New Creations

I've been working with glue guns, chains, buttons, etc. and I've come up with some new ideas and I've revamped older ideas. I'm going to go in the order of picture, little about item, next picture and so forth. Hope you at least like some of my creations!

This necklace is meant to represent friendship with the spikes being the friendship between 2 people. 

When I look at this necklace I think of fierceness and power. Something I personally could never have outside of the Internet. 

When I look at this, I think the beach or fall. Depending on your taste it could really work with both holidays. 

Can anyone else say holidays? When I was making this I though the trees represent picking your favorite Christmas tree, the snow should be obvious, and the rolling pin to represent the baked goodies that almost all family's have year after year. 

  

This is actually one of my older creations that I revamped. It's s flower brooch.

Out of everything this is my favorite. It's a flower hair clip :3  

Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Haha! That's what I think of when I see these, although the background is a little busy (my fault) you can see the holiday cheer. 

This Weeks Haul!

This week I got paid one of the larger amounts with my job and decided to go shopping for some new supplies! I went to Benjamin Franklin Crafts, Big Lots, Dollar Tree, and Half-Priced Books and got what you see in the picture. I'm going to list in the order of which I had bought them starting with Big Lots; there I got 2 zip up file folders that can be seen barely in the pictures. Next I went to Benjamin Franklins and got the 4 packs of flat back gems, 2 packs of mirrors, blank headbands, lollipop and 2 packs of beads. After leaving there I went to Dollar Tree and got the Scissors, Needles and paintbrushes (I had also gotten 2 glasses, one a martini glass and the other a cup but my martini glass broke and the other one I made a candle.) then I went to Half-Priced Books and got a photography book and a cake decorating book. Those can be seen as well under everything else. I'll be posting a haul video within the next few days hopefully but at the moment we don't have Internet!

Money Saving Time!

Boyfriend and I just decided to move into an apartment near his moms place and honestly I don't have a steady income that could really help at the moment so I'm starting to work on earning some extra cash through working with my shop or just craft shows in general so right now I'm not blogging a whole lot. I was also thinking about doing a kickstarter eventually but I don't know now because I don't have a huge following to actually get it out to. Guess I could try right? Well that's all for this blog I have to go work for awhile.  

Moving Out! Yay~

I finally got permission from my mom to go live with my boyfriend, we've been trying to get her to say yes for so long now that it has been crazy. Which means I'm on a hunt for a house with him so we can finally have our own place and our own lives without people judging us or interfering.

Now problem is I don't have a lot of money coming in which is why I blog, youtube, storenvy, whatever I can do to try getting some income flowing cause right now we need it more than anything so we can start putting money away and save for the dreaded deposit and down payment. I am thinking about getting back into crafting and doing a lot of maybe plushies and stuff to sell and using my YouTube again since I've been meaning to put more videos up but haven't gotten around to it since I don't have high quality anything to work with. What do you guys think?

How to Make a Medium Sized Icon

Hello everyone! Haven't you always wanted a small/medium icon that you can play with to your liking? Well here's a tutorial on how to do it!

Step 1

Open up Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai, Microsoft Paint, or whatever other editing/drawing program that you are comfortable using. For this I will be using Gimp 2. Now that it's open you should bring up a new drawing that's about 99 Length x 57 Width pixels. Your screen should look something like this (if you're using Gimp.)

Step 2

Now that you've got your template set us, you need to figure out what you want to make the icon of. For me I'm going to be using this image of Sally Williams, a horror character from Creepypasta.com. It's best that when choosing these images they have no background, and if they do have a background it's a 1 tone type of thing such as White, Grey, Black, Red, etc.

Step 3

So by now you've gotten your image selected and you've gotten your template ready, which means it's time to move onto the scheme of your icon. For me, I wanted to go with a light pink, sorta the same as her dress but a little darker. To do this, you click on the Paint Bucket, then the rectangle color swatch which will bring up a color picker. You pick the color you want to use and then fill the template with it. 

Step 4

The second to last step is that you need to press open, and open up your chosen image and select ALL. After you've selected all you need to paste it onto your template. It'll of course be too big but we will work on that in just a second. Now what you need to do is resize the image, for all the different programs it's of course different but for gimp it's the tool thats circled in yellow in the second image. After you click that proceed to step 5.

                                      

Step 5

Now that you gotten to this stage you need to click on the image and the stage in the image below will show up. Now just resize it to the size you want and you're done.

Final!