Amanda Cottage

Mini chair

2012-02-12T22:45:00.000-08:00

This is a cute mini chair that I bought for deco. It was just nice for me to put my handphone on charging. I got from Daiso for RM5, what a good buy

Boxes

2012-01-19T18:44:00.000-08:00

Still have not finalise which way to place the lace on the box

Simple laces to add on the box, just want to keep it simple.

Thinking of adding ribbon at the edges.

Makeover the box with decoupaged of my favourite roses, as usual.

Original look: bought from Daiso for only RM5

small porch

2012-01-12T23:08:00.000-08:00

The other side of the porch, I just keep it simple with a rose and a corner part of rose with a stamp on it

See the white shine is actually the fabric crayon to add some shine on the roses.

The edge of highlighted with white fabric crayon, my first attempt !

This is one side of it with a whole piece of rose tissue

Original look, cost me RM1, just too cheap to resist it. And I know I have an idea to transform it from a RM 1 look to an elegant bag.

Bag

2012-01-05T00:47:00.000-08:00

Attached with a lace flower

Full page of tissue of tulip decoupaged on the bag

Original- plain

canister

2011-09-29T20:29:00.000-07:00

Makeover of canister from door gift. Just decoupaged the rose on the surface, easy and quick

Side view of my favorite rose

Top view of the rose

Recycle bag

2011-09-25T20:46:00.000-07:00

A simple but elegent decoupage work on a plain recycle bag

Technique is requered to flatten the whole piece without any wrinkles

Full view

coin box

2011-09-21T20:48:00.000-07:00

A nice makeover from a plain coin box to a lovely one

Just want to practice my decoupage skill after abandon it for some times

Just decoupage the whole line of flower tissue on the wood surface without any backgroud prepration as I was just too lazy to do it

My daughter's handcraft work from school

Kitchen Towel

2011-09-08T00:33:00.000-07:00

A simple work to decoupage a kitchen towel

A closer look before ironing

just decoupage the leftover tissue of food on it

Plain kitchten towel

Door hanger

2011-08-16T01:34:00.000-07:00

Full view of this board fo roses

The leaves were painted on free hand

The decoupaged on silver pattern around the roses

A closer look of rosos with testing of new colour of red

folk art on roses and decoupaged on the silver backgroud

Deco on furniture

2011-08-04T01:02:00.000-07:00

New idea for the cover of dining chair by using a cushion cover for the back and a lace cloth for the seating

The rosy cover for an air-condtioner

Another rosy corner for coffee table

Sticker Around the House

2011-07-26T00:12:00.000-07:00

Main entrance: A sweet bird cage sticker welcome all the guests

Back kitchen door

Dining area

Backyard

Dry Kitchen

recycle bag

2011-07-21T00:46:00.000-07:00

An easy and quick add-on work

The full of tissue I selected

Just decoupaged two dogs on it

just a normal recycle bag

Photo Frame

2011-07-19T20:19:00.000-07:00

Close up view of the pinky roses

First time use free hand to paint the blue ribbon, but somehow not as smooth as I think

Original: plain Ikea photo fram

Handphone Cover

2011-07-12T21:12:00.000-07:00

A new handphone cover instead of the plain black leather cover

Inside

Another side

I took three pattern tissues to decoupage the cover. Firstly, I used the butterfly to decorate the centre part. Then I used another silver pattern to cover the surrounding. Lastly, the little roses were used to decorated the edge.

Before

Clock

2011-07-05T19:41:00.000-07:00

My favourite corner again, I just like to display my work on my rocking horse that made the work more appealing!

Just a simple work that can tranform a plain clock to an attractive clock!

This is the result. A simple and yet elegant look!

This is the tissue I selected. It is suitable to decorate any frame or sides

This is the second level of makeover.The first makeover project was just decoupage the roses around the clock.

Handphone cover

2011-07-04T00:20:00.000-07:00

Full view of my handphone cover : inside and outside cover. Luckily it turned out to be quite a romantic look!

A lovely red roses are decoupaged on the sprinkled surface followed with more touch-up of white paint.

First step : The origianl of the hp cover is black. I sprinkled it with white paint. It ended up quite a horrible surface!

Straw hat

2011-06-30T01:56:00.000-07:00

Lovely straw hat from phuket. Just decoupaged roses at three areas to make it more english feel.

This is one of my favorite roses tissue from my collection

Overview of a lovely straw hat after decoupaged. A simple work to turn a plain hat to a romantic look

original outlook

photo frame

2011-06-21T01:23:00.000-07:00

Home sweet home + love around the house

Just a simple white frame. I inserted my favourite pattern of tissue inside. The scenary really matched with the word 'love'

This is my lovely corner to display my artwork, just a simple decoupage work on stool. A simple life, a simple decoration.

handphone cover

2011-06-20T00:51:00.000-07:00

A special decoupage work on cover for my new phone

A magical effect

Closer look : A blur effect

A lazy work, no preparation of background needed

Effectivie way to shade the background

took an old toothbrush to sprinkle white dots

First level of decoupage work

Planning stage

Original

bamboo

2011-05-24T01:40:00.000-07:00

A bamboo turn vintage look deco

good deco at any corner

another view

A new life to a lifeless bamboo

just decoupage the whole piece of on it

first layer of white paint

Original : bamboo

Small box

2011-04-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

Part 2
Add on little berries surrounded the roses

Add on berries and leaves surrounded the sides of the box

The bottom : stamping of logo and name

Sides : a little add on

Part 1

A lovely roses is painted in the centre of the box

Another side :

The side view of a rose. I think the leaves are just too dark

I tried to apply to a float effect on the leaves

A free hand roses is painted inside the box. I tried to practise two tones of green on the leaves.

Part 1 : Four sides are lightly highlighted in brown and the middle is stamped on my signature stamp

original look

Photo Frame

2011-03-28T00:33:00.000-07:00

Full view of the photo frame using decoupage and stamping

The backgroud is used to practise my new stamp chop

A simple decoupage project of photo frame

Plastic Square container-Roses

2011-03-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

Closed-up view of the lovely roses, still need more practice to get a smoother stroke.

another way to practise my roses painting after some times

A bit of ink faded after sometimes. Still thinking on how to improve it

Practise to paint the leaves in 2 tones of colours

More practise needed to smoothen the stroke of ribbon

First attempt to draw the ribbon using chinese calligraphy pen

An attempt to paint on plastic surface without any background preparation.

Full view of this plastic container, can use to keep a whole round cake inside.

Diary

2011-03-18T00:29:00.000-07:00

A cute bunny

Full view of the diary

Trying hard to paint a fluffy effect

First attempt to pain a heart shape in different tone colour

dish cover-rose

2011-03-03T23:52:00.000-08:00

Another work of painting rose

Practise to paint leave in a more transparency look

First attempt to paint ribbon using fine brush

The words are painted with ink-filled pen

A special tool like comb is used to created the lines

Car organiser - Roses

2011-02-22T19:48:00.000-08:00

A closer look of this pinky roses

This the full view of the car organiser. The hen was painted last year. The dark background is a good practise space for a person who is lazy to prepare the background surface.

Another view of the roses

Result : Pinky roses for a car organiser

Second step : Shade the leaves with dark and light shade

First step: basecoat the leaves and roses for three layers

Clock

2011-02-17T18:21:00.000-08:00

It was actually a cake stand. I pasted the numbers to make the face of a clock

AFTER
I repainted the roses after learning from teacher and book.

BEFORE

This roses were painted 3 years back when I started to learn folk art painting.

Rose

2011-02-09T23:55:00.000-08:00

Practised painting rose of board of calender

Roses

2011-01-30T19:40:00.000-08:00

A rosy day , a rosy you and me!

I think I need more practise on the leaves

Folk art on roses. Just practise on draft.

Wooden tray

2011-01-13T00:57:00.000-08:00

This tray is specilly made to Ayu in the 6th Exchange Decoupage in http://www.wanitamelayu.com/

Crack effect is made at each corner

The wordings is a specially made rubber stamp

A closer look of the crack effect and wordings

A whole piece of tissue is decoupaged on the tray. Stencilled word of 'Sweet Home' is made to fill the empty space

A close look of the crack effect

Another view of the wordings and crack effect

This is back surface of the tray, just stamp my name on it

Crack effect

Girl

2011-01-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

An attempt to paint a cute cartoon girl character.

Step by step follow a book. The most difficult part to paint is the curly hair as multiple layer of curly curve has to be made

Just paint on a plastic pot. A good way for practice folkart instead of painting on a draft.

A full view of the picture

Another view of the picture. I have to put few coat of paint as a base color as the plastic surface is quite slippery for the paint to stick on.

Sunflower

2011-01-04T23:00:00.000-08:00

I start the new year 2011 with painting a sunflower. Hope everyone will get sunshine all year round!

First attempt of painting sunflower. I need to improve more on the skill of double loading!

Just follow the guidance from a book

Follow step by step from a book

See, one side is the book, another side is my painting on a draft

Christmas Bear

2010-12-22T23:12:00.000-08:00

This is the second bear I painted especially for the Christmas season.

This is the book that I followed step by step to paint the bear

A closer look of the Santa bear

This the draft that I painted the bear on. I think I have to practise more before really paint on a solid surface.

The section part of presents : This is the most difficult part as the area to paint is too tiny and tedious

The face area is the most satisfactory part I have painted especially the rosy cheek. My daughter like it so much!

The bottom part :I think I need to improve more of the boot part as more highlight shoud be added on

This purple present part is the part that I like the most as the shading part is just nice to show out a present

The rosy cheek bear looked so cute and adorable

The is the first part I completed as I took me two sessions for the whole picture

Bear

2010-12-20T00:51:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy new year to everyone

Just learn folkart painting of bear from Ms Lakshmi.

This is actually the art work done by Ms Lakshmi. Thanks a lot for her patience and guidance. I would like to take this opportunity to wish her a Merry Christmas.

This is the folkart done by me

A closer look of the bear painting

This is the comparison between a teacher and student work

A closer look of the bear-still need more practice on she loading part

Spade

2010-12-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

Guess ? what is this ?

Final work : a rusty spade turned into a shabby deco in garden

Spade handle : another simple word stencil

Rocking horse again! This is my best background

The other side of spade : garden theme : butterfly + sunflower

Decoupaged with little rose at corner

Full view with words only

First step : Stencil word first, free hand

Old rusty spade painted with white paint

See! I purposely arrange the aphabet freely

We need love all the time

Frying pan

2010-11-29T00:24:00.000-08:00

Sweet frying pan for sale !

A close look of this pan

The stencil I used for the words

Before decoupage on the tissue

Before : a rusty frying pan and painted with yellow

Flower pot

2010-11-22T23:53:00.000-08:00

A cat sit quietly with my makeover of this flower pot

See ! A new look for this flower pot

The equipment I used : a simple stencil sheet and old brush

Before : Another worn out white flower pot

The other side of the flower pot. A simple and quick way to decorated a flower pot

A simple stencil word to brighten up an old flower pot

Before : Old and dirty flower pot

Signboard

2010-11-14T20:50:00.000-08:00

A good way to recycle an old board, think twice before throw it away. I am just starting to explore the world of word stencil. Any surface( even with stain) can be used as a practice base. No base preparation is required.

Is it a good idea to recycle a board.

Different way to hang the board around the garden

After : A good way as a practice board for stencil work. A simple folk art is added to decorate the stencil work.

Before : Just an old and broken board, actually it was the back of the board. Thinking of throwing it away when looking at the stain line.

Decoration

2010-11-12T00:03:00.000-08:00

Guess what is this ? The person who guess it right will get one of it for free.

Plank

2010-11-10T18:20:00.000-08:00

Deco 3 : A nice decoration for car porch area

Matched well with the garden

A butterfly was added on when I found it somewhere in my garage.

Deco 2

Deco 1

Only two small parts of surface was used to decoupage the pot picture on.

This green and yellow leaves were done by using real leaves to press on the surface. But the result was not satisfactory.

A closer look of the stenciled word. This was my first attempt to do stencil work.(I do the stencil free hand as it was just a testing work)

Stenciled some words on the surface with black paint. This pattern of tissue was chosen for the decoupage work. I just take two pictures of the pot flower to keep it simple

Before : A rotten and old wood plank with hooks. Need to use sand paper to clean first. No paint was used on any surface as I wanted to keep the original look

Materials to use for this project.

Picture board

2010-11-08T00:42:00.000-08:00

Decoration 4 : This is my favourite. A good idea for garden decoration,

Decoration 3 : Add to my decoupage work corner

Decoration 2 : Sit quietly next to my teapot collection and money plants

Decoration 1 : Decorate with my cut garden plant

A closer look ( don see so close, you would noticed some imperfection. water stain+ dirt stain)

Finally, A nice decoupage work see from far ( first time trial on dark surface, an instant idea struck on when I was just too tired to continue )

Phase 7 : More words ( in purple ) was stenciled on the bottom ( the surface there was just too dark)

Excuse : I made a big mistake, I decoupage the wrong side of tissue ( the dark side suppose to be at the side not the centre) Instead, I used the sponge to brush out the darker tissue( quite a mess initially). The purple words was made to cover my mess and mistake (hahaha)

Phase 6 : The brush was used (add on more decoupage medium) get a more even surface ( remember : do not brush to hard)

Phase 5 : Spread the whole piece of tissue on the surface and pressed evenly with sponge ( don ask me what brand of sponge I used, is just the dishing washing sponge!)

Phase 4 : With my finger dip with little water, circulate the decoupage medium evenly to cover the whole area

Phase 3 : The decoupage medium was directly applied on the board ( just press without adding any water)

Phase 2: Suppose to draw some folkart on it but changed my mind when I flipped through the tissue collection. Try and error to decoupage the rose with dark background on the board ( without any surface preparation, just want to fast and to be honest, I was just to lazy at that time and greedy to see the instant result)

Phase 1 : Just stencil the words on it ( free hand to arrange the words)

Before : Back of the tulip picture( see the staple at four side, just keep for nothing as too lazy to remove it,hihihi)

reason to use : Just to bore with the picture and lazy to paint the surface

Before : The front page of this picture

Recycle Beg

2010-11-02T01:28:00.000-07:00

Makeover of another simple yet elegent style of recycle beg ...

This heart shape tissue was abandoned for some times due to unmatched with the cottage style of my usual decoupage work

Well, It went so well with the recycle beg, simple yet elegent

Creative, simple, fun.......

Origial look of this recycle beg

Recycle beg

2010-10-25T01:00:00.000-07:00

Do you like this shabby look on this recycle beg?

A closer look. I torn the tissue instead of cutting it to reflect a more natural presentation.

I have to put a paper under the surface to prevent excess decoupage medium slipped through another layer of cloth.

A plain recycle bag. First trial to decoupage on recycle bag.

Photo Frame

2010-10-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

A fun way to decorate a frame with toys.

This is another creation to decorate a frame if you do not have any picture

Another way to decourate the frame, just insert plastic grass with flower

I tried to insert this panda in the frame.

Just try to frame up with tulip picture but it was not matched with the frame.

My work corner

Roses were decoupaged at the four corners

Full view of the frame

The cut off tissue, instead of cutting, I tear it for a more natural effect

To decoupage my favourite rose on the frame

Original look of the photo frame with crack effect

Pail

2010-10-11T01:21:00.000-07:00

Do you all like this pail? Maybe you can use to keep fruits....

The full view of this apple pail. Of course it was not used to collect apple!

Another side of the pail. Like the pail used to collect fruit from the farm .

Look simple and special.

The difficult part of decoupage the whole piece is to get zero wrinkle surface.

Quite an easy job as i just decoupage the whole piece of tissue on it

Final decision on which tissue to use

I painted just small part of this pail as to keep its original rusty look

Originally,a heavy,ugly and old metal pail

glasses case

2010-10-08T01:02:00.000-07:00

Full view of as rosy glasses case for a rose crazy like me

Side view

Now, i love this case so much whenever i take or keep my glasses

Front look- an elegent look as a glasses case

Try to keep it simple with roses at corners

I spray it white

Originally is a blue plastic case

folkart on fry egg

2010-10-05T01:52:00.000-07:00

What do you think of my frying egg ?Look delicious!

I did modify some of the color

Not as easy as I thought

A closer look of the tone of the egg white and egg yolk

I followed En Zahir's book to paint this egg

Before

My folk art on frying egg. Just too lazy to start folk art after some long break.

Metal Tray

2010-10-03T20:42:00.000-07:00

My lovely pony with my lastest decoupage work

The full view of this tray, hope it did not look too messy

Part of my collection at the corner of my home

I decorated the edge with faded green lines by last minutes idea.

I purposely made it a bit mess with flowers, fruit, words and silver pattern.

Well, It turned up to be not as messy as I thought!

This was the combination. I was worried at first as it ended up too complicated or I should keep it simple with only apple design.

I try to combine few patterns of tissue

I painted it white paint with my leftover paint. I don like gesso as it was time consuming to put few layers before well covered the background.

It was originally a rusty metal tray that was abandoned at my store room for sometimes.

Pot

2010-09-27T01:25:00.000-07:00

Another decoupage work on a pot that keep the rusty look of the pot which was more than fifty year old

I spray some brown dot all over the part to made a rusty look

My collection

The tearing effect showed a more natural effect, blended well with the background

Instead of cutting the paper, I prefer tearing as it blended well at the final stage.

Originally an old iron and rusty pot

Sticker Tree

2010-09-20T23:21:00.001-07:00

Another wall sticker of tree that looked simple but elegent look.

Sticker Tree

2010-09-20T23:21:00.000-07:00

Another wall sticker of tree that looked simple but elegent look.

Ballerina

2010-09-16T23:24:00.000-07:00

Sticker of ballerina dancing on my wall. It lived up my day !

wall flower

2010-09-14T23:17:00.000-07:00

Wall flower in red with green background. It lighted up the wall instantly

Sticker -Cat and butterflies

2010-09-13T00:51:00.000-07:00

Easy to apply this sticker on the wall. A very cute picture of cat with butterflies. The wall was instantly turned to focus point.

Tray

2010-08-31T23:28:00.000-07:00

This is a combination of 2 types of tissues, tulip and butterfly

A closer look revealed the words as a background

This is a nice tray with a full picture

I shaded the surrounding with a dartker tone of earth colour

Side view

The two type of tissues used

Preparetion

Original look

Birdhouse

2010-08-24T01:31:00.000-07:00

This was actually an old birdhouse that I repainted to a new look

This time I added flowers and words at the rooftop to create a cosy feel.

The back was decoupaged with sunflowers.

The front part was just decoupaged with words.

The side and back was decoupaged with dogs to create a cute look

The back was decoupaged with sunflowers

The full view of this bird house

Table

2010-08-19T00:51:00.000-07:00

A good place for the cactus to call it home

A good place to display the cactus family

The full view

Then I put it on top of a red bucket to display the cactus

Firstly, I used it as a table for decoration

The full pieceof tissue was laid flat for the decoupage and surrounded by blue checkerbox.

A closer look can reveal the crack and the line of the tissues.

The crack just appeared naturally.

This crack was created accidently when I painted 2 different colors on top.

2010-08-16T00:54:00.000-07:00

Redo my little bird house with the theme of sunflower

I try a different approach by decoupage the sunflower at every corners.

My working place, sit on the stool at the garden.

After the makeover

The back the house showed more sunflower and words

Even I decoupaged word tissue inside the birdhouse

The tissue of word was decoupaged on the roof on the birdhouse

A closer look

From the top view

Teddy tray

2010-08-10T00:47:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite decoupage work as it is lovely and cute

I used 3 pattern of tissue for this work

The edge of tray is vanished by my leftover nail color to highlight it

See, the copper nail color relected a rusty look for this tray

The full view of this lovely teddy tray

I purposely brush the edge unevenly to create a rusty feel.

Even, I shaded lightly around the teddy with the same nail color

The the shaded copper nail color blend well with the teddy picture. Tissue of word is added to fill up the empty space.

A closer look of the edges.

Another view of the edges

Tissue for exchange/sales

2010-08-02T18:38:00.000-07:00

If anyone interested to exchange or purchase, pls contact me : amandalsy@yahoo.com

for category A : RM2 perpiece

for category B : RM1.50 Perpiece

A1(left,yellow tulip) B1(below, red tulip)

A10

container

2010-07-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

The full view of this shabby container

The edge was highted with some gold nail color

The bottom was again decoupaged with some leftover word tissue.

The rop view of the lid.

The top was surrounded with blue and white checkerbox to compliment the lid and container as the initial decal design was to plain for the whole container.

This was actually a rusty container used to keep tea leaf. I painted it white and sticked a decal of rose on it.

Wooden box

2010-07-15T23:50:00.000-07:00

A lovely wooden box that can be used as jewellery box or even the best place to keep my loveyletissues.

I try to keep both edges(top and bottom) empty

The edge of the box. The pink edges was from the tissue itself. I never do any painting at all.

I love this tissue to much that I will keep it as a collection instead to decoupage on anything. I may change my mind if I find something I realy love and match well with this design.

Well, this box can also used to keep tissue or any leftover pieces

Decoupage both sides with roses. Just like the pattern of tissue keep inside the box

Before : Original outlook of a wooden box

red flower

2010-07-12T01:01:00.000-07:00

This pattern was sticked on the side wall. One of my favourite wall sticker

This glass door was not plain anymore.

See from far!

This is taken from the other side of the door. Well, the back of the sticker was white, this monotone pattern was reflected unintentionly and surprisingly well!

Well, the effect turned out to be just nice on the glass door.

This red flower sticker was sticked on glass door by accident as I never expect it to be on the glass, it should be on wall instead.

Tulip

2010-07-05T01:01:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite tulip garden. I still remember I did see a real black tulip before. A real full blossom of tulip garden is impossible seen here due to our hot climate.

A far view of this tulip garden. You will be surprise of the super orange wall with circle sticker on it. I think it is too sharp and outstanding!

This tulip garden is sticked just outside a bathroom. A fresh feel before you have a fresh bath!

A plastic yellow tulip vs red tulip sticker on the wall. Which one do you like? I prefer the real tulip garden. I was speechless when I saw a full groom of tulip garden in Canberra. I fell in love with it immediately!

Sticker-Tree

2010-07-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

Your day will be delighted and welcome by this lovely sticker.

I like the colourful tree and the lovely pair of bird

Would you smile when looking this in washroom?

Look at the birds in the circle ! Seem like welcome you to visit this place.

Beautiful scenary in the washroom

Watering jug

2010-06-30T02:10:00.000-07:00

A lovely watering jug was created. I really like it, so sweet ! Another decoupage work after being 'lazy'/'busy for some times, really have to keep it up!

Full view of it

Part of my work at the corner. See another smaller watering jug just beside the big one

A closer look, quite sweet anyway!

The other side of the jug, I took another angel tissue to add with my favourite rose! Hopefully, not too packed!

This is the top part, don't ask me why i sticked the 'expresso' word as this was the leftover word in my folder

So, I decoupaged the top with small flowers and leaves to keep the overall picture of not too empty!

First part of it, I tried to keep it simple, still worry it looked to plain!

I did hesitate to paint it white or to maintain the rustic look, but lastly I still go with my wish, a more english feel!

This is really an antic watering jug that made of copper, should be older than me!

Birds

2010-06-29T01:08:00.000-07:00

This is a lovely sticker that sticked right just below an air-cond.

See! you feel so breezy under the air-cond.

A sweet and warm home

If you like to keep bird as pet but worry to take care of it, this is the best alternative.

Wall sticker

2010-06-18T00:31:00.000-07:00

A romantic feel

It looks pleasant and comfortable

A nice and neat feel.

This is the initial design. I was bored with this after a year.

Cat wall sticker

2010-06-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

The lastest add-on stickers to brighten up the black and white view

This is a very cute cat wall sticker. I sticked at the garden side wall that matched well with the plant and outdoor scenary.

It seems like the cats are playing happily around my garden.

Is it a good idea to decorate an empty corner/ junk place like this!

It looks so lively and cute!

watering can

2010-06-03T01:37:00.001-07:00

Cute watering can + cute bear

I just decoupage the whole piece of tissue on it

I have a pack of this design. Anyone is welcome to exchange tissue.

The original color of this watering can is red plastic.

wooden container

2010-05-25T01:04:00.000-07:00

Another shabby decoupage work with rose decoration.

This is one of my favourite rose pattern

Another closer look of the front portion with pink line as background

watering can

2010-05-18T01:07:00.000-07:00

China feel of watering can

Decoration with bear

Lid of empty spray can

idea 2 :

more china look

Idea 1:
First project on watering can

Ice box

2010-05-12T00:26:00.000-07:00

This is a combination of 3 types of tissues. The result is out of my expectation, as it resulted a more classic look, as compared to my usual shabby style.

This was an original ice box for ice-cream container

Now, I used this box to keep my favourite tissue

bear

2010-05-05T00:08:00.000-07:00

I drew this bear sometimes ago. I drew it free hand, just want to get a feel of drawing bear. Not as hard as I thougt but I think I need more practice to make it perfect

This was actually a broken small table. I colored it bright and bold

This is my first trial on drawing bear.

Flower pot

2010-04-28T00:57:00.000-07:00

I shaded a side with yellow as the whole pot is too plain with white. Roses tissue was used to decoupage the sorroundding top.

I tried to decoupage the rose to form a sorrouding effect and kept the middle empty. Maybe I might put some word in the future.

The original background is brown, I painted it white. I purpusely painted the backgroud with uneven white. This was to show out the origin background with a faded effect.

Milk tin

2010-04-21T23:56:00.000-07:00

This is the first trial of using wrapping paper for decoupage

I soaked the paper in water before decoupage on the surface.

I used wraping paper to decoupage this time.

Milk Tin

2010-04-15T21:10:00.000-07:00

Full view of this creation. First time, I wrote on the surface with calligraghy pen.

The pens I used for words and draft for word practising

The cover is simple. The words, I need more pracise and patience.

I try to create a shabby look as usual, my favourite

Full view : First time drawing the words

Top view

box

2010-04-13T00:19:00.000-07:00

A modern and lively treasure box

A modern and cute look

Paint the surcace pink and sticked flower decal on it

Old wooden truck for > 30 years

Wooden bench

2010-04-08T00:51:00.000-07:00

A romactic pink purple bench. A nice place to rest before enter the house. Also, a good place to wear your shoes for outing!

The side view of the bench

A closer look

The over view of the bench. A fresh and new look

I tried to keep in minimal with little decal at the corner and centre.

This time, I tried to decorated the bench with decal as I was bored with the white bench after two years especially the white turned dirty and old as it was displayed outside.

I painted it purple pink

It's nice to see from far, but the closer look showed an inexperience work of rose.

This is my brown wooden benach intially. I painted it white and tried my hand on my first folkart drawing on rose.

Car boot tray

2010-03-30T19:22:00.000-07:00

My first attempt to draw a hen on a black plastic tray. It was not as difficult as I thought. But, I believe practice made perfect.

Multifaces of this hen. My kids love it very much. They claimed I should draw a cockerel to pair it up.

I did not trace the picture from the book directly as the size is different. Once again, my laziness prompt me to draw on it by free hand.

Well, I used the tray as an experiment as the background is black, saved my effort for preparation of colour of background. What a good excuse for me !

This is my first attemp to draw a hen, self-learning from En Zahir's latest decorative book.

Rocking horse

2010-03-23T01:19:00.000-07:00

Lovely rocking horse

Full view

Another top view

Side view

From the top

I decided to keep it simple with little decal instead of decoupage

I sticked the rose decal at the corner

I decided to paint it light purple with leftover pain.

The rose decal I use

This rocking horse is originally wooden colour, I painted it white at first

Watering Jug

2010-03-17T23:31:00.000-07:00

A rustic but english watering jug

The original tissue I use, only use 20% of it as I just cut two pots picture

I added sweet and small picture like home sweet home and love

I added words and chop

Side look - I added some birds and flowers

Multi faces of the watering jug

I like the result very much

Looks so sweet for the garden deco

No longer rustic and old face

Old watering jug

2010-03-16T01:07:00.000-07:00

This design is so lovely and sweet. I still have plenty of this tissue. Anyone interested to exchange or for sales RM2.50 pc

Multi faces of the sweet mug

Sweet and nice

Old rusty mug

stool

2010-03-07T22:15:00.000-08:00

Rosy stool for rosy people like me. I keep it simple and leave the centre empty for future idea

Decoupage roses at corner and leg of the stool

New look

old wooden stool

Milk can

2010-03-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

See! the silver pattern matched well with the flower even I decoupaged it freely, here and there.
Anyone interested to buy ? Just RM20 (free postage)

This was a closer look

Sorry, the I tried to capture the natural wave of the silver pattern but it failed due to poor picture taken

But the edge of the silver pattern was shown obvisously after decoupage on the surface ( It was like a cut and paste work ).

An idea struck me at that time, I scracthed out the edge of the silver pattern by finger nail when the tissue was still wet. A natural look of the silver pattern appeared instantly.

I torn the silver pattern tissue by free hand to create a free flow of pattern look.

Now, I discoverd that the silver pattern tissue was not a bad idea to decorate the edge if use at minimum place.

The silver pattern tissue was actually the first batch of tissue i bought long time ago and I abandoned it somewhere as I don't like the pattern as it looks too messy and complicated.

I added some silver pattern as the edge as it looked so empty without it.

This flower tissue blended some well with the milky background. Is this flower called Gerbera ?

It's actually a Enfagrow milk can as I have plenty at home. I painted is white with milky yellow at the edge from some leftover wall paint.

container lid

2010-02-24T19:42:00.000-08:00

I added the edge with gold+silver to make a washy effect. The secret will reveal later.

This is the silver edge. I took all secret weapon color and apply on it, not bad ! The effect is fast and neat.

Besides the normal decoupage rose on the lid, I added some sort like gold effect at the edge. To reveal my secret, I did not use normal color for that. Indeed, I used my leftover NAIL COLOR.

This is the first decoupage project for year 2010. It meant to keep cookies for cny. I did it last minutes as I have been very busy since school opened.

House of Blue Damask's Fabulous February Giveaway of 2010

2010-02-21T19:37:00.000-08:00

House of Blue Damask's Fabulous February Giveaway of 2010

Let's join Iren's february giveaway of 2010. I really admire Irene's work that is very fine and neat, I can feel she really put a lot of time, passion and patience on her work. Moreover, she is such a helpful friend in providing me tips of decoupage work. Thanks Iren!

You can visit her at http://bluedamask.blogspot.com/

wall sticker- toilet

2010-02-10T00:11:00.000-08:00

I have gone a bit crazy of wall sticker. See, I even sticked on the toilet bowl. But, the result is surprisingly satisfactory, what to you think ?

The boring and plain toilet changed to a garden feel toilet.

Is it a good idea to decorated here ? This the last place people will think of to deco here.

You will sure in a good mood in the morning when answer to your nature call here with nice deco

wall sticker- heart

2010-02-02T22:31:00.000-08:00

Good deco for Valentine day

Good way to protect the wall from the kid's hand print around the suis area

This is the way to express your love

Wall sticker-flower/cat

2010-01-28T18:38:00.000-08:00

Stikcer again. Recently, I am a bit crazy of this wall sticker decoration.
Popply flower sticker on the wall

All black cat around the toilet tile. Sure no mouse around here, hihihi

A lovely plant scenary at one of the room

Rainny day wall sticker

2010-01-26T19:47:00.000-08:00

Sweet dream with sweet girly sticker for my sweet girl

A good and fun way to decorated the wall in an easy manner

The room turned lively with this rainny day sticker. Suitable for girl's room.

BEFORE : A plain white wall

wall sticker-bicycle

2010-01-24T23:48:00.000-08:00

Recently, I am busy with decorating wall with sticker. The result is fast and satisfactory.

I wiped the wall before put the sticker on

I sticked this sticker on the wall at the backyard. It was very pleasant to see and is very easy to apply.

Tissue for sale/exchange

2010-01-12T00:29:00.000-08:00

Anyone interested to buy, RM2 for one piece, buy min 2pc free one piece

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Mini clog

2010-01-10T22:47:00.000-08:00

Colorful kid's clog (hand-painted)

I painted the yellow clog and my daughter painted the red clog

Original look

A chinese new year mood with blossom flower!

colorful clog

Nice to wear, nice to see

For my younger daughter, she loves it very much