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You can now purchase a printable flat mask. Talk about an easy button.

PURCHASE PRINTABLE MASKS ON ETSY

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This year however was special because it was baby Penn's 1st and probably the only year he'll let me dress him up as an adorable inanimate object. We went through a couple of ideas, Poppi, Olive and a can of spinach, Squints, Wendy Peppercorn, and the Beast, and then a couple months back while searching the web for ideas I came across this delightful costume.

It was perfect! And what goes better with spaghetti than Lady and the Tramp.  I pitched the idea to the hubby who was on the Poppi (fitness buff) bandwagon and he was less than enthused. I had to agree the idea of grownups dressing up like fluffy dog cartoons sounded dumb but the adorableness of Penn being spaghetti was too hard to pass up so I set to work brainstorming some ideas to take cutesie cartoon dogs to human adults tastefully.

I wasn't interested in:
-Fur
-Bodysuits
-Tails
-Face paint

Then I stumbled upon an Etsy listing for a leather owl mask and I thought by George it's perfect. But the leather animal masks weren't cheap coming in at around $100 bucks a pop. I also knew that a custom inquiry would run even steeper, so I sunk into a pit of despair...

As I usually do, I get myself into something I want but can't afford and decide I probably have the skills to make that. So I YouTubed leather mask making. The results were slim but I was able to decipher the basic idea.

Wet leather is moldable.

Here's what I did:

Measured out our facial dimensions, eyes, space from forehead to nose etc. and I came up with these templates.

LADY

The blue lines indicated the measurements that matched up with the points on my face. Ex. sides of nose.

 TRAMP

Then I cut these templates out of 6oz leather with an Exacto knife. I ran the blade gently through the leather on the details as to not cut all the way through.

The molding of leather is actually pretty easy. I wet the leather and used a cheap face mask as a form. I used the form to get a basic shape and the blow dryer to set it. then I would just mold, test (on my face) blow dry until I had formed the mask into the shape I wanted. 

 Then it was just a matter of paint and a few details (eyelashes, nose)


And Voila
 For the rest of the costume I bought clothes I would wear again in the colors of Lady and the same for Mr. Robinson's Tramp

You can purchase Lady's skirt HERE.