{"id":6947,"date":"2010-05-31T07:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:38:38","slug":"skull-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6947","title":{"rendered":"Skull Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skullflowers-150x143.jpg\" alt=\"Skull Flowers\" title=\"Skull Flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a cute idea from the Cut Out and Keep forum: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutoutandkeep.net\/projects\/flower_skulls\">Flowers with skull centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions are a bit on the minimal side (for instance, the crafter mentions glazing the petals but doesn&#8217;t specify with what), but they&#8217;re a great jumping-off point for something similar.  The little clay skulls look like they&#8217;d be pretty easy to model, but if you&#8217;re completely hopeless with sculpting you could use novelty buttons or some other lightweight plastic skull.  You&#8217;d probably want to choose a skull shape that&#8217;s reasonably flat and roundish rather than oval, to better mimic the central disk of the flower.<\/p>\n<p>Paint, seal, glue a circle of petals to the back, and you&#8217;ve got a flower with a cute little skull peering out at you.  These would be great on a barrette or worn as a brooch.  If you&#8217;re so inclined, you could also make little teensy ones and affix them to the heads of thumbtacks to make some extremely arresting pushpins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cute idea from the Cut Out and Keep forum: Flowers with skull centers. The instructions are a bit on the minimal side (for instance, the crafter mentions glazing the petals but doesn&#8217;t specify with what), but they&#8217;re a great jumping-off point for something similar. The little clay skulls look like they&#8217;d be pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27960,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}