Dainty Fabric Flowers: CHA Collection - Yoyos

Here's the CHA Collection of Yoyos. All made using the same fabric colors from the poppies - deep pink, tangerine, golden yellow, moss green, orchid, aqua blue, and light blue.

This is just a small fabric flower measuring around 1.25" in diameter. It is very tiny which is very perfect for adding details on craft projects.

May #TogetherWeLetter Days 09-15: Spice it up!

This week I used different materials for writing - watercolor, colored pencil, and color marker. I almost forgot that I can use them too for the lettering challenge. Plus, the brush pens that I always used are running out of ink, so I'm saving them up now because I don't have any plans of buying new pens yet.

I also used a journaling card when I took a picture of my day 09 work. It actually looks good and will be using this technique from now on to add "spice" on my IG feed. Lol! Time to get more journaling cards now! *grin*

Day 09 - Three things...

"Glasses, flipflops, & pens"

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Day 10 - Bookshelf

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Day 11 - Waiting

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Day 12 - Happiness is... 

"My daughter's hugs and kisses."

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Day 13 - Poetry

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Day 14 - Weekend

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Day 15 - Print

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May #TogetherWeLetter Days 01-08: Little Doodles Here and There.

I kind of failed in my somewhat desperate attempt to incorporate some doodles on my calligraphy. I made it on days 01 & 04, but the rest.. nada! So I decided, to drop doodling and continue with the lettering challenge instead. Besides, I still yet to find out if I'm really for brush pens or the real ones.

Enjoy my first week of #TogetherWeLetter. *smile*

Day 01 - Breakfast

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Day 02 - New

"Trust that an ending is followed by a beginning."

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Day 03 - Kindness

"Kill them with kindness, and bury them with a smile."

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Day 04 - Time

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Day 05 - Today was...

"Ordinary."

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Day 06 - Frozen

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Day 07 - Aqua

This is my "Aquamarine" Dong-A My Color 2

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Day 08 - Sadness

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Colorful Fabric Flowers: CHA Collection - Poppies

Who says we can't play colors with fabrics? We can! 

Shopping for fabric has always been fun. With all the eye candy surrounding you inside the fabric store, you would definitely want to buy all the fabrics there. 

That's what I did, sort of! 

I was so excited when I saw the fabrics, the colors were so adorable that I really want to buy all of it. But I have to stick with my budget, so I only bought the ones that were requested by my friend - she specifically wanted the CHA colors of 2014, thus naming this as the CHA collection. 

Now, the fabrics were used for poppies and ruffled fabric flowers or yoyos - which sum up the collection. 

I made two sizes for the poppies - 1.5" and 2.25" in diameter. The bigger flower is easier to make, I can comfortably burn the sides, unlike the smaller one which is very tough to make. I also used a piece of faux pearl in the center. 

#TogetherWeLetter Days 25-30 + MAY Challenge Prompts

I've been lazy for the past week because of the scorching heat, that all I wanted to do was freeze in front of the fan!

BUT BUT BUT... 

I finished the lettering challenge!!!

HOORAY!!!

That was a first! Makes me proud of my little accomplishment. I'm really happy! ^_^

I love how #togetherweletter went. I saw progress on my work, creative juices are starting to flow (again, after how many years), I get to discover techniques on how to do my lettering without too many mistakes (and wasted papers. Hihi!) and finding the best time to work on the challenge.

I just wish, and I'm really crossing my fingers, that I'll get to fulfill my dreams anytime soon. Using calligraphy and fabric flowers to create one unique handmade piece.

God willing! ^_^

Cheers to the last week of April Together We Letter Challenge.

Day 25 - Spectacular

Day 26 - Bloom

Day 27 - Grand

Day 28 - Fabulous

Day 29 - Ridiculous

Day 30 - Watercolor

Now I'm ready for May's challenge. If you want to join the fun, check out @togetherweletter on Instagram and get all your pens and papers and start writing now! *happy dance*

Fabric Bows: A Hit and Miss Project

I've never worked with grosgrain ribbons before and I find it amusing that these ribbons were made of fine quality materials that made them heavy and stiff. Which, actually, is perfect for creating bows.

Grosgrain is a very popular type of ribbon used in creating hair accessories. I've seen many pieces made of these and I find them really cute.

So aside from the usual fabric flowers that I'm making, I kind of stepped out of my comfort zone and tried to do the simplest possible bow that I could make.

I bought 7 pieces of grosgrain bows and tried my hand on bow-making. However, since I only bought one size, I totally forgot that I needed a smaller size for the center. Instead, I used my fabrics to complete the bows.

At first, I find it pretty cool incorporating fabric with grosgrains... but in the long run, I find it weird and decided not to use this combination ever again. *giggles*

Anyway, this is just part of a 'trial & error' process in producing pieces. I'm just glad I didn't create too much and just had enough number for the sample bows.

And yes, I learned - grosgrains are for grosgrains. *wink*