Pastel Roses

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of posts. I'm nearly done with my studying and will be back with more tutorials and craft projects! 

I just recently found some old photos of handmade roses that I've made in the beginning of  2013 (they look different from the ones I made now!) These roses were made from cold porcelain clay and sculpted on a toothpick. Have fun browsing! 

More cute crafts coming soon!

Lisa

Pichu Love

It has been a long time for an update, I made this super adorable Pichu ornament for my friend a few weeks ago. I want to give this ornament a sweet and girly feel, the concept is a garden of pink roses with two Pichus sitting in the middle. I wasn't very confident at first because I don't make figurines often and this would only be my second time making them,  it took me a while to figure out how to make and I had to study this  character well in order to make it as realistic as possible.  Love these cuties!

Pichu says: "hi~"

I love these shades of pink roses! So romantic!

I took photos of my work process:

 Here I made two basic shapes, and then add the other features. 

I painted the features on after the clay hardens after 2-3 days, I am not good with these, the facial expressions took me 3 hours to do. 

 I prepared a large piece of balsa wood for the base, cut into a heart shape and chose a baby pink colour and made the border. 

Finally, adjust the roses and put the two adorable glazed figurines in!~ >v<

I personally think I did a good job with these, it was beyond my expectation within such a short time. I love the colour and the overall composition, it's very girly and pink! It makes me happy by just looking at them.

I am very busy with uni these days, but I will keep uploading tutorials and updates on my Facebook page and YouTube channel, make sure you follow them :D!

Happy crafting!
Lisa

Massive Craft Haul

I was so excited to receive this, I bought these online from China and my mum took it back for me last week. I spent a lot of time going through the shop and picking out the stuff I need, I never knew it would be this much! I am just so greedy for things like these and they were very cheap too :D!! I got a lot of jewellery findings from gold to antique copper colour, cellphone straps, chains, toggles, loser claps, jump rings and ring bases.. and many many more.

oh they look so pretty~

Buying findings here in New Zealand is very very expensive, so I coudn't resist the cheap ones from China.  Got the full pack with all the colours. So excited to make stuff with these. 

Couldn't believe I bought so much! But they look very pretty like this,  it's like a piece of art!

I even got some needle felting stuff and my favourite needle felting artist Rio Fukuda's two books on needle felting sweets!! I have always wanted to make needle felted sweets, and these books are perfect because it has so many great creations inside and the step-by-step tutorials are very clear and useful. I would recommend her books if you are a super fan of fake sweets like me!! ^_^

The only two books that got translated to Chinese so I can read them, might have to buy the other ones in Japanese. 

Her creations are amazing! It also teaches you how to make it too!!

More photos of my newest supply collection!

Cute shiny pink ribbons~

I really want to try doming so I bought these plate. 

I got a lot of these antique copper stuff because they are very popular. 

Such a pretty ring base! Sadly I only got 4 of these.. should have bought more. 

Found these in a local store, had to buy it because it's pink!! hehe, they are very durable unlike the wooden ones.  I am going to do some sweets deco with these. 

Final picture, showing the needle felting stuff I got, that giant brush is really heavy. And I also got 50 pretty packaging bags for my shop!  

I didn't know why I also got these two bags of wool fibers, maybe I want to try the ones from China even though it all from NZ. However, I do find the ones I got from China are less 'wooly' than the ones I bought in NZ. The texture and the smell was different, the one I bought here has a really strong sheep smell. Hmmm.. no idea why, maybe i should make something out of it and see the result.

One more week and I will be free from uni! So all the things I have posted here together I nearly spent ¥600 RMB which is around $120 NZ dollars and $96 US dollars. Worth it? Hmm.. not sure yet :D!!

Happy crafting,
Lisa