I, of course, found the initial inspiration on Pinterest. Here are a couple of photos I have found floating around.
^ This is the one I liked best and is pretty close to what I ended up with. The original link is here.
^ Here is another one I found. This looks like it is just a photo that was taken and pinned so I am not sure where it came from.
Below is my version.
I found a wooden frame and some googly eyes at Michael's. I also had on hand green paint, paintbrushes, multi-purpose glue, ribbon and a cut out.
I started by painting the frame all over on the front and back. This is a terrible photo of the color by the way; it is a very bright, almost neon, green.
I then opened my bags of googly eyes and started to spread them around on my frame. I bought several different packages because I wanted different kinds of eyes on my frame so I opened all of the packages and poured them in a large bowl so I could easily pick out the ones I wanted. I started with the largest eyes I had so that I could space them out the way I wanted.
Optional: Put the large googly eyes on your face and make creepy faces with your husband.
Keep adding eyes and fill in the spaces as you go. I tried to vary mine as much as possible so it would be random.
The sizes of eyes you use and the space you have to fill will help determine where to put everything. Just keep filling it up.
I took some close up photos so you could see all the different eyes I found. I got a package with lots of different sizes so I had very large (bigger than my eyes) and very very small (the top of a stick pin). One package had different colored backgrounds, I only really loved the green ones from that package because they matched my background perfectly so I didn't use a lot of them. Another package had eyelids and eyelashes painted on the front of them. There was even a package that had different colored irises (the inside of the eye).
This is the jar of what I have leftover, you can see more of the colors that were included that I didn't use.
Keep adding more and start paying attention to the colors as you add them so you don't have too many of the same ones together.
Once it was all finished I was so excited! I love the way it turned out and a few finishing touches was all it needed. I touched up any areas that needed more paint and found some ribbon and a Halloween scrapbook punch out that I had.
The ribbon is self adhesive so I just cut it to length and wrapped it around. I used vellum dots to attach the label so it would stay nicely. Tip: I made sure to paint the back nicely and wrap the ribbon all the way around the back since mine is on a stand and you will be able to see the back of it. I bought the frame in the broken/discount section because it didn't have the stand on the back so I bought a cheap plate display stand at the dollar store and used that.
I spent a total of $8 on my frame and I just love it. You could save money by getting a frame at the dollar store or using one package of eyes instead of the 5 that I bought (I had a TON leftover). Hanging the frame on the wall or getting one that isn't broken will also save you from the display cost.
Here is the finished product with my fave photo from last year in it. This is a photo of all the costume contest winners and I just love how goofy they all are.
Leave me comments with your questions. Is there anything I can do to make the instructions easier or clearer for you? Let me know.
~Liz
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