Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The Freebie Jubilee + The Decorista Diaries: Poster and DIY colorblock frame!!
Vibrant new freebie poster to download here, and a tutorial to display it just below!!
Download this poster here!
Frame it, hang it on a blank wall, or put it on your crafty clipboard for some added hobbying fun!
And now, check this out!
Bring a hint of the ongoing color block trend in your home with this fun, colourful diy and add a burst of colour to your workspace.
Here's what you need..
1.Foam board/ About an inch wider and longer than the picture that you want to frame.
2.Transparent plastic sheet.The size of your foam board.
3.Your picture
4.Readjustable adhesive glue pads/double sided tape. (actually make that an and)
5.A pair of scissors
6.Balsa wood, thin wood perfect for modelling and cutting, found most at crafts stores.
7.Cardstock in colour of your choice. I chose a nice, vibrant pink. (such a girl that I am!)
8.Paper cutter knife
Here's how:
1.Begin by cutting your foamboard like I mentioned above at least an inch wider and longer on all sides.
2.My balsa is an inch wide. Cut it down to the length of the longer side of the foamboard.In my frame I used balsa on the longer side and used colour on the shorter ones.
I trimmed out the white bordering my picture too.
Now cut the second balsa piece which goes on the other longer side the same length as the first piece
3. Now take your first balsa piece again, and from one end,mark an inch less using the second balsa pieace's width as reference. Or just take a ruler, and mark an inch less from the end if what I just said confused you.
The point is, you want the length of the balsa you cut in the previous step to be in inch lesser
4.Do the same for your second piece of balsa. I'll show you why we chopped off an inch from both the pieces in a sec.
Here, see this, we want the balsa to frame the picture like this.
5.Now cut the width of the cardstock one inch too using a paper cutter knife. That would be the same width as the balsa wouldn't it. So I use the balsa to trace the line on cardstock with pencil instead of using a ruler
6.Here's how it should look.Are you getting the gist of it yet?
7.Cut the second strip of cardstock now exactly like the first one. and here's how it's gonna look.
(Remember we haven't glued anything down yet!)
8.Now that we have our frame parts, we take the transparent sheet and place the picture underneath it and on top of the transparent sheet we glue over the parts using double-sided tape. Then remove the picture from underneath the transparent sheet and you would have the something that looks like this. (remember that we only glued the balsa and cardstock over the plastic sheet and glued nothing to picture itself.We just used it as a reference to place our parts)
9.Now using the readjustable gluepads fix the picture to the frame and then to the foamboard. You can also do this with double sided tape, the difference being that you cannot later replace the picture inside the frame.
10.Trim off any protuding edges or simply readjust until nothing of the foamboard or anything sneaky is peeking out.
And we're done!
Catchya all soon!
<3
Download this poster here!
Frame it, hang it on a blank wall, or put it on your crafty clipboard for some added hobbying fun!
And now, check this out!
Bring a hint of the ongoing color block trend in your home with this fun, colourful diy and add a burst of colour to your workspace.
Here's what you need..
1.Foam board/ About an inch wider and longer than the picture that you want to frame.
2.Transparent plastic sheet.The size of your foam board.
3.Your picture
4.Readjustable adhesive glue pads/double sided tape. (actually make that an and)
5.A pair of scissors
6.Balsa wood, thin wood perfect for modelling and cutting, found most at crafts stores.
7.Cardstock in colour of your choice. I chose a nice, vibrant pink. (such a girl that I am!)
8.Paper cutter knife
Here's how:
1.Begin by cutting your foamboard like I mentioned above at least an inch wider and longer on all sides.
2.My balsa is an inch wide. Cut it down to the length of the longer side of the foamboard.In my frame I used balsa on the longer side and used colour on the shorter ones.
I trimmed out the white bordering my picture too.
Now cut the second balsa piece which goes on the other longer side the same length as the first piece
3. Now take your first balsa piece again, and from one end,mark an inch less using the second balsa pieace's width as reference. Or just take a ruler, and mark an inch less from the end if what I just said confused you.
The point is, you want the length of the balsa you cut in the previous step to be in inch lesser
Here, see this, we want the balsa to frame the picture like this.
5.Now cut the width of the cardstock one inch too using a paper cutter knife. That would be the same width as the balsa wouldn't it. So I use the balsa to trace the line on cardstock with pencil instead of using a ruler
6.Here's how it should look.Are you getting the gist of it yet?
7.Cut the second strip of cardstock now exactly like the first one. and here's how it's gonna look.
(Remember we haven't glued anything down yet!)
8.Now that we have our frame parts, we take the transparent sheet and place the picture underneath it and on top of the transparent sheet we glue over the parts using double-sided tape. Then remove the picture from underneath the transparent sheet and you would have the something that looks like this. (remember that we only glued the balsa and cardstock over the plastic sheet and glued nothing to picture itself.We just used it as a reference to place our parts)
9.Now using the readjustable gluepads fix the picture to the frame and then to the foamboard. You can also do this with double sided tape, the difference being that you cannot later replace the picture inside the frame.
10.Trim off any protuding edges or simply readjust until nothing of the foamboard or anything sneaky is peeking out.
And we're done!
Catchya all soon!
<3
Beauty in a nutshell:review//Boots Mango and Papaya Body Scrrub!
Ladies, let me introduce you to my current skincare obsession..
Yep, there it is..riiiight up there!
This product is from their Boots Natural Collection line. I'm guilty of being taken in a lot of times by the fragrance of products. I'm not sure but I think they had other versions too, and their scent drove me nuts, they all smelled so fresh, or fruity or citrusy!
After reading what the product claims, I finally settled for this one!
Price: I'm pretty sure it was SR 30
Product Claims:
Brighten up!The revitalizing power of mango and papaya is a fruit shake for your senses, while this gentle scrub leaves your skin softer, smoother and noticeably brighter.
Directions:
Massage gently into damp skin and rinse thorughly
Ingredients:
I am so sorry for that picture which blurs out towards the bottom but my camera decided not to listen to me at that moment.
This thing contains parabens #verybad but you can see mango and papaya up there #good!
Typing that list kind of felt agitating to me for now, but I promise to list all the ingredients of an upcoming product in its review!
Consistency and Texture:
That is when my cam COMPLETELY decided to give up on me. But you can figure out that it has a gel like consistency, a bit orangey in color with microbeads swimming happily inside.
And then the smell is a nice, refreshing, fruity but not overwhelming fragrance so sensitive noses would be fine with it too! #win!
It is packaged in a tube with a flip-open cap and does not leak, so its pretty travel friendly. A very little can get stuck in the lid IF you did not shut back the cap properly, which I confess I did a few times.
Now it says its a body scrub and at the same time it says its gentle..I don't know how many of you like non-gritty body scrubs, but I like one which is highly exfoliating so that it should be more abrasive and not "gentle". So what exactly did I do? I used it as a facial exfoliation.I got normal-combination skin (Normal in winters, combination in summers). I know the whole jazz about not using these things on your face but it when it said "gentle" on the packaging, hey, it really meant it. This thing is actually gentle enough to use on your face,at least on mine, AND everyday, its mild but perfect for exfoliating! Also, it doesn't dry skin out. Of course, it doesn't moisturize it as well, but it is smoother, softer and yes, BRIGHTER! LOVE THAT! Like, yeah, visibly!
This is my favorite face scrub..till...date it actually leaves you *that* bright!
Summin' it all up:
The Good:
-Price
-Invigorating, fresh fragrance
-Flip-top tube packaging
-Travel-friendly
-Gentle enough for everyday use on the face (for combo/oily skin)
-leaves skin smoother
-and softer
-and berrrighterrr!! :))
-doesn't dry skin out post exfoliation
The Bad:
-has parabens
-not really a worthwhile body scrub as abrasive property is poor for that
-lid might get a lil goopy if not shut properly
Rating: 4.7/5 (I don't regret getting this and it not working out as a body scrub, rest of the claims are all true!)
Recommendation:
Get this if
-You go out in the sun a lot and your skin has faced some sun damage and needs brightening up
-If you are a scrub hoarder
-if you already have a tan, I think it will help clear it up
-you are looking for a scrub with gel consistency and moderately abrasive microbeads
Hope that helped!
See you soon!
XOXO!
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