by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 23, 2012 | Craft, Shoe-Tutorials, Tutorial
Last week’s big week is stretching into a big couple of weeks, I think I’ll need a holiday to get over it all 😉
Very important news first for readers who follow my posts via Google Friend Connect.
Google will no longer be offering the friend connect service to blogs hosted outside of Blogger. Basically sucks to everyone who has built a community and the readers who enjoy reading a variety of sites. So around next week my updates will no longer appear in your Friend Connect Feed >_<
If you still want to receive my updates you have a lot of other options to continue reading so here’s a handy list to make the transition as easy as possible:
So that’s it, if you want to continue following give one of those options a try or if you have any suggestions just let me know! I’ll be sending a reminder message via the GFC app later in the week.
Secondly….
The site will most likely be down this weekend and it’s going through some major back end maintenance. I will post the times and updates during on my Facebook page so follow there to keep up to date.
Thirdly…
Anyone have any awesome PS3 games they can recommend me? We’ve gone through all of ours and I totally need something to de-stress to at night!
On to something a bit more interesting…
Another super quick but effective craft for gifting today: monogrammed slippers 😀
I made these ones for James’ Mum ^_^
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It takes about 10 minutes to do so these are awesome for last minute gifts too!Buy some slippers, I happened to find these cute one at Target and while they were super cute as-is I wanted to make them a bit more personal. Draw your letters on some felt.
And cut them out.
Attach with hot glue or by stitching. I chose hot glue because I was pressed for time.
DONE!
Seriously that’s it…
Completely adorable and you could customise the idea a lot depending on the kind of slippers you were starting with. It’s quite cost effective too because you can get slippers similar to these ones at junk stores or places like Daiso for under $5.
Now I want to do some for me! I bought some super puffy Mario mushroom slippers in the Boxing Day sales so I really want to make them cuter 😀 |
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 21, 2012 | Art
I’ve been updating my Deviant Art account a lot more frequently lately, both with artwork and reformatted tutorials and I thought you guys might enjoy seeing some of the things I’ve been up to as well. If you have an account there, let me know so I can watch you! My username is unsurprisingly violetlebeaux XD
This is the first in my outfit series.
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Marshmallow fan art from an IU music video ^_^ James asked me to draw us together, he aslso asked to be muscular >_>
More random sketches in the same style which I really adore lately.
 
And something slightly more detailed, a sketch of the top of the library here.
I found some photos I took of work in progress stuff which might be interesting too.
 
I’ve been trying to paint more outside when we go places.
 
Hope you enjoyed the short art break! |
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 20, 2012 | Nail-Art-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos
A quick and simple nail art tutorial on making horror inspired blood dripped nails. These look even better if you cut them into points!
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Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
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Halloween Horror Styled Dripping Blood Nail Art Instructions
Today’s tutorial is a little on the evil side… blood dripped nails!
To begin, paint a base colour and allow to dry.
I used white for maximum effect.
Load your brush quite heavily with red.
It should have enough polish to form a bubble on the bottom of the brush.
Gently touch the bubble of the polish to the nail around half way down, lift slightly and drag to the tip.
Repeat next to the first stroke but only half way as far.
By pressing at the end and dragging lightly up it will form a nice dripping shape.
Just make sure you have enough polish on the brush.
Repeat with an even longer drip next and then a ship one to finish that side of the nail.
Reload your brush with polish regularly.
Make a long drop on the side and then a short one to join it all together.
Done!
As long as you make the strokes all different lengths you’ll end up with pretty realistic drips.
Next nail.
Once you get quick enough you can do all of the long strokes at once and then just fill the short ones in after.
Simple once you get the hang of it!
Finish by painting the tips to match and top coat if you like.
Very creepy.
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
