Paper Rosette Awards

This May, the kids at church attended a 3-day Vacation Bible School.
This year's theme was Sidekicks Reloaded.

To reward the kids for their God-glorifying performance during the said 3 days, my mom and I decided to work on "paper rosette awards". :)

Materials Used:
- Gift Wrapper (Stripes)
- BBQ Stick
- Styro foam
- White thick paper
- Japanese Paper
- Paper cup
- Ribbons
- Printer
- EK Success 2.25 Large Circle Puncher
- And lots of glue

The Parts:

1. Center
- For the center, I printed the church name and VBS theme bordering around the names of the children which were printed at the center.
- I then used my EK success puncher to punch out the circles which will then be attached to the center of the rosettes.

2. Rosette
- Here, I cut out strips from the stripe gift wrapper I bought from SM department store.
- See steps on how to create this via this youtube tutorial (not mine)
- Then I stuck the circles punched out earlier in front and the back of the rosette using lots and lots of glue.

3. Awards
- The awards were simply printed on strips of white paper and then cutout.

4. Base
- A piece of styro foam was wrapped in japanese paper then inserted inside a ribbon-adorned papercup to serve as base.

The Assembly:

1. Insert one end of the BBQ stick to the paper rosette.
2. Evenly stick the award strips onto the mid section of the stick as if they were street signs.
3. Insert the other end of the stick through the styrofoam.

Taaaa-daaaah!

I am so happy and overwhelmed with the positive feedback we received last Sunday. The children, as well as the adults, were really happy with them.

I praise and thank God for the wisdom.

And I especially give kudos and thanks to my mom who really poured in lots of love and effort in assembling these together.

Oh my, didn't that just sound as if I were actually delivering an award's speech? Haha!

Hope you liked this post. If you enjoyed it, share it! :)

God bless! :)

Luau Party Invitation

It's almost the rainy season here in the Philippines and I can't believe, I haven't posted this yet.

This is from a Luau Invitation+Tag set I created for an officemate who's lovely daughter was turning 3.

Since I didn't want to pay for re-using gifs found over the internet, I drew the girl myself. :)

Ha-ha!

That's it for now. I'm currently busy with my own daughter's upcoming birthday. I really hope and pray preparations are over soon and that the event itself will be a success!

Happy Saturday and God bless! :)

Princess Invitation

Normally I would wait for a friend's event to be over before I post photos on my blog/fb page but I am just so happy that I am posting already. Of course, I had to resist posting photos of the inside part to protect the confidentiality of my friend, and since I didn't have time to edit and blurr some items. :p

Anyway, the reason that I am happy is... are...
- I've always wanted to create this type of card and I finally did!
- It was more of a "spur-of-the-moment" thing, w/o much planning, I just gathered materials, assembled and there...! Thankfully my friend liked it.
- It is of my favorite color combination (brown and pink)

and... last but not the least...

These babies are going to CANADA!

Yep, my first (and hopefully not my last) international project! <3<3<3

 

And they come in Pink+Purple combo too:

 And... there are matching tags too!

These are for a 7th birthday party, by the way. :)
They have been shipped last Monday and expected to arrive in Canada in 5-7 days.
I am excited yet kinda anxious at the same time... I really hope and pray the package arrives safely and in good condition... And I really hope our little princess will love them after seeing them in person!


So, what do you think? =)

A Clover Party

Last post was on when?! February 24?! I can't believe I missed posting at least one item for March! Must have been busy...

Well, for the past month, I realized I can be a supermom too... You do not need to be a "stay at home mom" to be a "supermom". So for the past month, I have taken care of my baby, worked worked worked, and even took on some projects for some friends.

But tonight, I would like to backtrack on a post I have held back for a long time, for a year, in fact. But I'm glad I finally got to showcase it tonight! :)

dot... dot... dot...

So last March 16, 2013, we celebrated my inaanak's baptism and birthday. She's such a darling! <3 I got to see my closest friends from gradeschool too! :)

And I thank God, and my dear friend YZ, they allowed me to be part of this occasion.

My contributions:

These invites were actually made a year ago.
You'll see the other version later with the baby's updated picture.

 

The Tags. Since it was almost St. Patrick's Day and the baby's named Irish, the birthday them was Clover. :)

 

My gifts:

I actually made few onesies with this design of different sizes which Irish wore every month until her first birthday.
See below. :)

Tarpaulin layout designed by YZ. The onesies worn by Irish as shown on the collage were made by me. :)

 

A throw pillow in the shape of a 4-leaf Clover.

I really had fun! I also got to take home a whole hard drive of movies and anime! <3

I really hope we can do this again, with my darling Dana next time! :)

Owl Doll

I made an owl doll today. My first try at it. It's my response to an inquiry if I can actually make one.

What do you think?

I'll post tutorial details probably tomorrow. :)

Calendar Coasters 2

Remember the Calendar Coasters I made last time?

They come in blue and yellow too! :)

Wall Decor

These past day's I've been addicted to looking at different DIY room/wall decors and I've particularly liked decoupaged acrylic blocks. So I decided I'll create my own.

Materials Used:

* Acrylic Blocks
* Felt Cloth
* Patterned Paper
* Rhinestones
* Buttons
* Scissors
* Bigkick
* PTI Alphabet dies (lower case)
* Glue Gun+Stick

Steps:
1. Cut out your felt cloth into different animal shapes. Unfortunately I cannot provide templates as I did not use any. But you can search them through google images. :)

2. Cut out names from your felth cloth using your die cutter and alphabet dies.

3. Hot glue the base animal shapes and letters into the acrylic blocks.

4. Accentuate the animals using patterned paper, buttons and rhinestones.

So here's what I came up with:

What do you think? :)