Craftster user Paleona bought this plush Aliens queen (from who???) for her husband for Christmas and then made a baby chestburster to go with her. Click through to see a facehugger too!
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Thank you Geek Crafts reader Kelly Szpunar for our very first Alien(s) craft! On her new blog HunkyDorky, she shares how she made this incredibly cool facehugger bookmark out of a cereal box. (If you don’t know what this is, you are a bad geek and need to watch Alien and Aliens stat!) Check out her blog - she’s also got True Blood, X-Files and Star Trek projects up (Tribble cupcakes!).
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This is one geek craft that I actually made myself. I used a $40 screenprinting set I bought at Michael’s to do it. It has 3 invaders on the front right and a single invader on the back in the top middle next to the neck line. I did only one pass with white ink on a black tee and it looks kind of greyish - just like the original B&W Space Invaders arcade game.
I ended up doing about 10 shirts in various ink/shirt color combinations but none looked as good as the black and white. For the invaders, I simply used MAME and took a screenshot of Space Invaders and I enlarged it on-screen to the right size then I printed it out onto transparency paper and used that to make the screen.
It was my first attempt at screenprinting and it really did turn out great. It’s one of my favorites tees - all the better cause I made it myself.
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This is an interesting idea - it’s called Woodpixel. It’s a commercial product that lets you create your own pixel art. It comes with 100 wooden blocks with a different wood tone on each side and it comes with a holder to hold the 100 blocks in place. This would be a great way to make some classic/retro video game art. Their site shows a Space Invader, Mario, and a (poorly done) Pac-man Ghost. They are taking pre-orders now - no word on price. I bet it’s expensive though.
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