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Angels, Angels, Angels!

Sucker Spoon Angel
submitted by Beverly

1 plastic spoon
permanent marker
pink paint
8' of 4' wide lace
½ white pipecleaner
hair
halo
feathers
sucker

Take one plastic spoon and with a permanent marker mark two eyes near center of the outside of the spoon.  Pounce or dab with pink paint a little to the side and down from eyes.  These will be the checks.

Take a white pipecleaner and cut it in half.  Bend one end to round off and push through 8" of lace. Gather lace to the middle of pipecleaner and put under the face on the handle part of the
spoon and wrap pipecleaner around 'neck' once.

The pipecleaner on either side become the arms and hands.  Glue the feathers to the back of the
spoon. Add hair and a halo.  Add a sucker either behind the spoon or have the Angel hold it in her hands.
 
 
 

Kitchen Towel Angels  --  NO sewing and No gluing
Supplies:
1 teatowel
1 dishrag
1 square hotpad
(All should match or coordinate)
Ribbon (very narrow, in a color to go with the above) Small gold safety pins + Something to make the halo out of. (Example:  use some little embellishment like those found in the bridal supply area, three small strands with beads on them, paper wrapped together.)

1. Take the teatowel and lay on a table. Fan fold it and make sure the outside seam of towel ends in the same direction.. After fan folding, take the teatowel and fold in half.  Very carefully measure down a couple of inches, cut a length of the ribbon to tie around there and make a bow.
(This forms the head). With the top above the ribbon, you need to kind of push the middle area back a bit to make it look like a hood over the face.

2.  Take the dishrag and roll it up. After you get it rolled,  then take another length of ribbon. Take the dish rag and put it around the teatowel forming the arms. Tie back from the end of the dishrag a little, forming the hands.

3. Take a length of the ribbon and run it thru the loop of hotpad. Tie this as tight or loose around the pad to form the wings. The loop is what you use to hang it with. Now turn the angel face down (the pins come into play here).   Lay the wings on the back of the angel. Then take one pin and catch a small part of the potholder right by the loop. Then catch part of the teatowel and
another part of the other side of the potholder, and at the bottom of the wings you do the same.

4. With whatever you are using for your halo, form the circle for halo. Then fold over the end to put thru the folds of the towel and then bend the beads (or whatever) over for the halo.

This makes a memorable and cute bridal shower gift (or housewarming, thinking of you gift, etc.)  If you want, put some small flowers in her hand in between the two sides of the dishrag. Or if you have a small basket, tie a small lop and put that there. Just be CREATIVE.
 

ANGEL WANDS

Materials Needed:
Aleene's™ Crepe Paper (White, White Marble, Shooting
Stars, Silver, Gold or your choice)
Aleene's™ Premium-Coat™ Acrylics (OC 303 Silver, OC 301 Gold, OC 183 Blush)
Aleene's™ Ultimate Glue Gun™
Aleene's™ All-Purpose Glue Sticks
Fibre-Craft® Wood Doll Head
12" Length 3/8" Diameter Wood Dowel
Two 1" Diameter, Four 1/4" Diameter Wood Beads
Ruler
Scissors
Sm. Amt. Batting
Sewing Needle and Coordinating Thread
Ribbon Rosette (Silver or Gold)
Chenille Stem
2" Wide Ribbon 1 Yd. Ea. Wire Edge (Gold), Mesh (Gold)
Star Garland (Gold)
Wire Cutter
Lg. Toothpick
Moon, Star Buttons (Gold)-optional

Procedure:
Paint dowel with Gold, large bead with Silver (or as
desired), small beads with Blush; let dry. Glue large bead onto one end of dowel, doll head onto opposite end.  For dress, cut a 10"x26" piece from desired color crepe paper; fold in half lengthwise. Use needle and thread to sew a gathering stitch along cut edges. Pull up gathers to fit around angel's neck; knot thread to secure.

Glue dress into place; glue rosette to neck. For arms, cut a 12"x5" piece from tissue; fold in half lengthwise, overlapping edges 1/2"; glue edges to secure.   Insert chenille stem through tube. Pinch center of tube together; glue center under neck at back of dress. Bend arms to front.

Stuff a small amount of batting into sleeves. Use sewing thread to gather sleeve 1/2" from end. Glue small beads onto ends of chenille stems for hands.  For  hair, cut a 2 1/2"x 5" piece from White crepe paper; fold in half lengthwise.

Cut fringe glue around sides and back of angel's head. For wings, cut a 24" length of desired ribbon; tie a two-loop bow with 6" streamers; notch ends.  Glue wings to back of angel's neck. For halo, use wire cutter to cut a 5" length of garland; twist ends together to form a halo; glue to angel's hair.

For garland, cut a 12" length of garland; drape across angel's hands; glue to secure.  For wand, glue a small star button onto end of toothpick; glue opposite end of toothpick into angel's hand. Glue large moon button into opposite hand.
 
 

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