Sorry everyone for the delay in posting! Here are the entries for round 2. Unfortunately one of our contestants had to drop out due to injury, and another failed to turn in their entry by midnight. That will be counted as our elimination for the week. Again, the rest of the contestants are safe, for the time being.
Here was the assignment:
ASSIGNMENT-
Recycle/Upcycle! Use items in your household that would normally be thrown away- for example- cotton balls, newspapers, popcan tabs. Show us how you can make a fabulous pony out of trash for a low budget! These items MUST be visible on your pony. You can use regular items such as paint and hair, but you must use something recycled/upcycled.
You must include a paragraph explaining what you used and how you used it.
Your pony may be any generation you wish it to be
Adults or babies
Good luck!!!
Now on to the entries!! Please vote for your favorite pony that you feel best incorporated this week's theme.
Sarahlacewing:
"Have you ever seen something shiny laying on the ground or the floor and it calls out to you? For some reason, it’s the most beautiful little trinket you’ve ever seen. To everyone else it may be nothing more than trash; it’s a long lost something or other. But to you it twinkles in your gaze. And from the moment you pick it up both of you feel like you have found a missing part of yourself. With that thought in mind I’m happy to introduce Steam Junk. She is loosely steam punk inspired. Her hat and bracers are made from an old pop can. Her skirt is inlay with random washers/springs/bolts/tin foil/bra snaps/broken jewelry that I had donated to my junk drawer. The cogs are a mix, some I bought some I have no idea where they came from. Re-haired with scraps of midnight and snow witch. "
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Ambar_Jul-
"this girl was pure garbage lol, well she was a very damaged bait with legs and ears bitten to the point that I had to amputate some parts. i used parts from an old cell phone, two pairs of broken headphones simulating the mechanisms and wiring, you can see it in the neck,legs and one ear, a broken LED light Earring for one eye and a half of an aluminum cans wich i cut into small pieces to cover their legs and back
painted with acrylics and added some crystals
i would say she was easy to make and very fun, but a lot of different from the initial idea. Her name is XIA means Xperimental Intelligent Android
i used hot glue to paste the parts and a bit of epoxie to cover mistakes and give more stability"
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"When I was reading the new assignment, I happened to be eating Cadbury Mini Twirls, I went to throw the rappers in the bin, and thought, why not! So went looking for a bait, and this flutter was jumping up an down wanting a new look, so here she is. Her tail and wings are felt backed onto wire for posability, and covered with cut feathers made from the Cadbury twirl mini wrappers. "
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logingotbunny"On the assignment I wanted to use as much recycled stuff as I could and very little paint or hair. So into the trash bin I dived and items retrieved where: single FIM packaging, newpaper, dental floss,. tin foil, candy wrappers, broken beads, buttons, fake flowers, twisty ties, strawberry carton, chewed ice cream cone eraser, bent paperclip, chunk of foam, blue plastic bag and one very chewed hind end Star Catcher. The result was Blue Wake.
I started off using the paperclip to hold the foam in place as the amature for the tail covered it with tinfoil and hooked the fins on that I had cut out of the strawberry carton. Each fin was slightly melted and airbrushed. Next was many layers of scales from Nestle candy egg wrappers. Each scale was hand punched out of the wrappers. Instead of using regular hair, I used dental floss instead.
Her base started as the FIM single plastic packaging that I covered with the newpaper, some old beads to look like barnicles, 2 buttons to make a clam shell. The top of the crewed eraser as a shell, Green twisty ties as plants and a branch of fake flower. I used the blue plastic bag the tipped it with white paint to look like waves. Hence Blue Wake as created.
Enjoy,"
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loginassassin_kitty"This is Agnes the junk collector, anyone familiar with the film the Labyrinth or the artwork of Brian Froud might recognise her! I thought she would be the perfect custom for this project as the character spends her time collecting junk and odds and ends around the Labyrinth. I have used all sorts of stuff to make her, all the junk on her back is made mostly from rubbish she has a frying pan and brass plate made from bottle caps, a bronze helm made from the plastic part of a kinder egg, a sword made from some cat food tins and apoxie, a shield made from a worn out sanding disk, a satchel made from a scrap of fabric, a book made from cardboard and some really old business cards and a little fish whose base was a plastic ringpull from a drink. Her hair was a small bundle of wool i found that I was going to dye and spin into a ball but there just wasn't enough of it. This custom is quite the rubbish collector, even the texture on her tail and dress was made from old fabric and left over wire mesh parts."
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loginMurbella64"Stitch n'...Complain Profusely
This little rainbow zebra came about when two other ideas just flatlined. I was digging through my big sewing box, looking for buttons when I found the answer to my dilemma. I used to cross stitch. There were tons of bits and bobs left over of a multitude of colors that I never thought I'd ever use again. Of course, you never throw that away. They're all too pretty. It is always in the back of your mind though when you get the notion to "clean house" because when can you ever use such small amounts again? At first, she looked a bit...naughty (can I say bondage?). But then her apperance rounded out looking homey and a bit ethnic and I knew I picked the right material. She was a green glitter fakie with a lot of drip lines. Her colors are derived from whatever DMC embroidery floss I had left from 1994, the last year I x-stitched and she took a whole week of obsessive crocheting to obtain her final look."
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"Chromica Disco was created from bits of broken CD pieces, cut and attached with Krazyglue, and given a glitter coating. She is rehaired with Retro Dolls US Quiksilver and Frost Twinkle. Her eyes are painted and glittered with acrylics.
The CD that was broken to create her was a "mix tape" I made of Green Day songs, back in the autumn of 2005. It didn't work anymore, and was headed for the trash - plus it was a bittersweet reminder of a failed romance and the loss of one of my best friends. I still love Green Day; though every time I hear their songs, so many painful memories come flooding back. So now, the pieces of those songs have created a new work of art to represent me in my new life, with new friends and a loving husband."
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Tsukikakushi"I'm a major book hoarder. Some of them aren't in the best of shape, & even though I may have gotten better copies somewhere down the line I can't bear myself to throw them away. So this pony is a bit of a compromise. Torn/missing pages, stains, no cover; this poor book was falling apart. But a little bit of modge podge, paint, & love breathed new life into it. Every inch of her body is covered with lines from The First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks. The mane & tail are pencil shavings (to go with the writing theme). Her symbol was actually on a piece of stationary I had written notes on years ago, and a little 'ink' splatter for effect."
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