rabbits hopping through the looking grass

Made a grass head bunny rabbit at the museum today... basically you get a cardboard flower pot to decorate, then you scrunch up some newspaper to place in the bottom, put grass seeds onto muslin with cotton balls on top, then tie it all together and put that into the flower pot! Then it grows upwards like hair like in the photo.

I got the idea to make a bunny because I saw someone use the cotton buds as decorations lol!

Here is a close-up of the bunny with a flower made from paper circles (I didn't make it -_- but someone left it behind!) as well as a vintage Arnotts tin, newspaper and random drinks... I think the brown stuff is tea?? in the background ;)

You just need to keep the cotton ball moist and it should grow in about a week!


And with the cotton tail...


Unfortunately I gave it away to a colleague for her niece so I couldn't make some boring in-depth facebook album of the grass growing... but... I did get to take home this plastic pot that came with some lettuce and salad seeds, yay!! XD




I also received some nice material today, the person who received my lace and the bunny are the same person lol... and she gave me some materials that she had a lot of!


Pink string that is commonly used in scarves, gold thread and blue lace... as well as the crossword to fill in the empty space XD

crystal time!

Next part of my necklace (bought these crystals sometime last year) although I was thinking of rethreading one set of the pearls...



-Threaded necklace 1, but want to rethread it
-Mostly threaded necklace 2
-Working on necklace 3
-Then need to secure the beads on the string
-Need to make a lace flower (work in progress -___-)
-And then to make a pink ribbon to thread necklaces together

I ♥ NY

Occasion: Birthday

Inspiration:
1. I ♥ NY t-shirts
2. Theme America lols!
3. Matching stuff XD

My friend Josh had a dinner party at one of those Brazillian BBQ restaurants one year and his chosen dress theme was America! He previously had a themed birthday for gangster and in the end decided to back out while half of us had come decked out in our gangster grandeur...

I thought of making one of those I♥NY t-shirts and while thinking about it, decided to make it different (or at least dependant on what I could find in the stores...). Did some research on painting fabrics, acrylic is ok but fabric paint is better!

Ended up buying small bottles of red, black and white paint. I also bought a black singlet top to be different... which costed more than I wanted to pay -_- should have just stuck to the black t-shirt but didn't have time to look in the stores!

When I went home, printed out the I♥NY and painstakingly cut it out onto clear contact paper for wrapping books (ok, it wasn't tha-a-at bad...). The other method is using freezer paper which I didn't have at the time.


I put the shirt over a flat board using bulldog clips, stuck the template on and painted the design on. I used silver paint as the colour's effect on black was quite nice. Did some ironing with the design under a cloth when it dried and it was ready!



There was another guy at the party with the authentic I♥NY t-shirt lol!!

For the card, I made a mini t-shirt. The original idea had the shirt on a clothesline but scrapped that idea due to size. The letters were hand written with a stamp pen (which is why it looks dodgy!) and the heart was made using foam stamp (have to be careful not to press too hard) and them embossed with clear embossing powder!

do red cars go faster?

Occasion: My cousin's birthday

Inspiration

1. red theme
2. fast cars
3. the age old question about red cars


For my cousin's 21st, he had a red themed party... I would say that at least over half the people wore red :) The funny thing is that night I was a party where the colour theme was black and the birthday boy was gonig to dress in white (my friend and I who didn't really check the invite came in red)... what happened was he started a long e-mail thread and by the time I read it, it was one long chain e-mail so I just pulled out the er.. more important details :P

Anyway... being a car fan (my cousin, not me...) I just searched for a car related image and coloured it in nicely :) I printed off the Porsche logo, coloured it in with pearlescent chalks and added a sticker and some nice patterned rub-ons.

Inside is not so interesting but I didn't want it to be so red so just dashed on some chalked circles with a template!

joint party ribbons

Occasion: Birthday

Inspiration:

1. matching cards
2. ribbon
3. effect of stampnig on patterned paper

Made these cards as a pair last year as I was attending a joint birthday party! I remember trying to look for parking and then getting sick the next day, as this was the start of start of Winter! Other than that, it was a nice catch up with the engos :)

Diana


This card is basically just white with a pink edged border, a pink and blue ribbon which ties it to the other card, Happy Birthfay sticker, pearl embellishments, shooting star sticker (it's on a white backing so can only work on white cards) and images stamped onto patterned paper. I think the dots give it an interesting effect, though the butterfly sometimes looks upside-down.

Gilbert


Similar to the previous card... white cardboard and edged in blue ink, same sticker and there's some ribbon too. There is a patterned piece of blue paper covered in two blue ribbons. The top ribbon has a star cutout of the same paper and another ribbon tied into a knot. Knots creat nice effects and are good when you don't have enough ribbon or just find ribbon tying troublesome.

time to create!

Haven't made anything new lately >.< but currently working on some projects...

My friend requested a journal - the material is ready and waiting :P I've just sewn the edges of the material at the moment.


...the only problem about making covered books is if the design underneath is too pretty! I was contemplating making a book cover that was removable but umm... my niece took care of that option... with an orange solution!



I just sorted out my lace samples (by colour) as I was going to give some of it to a fellow volunteer at the museum, she wanted to create her own peg dolls like they used to in the olden days and needed some material to work with. One of the ones on display uses a piece of lace made into a ball gown.

Example of the peg: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=65912&search=peg




I bought two earring sets (from craft expo) and will work on them soon when I figure out how to use the tools I have, my sister bought the tools for me about two years back when Lincraft in the city were having their mega moving sale. The other earrings are a bird on a perch, but you need to add your own earring hook and charm to personalise it.



I also want to start making something with the beads I bought, maybe phone charms?

These are the three different charms I was thinking to make... (1) cat/fish (2) pig (3) duck


These are the bag templates I bought about two years ago *sigh*, I hope that I can make something soon ^^ Bought some fusing a few months ago.


And this book just arrived in the mail ^^ Looks like it's time to attempt some cooking :P

Link's washing

Occasion: Birthday for JK


Inspiration:
1. Zelda games
2. felt
3. the triforce, lol!

Made this card for a highschool friend who really loves his RPGs, especially Zelda! One of his favourites is the game Golden Sun. I once gave him a copy of Zelda/Minish Cap for his birthday as well!

I sort of had the idea of using the felt to make the costume already, but I couldn't think of how to get Link onto the card so in the end I ended up making just the costume. I'd always wanted to buy those cute little craft pegs but as I didn't have any at the time I just used two gold safety pins (which I think are possibly the ones they give you at City2Surf to pin your number on). And that is stuck onto a Happy Birthday ribbon.

[On another note, I ended up buying those little pegs a few months later, I bought a DVD for my friend and needed to wrap it, but without scissors and tape, I ended up tearing tissue paper and clipping it together with the pegs - note: it didn't really work! (I'm not going to buy new scissors and tape lol) ]


The costume is made from:
- green felt
- white foam
- green cardboard
- gold ribbon
- 'L' shape, from a kid's mini beading set, the L actually had two small rings at the top which I pulled off

Accessories

Sword, Boomerang, Boots: All just cut-out from cardboard, although I painted the sword silver



Slingshot: cardboard
Bombs: black paper (from a magazine), bubble stickers, thread
Shield: cardboard and raised with foam stickers