I want to try and make with DUCK TAPE!!!

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  1. Candace JedrowiczApril 19, 2011 at 6:30 AM

    These are lovely, Maria! Would you consider submitting them to the Cool2Craft Creative Play Theme this month? The theme is "What's Your Cup of Tea?" and it certainly looks as though these are your cup of tea! They are wonderful!

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  2. maria sotoApril 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    thank you Candace, sure i would like to - I think this post in the Hive already - I will try to post tomorrow.

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