Hi there :) I am a girl from Australia who posts about anything and everything creative - sewing, knitting, writing, drawing, photography, fashion. I love fantasy, medieval, regency and vintage styles. This is a very broard blog, so I hope you enjoy!
So I decided to make a bit of a different style of blog today.
A week or so ago I shot a film of myself making some Disney-inspired cards and have now compiled it into a 3-minute video. I am merely experimenting with this format, I shall wait and see if there will be any more of this kind of thing :)
Here are some more pictures of my card-making-ness:
Princess Tiana [Princess and the Frog]:
And no the dots are NOT meant to be her face!! It was a sad moment after hours and hours of work to realise she had a funny-looking face-like face...
The Rapunzel one didn't turn out so well.... I hat a lot of issues with the hair, especially with the way everything was layered... I've actually un-glued and re-glued a lot of this card since these pictures/video haha!
Princess Rapunzel [Tangled]:
I apologise to everyone who I told off for talking in the background of my typewriter footage, but I can get rather fixated when doing creative stuff and doing it properly... the footage didn't turn out so great anyway so whatever!
Right now I am quite frustrated, after researching to make sure that Louis Armstrong's song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was old enough to have no more copyright, I still got slammed on youtube for breaching copyright T-T
I could have taken the liberty of using a modern cool song which would definitely have breached copyright in hope of attracting more viewers, but no, I still get in trouble for using aged-songs that no-one alive can honestly take credit for!
So I'm currently in the middle of my final school exams, the HSC.
I thought it would be a good study relief, and friendly exercise, to make some good-luck cards for all my friends :)
Each card has a patterned paper backing, and the front has a short message of encouragement and fun stickers and stencil-drawings and clips! They also have a string of buttons and pendents, either their name letter or something random (why would a packet have three O's and a number of obscure letters like Z, but no ordinary K's, C's, J's or N's?!)
Here are some of my favourites. I just love patterned paper :D
An excellent relief from study, however now I'm fully in the academic zone :) 2 exams down, 5 to go!
Yesterday I went on a cardmaking spree with my friend as we watched the third series of Doctor Who, although it was rather distracting from the show in the end so I had to stop being all crafty!
Spotlight was selling huge bags of craft stuff for $5, so we were overloaded with fabulous ribbons, stickers, pins, patterned paper and stuff I had never even dreamed of.
Here are some of my final products:
The blank spaces are for writing short greetings such as 'Happy Birthday' or 'Congratulations' when the time comes :)
Just looking at them makes me feel happy!! Just what I need for some study relief :) Can't wait to have more time for this kind of thing!
Yesterday I went on a creative splurge to make a card for my brother returning from overseas :) I really like the colours in this photo he took of the trusty bike that got him around the different countries. I discovered some awesome tissue paper under my bed which had a world map printed onto it and decided to get arty!! It didn't quite turn out how I hoped, you're supposed to see the beginning and end destinations in the background, but perhaps there's not quite enough room to identify locations....
Also, it turned out that if I had just stuck the picture over the world map, one of the destinations would not be able to fit! So with some sneaky folding behind the picture I may have warped the map a little so as to fit onto the card!! But it is fairly to-scale ;)
It's nice to have little creative jobs to do every now and then in this time of complete boredom of essays, study notes and you-should-not-be-doing-anything-but-schoolwork-ness.
So on Monday my sewing project was due in at school, and today me and my friend who also does this subject presented our garments in Assembly!!
My design is inspired by the impact of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the 1970's, and their slow progress and regrowth since then.
Now these are a few shots from my friends' garment!
And here's a few shots of my project when worn!
I have included my design development drawings because I spent a long time on them and feel they need some recognition too! The drawings aren't totally honest, but they show a fair depiction of the general progression of ideas leading up to my final design.
This brings back memories from a long time ago when I made these Christmas decorations for a number of my family members! Back then I'd never even heard of double-pointed needles and so I made up my own pattern just by looking at the pictures!
Luckily this time I had some more skill up my sleeves and I was able to follow the pattern fairly accurately.
The design was taken from Charmed Knits by Alison Hansel - a book all about Harry Potter knitting projects! Highly recommended for all true nerds.
I know it's not even nearly Christmas time, but I made these for some fellow-nerds for their birthdays in-between exams and watching the Olympic opening ceremony :)
It seems insane that I have any time at the moment to be doing anything creative. Then again, my major textiles project is due in, like, two weeks.......
Yesterday my friend and I hit the local streets to administer a little urban art.
After a few weeks of knitting with nice thick wool and large needles, we finally had our beautifying artworks to sew up along the street. Armed with a large needle, knitting yarn and scissors, we spent some time sewing up our creations whilst avoiding eye contact with awkward neighbours.
My friend used black, grey and red wool with an assortment of ribbons tied neatly around the edge, and some fancy metal buttons for extra charm.
Mine was in my old spot from two years ago. Sadly, the council finally got round to getting rid of my old one, although that's probably a good thing seeing as it was looking pretty manky and falling apart! My new knitting is a combination of wool and synthetic fluffy yarn. I have added some funky buttons of different sizes and colours on each end for extra spunk.
It's great to feel you're making your local area more pretty and interesting!
