Decopatching

Hey everyone, how has your week been? 

I thought I'd introduce you to my latest hobby which as you may have guessed from the title is Decopatching! Years ago a new art shop opened in my nearest town and outside they always have a giant collaged giraffe, much similar to this one, ever since I've been intrigued. The other week I was browsing Hobbycraft and finally found out what the technique was! I bought a starter kit (which I'll blog about at some point) and gave that a go. Hooked on it, this happened...!

I bought some pretty paper and a pot of the special Decopatch glue.

And a rather ugly plastic tray organiser.

Ripped up into small pieces

Used the glue to stick down the pieces of paper and put a layer of glue over the top to seal it in

After several hours of work!

Finished result :)

I'm going to store some of my make up in here, I'm undecided about how to organise it though! I'll take a picture when I've decided. I got all of the above from Hobbycraft, including the tray - if you're interested in having ago all the Decopatch things are here :) 

Have you Decopatched anything before? 

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P.s. Check out my new little sub heading things I made in the right hand column (how swish am I?! Lol)

The Preparations

Hello all, here's a post if you're not feeling that 'wedding fever' yet. Personally, I've found the whole Royal Wedding affair a grand excuse to get crafty and avoid any college work :) Here are some of the things I've been working on!

Paperchains - Accessorize

Union Jack Nails - a bit messy and mucked up on my little finger!

Paper Bunting using this tutorial

Still lots more to be strung...!

- I've also been making a few other bits, and I have some cupcakes to ice, we're not doing anything particularly special, my grandparents are coming round for a kitsch little lunch (including: cucumber sandwiches and trifle!) I'll show you all tomorrow, I'm thinking it could be a hefty post! What are you all doing for the wedding?

- I'm going to rag my hair tonight which could have some interesting results... I've been looking for ways to curl my hair without using heat, partly because my hair's a bit long for curlers! 

- Lastly, I've revamped my Tumblr because people seemed to be enjoying my recent picture posts so I thought you might like to see more pictures on a daily basis, it's such a good source of inspiration as well. It still needs a bit of work with the layout I might add - oh how I love html. Also if you've got a Tumblr leave it below I'd like to look at them :)

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Happy Easter!

Dress: Topshop
Belt: Topshop

 Hello everyone! Firstly, I hope you've all been stuffing your faces full of chocolate before it all melts in this scorching heat! Above are a few photos of the crafts/cakes I've been spending my Easter holidays doing when I should really be cracking on with my Final Major Project... Do you like my fondant bunny? He sure tasted good although quite sickly after a while.

I've been MIA recently, few things seem to be going right. I have control this blog so I'm not going to let this go wrong too. 

On a more positive note, I love this dress, it's so light and nice for a day dress but you could probably dress it up for the evening. I can't find it on the Topshop website, I think it's sold out now. I've been getting so much wear out of this belt, worth the hefty price tag and goes with everything :)

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