Tutorial : DIY Photobooth Props (with video)

 DIY PHOTOBOOTH PROPS

Hi everyone!! Guess what? I'm going to UK! For a WHOLE MONTH!
Better yet, it's PURELY HOLIDAY! 

Anyways, before I go, I'd like to share something crafty with you!
Couple of weeks back (or maybe a month), I was asked to make some photobooth props for a birthday party!

I rarely do paper-related crafts, but I thought why not? Let's whip up a tutorial with that! And so I did. Here's a few of the things I've made, and then you can watch the video to learn how to make your very own!

You can do any designs you want for your photobooth props. It's fairly simple to make. 

What is needed :
1) A printer / printed designs of your liking

2) Wooden sticks/Satay sticks

3) Scissors

4) Hot Glue / Super Glue

5) Glue

And that's it! Watch my tutorial here!

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Watercolour Pencils : Purplish Pink Girl

 Hello everyone! If you've been following my instagram, you've already seen this piece. In fact, you've probably seen most my pieces before they appear in my blog. Whoops!

Anyways, this is my first proper piece of work using watercolour colour pencils. I came across a similar picture on instagram once, and just thought to try it out. I can't remember which user it was from though. However, she did a much much better work than I (I believe she used watercolour itself rather than watercolour pencils.)

 I did the drawing with pencil first, and lighting it by dabbing the eraser. I tried painting the putple and blue and it looked kinda alien-like-creepy with the bright pink around the eyes.

It get's better though. Promise! Here's half her face.

 I started filling in the flowers and gave more colours to the face. Each time hoping it'll turn out prettier.

 I darkened the sides of the petals and blended them in with water.

 I made the upper lips purple and the bottom lips blue. Think they look alright.

  I quite like this half-faced photo.

The end result :

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Using Watercolour Colour Pencils

Hello! I've started using watercolour colour pencils and this is my second work. I was quite pleased with my first, but am really really happy with my second.

 I tried them first on a few strands of hair. They looked pretty good, so I continued.
I used yellow, orange, light brown and dark brown for each strand but with a different amount of each colour in them which gives them the different dark and light tones. After colouring each strand, I used a brush to lightly paint the water over and blend the colours.

 Felt like I took forever to finish the hair. I did them strand by strand. No cheating!

  Then I used the same method for the roses. Once again, petal by petal. I used white, light pink and a purplish pink.

 Loving the colours! Even the unfinished piece looks good.

 I was quite scared to colour in her lips. I used red, pink, white.

And I finished up with the skin and the eyes and eyebrows.

Beige and brown was used for the skin, it gives off a light yellow when water is added. I darkened the eyes with dark brown, it turned reddish when I added water, so I just redrew it when it dries and left it as it is. I did a light brown for the eyebrows. 

That's all!

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The Three Jellyfish

 Hey everyone! I've been browsing a lot of artsy instagram accounts lately, and saw some really nice drawings and watercolour works and tons of other super awesome stuff! 

So, I decided to buy these watercolour colour pencils. Those kind where you can draw and then add water. I wanted to buy the watercolour watercolour, but decided why not two in one?

Here's what I did.

 Did a light base, starting with the jellyfish's bell, then the tentacles. And added more colours after.

 The second jellyfish is a mix of blue and purple.

 and the third jellyfish is green, blue and purple! I love how the colours turned out. I added some darker strips of tentacles and loved the results. Which one's your favourite? 

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