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Rockgem's Simple Cute skull tutorial.
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just occasionally i share my creative secrets
Rockgem’s simple Cute Skull Tutorial What you need:-
To make each little skull you will need the following…
* White oval 2 hole bean shaped toggle
(approx 1 inch across)
* 4mm black beads
* glue
*black acrylic paint & paintbrush
1. Firstly you take your toggle and flip it the wrong way round. 2. Take your beads I usually use 4mm ones as they fit nice into the little holes in the toggles 3. Glue two of the beads in place - these will be the eyes of your little skull 4a. Once the glue is dried its time to add the details Using black acrylic paint and a fine brush add a couple of small dashes for a nose…
4b. Then add a row of dashes along the bottom of the toggle for teeth 4c. If you want a girly cute skull add some little dashes either side the eyes to look like ‘eyelashes’ 5. Customize!These little skulls can be customized however you want some of the examples I’ve used to give them more character are
* crowns - little crown shapes cut from craft foam
* bows - these work well on the girly skulls - adding a tiny bow made from 3mm wide ribbon
* flowers - tiny craft/card embellishment flowers work well on these too!
EDIT : you can also use small cogs and watch parts to make them slightly steam-punk in look
6. Put them to use! These little cute skulls are pretty durable and can be used in many little craft projects I’ve mainly used them on hair-sticks, hair clips and pin-badges but I have also added them to Halloween cards rings and used them as scatter table decorations for Halloween parties
EDIT II : a huge, huge, HUGE thankyou to *charligal-stock for suggesting this for a DD and to ^PirateLotus-Stock for featuring it 
THANKYOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO STOPS BY AND WHO COMMENTS AND
s this tutorual of mine, I'd love to thank everyone individually but dA thinks I'm a spam-bot when i try 
so i shall say a big thankyou here! and i promise to everyone who leaves a comment i shall reply as speedily as i can
If you try this out please post photos and send me a link I’d love to see them 
And a few examples of what I use these for…
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thankyou for taking the time to look & for the compliment 
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What on earth is a "White oval 2 hole bean shaped toggle"???
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its pretty much what it says it is - a toggle that is oval in shape or often reffered to as 'bean' shaped and it has two holes through it, toggles come in a variety of shapes and colours and some only have the one hole through them.
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Perhaps I should be more specific: what is a "toggle"? I've never heard of it as an item.
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ah, i see if you look at the first picure in the tutorial you can see what one is, usually you find them on the draw strings of tracksuit bottoms or combat trousers.
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Oooh, okay. That makes sense, thanks!
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thankyou for taking the time to look and for commenting, sometimes the simplest ideas can be really effective hence i tried this out and when it worked i decided to make this tutorial
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This is really cool and something crafty I could actually do~
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You're welcome and thank you. ^^ I'm thinking of making matching pins or something with it for my BFF and I. She'd love it.
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I shall, and I'll give you a link. ^^
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thankyou kindly
i used the same idea to make some little cute cats the same sort of style - i might have to type up a tutorial for those as well!
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Your very welcome Gem. Sounds like your mom is a clever lady as well. A tutorial for the cats would be good.
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well the basis is similar just i start with a black toggle and 2 green beads, red paint for the nose white for the whiskers and some felt scraps ( or foam sheet scraps) for the ears and tail
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Your very lucky Gem. She is an inspiration.
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This is such a cute idea for Halloween favors and decorations, as well as making some neat Halloween accessories. Have invited it into a few groups if that is okay
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thankyou kindly for the compliment
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No problem
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Oh, thanks so much! these are very crafty
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thankyou for the compliment and for leaving a comment
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This is ingenious!
Such a cute yet simple idea and it has tons of applications. ◕‿◕
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lol! thankyou kindly for the comment/compliment , i'm still discovering new ideas to use these little skulls for as well as seeing what else i can do with basic toggles, most recently i've used the same sort of idea i used for this tutorial to make little black cats as well
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That's adorable!
Hey, even a pumpkin is that basic shape.
Man, there's tons of things, now that I think about it, that could easily be translated from a simple toggle. ^u^
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the more i think and dabble the more applications i can think of for these toggles, i shall be trying some rabbits for Easter with luck or maybe some yellow chickens, but i know with a brown toggle you can make a cute owl. or bat 
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lol! i wouldn't say that much but i'm glad you like the idea in this tutorial
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