This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This is the second blog post for this piece. If you missed the first one, I discussed the center portion of the piece and how I made each of the eye pieces in the frames. That blog post is here: Eyemagination Part 1: Zipper Eye. I thought that I would address how I made the zombie trophy and the the two dome pieces in this blog post. I wanted the trophy to look kind of steampunk sculptural if that is a thing. To make this piece, you need a package of the Vignette Finial Set. There are four pieces in this set and I have been having a lot of fun with these this summer so I'm excited to get to share some of them with you this month. For this steampunk trophy you need the small finial base that is second from the left. I adhered the zombie hand to the finial base with Distress Collage Medium and let it dry. Then I added one of the Eyeballs in the palm of the hand with Collage Medium and let that dry. Soon it was time to paint it. I put some Black Soot Distress Paint in some Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and mixed them together and then painted the entire statue, including the white part of the eye. As I let it dry I put the tiny oval Remnant Rub that said For the EYE onto a piece of Heavystock. I cut it out and adhered it to some metallic Kraftstock and hand cut a small mat around the edges. Then laying it flat I put a layer of Glossy Accents on it so it would look like a metal enamel sign. When it was dry I attached it to the front of the statue and you are done! The paper doll in this scene represents the Imagineer I discussed in the last post who inspired this whole piece, Rolly Crump. These hanging spiders are really so very cool!! The only alteration I made was to cut the iris out of one of the eyeballs and attach it to the pearl so it looked like she was holding an eyeball. These two Corked Domes are easier than they look. I painted the cork bottoms and finial base with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. The glass domes were aged by applying a little tiny bit of Mushroom Alcohol Ink to the outside. The small dome has some Mummy Cloth in it with multiple Creepy Eyes stuck in the cloth like they were preserved. A label from the Snippets package was added and the numbers are from the Remnant Rubs. I wanted this dome to have a weird sculpture. I adhered several Ideaology Mini Gears together and added some irises from a few of the Creepy Eyes to the center of a few gears. I stuck a piece of bamboo skewer (you could use a toothpick or something similar) painted with the same paint as the base, into the cork and adhered the gear sculpture to it and let it dry. You need to continually check to be sure you aren't making the sculpture too wide or too tall for the dome. As a little detail, I attached one of the Fragile Snippets to the front. I want to show you how I made the base for this piece because it is a little hack I've been using all summer. I took the small finial top (on the far left) and decided to make it into a base. I used my scissors and cut the little ball off the top. I was too impatient to wait for my husband to get home and find a saw so I just kept working in a circle and cutting away little bits of wood. Here you can see how it takes a little bit of effort and you need to be very careful if you do this. Use protective gear, watch your fingers and don't be careless. I worked slowly and safely. Once it breaks off there is a rough spot in the center, so I sanded it down level. And there you have it. Another base for a piece. I saved the little ball and sanded the bottom of it just in case I might need it for something, and I did! Remember this guy? You can see he is stuck to the top of the little ball from the finial. It's surprising how many things you can use later on so don't throw stuff away. Ok, so I adhered the cork to the new finial base and then painted them both with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. That's it for the next five pieces of the Eyemagination project. Thanks again for sticking with me through this long post. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This is the second blog post for this piece. If you missed the first one, I discussed the center portion of the piece and how I made each of the eye pieces in the frames. That blog post is here: Eyemagination Part 1: Zipper Eye. I thought that I would address how I made the zombie trophy and the the two dome pieces in this blog post. I wanted the trophy to look kind of steampunk sculptural if that is a thing. To make this piece, you need a package of the Vignette Finial Set. There are four pieces in this set and I have been having a lot of fun with these this summer so I'm excited to get to share some of them with you this month. For this steampunk trophy you need the small finial base that is second from the left. I adhered the zombie hand to the finial base with Distress Collage Medium and let it dry. Then I added one of the Eyeballs in the palm of the hand with Collage Medium and let that dry. Soon it was time to paint it. I put some Black Soot Distress Paint in some Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and mixed them together and then painted the entire statue, including the white part of the eye. As I let it dry I put the tiny oval Remnant Rub that said For the EYE onto a piece of Heavystock. I cut it out and adhered it to some metallic Kraftstock and hand cut a small mat around the edges. Then laying it flat I put a layer of Glossy Accents on it so it would look like a metal enamel sign. When it was dry I attached it to the front of the statue and you are done! The paper doll in this scene represents the Imagineer I discussed in the last post who inspired this whole piece, Rolly Crump. These hanging spiders are really so very cool!! The only alteration I made was to cut the iris out of one of the eyeballs and attach it to the pearl so it looked like she was holding an eyeball. These two Corked Domes are easier than they look. I painted the cork bottoms and finial base with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. The glass domes were aged by applying a little tiny bit of Mushroom Alcohol Ink to the outside. The small dome has some Mummy Cloth in it with multiple Creepy Eyes stuck in the cloth like they were preserved. A label from the Snippets package was added and the numbers are from the Remnant Rubs. I wanted this dome to have a weird sculpture. I adhered several Ideaology Mini Gears together and added some irises from a few of the Creepy Eyes to the center of a few gears. I stuck a piece of bamboo skewer (you could use a toothpick or something similar) painted with the same paint as the base, into the cork and adhered the gear sculpture to it and let it dry. You need to continually check to be sure you aren't making the sculpture too wide or too tall for the dome. As a little detail, I attached one of the Fragile Snippets to the front. I want to show you how I made the base for this piece because it is a little hack I've been using all summer. I took the small finial top (on the far left) and decided to make it into a base. I used my scissors and cut the little ball off the top. I was too impatient to wait for my husband to get home and find a saw so I just kept working in a circle and cutting away little bits of wood. Here you can see how it takes a little bit of effort and you need to be very careful if you do this. Use protective gear, watch your fingers and don't be careless. I worked slowly and safely. Once it breaks off there is a rough spot in the center, so I sanded it down level. And there you have it. Another base for a piece. I saved the little ball and sanded the bottom of it just in case I might need it for something, and I did! Remember this guy? You can see he is stuck to the top of the little ball from the finial. It's surprising how many things you can use later on so don't throw stuff away. Ok, so I adhered the cork to the new finial base and then painted them both with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. That's it for the next five pieces of the Eyemagination project. Thanks again for sticking with me through this long post. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This is the second blog post for this piece. If you missed the first one, I discussed the center portion of the piece and how I made each of the eye pieces in the frames. That blog post is here: Eyemagination Part 1: Zipper Eye. I thought that I would address how I made the zombie trophy and the the two dome pieces in this blog post. I wanted the trophy to look kind of steampunk sculptural if that is a thing. To make this piece, you need a package of the Vignette Finial Set. There are four pieces in this set and I have been having a lot of fun with these this summer so I'm excited to get to share some of them with you this month. For this steampunk trophy you need the small finial base that is second from the left. I adhered the zombie hand to the finial base with Distress Collage Medium and let it dry. Then I added one of the Eyeballs in the palm of the hand with Collage Medium and let that dry. Soon it was time to paint it. I put some Black Soot Distress Paint in some Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and mixed them together and then painted the entire statue, including the white part of the eye. As I let it dry I put the tiny oval Remnant Rub that said For the EYE onto a piece of Heavystock. I cut it out and adhered it to some metallic Kraftstock and hand cut a small mat around the edges. Then laying it flat I put a layer of Glossy Accents on it so it would look like a metal enamel sign. When it was dry I attached it to the front of the statue and you are done! The paper doll in this scene represents the Imagineer I discussed in the last post who inspired this whole piece, Rolly Crump. These hanging spiders are really so very cool!! The only alteration I made was to cut the iris out of one of the eyeballs and attach it to the pearl so it looked like she was holding an eyeball. These two Corked Domes are easier than they look. I painted the cork bottoms and finial base with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. The glass domes were aged by applying a little tiny bit of Mushroom Alcohol Ink to the outside. The small dome has some Mummy Cloth in it with multiple Creepy Eyes stuck in the cloth like they were preserved. A label from the Snippets package was added and the numbers are from the Remnant Rubs. I wanted this dome to have a weird sculpture. I adhered several Ideaology Mini Gears together and added some irises from a few of the Creepy Eyes to the center of a few gears. I stuck a piece of bamboo skewer (you could use a toothpick or something similar) painted with the same paint as the base, into the cork and adhered the gear sculpture to it and let it dry. You need to continually check to be sure you aren't making the sculpture too wide or too tall for the dome. As a little detail, I attached one of the Fragile Snippets to the front. I want to show you how I made the base for this piece because it is a little hack I've been using all summer. I took the small finial top (on the far left) and decided to make it into a base. I used my scissors and cut the little ball off the top. I was too impatient to wait for my husband to get home and find a saw so I just kept working in a circle and cutting away little bits of wood. Here you can see how it takes a little bit of effort and you need to be very careful if you do this. Use protective gear, watch your fingers and don't be careless. I worked slowly and safely. Once it breaks off there is a rough spot in the center, so I sanded it down level. And there you have it. Another base for a piece. I saved the little ball and sanded the bottom of it just in case I might need it for something, and I did! Remember this guy? You can see he is stuck to the top of the little ball from the finial. It's surprising how many things you can use later on so don't throw stuff away. Ok, so I adhered the cork to the new finial base and then painted them both with a mix of Black Soot Distress Paint and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. That's it for the next five pieces of the Eyemagination project. Thanks again for sticking with me through this long post. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Soon I will be posting a couple of tutorials about how to make some things in the Eyemagination Museum project. I plan to focus on the zipper eye, corked domes, framed eyes, and eye plant. If you want me to address anything else, please contact me through the form on the right. If you want to be sure you have the supplies on hand to make your version of this project, I've put a pretty complete list below of everything I used. And if you find you need some of the items, I have a list of links below the list to make your shopping easy. New Halloween Ideaology Products: Ephemera – eye advert Ephemera Snippets – tiny labels and Handle with Care label Paper Dolls Layers/Baseboards – moon, eye chart, curtains, small black frame Wallpaper Design Tape Quote Chip Remnant Rubs – eye, numbers, file numbers, For the Eye oval Mummy cloth Adornments Spider Cryptic – zombie hand Creepy Eyes – most of one pack Existing Ideaology Products: Lg Vignette Tray Mini Foundations Finials Thimble Sprocket Gear Mini Hardware Hardware Heads Regal Adornments Corked Domes Ornate Plate Mini Gears Deco Frames Adornments Ribbons Keyhole Brads/Long Fasteners Ranger Product: Collage Medium Glossy Accents Walnut Stain Distress Ink and Blending Tool Black Soot Distress Paint Tarnished Brass Distress Paint Distress Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint Mushroom Alcohol Ink Walnut Stain, Black Soot Distress Crayons Misc Product: Die cut greenery for urn, or broomstick, whatever you want. Green cloth covered floral wires A tiny piece of moss Zipper or Zipper Trim (I used stuff they used to sell for scrapbook embellishments) A small piece of natural canvas or similar cloth Something for dimension – foam dots, layered pieces of chipboard, bingo chips, the foam pieces that come in the Vignette Trays -- some -->Stay tuned in the next week or so for the tutorial posts. Thanks so much for your interest in this project.Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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A selection of the beautiful minimalist illustrations by Francesco Ciccolella, an Austrian artist who manages to display satirical messages in spite of soft and

This Eyemagination project was meant to be a nod to one of Disney's delightfully different Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Walt had a way, much like Tim Holtz does, of encouraging each of his artists/imagineers to pursue their own ideas and styles. Out of their individual creativities and ideas, some of Disneyland's most enduring attractions were born. "What does that have to do with this weird eye project?" you may be asking. Well, it is a nod to one of Rolly Crump's ideas called the Museum of the Weird. He had this idea for a walk through attraction with a ton of crazy weird things to look at. It was the precursor to what later became the Haunted Mansion, an attraction Rolly worked on as well. The museum of the weird was never to come to fruition, but in this 50th year of the Haunted Mansion, I wanted to pay a little homage to its predecessor. Here is a short video for those interested in a little bit of Disney History. In my mind this project represented the room that housed all the odd eye stuff, and I even added Rolly overseeing his Eyemagination room. (Even the name has a little Disney in it.) I started by just going through all of my Halloween Ideaology and pulling everything that had eyes or was eye related. Then I started planning what to do with it all. For this piece I used one of the small Baseboard Frames and popped it up over a piece of canvas, to make a shadow box that housed various sizes and colors of eyes. I added Hardware Heads around the frame, topped it with a pair of wings with an eye, and added some tiny labels from the snippets pack with number Remnant Rubs. This eye and number are from the Remnant Rubs page. I adhered them to a piece of Distress Heavystock. Then I wiped some Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the whole thing with my finger and let it dry and crackle. I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it so that it really showed the crackles. Then I added the oval Deco Frame. These eyes were from one of the moon images in the products. There are several sizes of the moon, so find them and then see which one fits in the long, rectangular Deco Frame. I adhered the frame over the eyes, then when it was dry I cut away the excess. I added some Glossy Accents over the eyes. They turned a strange brownish green which is fine. Once it was dry, I again applied a layer of Distress Rock Candy Paint and let it crackle. Then added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. I added the ribbon in the corner of this piece which is one of the Ribbons and Bows Adornments, but I popped an iris out of one of the eyes and glued it in the center of the ribbon with Collage Medium before adhering it to the corner of the frame. It was kind of to mimic like a winning entry at an art fair. Now for making the eye zipper. This will take a bit longer because there is some drying time involved so either start with this, set it aside to dry while you work on other parts and then come back to it, or leave it overnight. I aged some pieces of zipper with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. You can see the slight difference on the top teeth. The I got a piece of heavy black cardstock and I added some hot glue on the back and glued it in place. Once it is in place then add some hot glue around the cardstock on one side of the eye and get a piece of the zipper trim ready. Place the zipper trim over the edge of the eye on the side with the hot glue, and then press the fabric part of the trim down into the glue. Press and hold while it cools. Do the same thing to the other side, but as you add the second piece take care to try and line up the teeth on the sides so that they lay flat. You don't want them to overlap. At this point I added some Glossy Accents from corner to corner and across the whole eyeball. Keep the Glossy Accents within the zipper borders. You can see here that it is covering the whole eye. This is where you stop for several hours or overnight. It needs to dry. No heat gun! Just let it dry. So set it aside somewhere that it won't be disturbed and it will be level. This pic has several things going on. First, you need to trim the zipper to fit withing the frame. So I started by laying the frame over the piece and seeing which teeth fit within the frame and then I carefully cut away the excess pieces. Secondly, you will notice that as the Glossy Accents dries it shrinks. You may need to add a second or even third layer of Glossy Accents and both times it needs to be set aside to dry. Here you can see that I determined which parts of the trim needed to go and I cut them away. I then glued down the frame with Collage Medium and I added a second layer of Glossy accents to the eyeball. This must be set aside again to dry flat and undisturbed. Once it is completely dry, you can cut away the excess cardstock. You can see that I added some of the zipper trim on the sides. This was because I wanted to be sure there weren't any little bald spots on the edges after I cut away the excess trim. You might also notice that there is a bubble in the Glossy Accents on this version of the zipper eye...I have learned to accept what Tim says about this..."Don't freak your freak!" LOL! Basically, just deal with it. It really isn't a big deal. When it is all dried and ready, you can hang it on the wall of your Eyemagination Museum. Thanks so much for hanging with me to the end! This was a long one. The next post will discuss a couple of other parts of this piece, including the plant. Tami I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!