A while ago it was my friend's 21st birthday and she's like a crazy fan of marvel and dc comics but she doesn't wear high heels so I had an idea! Phone case! And she's like a photographer so... Photo frame! And when I was buying the stuff I saw a notebook and thought... Might as well!
So here it starts! My first project!
Marvel X DC comics phone case
A wee before photo. Captain America! Cat Woman! (She's the black long thing next to Captain America by the way) and Wonder Woman at the side =)
iPhone 3GS phone case ^^
Was hard, the comics didn't have much tiny people and tiny heads on it... And when I do find them it take sooooo long to cut out >< need to be careful or else someone will lose an arm or leg haha.
If I do this again, I need to remember not to make the inside so thick (with paper and glue), hard to take phone back out. XD
My second project was.... A notebook!!! ^^
Front Back
This was really easy to do. Well kinda. Since this surface area was a lot bigger than the phone case, I can cut out bigger faces and bodies... but then there was too much!!! So many choices, I didn't know what one to pick, where should they go...
Then this was the last of the Marvel x Dc collection for my friend. A photo frame. For my favourite photographer.
The before photos~~
The one on the right, I was thinking how can I fit all the characters cause the photo frame had a silver inner part but I decide to cover it up cause in the end I'll need to seal everything and it might not look good after all the glue layered on top. And then at the side as well, should I cover it as well? But that means high chance I'll still all the body of the character on the side and their heads on the top. And then I thought of an idea, I used the speech bubbles in the comics and put them all at the side, and loved the idea. Which you can see a wee bit on the left photo. So after a couple of super heroes, I went and covered the sides with speech bubbles, was fun reading them as well ^_^ Then I continue to put the super heroes (and villains) on the top. And I purposely made a bit of their feet or body to hang over a wee bit on top of the speech bubbles.
I made all the characters facing outwards... so means my lovely photographer friend can use it portrait or landscape. And basically what ever way she wants, since it won't look up side down. =D
In these photos you can see the speech bubbles more.
Marvel x DC photo frame finish!!!
I really love this, out of the three, I like this photo frame the most. Really love it's half text half pictures look. I can't wait till my friend puts a photo in!!! So excited! ^^
All three took me roughly 30hours, excluding drying time. Cutting out the characters was most time consuming and most difficult I think. Of course putting them altogether was the best. Most dullest part I guess was the sealing everything in. At first it didn't feel much, was just applying glue all over them. But see after like the 3rd coat, it actually felt horrible... I put like about 5 coats of glue on them and had to wait for each coat to dry. And because all of them I couldn't put glue all at once, the phone case I had to put glue in the outside and the inside because I wrapped a bit of comics in as well. And the notebook, well kinda obvious, need to wait till one side completely dry then I can do the other side or else it will be glued to the newspaper. And the photo frame, I had to put a bit of glue inside as well. I didn't think this would be really messy, I mean, just cutting paper, binning the parts I don't need and glue. But I don't know why lots of tiny wee bits keep falling to the floor and when I was finished every time there was always wee bits of paper to pick up.
But overall, I LOVE DOING THIS!!! Was really fun. And seeing my friends face when she saw these was AMAZING!!! So HAPPY she loves her presents! ^_^ And she uses the phone case everyday now!
I would love to do something similar to this again, I still have lots of characters I cut out and not used XP
And I want something for my self as well. Hehe~xxx
