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Fish Decoy Carving

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Burning and Carving Fish – Free pattern included
Wood Carved Ice Fishing Decoys

Pages: Learn how to wood carve your own Ice Fishing Decoy, a free wood carving project by Lora S Irish. Folk art fish decoys can become much more than realistic wood carvings of minnows and fishing bait.  This gallery of wood carvings by Lora Irish offers more samples of what you could do with your own whittled fish decoy.

Ice Fishing Decoy Carving – Four page free tutorial
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery One
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery Two
Sun Fish Carving – Includes free pattern

E-Project: Learn folk art ice fishing decoy carving with this in-depth step-by-step project taught by Lora S. Irish. This sixty page e-book includes an introduction to the history of ice fishing decoys, the six basic carving cuts needed to create these fun fish, and two complete projects. Complete your decoy with the painting steps and by creating a simple wire hanger. 60 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas included are 20 small decoys patterns with fin variations, 4 long minnow decoy patterns, and 21 large full-sized decoy patterns accompanied by full-colored photos of the carved samples. Comes in Adobe Reader .pdf format!

Whittle Fish E-Project by Lora S Irish

Fish Related Digital Patterns: ArtDesignsStudio patterns by L S Irish

Fishing Lures

Fresh Water Fishing Patterns

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Just Goldfish

 

 

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GatorWorld Carving Foam

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Ya’ kno’ how sometimes you can feel in total control of your project and direction in which that project is headed.  Then sometimes it feels like the project is totally in control and you are only along for the ride.

The carving foam shanty house was meant to be rustic, dark, and part of a gaming terrain design.  But somehow … I don’t know when or where … it suddenly took a left hand turn to end up as GatorWorld.

The shanty is constructed with 3/8″ foam board, 1″ thick cuts from insulation carving foam, and cereal box cardboard for the windows and doors.  Carving foam balloons are suspended on 18-gauge copper wire.  The palm tree with paper leaves is also carving foam; wood beads become coconuts, and a string of fairy lights is wrapped around the trunk.

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Nordic Style Carving – Sculpture Foam

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Nordic Style Carving is worked with smooth edges, simple shapes, and little or no detailing.  When worked in wood, as sugar pine or black walnut, the wood grain becomes the dominate feature of the carving.

With high density sculpture foam, a Nordic styled bird carving becomes the base for adding small areas of texture or as the background for a full acrylic scene painting.

Supplies

6″ x 5″ x 1″ block of sculpture foam
basic set of carving knives
220- and 320-grit sandpaper
graphite paper for tracing
6mm black glass beads for the eyes
acrylic craft paints

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Halloween Curtain Critter Felt Cut Outs!

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It’s almost Halloween and time to have a little fun! So let’s begin.

Halloween Bats Curtain Critters Mini-Pack Patterns

 

You will need some

stiff craft felt – Get a package of assorted colors

fine point embroidery scissors for easy cutting

spray adhesive – follow the can directions for use

black spider web – to hang on your front window

computer printing paper

digital Curtain Critter patterns.

Paste Glue – low water content that won’t buckle your paper

 

Each pattern pack includes 5 Halloween patterns, 1 bonus pattern, and a full PDF file of instructions, for only $1.95 USD.  Availble through Lora Irish’s pattern website, ArtDesignsStudio.com.

 

 

1. Chose your favorite Halloween Curtain Critter pattern pack, or chose all six!

2. Open the PDF instruction file.  Print the page for the pattern that you want to use onto regular printer paper.

3.  Use either spray adhesive or low water content paste glue as Yes! to coat the back of the printed pattern.

4. Center the pattern on your stiff craft felt sheet.  Press firmly in place and let dry for several minutes.

5.  With fine point embroidery scissors, cut out your shape.

6.  Open your sheer curtains and secure your spider webbing to the inside of your front window.

7.  Lay, tape, or pin your felt Curtain Critter cut out onto the webbing.  Close your sheer curtains.

8.  Turn on your indoor table lamp, and turn off your porch light.  The light from inside the house will show you cut outs as black silhouette.

 

 

 

Indoor View

Outdoor View

Halloween Curtain Critter Mini-Packs are available in Haunted Houses, Bats, Rats, Cats, Pumpkins, and Spiders.
As our Halloween treat for you they prices at only $1.95 USD.

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