DIY kitty frame

I drew this little ginger kitten head the other day, it was also my first ever attempt of using colouring pencils in a realism piece before I think.... (I did once used watercoloured pencils in a drawing of Lady Gaga though!) But I liked the outcome of this drawing and got a few positive comments on it ^_^ umm but of course it looked a little weird only being a kitten head and no body parts!

Soooo......

I made a cute little frame for it and stuck it up on my wall; it looks smaller in photos but its bigger in reality, it's about 18cm x 18cm aprox. 

It was so easy, quick and fun to make! Firstly, cutting out the cat head neatly then cutting out a circle on some coloured corrugated card for decorative crafts! The back plate is colour card that I cut a circle out of using a pair of patterned scissors (the scissors blades are patterned so they cut the shaped edges) and then I hand cut in some holes to make it look like lace coasters, however, the card I used was too thick and I couldn't cut much detailed patterns (I was pretty disappointed about that). The 3 layers are held together with little 3D double sided sticky foam piece so the piece creates shadow and looks 3D.

Then finished off with a little ribbon super glued on :P

I loved making this! And I think it's so cute stuck up in my wall. I think I want to make a few more now and maybe I could give some out as gifts some time ^___^

Felt breakfast set charm

Made a little miniature felt plush breakfast set! ^_^ 

They're all 3D plushies attached with ribbon so they can fit into the charm thingy thing thing..  A slice of toast, strip of bacon and an egg sunny side up! I was debating whether to add faces onto them or not.. But thought I'd keep it simple without faces. I really like miniature food and I make lots of miniature polymer clay food as well :P

So here it is, fits on the palm of my hand:

DIY Christmas gifts

So decided to make my 2 new uni friends little gifts last minute! Took about 4 hours to make cards, envelops and gifts! ALSO MADE MY OWN WRAPPING PAPER ;D

Ah well, here at the envelops I made measuring 8cmx10cm ^_^ for Hannah and Alisa!

Then made 2 Christmas cards to go with it! Took ages to cut the Christmas decoration on the colour paper because of the card being really small and because the colour paper was pretty thin and hard to work with. The pop up christmas tree was fun to make though :)

The I made 2 little felt plushie key charms! I love how they turned out and was so quick and easy to make once I made my own template for it ^___^ as you can see they're pretty small, almost the same size as the little envelops! I made the 2 Starbucks phone charms months ago but thought it'd be cute just to through them in as little extras hahhaa :P

Finally made my own wrapping paper! I made a rubber stamp of a heart which I made myself using an old rubber and a scalpel to carve a heart shape into ^3^ then I just used a blue ink pad to press the hand made stamp onto a sheet of A4 tracing paper :) wrapped the little gifts+card into the paper once the ink had dried and used a little bit of cellotape and ribbon to hold it all together!! Hehe so happy with how it all turned out in such little time as well :)

Giving it to them tomorrow, last day tomorrow then it's Christmas holidays! Im going to try to be productive this time and do lots of creative stuff to motivate me!!! Hope they like their presents tomorrow ^_______^ X

Cat ear beanie

Seeing this hat getting popular but also seeing it being really expensive, I made my own one of it :D only using a £4 beanie from Primark haha :P 

I thought this was nothing more than a cute cat ear beanie getting popular, but then I only realised that it actually got popular after k-pop stars  wore it often and that's why people started to wear them :o

But I'm not into k-pop and I really only liked it just because it looks really cute ;)

The beanie I used it purple/maroon and didn't show up very well on the photos because it's almost the same colour as my hair! So I had to apply flirters to the photos I took of it. So here's my attempt on making the beanie (pictured below).

And here to the link to the tutorial I used to make it:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHqIUj2B8A

This is definately an easier and cheaper way get this popular hat design :P

Summer Homework..

Only 2 and a half days left till I start university and still haven't completed my summer homework; currently stressing real bad! I always have a habit of leaving work till the last second and then stressing about it.

Right now I'm playing animal crossing rather than doing my summer homework haha :-(

Well here's what I drew last night, took about 2 hours. Only using mechanical pencil on A3 paper. My favourite album The Script #3

The summer homework is to create a presentation about myself in any format we wish, but there is a list of questions about yourself included which you must answer. This is for the question about my favourite album/song

Also did a drawing of HellBoy using Sharpie and felt tip pens. This was for my favourite movie! I wanted to draw out a Pan's Labrynth screen because I really love that film so much, but I couldn't find any good photos of any characters online so I found that too time consuming to look for a good photo to use as reference. I ended up drawing HellBoy haha :P

Time to do more of it now!

The questions I was given were:

-your name

-where you live

-the name of your last course and university

-3 physical measurements

-your favourite item of clothing/outfit

-an interesting fact/s about you

-the thing you can do that not everyone can do (your talent)

-your favourite musical track

-your favourite book or film

-some pieces of statistical information about you

-what you hope to achieve on the course

-anything else you would like to inform us about

HAHHAHA wow, I've currently only done 3 of the questions :------(

OKAY I'LL GET A MOVE ON WITH IT NOW. IT'S DUE TUESDAY, I HAVE 3 AND A HALF DAYS

DIY pocketsized Togepi felt plushie: tutorial+pattern

Hiii, so this is my first time ever making a tutorial so i'm sorry if some of it might not be understandable or if i miss some steps! i'll try my best :D so i decided i wanted to make a pocket sized Togepi plushie tutorial because i searched online for ageeeesss looking for a tutorial and pattern for a togepi so i could make one for my friend but couldn't find a pattern anywhereeeee! but now i have made one hehe ^__^

This is also the first attempt of making a togepi plushie which fits on the palm of my hand measuring around 3 and a half inches tall. I made it so that it sits down but you can always adjust any parts of it so it can look however you want. you can also just size up the pattern pieces if you want to make a larger scale one!
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So lets start! umm first, materials:
- skin colour, white, pink, red and dark blue felt (i used a really light skin colour for togepi's head, hands and feet but you could change that if you wish)
- red, black, blue, beige and white thread
- cotton stuffing
- fabric glue
- pins
- needle

and here are the pattern pieces that i drew and cut out myself (i wouldnt recommend printing this off as some pieces may need size adjusting depending on how you make it)
PS: i am using a 0.5cm-1cm seam allowence for all the pieces that need to be turned inside out, you can change this if you want to.

After cutting out the pieces onto the felt, you start off with sewing an egg shape with the 4 pieces of skin colour.

ABOVE:
1. place one on top of the other and then sew down one curved side. repeat this with the other 2 pieces.
2. opening up the unsewn side on both pieces, pin two of the unsewn sides together and then repeat step 1 on this side which has been pinned together (no pins in the photo because i usually only use pins when i absolutely need them)
3. now turn the egg shape inside through the last unsewn side and stuff with cotton sutffing till very full so that it makes an oval egg shape.
4. sew up the remaining side after fully stuffed.

HAND EMBROIDERY I THINK? making the face! :D you're going to use the zig zag with a flat side and this will be togepi's face/head.
ABOVE:
1. draw out togepi's face onto the center using a photo online as a guide
2. i think this is hand embroiding.. using red thread to create the mouth. you start from a top corner of the mouth and then straight to the other top corner of the mouth so you create a single red line on the top of the mouth. continue this to the bottom of the mouth by just moving side to side and also moving in slightly each time so you create a little triangle for the mouth.
3. using the same technique in step 2 make an eye
4. create the other eye and the lines. (i think its always easier to do one whole side first so that you can copy from the side you have already done to mirror it ^__^

Next pin togepi's face around the top of the egg making sure it sits on there so that the back links up. i find it easiest to make a crown with the togepi face and pin this together and then pin it onto the egg body! then sew this onto the egg body! and now you basically have a naked togepi :P

next we are going to make togepi's egg shell for him! ^3^ (i originally thought i needed 4 of these pieces but i ended up needing 5 of them, so the number of pieces you need here may vary depending on what size you've made your togepi egg body)
ABOVE:
1. with the 5 of the white egg shell pieces, you are going to do the same thing as you did when making the togepi egg body at the start. place one piece on top of the other and then sew down one side. repeat with another two pieces.
2. pin the next side on making sure it your togepi body fits inside it. you may need to add or remove some egg shell sides! :o
3. sew all the sides together the same way as step 1
4. turn your egg shell inside out and make sure togepi fits inside it well!

decorating his shell!
ABOVE:
1. draw some triangles of different sizes onto red and blue felt. (look at a photo of togepi online to see the shapes that are on his shell!)
2. cut these out
3. now cut holes into the center of them

with these shapes all cut out, you can sew these onto the egg shell using red thread for the red triangles and blue thread for the blue triangles OF COURSE :D (you could always just use fabric glue to glue these down if you cannot be bothered to sew them on)

place the togepi body into the egg shell and line up where you wish to shell to stay on his body. once done, cut a tiny triangle off from the shell in the front of togepi's face so that his face isn't covered up! AS SHOWN ABOVE ^^. umm now put a little amount of fabric glue within the insides of the egg shell (do not put lots of this on in patches as it will bleed through the felt and would take longer to dry)

ARMSSSS!! well hands :~)
ABOVE:
1. cut the 4 pieces out onto skin colour felt
2. placing one on top of the other, sew around creating the hand shape
3. turn this inside out and then stuff with cotton stuffing
4. repeat step 2&3 with the other hand.

THE LITTLE TOGEPI FEET!! C:
ABOVE:
1. cut out the 4 small ovals for the feet
2. cut out the two pink semi circles for the pads on the bottom fo togepi's feet! :D
3. placing one piece on top of the other, mark off the size you actually want the feet to be
4. sew half way around the foot.
5. turn the foot inside out
6. stuff the foot
7. sew up the opening edge. (to hide the stitches you have to carefully fold the open edges inside to make the seam allowence inside, pin this together. and then stitch but doing a running stitch through the inside seam allowence you folded
8. sew the little pink pads onto the bottom of the feet. optional: you can sew toes onto his foot too

 sew his feet onto his body where you want them to be!

Sew the hands were by togepi's side so he looks happy :P (The hands i made for him were too long so i had to cut them down quite a lot)

YYAAAYY AND FINISHED!! hope some people do use my tutorial and i hope you can understand it. sorry if you can't understand some parts P:


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Please leave a comment if you use my tutorial! and links if you decide to make one from my tutorial, i'd love to see! thank you for reading :D

///////////giving this little plush to my friend, Leanne. hope she likes it hehe. its her favourite pokemon :~)

Another plushie making day!

Horray! Had a fun day today ^3^

Meet my friends Leanne and Yas down at Romford today to buy some materials from The Range and then we headed back to my house! We watched Free Iwatobi Swim Club together c:

Then we made plushies together! Leanne had to teach Yas how to sew because she didn't know how to hehe but I think she had fun with her first time sewing a Slenderman plushie ^___^

After seeing her Slenderman, I decided to download it onto my laptop to play LOL. AND YEAH, Yaz was using the keys to walk and I was controlling the directions of the torch.... THEN SLENDERMAN APPEARED FROM NOWHERE AND WE BOTH SCREAMED HAHA, it was so funny hehe ;D

Ah then my mum bought us all KFC for dinner before Yas and Leanne had to go home!

Wish I took more photos but I kinda forgot haha ~ ~ ~ ~

Leanne and Yas busy with making their plushies

Oh and I made a Domo-kun plushie and a donut keychain plush ^______________________^

Hehehe I love this donut keychain I made! Going to put it on my backpack for when I next go out!

FUN FUN FUN FUN DAY. WELL I ENJOYED IT AT LEAST. I hope my friends enjoyed it too :x

DIY miniature book charms

Hmm well I made these miniature books quite awhile back.. around May 2013 and I think that they look super cute! I used a few different tutorials online and took parts from each of them to create my own. I originally made 4 but I gave 1 away to my friend on her birthday and another 1 to my sister ^3^

These are the 2 I kept for myself. I turned one into a necklace and the other one is a keychain! I didn't have many small things that I could had used to decorate them so I had to improvise by cutting apart an old broken skull bracelets and using the metal skull beads; then also using old golden chains and bracelet parts c:

They take quite a little while to make, around 30-60 minutes because of waiting for the glue to dry most of the time. I think the hardest part was using a ruler to rip of tiny pages that all had to be the same size! Haha - I ended up ripping and wasting quite a few sheets of paper because it was so tricky.

As you can see how small and cute they are from the photos above!

..
I want to make tutorials for things that I make but I get worried that no one would use them and think that it would be a waste of my time if I made tutorials :-(

But if people comment and ask for a tutorial for anything then I would be more than happy to make a tutorial for you guys reading this! But I'm starting university on the 30th September so I will be very busy after that date!

#peaceout :)

Kawaii kitty keychain

I made this kawaii kitty keychain by hand and entirely from felt!

I made my own pattern for this as the design of it was originally for a soft cat plush keychain, but I reversed it making the stitching outside.

This is the photo I found on google of the cat plushies which I took inspiration from: 

And this is my final outcome which I made myself! A kawaii kitty plush * o *

Fits in my hand and I also attached a ribbon on its head so that I could use it as a keychain c:

Cute huh! 

DIY Drifloon plush

Hi, so I made this Drifloon plushie from by hand with felt ^__^ it looks soooooo cute! I'm so proud of it because it looks adorable and I took my time on the stitching for a change and it looks nice and neat :D

The tutorial I used is here:

http://plush-lore.deviantart.com/art/Drifloon-Tutorial-322735283

However I did make an adjustment which was making the yellow hearts 3D by stuffing them (this isn't included in the tutorial I used), I think this made the whole thing more 3D and gave it more shape :-)

So happy with it! Here's how it looks: 

Comparison of size as it sits on my bear who is about 30cm tall. ^ u ^

DIY Aipom plushie

I made an Aipom (Pokemon) plushie by hand without a pattern or tutorial! It took around 9 hours to complete as it was difficult cutting all the patterns out the right size. I had the most trouble making his oval head and it needed a lot of adjusting once I sewed the head together =^=

Ah but in the end after an entire day of sewing, I think the outcome for it looks great! He fits right onto my hand ^____^

Materials I used to make him:

-Purple, skin colour, black & white felt

-Black embroidery thread

-White, purple & black thread

-A piece of wire

I haven't seen a tutorial or a pattern template for making an Aipom plush online.. But if anyone would like to know about how I made it then I'll be happy to draw out a pattern for you and give you some instructions for it as well :-)

I put a piece of wire in his tail so that it could bend into shapes and hang onto objects! I made Aipom hang from the light in my room as you can see below ^.^ had a lot of fun making him

Little Paper Fashion Show

So awhile ago, actually it was almost an entire month ago haha. I attended a short course called Fashionflex and it was to test the flexibility of paper in clothing. Our task was to making a garmet entirely out of paper and wear it on a catwalk! It was so fun. Met many new people/artists/designers. I think everyone enjoyed the short course!

So here's the dress that I made and I am also the one modelling it here in these photos ^ u ^

Made out of paper, tissue paper, tissue and book pages :D ... And a lot of tape and hot glue gun haha :P

Was nervous at first about the catwalk and wearing this paper outfit in front of so many people, but I took my glasses off and I could not see anyone at all because I'm so blind without my glasses haha. So I didn't feel nervous at all, I smiled a lot walking down the catwalk because I was having so much fun hehe :3

Last photo with everyone before we all parted ways after the Fashionflex course and after the catwalk+photoshoot was over. Would love to do something like this again in the future :-)

Plushie making day ^.^

Ah well today Leanne, Yas, Leon and I planned to buy fabrics together and then go to Leon's house to make plushies together! But things changed slightly.. As Yas told us last minute that she couldn't come and then Leon's mother fell ill and we couldn't go to his house for awhile because she needed to rest!

So Leanne and I met in Romford and bought some coloured felt that we needed for our plushies we wanted to make ^ u ^ and we also went to sainsburys to buy chocolate for Leon's mum since we were guests round her home! We took the bus to Stratford and IT WAS SUCH A LONG BUS JOURNEY OMG. At Stratford, Leanne and I bought Subway for lunch -and it was delicious as subway is always delicious

^^^^^sitting outside Westfields eating and tanning (would love another subway right now).

Huhu after lunch we got the bus to Leon's house finally! And his house is quite small but cute! It's like old and vintage haha. But there was a problem with the bathroom door as it gets jammed from the inside and you'll get stuck in there, and yes Leanne got stuck in there haha; I managed to get the door open after awhile -3- anywho, after hours and hours, these were the plushies that I made! A pudding with cream and a smiling face! L from Death Note and a small paopu fruit :3

And Leanne made a little Kirby! Seeing as it was her first plushie she's ever made, it looked soooooo good!! Makes my plushies look crappy haha ; u ;

^^^^^ all the plushies we made whilst at Leon's house :v

Leon was supposed to make plushies with us! But he was too busy playing games with Sammy, silly boys!

Ah and then we didn't leave Leon's house until 7:30pm and it was chilly and the sun was setting and the train was taking long!! But the sunset was sooooo nice and pretty ^ o ^ I took a few photos of it because it just looked so beautiful and calming :-)

Eraser stamp - first attempt

My first ever attempt of making a rubber stamp! Looking at tutorials online, I thought it seemed pretty easy, however I don't have the tools and I only used a single small craft knife to make it =^=

So yes, once I started making it, it wasn't as simple as it looked. It was actually really hard and took me almost a whole hour to just make this little pusheen cat stamp which is 4x3cm big o____o;

And if I knew it was so hard then I would had done something more simple for my first ever attempt. But I'm pretty happy with how this turned out as my first time doing this - but not happy with the wonky eye and mouth on pusheen, sorry D:

Tattoo design

So I really love geometric shape/patterned tattoos and I really really want one tattoo on me! Had discussions with my mum about it and she said a tattoo would look good on my back, like the shoulder blade! But I originally wanted it on the back on my leg..... But now I'm starting to grow to wanting it on my back as well :D

So it took me awhile but I managed to design this geometric flower design and I would like it tattooed on my back but not too big; I'd say I want it to be about 6/7cm big on my back shoulder blade ^ u ^;

I found a tattoo parlour that I would probably go to in Romford and the minimum cost would be £25 which covers the needles used etc. hopefully it won't be too expensive overall :-)

Also I have to wait 2/3 weeks because I would have to remove my shirt to get this done and if my mum is with me (she obviously will be 100%) then some of my cuts/scars over my body may show. So I'm waiting a few weeks so my wounds can heal up and I'll get the tattoo when they're less noticeable -3-;