Saturday 2 August 2014

DIY / How to make a notebook / book cover

Hello everyone!!! Today I have for you a notebook / book cover to show you. I decided to make the cover free, I mean, don't be glued to the book because I can always change the book. Hope you like this tutorial.
So, this was the result:


Let's start, this was all the material I needed: A notebook/book, cardboard, scissors, ruler, pencil and hot glue gun. For decoration: eva, lace and a mold.

In first place, you cut a strip of cardboard, like in the image.


Then, you have to mark it like this:









Once you make the structure of the cover, glue it and let's decorate it!!








So, for the decoration, I chose a cute lace. I glued the tips of the lace in the inner side of the cover.


Don't forget to glue the lace in the edge of the book to prevent the kace from being too loose when you open the book.



Then I made a leaf with EVA.


To make the leaf I used this mold:



And this was my tutorial! Hope you liked it. I am excited to make new ones. If you have any doubt, suggestion or idea just let me know! =) Have fun!


Tuesday 15 July 2014

DIY / How to make a Necklace, Bracelet and Earrings set

Hey!! Hope you had an excellent weekend! Mine was quite boring, to be honest. Today I made three necklaces and one of them includes a set with earrings and bracelet which is the one that I am publishing today. In the next days I will be publishing the other two. All of them are really simple and really easy of everyone to make at home with basic tools except the hot glue gun.

My hot glue gun is a little one, really simple and cute. It was 6 € so it is something you can invest because you can use it for all your hand works and also it helps you repairing things. Trust me, I have done it!

Today's necklace, bracelet and earrings set is really simple, fast to make and cute. The news is that I am working with a material that I never worked before : cork.

This was the result:



So, what do you need?

I forgot to add the hot glue gun. And there is in the photograph two hoops which I decided not to use.



So, in the first place you have to cut the cork wire in four pieces, two to the earrings, one to the bracelet and another one to the necklace.


As you can see, the earring were different, the pins were in different positions, so I had to do it again. Be careful with that. This is really easy to make, you just need to put a little bit of hot glue inside the pin and then put the cork wire inside. Takes 15 seconds to dry.

Add the pins to both tips of the bracelet and the necklace. As you can see you can buy the tip pins with already two hoops and a hook together.

As you can see, the hot glue gun was needed. I show it in this picture on purpose because of that. And you can also see my bracelet.

The necklace and bracelet already done. As you can see there were two hoops in the photograph that I was going to use to the earrings but I decided that the earrings would be too long, so I didn't used them.

The final work.




Hope you liked it! Let me know if you tried it. Bye! Have fun!

Saturday 12 July 2014

DIY / How to make a Pendant Necklace

Hey! Hope is everything good with all of you and if it's not, well, we always have to see the brighter side of life.
My dears, today I have for you another necklace that it was sooo easy to make and I hope you like it. The special thing about this one is the way you hold the wire.

This is the result:

So, this is what you need:

1- In first place you cut the wire with the size you want.

2- Then, you add a hoop to the pendant and to the wire.

3- Then you add two "hoops" which are not really hoops to both points of the wire.

4- Then you add two hoops and, to one of those, you add a hook.

 The result:

Hope you guys liked it! It's a really easy, cheap and beautiful necklace. I enjoyed it a lot!
Have fun!