This is the paper clay that I’m using, I want to try making my own but I found this for $3.50 at Tokuya the other day.So start with a ball of clay.

Roll it out on a flat surface.

Tear off long strips of clay that are around 1-2cm wide. You’ll see that the clay has really ragged edges like roughly torn paper.

Strips:

Start by rolling an edge of one of the torn strips.

Continue rolling around so it forms the shape of a flower. I found that it felted the shape to pleat the strip every few cm because that flares out the “petals” a bit more. As you go around you might want to wet the strips slightly so they stick better and if you want to you can roll the bottom end between your fingers so it forms a stem.

All finished!

So there’s another variation on a regular rose ^_^ I think this one is more like a carnation.

Here’s how I did it…You need:

• Puff paint (you can buy special window paint but puff paint is cheaper and your local junk/craft store will be more likely to have it)
• Baking paper
• A pen/pencil to draw out your design.

When I took the photos for this I was using aluminium foil as my surface but that ended up being quite annoying during the removal stage so I used baking paper all of the other times. If you don’t have baking paper you can just do it on regular paper and then soak it until the paper disintegrates off later.

So anyway back to the instructions 😀

Draw your design on to your baking paper, because it’s slightly transparent you can draw the design onto the back of the paper if you want to make sure no pen gets on the end product.

This was my basic design.

Now draw on top of your design with the puff paint. You want to make the lines fairly thick because it shrinks a bit when it dries.

I experimented with different sizes before I found the best one for the consistency of my paint. My end products were around 5cm in diameter but yours might change depending on the paint you’re using.

Too small and you’ll end up with a runny mess 😉

So leave them to dry overnight, it needs to be completely dry before you try to remove.

To get them off just gently peel an edge of the paper. You may need to be careful with any small edges.

Taadaa!

The baking paper buckles slightly when it’s wet so the back has a cut looking wavy effect.

To stick them to the window just moisten the back and press it to the window 😀

So easy to do and so pretty. You can make any shape you want, I’ve just gotten some new paints so I’m going to make a whole lot of these for all over the house 😀 Haha maybe all of you on the other side of the world can make some Summer themed ones!

I snipped off the hairband and removed the clips.I use felt for the backing of clips like this to cover all of the joins.So after deciding on placement I cut out the shape of felt.

I glued it all together.

Then added a jewellery loop at the top with a second piece of felt to anchor it.

Phone strap attached…

DONE!

Two old hair accessories recycled into something pretty and new which will be a great gift for a friend 😀

I am loving making things like this, I keep fantasizing about when we have a bigger house and I’m able to have a craft room again. I can totally imagine myself sitting around all day and making phone straps and things, who knows maybe I would even have a little shop, that sounds like so much fun 😀 *dreaming*

I used acrylic paint and nail polish to do it and these are the steps I took ^_^My lens flower:I painted it with several coats of white acrylic paint as a base.

It took 3 coats to make sure it would be completely opaque. Coat 1 was kind of patchy.

But all I really needed was a decent base so the nail polish wouldn’t be lost in black so I didn’t bother making it perfect.

Once it was dry I gave the whole thing a coat with some nude polish.

I gathered all of the polish colours I wanted to use and decided on a design, this one was inspired by a Pucci print.

Then I went colour by colour building swirls up from the bottom.

It’s quite hard to see at this point because the pinks were all quite similar.

All of the base colours are done!

Here’s one with upped contrast so you can see a bit better.

I used a thin brush to paint gold and dark purple glitter around the bubbles to give them definition as well as the top and bottom.

To remove any bits that got a bit out of the lines I just wiped it away using a cotton bud and a tiny bit of polish remover.

All finished! Totally girly and very me 😀

What do you think? Haha an improvement? The next thing on my list is making a nice camera strap to hold it all together 😀