I want to show you guys my Halloween costume that I made this year! I was itching to craft and sew so I thought that dressing up as Russell from the movie UP is a fun idea.
Keep reading to see how I made my costume. Enjoy!
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| Handmade costume as Russell |
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| "The wilderness must be explored! CA-CA!" Russell the Wilderness Explorer |
Items needed to make the costume:
♥ T-shirt transfer sheets
♥ Furniture felt pads in oatmeal (36 pieces) - 1 1/8"
♥ Dark brown fabric for the sash
♥ Orange fabric for the scarf
♥ Orange felt fabric for the flag
♥ Thin wooden dowels (Thanks, bff, for giving it to me)
♥ Bottle Cap - around 1"
♥ Clear round epoxy sticker - 1"
♥ 2 x safety pins
♥ Miscellaneous objects for the backpack (key items: trumpet, pan, and flashlight)
♥ Yellow baseball cap
♥ Yellow polo (Thank you, BN for lending it!)
♥ Brown shorts
I started off with Russell's cute scout badges. Luckily, there are templates where I can easily print them on the transfer-on paper. You can find the templates here and here. I didn't want to waste ink by printing the brown background, so I edited the pictures using a photo editor. On a side note, make sure you use an ink jet printer, not laser. Trust me, I almost broke a laser printer.
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| Printing Russell's scout badges on a tranfser-on sheet |
Initially, I was going to iron on the badges onto the sash, but I wanted more depth and more of a fabric texture. I looked around the house and ...furniture felt paddings! They are perfect in size and they are self-adhesive!
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| Getting ready to iron on the badges onto the felt pads |
I'm so happy with the end result! The badges look great and just what I was hoping for.
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| Badges are ready to be placed on the sash! |
Since the felt pads were self-adhesive, it was very easy to stick on each badge to the sash. However, if you are planning to move around a lot, I would suggest to hot glue each badge. I lost some badges :( Anyway, I couldn't help it and HAD to add some glitter.
If you didn't notice, I placed the main badges according to the movie/pictures (I just had to). My favourite part of this costume is the Grape Soda bottle cap pin or the "Ellie Badge". I won't spoil the movie, but you should really watch it if you haven't yet.
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| The Ellie Badge is my favourite part of the costume |
The Grape Soda bottle cap pin was easy to make. The clear round epoxy sticker gives the pin a glass-like effect. I used Google to search for the grape soda logo and printed on a paper.
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| Making the Grape Soda bottle cap pin |
Surprisingly, the flag was the most difficult part of the costume to make. I couldn't find my hot glue gun to stick to flag together. My mom saved me by sewing and finishing the flag for me. Thanks, Mom! For the flag and hat, I also printed the Wilderness Explorer logo onto a transfer-on sheet and ironed it on. You can also look for the logo on a search engine.
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| My backpack with random items |
After all that...ta da!
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| Close up |
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| Hello Kitty, The Hulk, and Hello Kitty Vampire |
I hope you enjoyed reading and looking through the pictures. I really had fun making this costume! I even won Best Costume at my friend's Halloween party :) Yay!
Have a good weekend!
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Edit: You can "gawk" at this DIY project at Craftgawker. Click here :)
I have been trying to find a way to make my own merit badges and this tutorial is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. (And you looked awesome in your costume)
ReplyDeleteI love the amount of detail that went into this! The badges, the bottle cap, all the random accessories...Awesome job :)
ReplyDeleteLove them!
ReplyDeleteLove your costume!! Congratulations! Is a work of art!!! n.n
ReplyDeleteThank you for your wonderful comments! Happy crafting :)
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteIm trying to make merit badges and I was wondering if maybe you could help? I downloaded the templates from your links and sucked out the brown back ground but, the badges are low res and get pixelated. Yours are perfect! Any tips?
Hi Ana! Sorry for the late reply. I used Adobe Photoshop to edit the badges. There's a setting where you "replace" the brown colour to white. However, some individual badges will lose that colour. In that case, I manually painted the colour back...kind of repetitive, but I have to do it :)
ReplyDeleteHope that helps! Please comment back or email me if you have any more questions. I'd love to see your end result :)