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Rockgem's Simple Cute skull tutorial.by =rockgem

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just occasionally i share my creative secrets

Rockgem’s simple Cute Skull Tutorial

What you need:- </u>

To make each little skull you will need the following…

* White oval 2 hole bean shaped toggle
(approx 1 inch across)
* 4mm black beads
* glue
*black acrylic paint & paintbrush

1. Firstly you take your toggle and flip it the wrong way round.

2. Take your beads I usually use 4mm ones as they fit nice into the little holes in the toggles

3. Glue two of the beads in place - these will be the eyes of your little skull

4a. Once the glue is dried its time to add the details
Using black acrylic paint and a fine brush add a couple of small dashes for a nose…

4b. Then add a row of dashes along the bottom of the toggle for teeth

4c. If you want a girly cute skull add some little dashes either side the eyes to look like ‘eyelashes’

5. Customize!
These little skulls can be customized however you want some of the examples I’ve used to give them more character are
* crowns - little crown shapes cut from craft foam
* bows - these work well on the girly skulls - adding a tiny bow made from 3mm wide ribbon
* flowers - tiny craft/card embellishment flowers work well on these too!

EDIT : you can also use small cogs and watch parts to make them slightly steam-punk in look

6. Put them to use!
These little cute skulls are pretty durable and can be used in many little craft projects I’ve mainly used them on hair-sticks, hair clips and pin-badges but I have also added them to Halloween cards rings and used them as scatter table decorations for Halloween parties

EDIT II : a huge, huge, HUGE thankyou to *charligal-stock for suggesting this for a DD and to ^PirateLotus-Stock for featuring it

THANKYOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO STOPS BY AND WHO COMMENTS AND s this tutorual of mine, I'd love to thank everyone individually but dA thinks I'm a spam-bot when i try
so i shall say a big thankyou here! and i promise to everyone who leaves a comment i shall reply as speedily as i can

If you try this out please post photos and send me a link I’d love to see them

And a few examples of what I use these for…

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[Stock and Resources] Suggester says, "A great tutorial on creating some cool little skulls for Halloween. So simple, easy and fun!" Rockgem's Simple Cute skull tutorial. by *rockgem ( Suggested by =charligal-stock and Featured by ^PirateLotus-Stock )

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~dollwilllol Dec 14, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Fantastic tut. Congrats on the DD

=rockgem Dec 17, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

thankyou for taking the time to look & for the compliment

it started off as a simple idea i played with cause i had two odd little toggles & from that the results were better than i expected and so i decided to whip up a lot more for friends and for selling at craft markets and then the tutorial sort of just followed that

*Kitsunechann Oct 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

What on earth is a "White oval 2 hole bean shaped toggle"???

=rockgem Oct 19, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

its pretty much what it says it is - a toggle that is oval in shape or often reffered to as 'bean' shaped and it has two holes through it, toggles come in a variety of shapes and colours and some only have the one hole through them.

*Kitsunechann Oct 19, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Perhaps I should be more specific: what is a "toggle"? I've never heard of it as an item.

=rockgem Oct 19, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

ah, i see if you look at the first picure in the tutorial you can see what one is, usually you find them on the draw strings of tracksuit bottoms or combat trousers.

*Kitsunechann Oct 19, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oooh, okay. That makes sense, thanks!

=rockgem Oct 19, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

not a problem

*StarlingKia Oct 18, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Very cute and simple! Thank you for making.

=rockgem Oct 19, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

thankyou for taking the time to look and for commenting, sometimes the simplest ideas can be really effective hence i tried this out and when it worked i decided to make this tutorial

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