Sorority Crafts

Make Pretty Sorority Crafts for Your Massive or Tiny!

Sorority craft concepts for your huge or little.

This summer season I produced a entire bunch of sorority crafts, some for my massive (huge “sister” in the sorority), some for my long term tiny this fall, and some for myself.

1 of the fun things about getting in a sorority aside from the sisterhood and occasions is that you last but not least have a genuine excuse to make some of the crafts you discover on spots like Pinterest! I have gotten rather crafty since joining a sorority in college (and joining Pinterest) and had a few “crafternoons” this summer due to the fact painting and crafting factors can be both fun and calming.

The ideal portion about crafting as a pastime is that you finish up with a homemade completed item that you can give as a gift, like these Lilly Pulitzer-inspired sorority picture frames and other crafts. And my once-stodgy work desk is now covered in pink glitter! So present your appreciation for a fellow sister and craft them handmade some thing with really like. 🙂

No we will not beat every other with the paddles. They are just for decoration.

This is most of the supplies that I used for crafting sorority objects. The owl hanging and bag in the back I left undecorated, and my laptop was on this card table for a even though so I could pull up reference pictures like Lilly Pulitzer styles. Make positive to cover your table in newspaper or butcher paper!

I bought the wooden frames for around a buck each and the white frames and heart are salvaged from previous crafts that I did as a child and removed every thing from and then repainted white. The ‘Katie’ wooden title was manufactured by my amazing dad. (:

There’s also a bag of stickers and ribbon and stuff in the back. You are going to also require acrylic paint in what ever colours you think you are going to require (you can get little bottles for much less than a buck each and every!).

Start off with wooden letters for what ever your sorority is. I identified these for a couple of bucks every single at Michael’s (you can get most letters, and the ‘gamma’ sign is an upside down L but you may well have far more problems with Greek letters like ‘phi’ or ‘sigma.’ Check on the web as nicely).

They started out out as black letters so I covered the two K’s in scorching pink acrylic paint and then covered the 2nd on in glue on the front and then poured pink glitter all above it.

The last one particular I left black and painted white zebra stripes on. I completed by applying glue to the black element of the letter, rather than the white paint, and applied black glitter over it. The sides and back are even now black.

The letters came with the plastic hang-y things so I’ll both set them on my desk at school or hang them on the wall with Command Hooks.

Here are the salvaged supplies from outdated craft projects.

Not confident if you can still buy these hanging hearts, but I ripped off all the previous decorations and painted this stuff above with gesso to give them a new surface to paint.

Right here are much more of the wooden image frames and a wooden box I painted navy blue and decorated with a fleur de lis embellishment to use as a badge/pin box (in fact, the bulk of these crafts are for my future “little sister,” or small, in the sorority 🙂 ). These had been all about a buck every.

This wooden title was actually made by my dad since he’s into woodworking and all that jazz, but you could usually verify for your identify or other words or just acquire little wooden letters and glue them with each other for this.

I began painting this with some pink glitter paint but then I recognized I’d get better coverage if I commenced with a more opaque pink color and completed with the glitter paint on top.

Here is the word with the final coats of pink paint. And my laptop in the back possibly receiving covered in acrylic paint. Oops.

Soon after the pink paint was dry and painted on all sides and angles, I painted Elmer’s glue onto the front face of the letters and poured pink glitter in excess of it. Make positive you pat down the glitter onto the wood with a piece of paper after so it actually sticks.

Include a base coat of white paint or gesso to the two sides so the paint colours on leading will pop more.

Paint the entire heart in a extremely light blue shade, erring on the side of a cyan blue rather than sky blue.

We’re obtaining inspiration from this Lilly Pulitzer print, so come to feel totally free to use this as a reference picture like I did.

lilly pulitzer | Tumblr

Commence with some blobby flower shapes. You do not have to be an artist here. Just make lopsided circles. 🙂

Add shadows to the follows with a darker pink shade. I also have a layer of somewhat lighter pink underneath the shadows to give the flowers more shape.

For this step, never blob on the paint. If you go back to the Lilly print, you will discover that the white brush strokes have rough edges and have a tendency to feather out on one finish like they ran out of paint. You could even dry brush components of this to make it look much more authentic to the original print.

I created the leaves have reasonably rounded, crispy edges as opposed to the flower petals. Use a medium lime green paint colour.

I employed a Kelly green shade to include shadows to the bottom proper side of the leaves.

As a final phase, I snuck in a few sets of our letters written in white paint curved along the edges of the flowers. Completed!

For this picture frame, commence with a handful of coats of pink paint. I believe the acrylic paint was not satisfied mixing with the white gesso underneath it so it took me numerous coats to in fact cover this sucker!

After you have sufficient coverage from the pink, add a small volume of white so you get a slightly lighter pink color and paint some small flowers close to the frame.

This frame was inspired by this Lilly Pulitzer agenda:

Lilly pulitzer

Get out your lime green paint once more and add some leaves and green shapes similar to the print over. Also use a lighter pink shade to add the other flower shapes to the bottom corner.

Include some information and shading to the greenery with a nice Kelly green paint color.

Use white paint and a small paint brush to approximately outline everything in white. As you can see from the print up above, the white outlining is not precisely on the shapes – some of the flowers and leaves have area between them and the white lines.

When the paint is dry, outline everything once more in white to make the lines good and crispy and then come to feel totally free to add your sorority’s Greek letters someplace.

Here’s one more image of the table set up with all the resources and supplies you want to craft just about something. You can even see some of the total tasks.

This following image frame is also inspired by Lilly Pulitzer prints and starts with a navy blue base.

Making use of the following Lilly print as inspiration, I additional some pink flower shapes and the word “sisters” to the bottom of the frame.

Lilly Pulitzer Agenda Little : Property & Gifts : Lilly Pulitzer trend…

Include some green leaves and stems about the flowers and some lighter pink flower shapes (they kinda looked like hands?).

Use white paint and a modest paint brush to commence roughly outlining the shapes.

Right here you can see all the white information and the white highlighting on a single side of the writing at the bottom also. Accomplished!

As you can tell I did not begin taking images until I already had a great deal of this frame painted, but you will need to have various shades of Carolina blue paint, white, and pink, and a frame or canvas with a great deal of space. I employed this rectangle frame since the other picture frames did not have sufficient space to paint the print.

Start by painting the total point periwinkle blue, then paint in the owl, important, and fleur de lis (irises here) shapes in white, followed by white crosshatches. Consider to use the smallest paint brush you can find because the lines in the authentic artwork are quite thin.

I actually ended up lightening the outside lines, so use a medium blue to finish all the line perform, like specifics on the owls and flowers.

Right here I lightened up all the outside lines and extra a handful of far more white particulars and went above the lines again to clean up the painting. I finished by painting small scorching pink KKG letters all around the frame. Completed! I also painted the back of the frame the very same periwinkle blue and I plan to create a message on it in Sharpie to my sorority “aunt.” (:

Right here is a picture of some of the completed picture frames and crafts as well as some of the in-progress pieces.