0 Project of the Week 9- Diy Jean Back Pocket

Hello!

This is Constance and it's my ninth project of the week! Today's tutorial will be very fun.

And I will be sharing this super easy jean back pocket diy tutorial. It can be done in about 10 minutes, so I rated this tutorial difficulty a...

I was inspired by a previous Idea Friday, which you can see here. I basically followed the tutorial from the braided neck t-shirt from Her New Leaf, which you can find here, except I sewed it onto the back pocket of my jeans (which I felt were in serious need of decorating).

What you'll need

-sharp fabric scissors

-needle and thread

-an old pair of jeans

0 Google Comments

Hello!

I recently turned on this slightly annoying feature on Blogger called "Google Comments." It basically mixes in the comments on the blog from Google Plus with the regular comments that come from the blog. Sounds pretty good, right?

2 Idea Friday 5- Easy Ways to Decorate your Room

Hey once again, this time for Idea Friday, it will be RuoBing guiding you through, instead of Constance. The topic of this Idea Friday has been decided on by both of us, and is a topic we both adore and wish to talk more about. The topic will be on ways to efficiently and effectively decorate a room using simple arts and crafts skills.

Globe light

Tutorial
Having a globe light certainly gets you into the studying mood.

Paintbrush vase

Tutorial
This paintbrush vase is so classy, and complements the flowers nicely.

1 Guest Tutorial: Kym's Diy Bookmarks

*WARNING: IMAGES MAY TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD*

Hello, again!

This is Colourful Decorations's first guest post/tutorial! On twitter, I saw some great bookmarks Kym (@pure1991pure) made, and I asked her to make a tutorial for this! It looks great, and I will definitely be trying this out.

Tutorial

Step 1: Start off with a ribbon of your choice and a strip of plastic (best to use a forum plastic or cardboard because this will go in the meddle to keep your bookmark forum and flat). The length of your plastic will be the length of your bookmark, make the ribbon long enough to go around the whole plastic and overlap a little at the ends. The pick where I'm holding back a little bit of the ribbon is to show that the ribbon is overlapping at the end, and I will explain what I mean at the top. 

0 Diy Braided Headband

Hello!

In this diy, I, Ruobing will be guiding you through the tutorial of this amazing braided headband! These headbands are stretchy, comfortable yet attractive at the same time. An amazing 20 minute job will have you this headband, fitting for hair up and hair down. Sorry, this is my first tutorial, so it might not be the greatest.... But it's pretty simple, so the tutorial difficulty is only 2!

What you'll need

-An old/used shirt, any colour would do 

-Scissors 

-A ruler

-A marker (not shown in picture above) 

-A needle and thread (not shown in picture above)

2 Project of the Week 8- Diy Sock Puppet

Hello, again!

Who loves.... sock puppets? I bet you do, and so do I. So that's what we're going to make for my eighth project of the week. And guess what? This is another diy, which means you can make this all by yourself at home!

What you'll need

-sharp scissors

-a small, stiff board (should be the size of your hand or larger)

-liquid glue

-miscellaneous fabric (the colour of the puppet's tongue)

-two buttons

-whatever extras you want to put on your puppet (eg. pipe cleaners, rabbit ears, etc)

-needle and thread

-and of course, a sock!

2 A New Author: Ruobing!

Hey, guys!

My friend, Ruobing, has now joined this blog! She loves being creative as much as I do, and we're both really excited about this new partnership, because this is one of our common interests. You'll be seeing more of her soon, but here's a short introduction from her so far.

0 Finally Done- Again!

Hello, there.

This is my third acrylic painting and I'm really proud of it. I'm finally done-again, like in Finally Done ;). It took about 8 sessions, or 24 hours in total. Just wanted to share this with you guys! Thanks for your support.

0 Diy Colourful Striped Card

I'm back!

I've been starting to do some diy's (do it yourself) recently, but I just haven't been calling them diy's. Really though, you can definitely make my projects at home, and on your own, so... sure why not? Diy, here I come! Anyway... today's diy will be this cool striped card I found in a Mother's Day craft book that I mentioned in my last post. Here's the tutorial I was following. Click on the image to enlarge it.

I decided to recreate this, for my friend's birthday card! However, instead of following the extremely specific instructions explained in the book, I took a more flexible approach, grabbing ideas from the images above the steps. Here's my tutorial.

What you'll need:

-watercolour paper (or any thick paper that can withstand paint)

-black felt tip pen

-metallic marker (preferably gold)

How to make it:

Step 1: Grab a blank piece of watercolour paper. I took advantage of a premade card template I got from Strathmore's Artist Papers, which I also used here. It will be the size of the card.

Step 2: Start painting stripes. Try to use lots of different colours that match together. You can paint blots over your stripes, paint in dashes, paint squiggly lines over the stripes, etc, but the stripes should all be going either vertically or horizontally (which is what I did). You can leave gaps of different sizes, which is where the gold and black marker will fill in.

Step 3: Wait for the paint to dry. Now take your black felt tip marker and gold pen to decorate the spaces between the stripes. Get creative: use x's, dashes, arrows, squiggly lines, and more! This is a good time for you to check out the sample cards from the book here. 

Then you're done! This is a great card to send to your friends or/and family. Be as imaginative as you want. I hope you get to try this out, and if you do, you can send an picture to colourfuldecorationsemail@gmail.com! Have fun!

0 Idea Friday 4- Creative Holiday Cards

Hello!

It's Idea Friday again! The theme is creative holiday cards (one of which I'm planning to make for my friend's upcoming birthday). 

Take a look at my collection of 6 adorable gift cards!

Pop up heart card

Tutorial
 This one is so cute. It's a bit tricky, but it's definitely worth the time!

0 Project of the Week 7- Watercolour Flowers

Hi, guys!

This is the seventh project of the week (wowee). Yeah, I say that every day... Anyway.

Today, we're going to make a cool painting of watercolour flowers, which will look like this! I was originally inspired by a blog post from Bella Dia, which you can read here. I found it when I was looking at pictures of watercolour flowers, and I saw this picture.

It looked pretty cool to me, so I decided to try out the tutorial for my project of the week! Here we go.

3 Idea Friday 3- Diy Tees

Hello, there!

I am back for my first real post in a while. I'm sorry about some problems I've been having to replace the old wordpress short code (which does not show up in blogger). I'll try to get that fixed ASAP. On the bright side... It's Idea Friday again, and I couldn't miss an opportunity to use one of my new banners! Thanks, Olivia.

I love the multicoloured polka dots! Anyway, today's theme is... renovated t-shirts! I was looking through Bethany Mota's youtube channel, and I found this amazing video that showed 5 super creative ways to decorate your old t-shirts.

I am currently trying out the braid back shirt, and I will come back to it when I am done. It's taking a while though. I really loved these shirts, and I decided to find a few more of my own to collect for my Idea Friday. Here we go!