Needle Felted Donut Pusheen

Hi everyone, I hope you all are safe and well. In this video I'll be showing you how to make a cute needle felted Pusheen in a donut! This tutorial is medium difficulty and it took me around 6-7 hours to finish.

I love the sounds of needle felting so I kept this tutorial as ASMR, but you might hear a bit of background noises too, like the birds chipping and the construction works.

Tag "pufftique_handmade" on Instagram if you do make one!

Materials and Supplies

Needle Felting Starter Kit

Clover Pen Style Needle Felting Tool

Individual Felting Needles (5 Needles)

Felting Wool

Needle Felting Pad

Happy crafting,

Lisa

DIY Animal Crossing New Horizon Eraser Stamps

Hey everyone! It has been a while since I posted my last entry. Today I will be sharing with you these adorable Animal Crossing stamp designs! I am a huge Animal Crossing fan and making these DIY stamps and using them to decorate stationaries is just an awsome idea. So I have made this tutorial to share with you all. Here you can check out my tutorial and the pattern:

Supplies

You can find the materials from the links below:

 

Beginner Tutorial
I made another video about how to carve an eraser stamp, you can watch it also. It has more details about the tips and techniques when you carve.

Happy crafting!

Lisa 

How to carve an eraser stamp

In the last month or so, I got addicted to carve eraser stamps. To my surprise, it is a very relaxing hobby, the feeling is very similar to needle felting.. you just want to carve more and more. I'm still a beginner myself, and here I've made a simple 'how-to' tutorial to show the main processes to share with you all. 

* Tools and Materials:

You can get most of these items in your local arts and crafts store. For the eraser, you could get them from Ebay or Etsy by searching the keywords "eraser carving blocks". Alternately, you could also use regular erasers to carve. I got mine from Daiso.

* Safety

Watch your fingers while carving, it's better to move/ rotate your eraser rather than turning your blade. Please pace yourself and carve slowly, the carving process in this video is twice the speed to shorten the length of the video. The template used in my video:

Below are some of my carved stamps:

Versafine produces extremely fine details to your stamps, love this ink! 

Pastel Houses on the right and Sailor Moon Moon Crisis Brooch on the left (it's my fav stamp so far, took me 2 hours to finish

Happy Easter! 

I chose VersaMagic because of it's 'chalk-like' matte finish, it gives a sketchy feel to my carved stamps. It also has a lot of pretty pastel colours which is a big bonus for me! 

Happy crafting!

Lisa 

Needle Felting Basics for Beginners

This is a easy to understand video showing the basic supplies and materials for needle felting with a step-to-step simple project to make!

Just one thing, never cut your wool! I forgot to mention it in the video, but when you pull your wool from your sliver don't cut it with a scissor. This will prevent the fiber ends to felt and keep it's natural texture. When I first started needle felting it took me a while to understand what is a 'finished product', I was worried about the fibers because they look very flurry and they are sticking out on the surface. In this video I introduced a 'squeeze test', so if you feel the object is getting tensed up and your felting needle gets hard to poke through, it that means the object is very well felted. That way you don't have to worry about what is a 'finished' needle felting project. However, it depends on your preference, if you prefer to be soft, then you don't have to felt as much. But I find it if I felt it really well I will get less fibres on the surface. Good luck! 

Here are more links to my needle felting tutorials~ 

And my needle felting collection!  

Happy crafting,

Lisa

Clay Roses - A quick walkthrough

I have been making a lot of roses these days for this coming Valentine's Day, roses are one of the most challengeable objects for myself to make. My journey into rose making started mid last year when I saw beautiful handcrafted realistic roses made from clay online and I was really amazed by this beautiful piece of art. So I told myself to give it a try, I started making miniature roses but they weren't pretty at first. I went through a lot of research and gathered all the useful tips, finally I am happy with what I have achieved and discovered and now would like to share them. This is just a quick walkthrough/ tutorial because it was also my first trial out for a larger scale rose, and I just took photos of my steps. I hope you find this helpful, please leave a comment if you would like to share your own experience in making clay roses.

This is the rose that I made for this quick walkthrough, I did not know where to hang it to air dry... the drawer handle was the last option I could think of. 

You will need :

Cold Porcelain clay (you can colour this clay using acrylic colour)

Wire stick to hold the rose 

Chop stick

Wax paper/ cooking paper

Rolling pin

First, curl the wire into a small loop and shape a tear drop with your clay. 

 Place a small ball onto the cooking paper. 

 Roll into a thin oval as a petal for your rose. You need to repeat this step many times, the petal will become larger as you work through. 

 Hold the petal lightly, use the weight of the chopstick to roll around the edges of the oval shape. 

 This is what it should look like, the top of the petal should be thin. 

 Press your thumb gently in the middle of the petal to create an 'U' shape, and curl the top of the petal backwards using your fingertips. 

 Wrap 3 petals around the tear shape to create the flower bud.

 The trick to make roses is that you need to warp the petal starting from the middle of the previous petal. The two petals will over lap each other. 

 Start wrapping the rose in a pattern. Work in one direction only. 

 The side view. The rose should be tightly pressed at the bottom and let the petal 'fall down' naturally. 

 You can also pinch the middle of each petal between your thumb and second finger lightly to make it look more realistic. 

And now it's done! 

I hope you enjoy this quick walk through! ^_^

Happy crafting,

Lisa

Hello Kitty bow hair tie tutorial

I am a huge fan of Hello Kitty! Here is a simple and fast tutorial on how to make a cute bow hair tie~

You will need :

Red fabric or any colour/ fabric of your choice 

Thread of your chosen colour

Needle

Ruler for measuring

Pen for marking

Hair tie

Firstly, cut two 8x12 cm pieces of fabric. Sew them on the back and leave a gap to flip it over and fill it with stuffings. 

Secondly, cut another piece of fabric that measures 6X8cm. Sew it together along the 6cm, flip it over and fill with stuffings. 

Close the edges.

Place your hair tie in the middle of the large piece, wrap the small piece around it. 

Sew it together and now you have a cute bow hair tie!

More cute crafts coming soon, happy crafting everyone!
Lisa

How to make fruit pieces from clay

This is my second tutorial for my Sweets Deco Series, the reason I made this tutorial because I personally like to decorate with them and it is not that hard to make. I want to share my experience to everyone so they can also make them instead of buying. When I first start making sweets deco, I aways want to make realistic fruits, but it is not easy to find the 'how'. After searching on the internet and research on other artists's creation I finally figured out the way to make it. It is easier than you think, so please do give it a try! I hope this would help all the clay crafters out there, and hope you enjoy this tutorial!

I used homemade cold porcelain clay, and coloured them with acrylic paint. I make lots of fruits at a time and let them sit on a foam board to air dry for one day. These are not big objects so it dries fast however it also depends on the humidity of the area you are in. 

These are the blueberries I made after filming the video because I had left over clay. The photo doesn't look nice to me because of the red stain on the toothpick left by the strawberries. =^=

So here is the tutorial, enjoy!

Happy crafting!
Lisa

Deco Cupcake Tutorial

Finally I uploaded my first Youtube tutorial, I always wanted to start one but I couldn't find the time and film. This simple and short tutorial took me 4 days to edit, and as well learning the video editing software at the same time. At the end, I am very happy with video, and I hope everyone will like it too! My Youtube channel will be having lots of cute craft tutorials and I will also share techniques and ideas , so please subscribe ^_^! 

About the tutorial:

This is a very simple cupcake, for this tutorial I used air dry clay for the cupcake base and homemade cold porcelain clay for the decorations. Air dry clay means that you don't need to bake it, it will air dry within 1-2 days minimum. I used baby oil as a 'release' agent for the mold so the clay will come out easier ( you could also use cooking oil) I used Tamiya Baking Master to shade it the cupcake, you could also use pastels or acrylic paint to brush on the shading. I bought the Baster Master recently and I always wanted to try it. The colour pallet is the same as soft pastels, but mine turned a bit hard so it was hard to brush on. For the decoration, you could use anything you like. I personally like to decorate them with fruits, I will be making them in the next tutorial.

So I hope you enjoy this tutorial, I will be more making sweets deco, needle felt, felt cakes and cute crafts!

Happy crafting!

Lisa