bean-by-number: venetian mask
February 25, 2011 § 4 Comments
Lent and Mardi Gras are right around the corner, always preceded by The Carnival of Venice beginning this weekend. Although I’m nowhere near that side of the world nor am I going to a masquerade, I just had to fulfill the urge to craft a Venetian mask.
Back in November, I mentioned my big aspiration to design a series of bean-by-number crafts, and started with the bean-by-number Turkish tiles. Well, it’s been long overdue, but I finally have a second to add to the series. This Venetian mask is embellished with black-eyed peas and black turtle beans.
You can download the bean-by-number: venetian mask template here. I designed the template with the intention of using a third bean, but I decided to stick with only two types in the process. Of course, you can use whichever beans and as many varieties as you’d like.
On a related note, I often burst out in song, the likelihood of which is Broadway. It’s in fact not a rare occasion that I’m repeatedly singing the most catchy line from Phantom of the Opera: “Masqueraaaaade, paper faces on parade. Masquerade. Hide your face so the world will never find you… ” 🙂
paper, plate, and plane 
bean by number! you really do it all girl 🙂 I love that you try to come up with creative ideas…with your paper crafting backgrounds you could easily default to sparkling masks of with wild designs, but you used BEANS. Haha love it!
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