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DIY Bergamot Bunny Baseball Cap Tutorial!

by VioletLeBeaux | Dec 17, 2014 | Craft, Hair-Accessory-Tutorials, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

Yay! A really fun project today: Bergamot Bunny baseball cap make over! Argh so fricking cute, I want to wear it all the time! I previously made this cap over but I haven’t worn it in ages so it was time for another rethink: answer? Bergamot ears!

For this tutorial you will need:

Baseball cap
Cardboard
White fabric
Felt or roving for the pink parts of the ears
Lace for the bow
Hot glue
Needle and thread

Draw the Bergamot ear shape on to a piece of cardboard.

Cut them out!

Cut a rectangle of the white fabric big enough to cover the ear on both sides. I’m using some fluffy polar fleece.

Roughly draw the shape onto the fabric and draw where the heart will go on the ear as well.

Cut the extra off around the edges.

I decided to needle felt the pink heart in place but you can just use a piece of felt and stitch it on depending on which materials you have on hand.

Place the cardboard inside and the fold the fabric in half around it. Repeat for the other ear as well.

Now stitch or hot glue the fabric onto the cardboard so it covers it nicely and looks neat.

Now make a little lace bow as well. You can make the bow out of lace or ribbon depending on your tastes, it just needs to be as wide as both the ears because we will use it to hide the base later.

Now on your cap, use an unpicker to open a seam at the top.

Poke the ears through the hole and either stitch or hot glue them in place. Make sure you stitch or glue the seam on either side of the ears too otherwise it will unravel later.

Hot glue or stitch the ears together so they won’t flop around.

Lastly, glue the bow at the base of the ears to hide the seam.

All finished!

Really you could do this with just about any kind of hat as long as you could poke a hole in a seam!

Only thing to do now is enjoy it!

Bunny impression?

I know what I’ll be wearing all the time now! What do you guys think??

Super Quick Bow T-Shirt Surgery Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Dec 15, 2014 | Clothing-Tutorials, Craft, Tutorial

A really quick t-shirt surgery today, turning 2 identical singlets into one with a cute little bow design on the front!

My Mum bought these but didn’t like the fit so she gave them to me, I thought they were a little boring so out came the scissors.

I put the lighter one inside the dark one.

I stitched them together at the shoulder seam.

Then I cut through the top layer at the bust in two lines.

I folded up the middle.

Then tied another piece of the shirt around the middle.

Taadaa bow!

It still seemed a little plain so I cut the top layer into a curve around the bottom too.

Easy!

Looking cute 😀

Still not 100% my regular style but good for around the house anyway 😀

Our Glitter Heart Wreath – Home Sweet Home

by VioletLeBeaux | Dec 3, 2014 | Craft, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

Last year when I was decorating our house for Billy Idol Day, I made a little heart wreath thingy to replace our previous one. The previous one was actually really cute but we slammed the door a bit too hard one day and it fell and shattered *_*

So this was the result:

I used some styrofoam balls as well as some old baubles, roses and a LOT of glitter.

To begin with, I hot glued the larger styrofoam balls into a basic heart shape.

Then I filled in the gaps with smaller baubles and some roses.

I then took it into the bathroom and covered it with PVA glue and silver glitter. Even with paper laid down it still made a massive mess haha!

I didn’t have enough glitter for the back as well so it really only looks good from that one angle haha!

But there you go!

It looks quite cute! It certainly brightens up our ugly door a bit!

It probably represents us quite well, James is the heart and I’m the constant glitter ^_^

How To Make Watercolour Scarves – Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Dec 1, 2014 | Art, Clothing-Tutorials, Craft, Tutorial

I think I mentioned to you guys already that I’ve been working on some techniques to make my scarf painting a little more watercolour styled. I think I’ve got it much closer to a point that I’m happy with now and I’m having much more fun with it!

These are two scarves I made as gifts recently.

For all of my fabric painting I use Opulence silk dyes because they dilute really well and are fairly easy to control.

The basic technique is really easy. Just wet the fabric and then squeeze most of the water out. I’m using a basic cheap muslin.

Hang it up somewhere that it doesn’t matter if it gets messy. I used my shower door.

The water all over it will get patchy as it dries. You can add more or less water depending on the design you’re going for.

Slowly drip paint into areas where there is water. You will notice that the paint only travels along the water veins. You can add more water or keep it dry so the paint is quite vibrant.

Add a second colour overlapping the first. I use colours which are similar in tone.

Allow the first layers to dry and then repeat wetting areas and adding paint.

The effects you get depend entirely on your control of the paint and how much/little water it has to move around in. I like to add spots of water after the dye to move it around even more.

As it dries the paint is sucked to the edges of the designs so they look more vibrant.

Keep layering over and over until you’re happy with the designs.

With the blue and purple version I used much larger areas of water.

Once the design is how you like, just heat seal them with an iron and give them a final wash out.

The colours are so vibrant and pretty.

The crushable muslin makes a really nice fabric for a Summer scarf.

So there you go, another technique to add to your arsenal!

Now I need to stock up on some more actual silk and give this a try with that as well!

Washi Tape TV Make Over – Home Sweet Home

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 24, 2014 | Craft, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

So after all of the work I’ve done on our apartment, there are only a few things left that I’m unhappy with. The TV area is definitely one of them. It’s like a back hole of suck.

Before I got to the actually organising and the shelving etc I wanted to do something a bit easier: make over the actual tv.

After:

Before:

Even the tv lights look like a sad face XD

So Daiso here has started stocking fabric and washi tape.

I bought a bunch of rolls so I could play around with things.

The fabric tape looked really happy and bright but it wasn’t cut perfectly straight so the patterns didn’t line up and that really bothered me… because I’m a crazy person like that.

NOT LINED UP!

But it was really easy to do, I just stuck it on.

After that I bought some washi tape. It’s basically patterned Japanese masking tape. I liked the design a lot because it wasn’t too busy from far away but it was transparent so I had to do a layer of masking tape to make it opaque.

The masking tape from Daiso was terrible and kept peeling off but I made it work.

This also didn’t really line up perfectly but it was less obviously so I could forgive it slightly.

I still haven’t decided whether I love it or not. I love the idea and that my TV is no longer so black but I think I haven’t found the perfect way to have this. I might do some more experimentation with other styles of tape but I’m going to wait until the rest of the TV area is perfect and then see what looks best.

The hunt continues though, I will have the perfect light bright apartment if it kills me!

Watercolour Style Silk Painting Experiments!

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 19, 2014 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

I’ve been experimenting in finding my own silk painting style lately and while I still haven’t really found it yet it’s been fun so far! Today I’ll show you the techniques I used to make the rose painting below. I was aiming for a finish more like watercolour paints but I still haven’t really got it how I imagine in my head yet!

To begin with I outlined the rose and the leaves etc using clear gutta.

I mixed purple and red for each leaf. I wet the section thoroughly and applied a small amount of red.

I then dripped purple in the inner line of the petal so it mixed with the red.

As it dried I added more water to the centre of each petal so that it moved the ink closer to the edges.

Adding a lot of water was key to this technique.

Each drip moves the paint a little bit so more colour needs to be added in as well.

After each petal dried I repeated again using more paint and more water to layer.

I used the same techniques for the leaves and branches.

The leaves were made with green, yellow and blue.

You need to be careful not to overload the fabric with water otherwise it will drip off the back and take your ink with it!

That’s all of the main parts!

Now the background. I added blue, green and yellow gradually for the whole background. When it began to dry I dripped water in.

More and more colours layered together.

I really loved the colours on the left side background while they were still wet but once they dried it seemed quite dull.

It looked much more bottled green and dark when dry 🙁

For the last steps I heat sealed it and washed out the gutta.

The gradients and the techniques are definitely an improvement but I am still not happy with how the colours are drying. I think I need a few really bright blue based pinks and greens for it to be how I picture it in my head!

You can definitely see how the water effects the paint and pushes it around though.

Hope you found the post a little useful and I’ll keep experimenting with my silks!

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