Felt Roses & Graduation Cap for Beloved Sister's Graduation Day

Whoaa ... I am so excited when I'm first started to have the idea to DIY felt roses for my sis graduation. I've been thinking a long time to DIY paper flowers for her but one day when I came across the felt roses photos when I google search for cakes recipes, I've decided to make felt roses as it look much more "real & lively" compare to the paper flowers. Since it's a graduation day, roses alone will be quite boring and I've thought of buying bears with the robe, graduation cap and scroll but I don't have the time to do so. So I came up with the idea of creating graduation cap myself to put it together with the roses. I've bought some dried flowers too so that the bouquet will look fulller...

Here are the end results!!!

Romantic Vintage Felt Roses





DIY Graduation Cap



End Product

Graduation Photos

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DIY Rose Crystal Bridal Bouquet

Hi all,

It's been a while since my last post... I'm tied up with my wedding for all the DIY stuff that I've done. Here I would like to share my own DIY hand bouquet. I've wanted to have an unusual hand bouquet for myself and I've thought of having a beaded or crystal hand bouquet and I've goggled to find some photos. I manage to find the Swarovski crystal hand bouquet video and it's awesome!!! I knew that I've to DIY my own bouquet again as I found the video 2 days before my actual wedding day. I head to the shop which I bought my sewing stuff to search for the material that I need.

I manage to find the crystals and the shop owner recommended the foam artificial rose flower (with organza) to me. So instead of doing the whole bouquet with crystals I added a few stalks of the artificial rose. This isn't only save up the time and it do shows contrast to the crystals.

Materials:
Artificial rose flower - foam  (10 stalks)
White or green artificial stems (with wire)
10 branches of yellow crystals
10 branches of orange crystals
2-3 meters of yellow tulle
2 meters of 1"-11/2" yellow/peach satin ribbon
1.5 meters of pearl strings

Instructions:
1. Twine a yellow and an orange crystal around one artificial stem. Complete 9 sets of artificial stems with yellow and orange crystals. (The remaining set will be use for the boutonniere)

2. Arrange the roses in between the crystal stems.

3. Then, secure the stems together with floral tape (winding it firmly around several times in the same place as before), rubber band or wire (head and bottom).

4. Since the artificial stems are thin, you may use cloth, t-shirts or in my case, the extra tulle to wrap around the stems (about 7" from the bottom to top) to make it fuller. Tie it with a rubber band.

5. Now get the tulle and cover the whole bouquet.

6. Wrap the satin ribbon around the stems (from bottom to top) to cover the tape and finish off the bouquet by attaching the pearl strings with glue around the ribbon from bottom.

Voila you're done!! I hope that this DIY Rose Crystal Bridal Bouquet is an inspiration to you brides-to-be out there. Below are some of the photos of both the hand bouquet and boutonniere.

 

 

Please do send me photos of your completed bouquet if you did one for your big day ...... 

I would really LOVE to see !!!

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DIY for my ROM

Hi all,

I've just made a hand bouquet on my Registration of Marriage (ROM) day. I actually saw a photo in the internet and thought it would be lovely if I DIY one for my ROM. Other than that, I've make some changes of the DIY signs from theprettyblog by Susan Brand to my own version. I've thought of making all these few months back and ..... tada ..... I've managed to made my own version which I'm quite impressed and proud of.

Here is my own version of the hand bouquet.

My version of the Mr and Mrs Sign which you can download if you like.
Click here for the "Mr" sign
Click here for the "Mrs" sign

Last but not least, my initial plan to use the "Just Married flag design" from Martha Stewart which I've downloaded and printed out for my pre-wedding shoot at the beach were ruined by the unhelpful and unfriendly photographer (from the bridal house). We did not managed to take any photo with this and keep it for our ROM too.

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Birthday Card - Recycle Material

Hi all,

I'm so excited to share with you this DIY birthday card and gift tag to my colleague. We've bought her a vintage necklace (comes with a pendant) and a cute vintage photo charm bracelet from Kaleidoscope. I've decided to made her a birthday card and I thought it would be nice if the card is in brown colour to match the gifts. Coincidentally I kept some used recycle paper bags (for other DIY project), downloaded free printable flowers template from Paper+Craft,  free printable gift tag from How About Orange and the empty A4 boxes from my office would be of help in this project too. Finally, we've inserted the gifts, gift tags and the birthday card into a brown envelope to complete the look. Thanks to my colleagues (Jessy and Sha) who helps to cut out the flowers template and preparing the gift tag as we are running short of time. We are all pleased that the birthday girl likes the gift.

Tools and materials:-
Scissor
Pen
Standard size puncher & heavy duty puncher (optional)
Paper guillotine
Double sided tape
Recycle A4 papers (pink - different shades, white, black)
A4 paper box
Brown paper bag / Kraft paper
String
Brown envelope (Optional)

How To:
1. Cut out two cards size (your own preference) out of the A4 paper box to form the cards. Trim of the excess or cut a straight line by using paper guillotine or scissors.

Gift Tag - cut a gift tag size card

2. Wrap the cards with the brown paper bag cut-outs.





Gift tag - wrap the gift tag card with colour papers






3. Cut out a recycle A4 paper and stick on the inner of the cards (optional, you may use a different colour A4 paper or remain the card as it is)

4. The design of the front page:-

Banner

Cut out the paper banner from the colour paper / magazine / newpaper that you wish and write the HAPPY BIRTHDAY wording on the card.

Optional: You may draw the string of the banner or stick the real string on the card.

Birthday cake

- Cut out the birthday cakes in three different colours and shape according to the size that you want and stick on the front page and add in the design that you want

- In this photo, I've punch out the circle of different pink shades and stick on the second layer of the cake

- Draw a candle figure on a black colour paper and stick onto the card.(or draw straight on the card)

- Optional: Draw a stand for the cake

Flower

Cut out the downloaded flower template from Paper+Craft one by one and stack against each other starting from the second largest flower to the smallest (leave aside the biggest flower) with the double sided tape for a 3D pop out effect on the front page. Stick a punch out (or draw) circle on top of the flower.

5. Contents of the card:-

Left page
Print/write the wishes on the card and stick on the largest flower on the card.

Right page
- Signature by the senders of the gift and card
Optional: Cutout different colour papers and write the messages on the paper cutouts



7. Punch the card with a heavy duty puncher or cut out two round circle and attach a string to bind the two cards together.

8. Print out the free downloadable gift tag from How About Orange and stick it onto the gift tag card.

More photos for your viewing and hope you like this post !!

 

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