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For this demo, I used bunga dulang made from red songket to decorate the gubahan hantaran.

Gubahan Hantaran Bunga Songket originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on February 2, 2012.

I’ve bought this wooden box since 2006 but never do anything with it. So during the last long weekend, I decided to try the Jo Sonja Crackle Medium (again!) on the box. After putting a basecoat color, I applied the medium and it started to crack. I then applied walnut stain into the cracks.

I don’t really like the effect of the stain has on the surface as it created such a shabby rustic look. I proceeded with sealing the motif of roses from decoupage napkin. I then traced the wording and color in with black paint.

After I have finished doing all the wordings on the box, I realized that it looks much better plain like this. Well, what can I do, things were done and I have to live with the consequences. After all that’s what experimenting in craft will give you, a lesson to learn..heh!

Decoupage On Wooden Box originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on January 30, 2012.

I’ve never tried painting stripe on the surface that I want to decoupage. So today I thought I will try it.

Using the craft tape which I bought for glass painting, I taped down a few strips around the tin after I have painted the base in Ice Green Light.

The craft tape doesn’t stick too hard on the surface so that’s no risk of the base color to be peeled off. But the problem lies in the second paint (in this case, Plaid/Folkart brand of Baby Pink) seeping under the craft tape making it all not crisp and smooth as I expected my stripes to be..huhu!

I read on the Internet that to ensure that the second color won’t seep under the craft tape, once we have tape down the strips, paint the base coat color along the edge of the craft tape. Let it dry and then only paint the second color. I will have to try out that tips on my second trial.

Since the first stripe trial result is not so great, I decided to touch up and make it more smooth (which in the end is not as satisfactory as I hope..sigh!)

I used the Plaid decoupage finish to seal the rose motif.

Another angle of the rose on the striped tin.

This is how it looks like after the sealer has dried out and before I decided to mess up the creation.

Somehow I feel that the Baby Pink stripes are too striking so I thought of shading some of the area in Berry Wine and Taffy. I haven’t varnish the end product but I am not happy with what I’ve done so far. Mistakes are hard to be avoided especially in craft experiment like this. I just hope I won’t do the same mistake next time.

Painting Stripe For Decoupage Tin originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on January 12, 2012.

I’ve done the green crackled effect on the tin for quite some time. I thought I will just glue the iris motif from the decoupage napkin on the surface. However after I have pasted the purple flowers on green, the motif was drowned and it looks so bad..(err I should have taken some pictures to show how decoupage can go wrong..isk)

After thinking over the bad outcome, I decided to take out the air dry clay and start rolling the clay into thin pieces. Of course I need to cut another set of the iris motif for this makeover..sigh! After pasting the napkin motif onto the thin clay and cutting out the clay using craft knife, I quickly pasted each pieces on the tin. You have to do this before the clay dries out otherwise it will break.

The next day I colored the back of the clay which could be seen on the tin in lilac. On the third day I varnished the whole tin.

Next time if you want to use dark color for decoupage surface you can try doing this 3D decoupage technique. It is not that hard but certainly needs more effort compared to normal decoupage technique and takes longer time to complete the project.

3D Decoupage On Crackled Tin originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on December 15, 2011.

It’s been a while since I have decoupage class. This time since the participant was on time and I realized that she has ample time to complete the whole decoupage task, I decided to let her trace some wordings on the plate and color in using acrylic paint.

I usually thin down the paint using Flow Medium rather than plain water. Of course you need to have liner brush to make the color in process easier.

I think for the decoupage next class I need to prepare more simpler and shorter phrases if I were to add in the writing part in the syllabus..heh!

Oh, I have some new decoupage napkins/tissue to sell. You can check out my FB to see other collection of motif.

My current favorite is this sweet, pink roses.

For those who want something different than the normal leaves and flowers, you can buy this rooster and brown country checkered motif.

Check out the folder – Decoupage Tissue For Sale for all kind of motif that you might need for your decoupage project.

Decoupage Class & Napkin For Sale originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on November 28, 2011.

I did this set of bunga dulang from bunga dip for a photo shoot. Still waiting for it to be printed in the newspaper.

Anyway, for those who are interested to learn the basic technique on how to assemble bunga dulang which can be used as part of decoration for your gubahan hantaran, I will teach that in my bunga dip class. Next session will be held on Sunday 27th November, 2-5pm.

Once you know the basic on how to make bunga dip, you can do bunga pahar and other type of guest favors for VIP. The small flowers can be combined into corsages for the family of the bride and groom to wear. The ideas are endless.

Come and join the class. The fee is RM100. All materials needed for the class will be provided. You can take home whatever creation you manage to make during the 3-hour lesson.

Bunga Dulang Ros Dip Penghias Hantaran originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on November 22, 2011.

I did this for the photo shoot session for a newspaper early this month. Since I won’t be using this anymore, I am selling this for RM50. You will get the whole arrangement of bunga ros daun getah inclusive of the decorated polistrin below it.

What you have to do is just buy Ferrero Rocher chocolates to fit inside of the rose buds. I’m using the dark brown Ferrero Rondnoir to suit the theme color.

This is how it will look like once you have put the chocolate inside the buds. The picture was taken the night before the photo shoot..(as you can see the messy ribbons and organza roll around the picture)

If you are interested to buy kindly leave comment or email me. Self collect or delivery on weekend around Puchong/Cyberjaya area only.

FOR SALE: Gubahan Coklat Bunga Ros Daun Getah originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on November 2, 2011.

Simon Says Stamp and Show has this challenge to use one color for your creation. Honestly, I never like brown, they are too depressing for my cheery soul. But look what I’ve made..huhu!

My initial plan is to use pink, but I was too lazy to dig my paper stash in the messy craft room so I just use whatever I have in my pink craft box.

And since I have to make more bookmarks for my online book sale business, I decided this will do. I fussy cut some brown tree images from Basic Grey Scarlet’s Letter paper, a rectangle with printed sentiment and inked their edges.

It was so messy in my craft room that I couldn’t find my puncher to make a hole at the top of the bookmark..yikes! Thank God for the old, out-of-trend eyelet setter..heh!

I hope I will be able to make pink bookmark after this, but before that I really need to clean up the room..huhu!

The Brown Bookmark originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on October 30, 2011.

I found a vintage picture of a lady with bird hat at graphicsfairy.com and thought this could be used in August challenge at Pixie Dust Paperie. The challenge requires participants to create a project (layout, card, wall hanging, ATC, mini album, altered item etc) with an image of a girl or lady.

I am using the freebie sentiment from tania-wildheart.blogspot.com. Too bad I don’t have foam dots to make all the layered fussy cut flowers and lace pop out..huhu! I am using PinkPaislee papers I got from Scrap-It-Lah challenge I won back in May 2011.

The laces on the left side of the card was found in my craft stash, the light pink was bought at the local craft store a few months ago while the dark maroon one is from Making Memories 2006 Olivia line..(charged guilty as a hoarder..haha!)

Lady With Bird Hat Card originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on September 5, 2011.

It’s been a while since I did anything crafty for any challenge. I think the last time was in May when I joined the Scrap-It-Lah Anniversary Blog Challenge..phewww..I got so caught up with life..that I don’t have the time to create something creative for challenge sake. I’m doing this art journal cover to enter the Simon Says STAMP-tember Blog Hop..(a great excuse otherwise I won’t be entering any till next year..haha!)

Oh, thanks to tania-wildheart.blogspot.com for sharing her wonderful freebies. Those pieces you see on the cover – the bingo tag, the sentiment and the poppies note all are taken from her blog.

For those who have read my previous entries about these fabric rosettes, I finally made a smaller version with combined colored fabrics to suit the art journal cover size. For the leaves I used some pieces of green felt, cut free style into leaf shape. I used white pen to draw the faux stitches on the leaves.

Thanks to Scrap-It-Lah for their wonderful gift (I won one of the challenges) and used here is an embellishment from the Sassafras entwined bloom – rosey and a paper from Pink Paislee House of Three line. I think it was Parisian Anthology divine damask paper. Check out the decorative ink resist front I used. For someone who yet to buy a heat gun, I have been hoping to do the ink resist technique for ages.

Well, hope this will do for now. After this I really want to try the image transfer technique as I have found the Claudine Hellmuth multi-medium matte in my craft stash..(being a hoarder proves to be useful since you never know what new materials you might find in store..haha!)

Art Journal Cover originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on September 5, 2011.