Other designs of the D.I.Y sweet can

Hi guys! I know I recently poste on how to do your very own sweet gift can. Now, I would like to show you other types of designs for this sweet gift can.

 

 

 

 

I have created another design on the sweet gift can. So I'll probably post soon. Till then! Bye! :)

D.I.Y Birthday gift can

 Hello guys! It is me again! Today, i'm gonna teach you how to make your little own D.I.Y gift sweet can. The materials needed are very simple.

1) A can and probably some cutely wrapped sweets. I bought these from Daiso, but any kind of sweets or can will do. It will be nicer if it is a glass bottle thought, I don't know maybe it'll be more exquisite and precious?

 
 


2) Stationary: A pair of scissors, different coloured markers (any colour or you prefer one is fine) and of course glue. I would prefer to use liquid glue and not the stick glue, UHU glue is a good choice, easily available.

  

 3) Felt cloth; I would prefer if you buy these kind of rolled up felt cloth, it's smaller and more convenient to cut rather than the huge sets. But then again it all boils down to your circumference of the bottle.

4) To add some decorations I would be using paper roses. Again, it is available at Daiso, if not you can try other kinds of decorations.

 
 



5) Ribbons; however today i'm only using some















Fabric Tape





 

 

 

Lace

 





6) Some stationary like scissors, glue and optional: coloured permanent markers.
Note: I would suggest to use liquid glue like UHU and not stick glue. Liquid glue holds better. Hmm....it's fine to use super glue but then it's kind of dangerous why not use normal liquid glue instead?

Note: I'm not sure about you guys but if you feel that you have a beautiful handwriting or want to do something original, I suggest you use coloured permanent markers. In this case it would be good to use painty markers available in Popular.

 

But for me today, i'm using alphabet stickers which is still cool by the way.

This sticker book is from Popular and quite cheap about $3. As you can see on the cover page, the types of sticker alphabets on this book has a nice variation to choose from.












Okay so now for the steps...






1) Choose a felt cloth. Today, I'll be using a light pink felt cloth.









2) Use a ruler and measure and mark all four sides to be at least 1.5 cm

 3) Use a 2B pencil and draw the lines marked earlier.

4) Draw semi-circles to fill the space between the pencil lines and the edges of the felt cloth.

5) Use a pair of scissors to cut out the semi-circles drawn.

 It should look like this.

 

6) Then wrap the felt cloth over the can and press down the cloth firmly. Shift the felt cloth accordingly such that all sides are proportionate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Then use UHU glue to stick the cap and the felt cloth together. Ensure that the felt cloth firmly sticks to the cap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you view it, it should stick and balance by its on. Press down the sides to give it some shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8) Try wrapping the white ribbon around the can and cut it to a length at least 20cm more than the circumference of the tin. Glue the ribbon to the side of the cap whilst ensuring some leftover ribbon on both sides.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9) Tie a knot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10) Try wrapping the lace around the side of the cap and cut it with length of at least an extra 20cm with the circumference. Use glue to stick the lace to the side of the cap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11) Tie a knot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12) Now take some decorative paper roses. (You can easily buy it from a nearby Diaso store). Today, I'll be choosing a pink, red and blue paper rose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

13) You can arrange the roses however you like. For me, I like the roses bundled together so I put them side by side, just below the knots I tied with the ribbon and lace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14) Next, take the fabric tape and tape the bottom of the glass tin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15) Use the alphabet stickers and paste the phrase, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY". Optional: You can write or paste the name of the recipient of this gift. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16) Last step, fill the glass tin with candies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We're done!

 

 

The End product! Hope you guys enjoyed this! Of course, a lovely gift should be accompanied by a lovely birthday card. Till next time X)

Wedding dress (Chalk art)

 

 

Hi guys! It's me once again! Last weekend, I decided to do continue on my chalk art sketches. Today it's about THE WEDDING DRESS! It is somehow inspired by my idiom book, "Rome was not built in a day," where he bride who was designing this dress told this to her best friend whom was pestering her to finish her dress because her wedding was tomorrow. For this art, I decided to use purple flowers to represent the purity and a corset like dress which gives off a feminine and elegant look.  

 

It is a dress that covers to the feet. The model is drawn without a face because the main emphasis is on the dress so I thought maybe i'll use a "dummy" model. The top of the dress is like a corset with frills around the neck area and at the bottom part, it is covered with plenty of frills of different  colours. First is the short purple frills to give off the elegance as well as highlight the purple flowers on top of the model's head. Next is a longer and bigger frill which is blue in colour to suggest royalty . The colours purple and blue are used partly also because they were commonly found during the olden days like the Victorian period. This dress is not only suited for the olden period, it has a tinge of modernity. Well that is all for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Bye! :)

Alphabet stamps and stickers

Hi, guys, this is me again! Recently, I bought a collection of alphabet stickers and stamps and thought I'll like to show you my collection. ;) I really love these materials and maybe for those art lovers out there you may consider to buy these items.

These alphabet stickers can be found in Vivo City, Paper market. If I remember correctly there are three types of colours; red, white and turquoise. I'm sure there will be people who know about paper market but for those who don't you should go there, it is ultimate haven! There is so many exquisite art materials to choose from! They even sell guide books which shows guidelines on how to create certain D.I.Y stuff. It's awesome and you should check it out! Anyway, these alphabet stickers are the pop-out version with different fonts which I feel it's quite cool. Currently, I'm actually using these stickers to decorate my laptop. These are good for scrap-book making.

The transparent glass plague along with the three Versa Colour collection; blue, green and black were bought from Beauty World (some shop that I can't remember) Though the shop is small, but there are many good art supplies there too. If you think Vivo city is too far away you may want to go there in Bukit Timah. Both shops sell the different colour pad, the glass plague and the sticky stamps.  For me, I bought the Alphabet set but there are many other types of stamps ranging from different designs and sizes. Some of the designs are; balloons, animals, etc. The silver one (Encore!) can be found in Papermarket. After using both brands, I feel that both Versa Colour and Encore! are quite good. Though maybe Encore! has a wide range of colour platelets. From what I have seen, I don't think Versa Colour sells metallic colour like silver and gold. So if you want these colours go buy Encore! instead.

This box of alphabet chops were at a discount of one dollar and I thought it was unique and worth the price. It's actually made of wood  and you can just use your creative juices to form different words and patterns with these stamps. This is not the only design though, there are at least five to ten different font design for this kind of stamps. Extremely worth it!

 

 

Skull (Flower)

This is a chalk art that depicts a skull adorned with a huge red flower and many small purple flowers. Actually the colour of the big flower was pink but I filtered it to be red since I felt red represents passion, something distinctively human. It kinds of remind me of Spain with their bold red dresses and roses...
Since I the huge flower was already something striking I decided that my small flowers had to attract less attention hence I chose a colour with a lighter hue. Light purple was the perfect choice and I did not want to use orange because it'll just blend in with the flower. Moreover, purple gives off a relaxing and soothing feel, a stark contrast compared to the attention-seeking red. As it the theme is about nature I decided to put in some curly veins. The veins were purposefully curved like the skull shape (to make it thinner?) and I seriously don't know why but I thought it was pretty.
Okayy and the yellow strip or design was so not expected. I just felt the whole picture was a bit plain and I guess i'm the type of person that will just add and add until it becomes a whole other kind of picture...Oh well, it just felt right to draw to add more colour?
The small tear is a must-add I told myself before drawing. Actually if you could see my other works you'll understand that I love drawing human or non-human art with tears or something related to water.  I'm actually happy about the eye as I never expected to have this circular texture almost as if the skull's eyes were hypnotising! (Okay maybe i'm just exaggerating a little bit :p)
Nowadays I'm always dreaming about pictures related to skull...I got this huge temptation to do my own I-phone cover with fabric tape, painty marker and nail-polish! (Yeah, you heard it right, nail polish!) Maybe, if I have time I would do my own I-phone cover and post it online! XD

 

La vie en Rose (Chalk art)

 

This is the new chalkboard that I bought from Typo, West Gate. I thought that I might as well try out and draw something. This portrait is about the French famous song La vie en Rose. I thought the name of the song was very delicate and beautiful, I drew some standard flower rather than a rose. Ma Chere means My dear in French and Amour de Salud is love salud (It's actually a song piece). Since the song is about a loved one might as well use that word :)

Though I felt that the feel is a bit Hawaiian? Or perhaps a Malayan feel with the chalk colour and all...

This is also another chalkboard I bought from the same stall but this is smaller by three times. The French words are the lyrics of La vie en Rose. I don't know but the lyrics looks quite meaningful.

"And as soon as I see him
So do I feel in me
My heart which beats"

The song is really beautiful and melodic! The drawing is also another standard flower and I chose pink because that's what the song reminds me of; pink.



This is both of the picture together. Although it took me at least a few hours to draw and plan the thing out I still feel extremely pleased. After all, this is the first time i'm trying this kind of art out.