Thread: Corpsing Mini Skelly

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Ok, so I am in love with these mini skellys and decided to corpse one and make it a fairy. I used wood glue and cotton on the top, but changed to wood glue and cheese cloth for the legs and pelvis. You can't tell. Wood glue has resin in it so it is more durable than white glue and cheaper than using latex. I fabric mache'd the leaves for wings with wheat flour,water and wood glue, then painted to match. The flower is mache'd with the wheat flour wood glue mix no paint, but it is stiff. The rock is twisted newspaper flared at the bottom and flattened at the top taped into shape and mache'd with a coating of yellow pages paper which is lighter and easier to work with for a top coat and doesn't show ripped edges as much as newspaper. The bones at the bottom are from the necklaces sold at 99 Cent only Store. That's my tutorial, here's the picture he is sitting on a hand cream jar on my desk, he's hold a mini pomegranate that I carved a face into:



Here's one for scale, take from my phone:



Now, someone who does not usually peek into the Craft Section thinks he looks like dry rub barbeque...she has not seen the finished product. I say that means job well done! Ha, ha.

His googly eye courtesy of "JustJen"...snicker

That's cute! You could leave him out all year! Love the googly eye!

Very cool mini skelly! I would definitely leave him out all year. Looks like he would be good at protecting your computer. :-)

Very nice!!

I'm working on a batch of these myself. Really fun! Did you give yours poseable joints or just heat and bend? The knees sorta look like they're jointed.

I'm considering jointing mine so I can reposition, but not sure how to go about it.

Looks great!! I made a mini fairy skelly a few nights ago when I was at home. I just used one of the small skeletons from the Dollarama, and then I Shaped wire into wings sort of like what a butterfly would have. I put cheesecloth over the wire and then made a pot of tea and tea stained the cheese cloth. I used a bottle of gold sparkly glue to shine up the wings. I am not sure how it looks yet I havent seen it since it was in the drying process. Yours looks truly amazing though, If I don't like the look of mine I might work on the body more like you did. I will post pictures soon Very good job!!

Love your skellies, Nevergoback! I never thought to corpse something so small. What a great idea...a little too late for me, I'm done with my (now very plain looking) skellies, but there's always next year!

That is a great idea. He looks awesome. I'm loving those little mini skeleys. I've done a lot with them and I think I have a lot more to try.

Originally Posted by GoreDude

Very nice!!

I'm working on a batch of these myself. Really fun! Did you give yours poseable joints or just heat and bend? The knees sorta look like they're jointed.

I'm considering jointing mine so I can reposition, but not sure how to go about it.

After burning my fingers heating the joints with hot glue gun on the ones I made for sugar skull, I just bent them cold going very slowly so as not to tear the plastic.

To joint them you'd have to cut and fabricate hinges possibly by gluing long seed beads on the solid side leaving the holes open, to each end then running a wire through the two beads to reattach. I just thought of that so do not know if it would work, but sounds like a good start for a simple hinge. Another way which would be harder is to cut then heat a small length of wire and push it into the plastic so it melts itself into the plastic, the hard part is keep it hot enough to push into both sides of the severed joint.

Let us know if you try either one and see how it works, if I try, I will let you know.

Originally Posted by goobiegoo

Looks great!! I made a mini fairy skelly a few nights ago when I was at home. I just used one of the small skeletons from the Dollarama, and then I Shaped wire into wings sort of like what a butterfly would have. I put cheesecloth over the wire and then made a pot of tea and tea stained the cheese cloth. I used a bottle of gold sparkly glue to shine up the wings. I am not sure how it looks yet I havent seen it since it was in the drying process. Yours looks truly amazing though, If I don't like the look of mine I might work on the body more like you did. I will post pictures soon Very good job!!

Yes post a pic, I love skelly fairies. pm me with link if you make it a new thread.

Those are really sweet. I just bought a garland of minis today and this looks like a great project. Thanks!