Minnie mouse costume

This year has been the year of dress-up 21sts!!! Tonight I have a Fairy tales & Animations 21st to attend and I decided not to spend a hefty amount of money on renting a costume so I decided to make one. I thought Minnie mouse would be a easy one to do because I already own a pink dress with white polka dot. I just needed to make some ears and a tail and voila! I bought some black velvet material to create my Minnie ears and tail and I had some pink lining material lying around which I made a bow for my ears! The gloves was borrowed from my friend who made them, there's four fingers, to make it more authentic!

My Minnie costume

Four fingered gloves

My Minnie tail

Tail view from the back

My Minnie ears

White Minnie gloves

Lomovember

NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

I attended the Lomovember exhibition held by Pigeonhole to raise money for Movember; a charity for men's health (especially prostate cancer and male depression). The exhibition is held at 104B Murray Street in Perth city. It is hidden away in an alley way next to a florist shop! There is a display of some lomo photography that is up for grabs in a silent auction as well as prizes and lomo cameras and moustaches for sale. If you're interested in some lomo workshop/classes, click here for more details.

Some of the photography on display

Lomo Cameras

Miniature Kitchen - Doll house

I was looking for printable paper doll houses to build with Monica and I found this Japanese Site which lets you download pdf files to doll houses. For PDF instructions (in Japanese) click here, and the pattern can be downloaded here. I chose to build the kitchen which is meant to look like the image below.

I decided just to print off the furniture and not the roof and wallpaper to save paper/ink and we re-arranged the kitchen to our liking. Our finished product is seen below.

We didn't have a ceiling and Rob suggested a straw to hang the lamp off.

I really like the sink, it actually goes in and has a drain as well.

The fridge can be opened and has milk and other food products located inside.
We used a cereal box for the room wall and floor.

Miniature Book: Simply adorable

Find out how to make them By MissRuth on Flickr.

Circle Cutter

I just bought a circle cutter today! Very exciting, I felt like I needed to make a card. It's very easy to use, basically like a protractor but instead of drawing circles, it cuts them out.

I wasn't sure what to make, I cut a circle in the middle and little circle right next to it to create a window. I stuck some transparent paper behind it which can be seen in the picture below. Due to my very limited stamps, I used a magazine-cut-out of a cat and stamped Happy Birthday. Used some blue ribbon as embellishment, made a little ribbon at the top left hand corner. Very simple card.

Hint: If you write a lot of words inside, it can be seen through the window which gives it a nice effect.

Tilt-shift miniature style photos

Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Tilt-shift style photos are real life photos that are manipulated by this online editing tool called Tiltshift maker. You can upload your photos for free and you don't have to sign up or anything. Some of the photos make the objects look like miniature toys. Have a look at the photo gallery to know what I'm talking about. The picture above is one I manipulated, took it in Sydney. Below is the original!



Here is another one I did of a photo taken at Sandalford Wines, Caversham.

This is a picture of a baby booby bird I took at Lily Beach, Christmas Island.


I didn't take this picture, found it on my brother's computer. But Christmas Island :)

Paper dolls

I've been looking around online for some cute paper doll print-outs to give to Rob's little sister, Monica and I found this particular one that I liked. Zoe Paper doll found on 'Play at Playhouse'.
There are three costumes available and they come in colour and black and white. I remember making my own paper dolls as a kid and it was heaps of fun!

Further searching led me to these Kokeshi dolls from Activity village!

This particular image is taken from Jacque Davis who shares her printable toys on flickr! Click on the image above to check it out! I found it really cute so I had to make one!

Just a quickie - sending you a smile card

Cupcakes for 'Monica'

Happy Birthday Moni!! :)

It's Moni's Birthday tomorrow! I bought this card from 'Thingz' for $1 and decided to customise it. The Glitter letters matched the card because of the glitter that was on the bus. I added a flower bloom with a blue rhinestone of it. There was already a yellow rhinestone on the giraffe's bow. I'm thinking of getting alphabet stamps but for now I wrote our names with a black pen. I like the kiss stamp, it's really cute!

My really longgg present! It's one of those poles you stick into the ground and it has a tennis ball attached to it and you whack it around!

Pink Icing Cupcakes!

Recipe can be found here.

Paper Frenzy *SALE* @ Stamp It!

Craft Fair 2009!!

Perth Craft & Quilt Fair 2009

21 Mounts Bay Road
Perth WA 6000
9am - 5pm daily!

Floral 21st card

Simple 21st card. Ribbon, flower embellishment, rhinestone, glitter numbers and butterfly swirl stamp with rainbow ink pad.

Uh oh - even more money spent on craft items!

Rhinestones from CrazyClarks - $2

Glitter Alphanumericals - $3

I've been working on a 21st birthday card, seeing as everyone is turning 21 this year. I'm bound to give this out sometime this year! I was cutting out some green numbers but it just didn't look right, so I went in search of green glitter numbers and I found them straight away at ClazyClarks!!! (How does the saying go? If you seek, you shall find!)

Let's Celebrate!

I've made yet another card today with some of my new accessories! Using a similar design to the first wedding card I've made, the aqua inked butterfly swirl with black sentiments stamped on top of it as the centre of the card. The bag of blooms flowers have been added to the corners on the centrepiece. Using the butterfly stamp from the Papercraft Clear Cling stamps from Big W, I used pink ink to stamp on some white cardboard. Glitter glue was used on top of it to create the butterfly patterns, it was then cut out and stuck on the card! I hole-punched some blue paper to create the trail of the butterfly!

Big W - they really do sell for less

Seriously they do, I went to get some stuff from Big W (Success) and decided to visit the craft section...BIG MISTAKE!!! The stuff they have, and the prices are so low!! ARgh.. I was looking for a paper trimmer and I found one at Stamp Deco for $42 bucks. Although it's a fancy one, but at big W I got one for $4.98!!! and there's also a better one for around $20 I think. However, I'm a student with a budget on craft accessories. Anyhoos, I bought a rainbow stamp ink pad for $15.87 whereas it's about $30 at Stamp it. They also have a variety of unmounted clear cling stamps for only $5.67! Bargain! You can also get a small+a big acrylic block for $5!!! Below are some items I bought today!

Unmounted stamps - $5.67

Rainbow stamp ink pad $15.87

Bag of Blooms - $5.98

Paper trimmer - $4.98

I also used the self checkout counters for the first time. Pretty snazzy :D

Sweet Birdy Birthday

Using the Butterfly Swirl again, I attempted a different look, using the swirl as a background this time. I like the flower embellishments creating a branch for the birdy to sit on!

Apple Cherry Stamps!

Don't you just love it when you check your mail box and find a parcel in there?!!! My Apple Cherry rubber stamps from Japan/Ebay has arrived!! Hurray!! I don't really care about the apple but I thought I could use the cherries as blueberries! Haven't thought of anything fancy for my label just yet, so made a quick one to stick on the back of the card I've made!

Butterfly Swirl - Congratulations card

First card made with my new Butterfly Swirl Stamp it Stamp! :D I think the red ribbon adds the finishing touch to it. I really need a guillotine, can't cut straight!!