Printed shirts

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I received an order from a customer to make a birthday card for a teacher. And she requested the card to be made with combination from a couple of my previous designs. For the front design, she wanted a design that is similar to the design I made at the link HERE where I made some origami shirts.

For the inside of the card she wanted the pop up cake from the card I made in this design HERE , but instead of making 27 candles, I was asked to make only 25 of them since the person receiving this card will be 25 years old soon.

I took so much time making this card. Reason.......because the pattern paper I needed was out of stock. So I had to find a replacement for it that matches the blue color of the card. Luckily I found this particular pattern paper and it's the only one I have! No more available....huhu. I made the shirts dark red in color instead of dark blue and it's also because I ran out of the dark blue paper. So again I had to improvise. As long as the colors matches the pattern paper. Everything on the card and inside it has to match the pattern paper.

One thing I'm loving right now is that I printed or shall I say I stamped on the shirts, a pattern that matched the swirling dots pattern on the pattern paper. I didn't stamped the whole area....just at the bottom of the shirt to give it character. I also did the same for the envelope so that it would match the card. In the previous card design there was a lot of heart shapes but she didn't want any in this one so I had to find other patterns to replace the hearts and the stamping was the one that saved the day. :)

The gifts and the balloons inside the card was a request from the customer. She wanted me to add those inside. At first I thought it was not possible because the pop up cake itself was already big, afraid there might not be enough space. Luckily they all fit! :D

Blue origami shirts

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I'm so excited about this! I made another design using origami shirts! And this time I made the tie for the shirts using silver ribbons! Love them! This birthday card was requested from the same customer who ordered the wedding anniversary card. For the birthday card, she wanted the color to be of blue and white as the base color, but I was allowed to add in any other color to decorate it. I have with me some blue pattern paper that matched the soft sky blue card, and it had some lime green and orange combined with it. The pattern paper was a gift from my sweet friend Sandi....I was keeping it for something special and I thought that for this card, the pattern paper matched perfectly! So I used it! The dark checkered blue paper was a gift from her too and I thought it looked really great when matched together. Finally I found one design that can match all of those papers together. I'm so happy about that! :)

Sorry about the white spray paint over the wordings......I was not allowed to show the name of her hubby so that's why it looks like that hehehehe. Anyways, for the wordings on the inside, it's ok coz there aren't any names mentioned there so there was not need to cover it up. She requested a pop up DSLR D90 for the card. So, all I did was printed a big size DSLR D90 and paste it on the pop up. Very easy. I would have made it from scratch but I wanted it to look real, so I printed it instead. I'm so glad that she loved it! Wooohooo! :)

Stamping origami shirts!

I got carried away again playing with the origami shirts hehehhe! Since I don't have pretty patterned papers available to make origami shirts, what I did was I made them using plain thin papers and decorate them with a flower clear stamp! I know it doesn't look like Hawaiian shirts.....because the flowers are nothing at all like the "bunga raya" (Hibiscus) ekekkeke......it's just a simple flower pattern.

The flower clear stamp is one of the clear stamps that I received from my dear friend Sandi Staley. :) I"m having fun stamping using this clear stamp....it's so easy to see where you are stamping on the paper when the block is transparent. You'll know exactly where to stamp your patterns using this clear stamp. And another interesting thing about it is that you can remove the stamp from the block and place it on any position you like on the block again. Cool huh?? 

After stamping them on the origami shirt.....I continued by coloring inside the flowers with  yellow color pencil....and added the green leaves to the flowers using a green color pen. The orange dots were made using an orange color pen. This is just an idea of how you can decorate a simple plain origami shirt. You can decorate it any way you like it with other materials too. Let your creativity out and just have fun with it!! 

Origami dress!

After making letting my fears out and adventuring into the world of origami this week, I've so far only manage to make origami shirts...lots and lots of it hehehe......and so today, I'm doing another origami pattern which is the origami dress! It's the simplest origami dress pattern I've found! I've seen other designers who have done a much more complicated origami dress....with lots of pleats on the skirt but for me as a beginner, I'll try and do the simplest one first and see how it goes from here. :)

Again.....as always, I would google about it and search on Youtube or any other tutorial websites that can give me a demonstration on how to make the origami dress from scratch. For me, it's easier to follow the steps if I look at the live video instead of looking at step by step photos of instructions. Especially if the live video is a good one....with clear visual and instructions.

I don't have a lot of beautiful patterned papers or origami papers or wrapping papers.......I have just a few that would be suitable for me to use for this particular experiment. This particular one that is actually  a leftover from a previous project I did way back when....... for one of my card designs hehehehe. So what I did was, instead of cutting it into a square shape, I cut it into a rectangular shape....specifically A6 size. As you can see from the above photos, I followed the steps according to the video tutorial below......and even though I used a rectangular shape paper, it was still possible to make the origami dress....so it does not have to be specifically a square shape.

Since I used an A6 size paper to make the origami dress, the dress end up looking quite big in size....in fact it almost fill up the pink half A4 size card you see above. So if I wanted it to be smaller, I would have to cut the paper in smaller sizes in order to make the origami dress look smaller and cuter. I didn't decorate it or put any embellishments on it yet. This is just one of my experiments hehehehe. So perhaps later I'll make more origami dresses for me to use for my card designs. I'm really happy I tried this....hopefully I get to try more origami patterns soon! Check out the video tutorial below if you wish to try making one yourself! Have fun! :)

Origami shirt card

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OK! Here it is!! The origami shirt card that I made yesterday! :) I can't believe I made those origami shirts! hehehehe......After practicing it many many times....I finally get to make it look neat enough for me to embellish them on this handmade birthday card. This birthday card is another request I got from the same customer who ordered the quilled flower card that I made recently. She had to wait a long long time before I got her orders done. :(  One thing though that I like about her is that, she always wants me to surprise her with the designs......so she never request for any particular theme for any of the birthday cards she orders from me.....instead I have to figure it out myself and surprise her with new designs :). She accepts any designs.....as long as I custom made them for her. 

My Mom and Aunt couldn't stop laughing when I showed them the origami shirts......they have never seen it before.....and my Aunt thought that the birthday card was meant for a little boy. But I told her, that it was actually meant for an adult man....hehehehe.....I don't know...maybe it's those polka dots that made her think that way? But I kinda like those polka dots hehehehe.....maybe because I've always been doing a lot of stripes before....so I wanted to do something a little different this time. 

For this card.....I made the origami shirts that has sleeves that looks like a real one. You know....the one that can actually put a hand through it...hehehehe......you can have a look at it closely at the top detail photo of the origami shirt above. I made the tie using a stripe wrapping paper. You can also make an origami tie or make a tie using ribbons. I will probably make them for my next card :).

I had a hard time figuring what designs to make for the pop up inside the card.......in the end, I made a blue birthday cake and some gift boxes between it. Very simple...... :)

Origami shirt !

I've been wanting to try making an origami shirt for a long long time already.....in fact, it all started when my friend CC Peyton who was living in Hawaii sent me a handmade card she and her hubby made using handmade paper and a Hawaiian origami shirt she made using wrapping paper. I loved it! I always kept thinking that it was so difficult to make the origami shirt.....never believing that I could make one myself. But ever since I started to experiment on new crafts recently, I thought to myself......why not??? Why not just give it a try. At least try to do something that I actually love having and can use for my handmade cards. :)

So what I did was......I googled about the origami shirt and searched for it on Youtube for video tutorials that would show a clear detail on how to make this origami shirt. After watching dozens of tutorials on Youtube....I realised that there are not only one type of instructions on how to make the origami shirt.....there are quite a few of them!!! Gosh!! That's when I got confused on which one I would like to try out. At first I tried the simplest one......then I tried the ones that are a little bit complicated. Then in the end....I chose the ones that would suit my taste and would actually look nice on a handmade card. I wanted to share the video tutorials I love best here that shows two types of origami shirts.

The first video shows how to make an origami shirt with the sleeves folded at the end of it. It looked pretty cool that way :). The second video shows how to make the sleeves look like the real sleeves on a real shirt. It has a passage where the arms can go through. So I fancy both of these origami shirts, because of the sleeves. The other videos I checked had sleeves that were pretty common and nothing special to it. You can check it yourself on Youtube. I also have this PDF link that shows step by step instructions on how to make the origami shirt. Check it out HERE.
  
I've made a card and embellished it with origami shirts yesterday. I will be posting an entry about it soon!! :). In the mean time...do enjoy the video tutorials! Have fun making origami shirts ya! ;)