Larissa Designs

My 3 sisters are throwing a combined birthday party next month. And the theme they chose is Harry Potter. As my gift to them I am making a bunch of the props and decorations. So here I will give a , sort of, step-by-step on how i made the various items. Be warned though, I'm pretty bad at remembering to take photos of my process. So first of ... PATRONUS "Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand. ‘EXPECTO PATRONUM!’ he yelled. And out of the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist, but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal. He screwed up his eyes, trying to see what it was. It looked like a horse." We chose to make the classic stag Patronus, not only because it is the most recognizable; but also because we already had suitable armature so it cut a LOT of time from this project. I started with a past-its-prime christmas decoration. The first step was to liberate the reindeer from Santa's sleigh and also rip ...

DIY Harry Potter Collection - The Sorting Hat

My 3 sisters are throwing a combined birthday party next month. And the theme they chose is Harry Potter. As my gift to them I am making a bunch of the props and decorations. So here I will give a , sort of, step-by-step on how i made the various items. Be warned though, I'm pretty bad at remembering to take photos of my process. So first of ... THE SORTING HAT When my mom volunteered me to do the sorting hat, I must admit I was not too pleased. It's a fairly daunting thing to make and even pinterest was not very helpful with suggestions. So, I pretty much made this up as I went along; but I'm very pleased with the results. Here is me posing with the final, I have a better image of just the hat at the bottom of this post. 1. ACQUIRE A HAT I bought this one for R40 from my local party supply store. Granted, you could make one. But that seemed way more effort then R40 is worth. SO I went with this guy. I then sort of mapped out where on the fac...

DIY Harry Potter Collection - Signage

My 3 sisters recently threw a combined birthday party. And the theme they chose was Harry Potter. As my gift to them I made a bunch of the props and decorations. So here I will give a , sort of, step-by-step on how I made the various items. Be warned though, I'm pretty bad at remembering to take photos of my process. This is the last post in this series. To everyone that's been reading, thank you. For the new comers, go check out my other posts, they are more exciting then this one. SIGNAGE I made various signs for the party to add to the mood . 1. THE THREE BROOMSTICKS The Three Broomsticks sign was made out of foam-core board that I cut to size, and painted. To give it a more wood-ish look; I painted first a light colored base coat; then dry brushed on several coats in different colors to give it more texture. Remember to do all your brush strokes in the same direction so it looks like wood grain. I did horizontal, but vertical will work as well. To ge...

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