Side Story: A little break for better

Huff..

It's been ages since my last post.. Recently I'm busy with my boy and finishing my little project 😣

And I have plan to rebuild and redesign this blog, my tutorial video and channel. I'm still finding the right characteristic.. So it's also gonna take take time.

Meanwhile, when I got the time (and pictures, sometimes I always forgot to take the process and when I realize my work already done, Gyaaarghh 😨) I'll post some pieces of my little project here. When I have finished it all, maybe I'll redo some of it in tutorial. A request is also welcome and I'll do my best for it 😊

Straight to the pictures ho ho

This french classic style console table is part of my little project. This is also the first time I'm using balsa wood to cut and carve. Surprisingly turns out it's strong enough to hold miniature things and it's really easy to carve and shaping. Although it's too lightweighty and a little bit fragile feelings when touching it, the textures and pattern of the woods is satisfactory. From three types of density, I used the soft one..maybe I'll tried the hard next time

Next task is painting it. Do I just varnish it? Or stain it brown? But then my project theme is for wedding, I want to made it white and a little bit sweet. So my option narrowed to shabby chic. Found some amazing chalk paint tutorial but I don't have any of those plaster of paris at the time. My eyes goes to leftover corn starch used from my last craft..mixed it with acrylic paint..and tada! Is it lovely? Wo ho ho 😳😁

After that I used a little bit of brown paint and scrape it stylishly to make it look a little bit rustic hee hee

That's for now. Next time I'm still updating about the progress of this little project. Thanks for viewing my page and see you again 😙

Chapter Three: Iris..? Succulent?

You like flowers? Me certainly likes it Ho Ho

Just so to say, there's new video tutorial on my channel. It's about Iris made from paper. I'm self colouring the paper with two ways. One with soft pastle, others with acrylic paint. All painted both sided of the paper. I rather self colouring than using colour paper, because it has that touch that makes the detail more real (?) Btw both colouring methods has it own feels results. You can choose whatever suited you.

Anyway, I'm not writing about the Iris this time. It's about.......... succulent *la la*

I always fond of succulent. Their miniature size, ermm..real life miniature not the handmade one.. It's just neat and cute. And those mini gardens of succulents? 😍

So I tried making succulents from styrofoam. I though the texture and the puffy of styrofoam suits together. But I don't have the punch that has the leaf shape..and I'm lazy to think cutting the pattern one by one. I mean if there's one plant then it's okay..but do I wanted to stop at one? Ha ha

Then this idea came. I made a cutter from leftover tin foil, shaped it like the plant pattern. The concept is like cookie cutter and I just hover the cutter over candle light before put it into the foam. Yup, just put it. You don't even have to push any because the foam melt like an ice being torch by 100 torchlight. Maybe even faster *LOL* and thats the problem.

The foam melted too much it just shrinked too tiny from the cutter. Much worse if the cutter not hot enough, it just cut halfway and stuck on the foam..hmm, I mean..glued on the foam ~~~~~~ T___________T

I made two cutter before. One is smaller. Surprisingly I tried the smaller one first and it turn out well. Just need to loosen it a little before pushing it out because it stick on the cutter. On bigger one..none turn out well. I need more experiments and practice on how long the heat needed

Anyway, the leftover from the experiments. I picked the ones that has 'forgiveable' shape then paint it with green and glued it together. Turn out it's not that bad. It got thickness from usually need to made out from clay, and looks better than the paper method one that looks flat from side.

I manually trim a little to get rid the rough side from sticking on cutter. Lastly..It's still not success from the making process. Gotta think about easier way to do or else I need to get the hang of the heat problem.

Btw, here's the video on Iris tutorial. You can also made other kinds of flower using the same way. Just different petal punch and different way of rolling the petal, depends on the type.

As soon as I get the hang of the succulent, I'll update the post next time.

Happy planting!