Happy Bee-day!

So my mother LOVES bees, she was really an owl person but said they were too in xD oh mum~ anyway, I decided I was going to make a birthday card for her <3 so here is the tutorial, just in case someone you know LOVES bees~

First off, I used the following things~

• White, purple and yellow paper
• A pencil and eraser
• A black permanent marker
• Scissors and glue 

This is one of the simplest lists ever! Anyway, first off, fold the purple paper in half!

Now, get the yellow and white paper and cut the following shapes out...

Now, glue them on the card, write "happy bee-day" and draw on the bee.

Next, write inside of the card~

Now, you are done! I know, already! So quick!

I hope you enjoyed this adorable and quick tutorial~ look out for more! See you!

"Wandering Soot" Bookmark!

So I decided that for something different, since I'll be making Xmas art, I would make a Ghibli inspired bookmark! It is only the wandering soot, sorry, but feel free to do anything with your bookmark~ also sorry about image quality in advance, I took the photos with my phone and not the camera this time so they are a teeny but worse!

So what you will need is...

• Paper (any colour, really, I used white)
• Scissors (to cut out the bookmark)
• Black and white paint (I used watercolours)
• Paintbrushes and water 
• Newspaper (optional, underneath the bookmark)
• Paper towel
• Permanent markers (or just coloured textas, either way~)
• Anddd finally a lining pen! (or a normal black pen!) 
• You can also bring in another colour watercolour for background if you want <3

So to start off, thank you for being patient, I am going to be posting probably 3 tutorials (definitely 2!) and then I will make my other ones in advance and we will go from there!

So first things first, you'll want to get your white paper and make a lil' fold to make a bookmark rectangle (thin but still a good size).

About this size, A4 paper too!

Then what you'll need to do is cut that piece off and sit it on top of the newspaper, so then no paint ruins whatever you are working on! (I didn't cuz I'm lazy and working on a wood table, all good man)

Now that you have completed that, paint on a thin layer of water only and quickly after doing that, dab little dots of black, these will be the soots. Don't fret about them branching out weirdly, just swirl a circle over them, should look fine after that!

Next, pat the bookmark dry with the paper towel and wait a minute for it to dry more. After I did this, I added the background colour and dried it again. I used blue~

Then, put on some little white ovals for eyes~ Their eyes vary, so if you make a mistake, it shouldn't matter too much.

All dry!

Lil' eyes!!

Now that you have done that, wait a little longer to dry the eyes and draw on some pupils and arms!

Some of my little soots are turned around, so don't mind the lack of eyes!

Now, add the stars. I used 3 basic colours, green, yellow and pink (my friend told me those are bascially the colours of them, and its true, they don't have many colours). I drew actual 5 point stars and just added more points!

After adding the stars, line them and then you are done! Feel free to punch a hole in the top to add a ribbon or even to laminate the bookmark, make it all fancy~ I, though, am lazy and will let it be a normal sheet of paper.

I hope you enjoyed this, please look out for more to come~ see you~

My list of many things to come~

Hey guys~ I made a list today and named a lot of things I was planning on doing~ I'll try to keep as up to date as possible on the list, since a lot of the stuff has to do with X-Mas, but in these next coming weeks, I'm going to be busier than normal. So, I will try to keep up as much as possibleeeee <3

First thing on the list is an idea I came up with on my own, but was inspired by a friend since she's doing an adorable lil' canvas and ah.. anyway, the "wandering soot" from Spirited Away will be the main subject for the next cute thing~~

I hope you look forward to more~ Thank you for your patience <3

A Partially Cute Splicer Mask - Cat~

So above is the mask on a splicer in game~ I really like the masks and was like "hey, let's make one!" so here we go~

First off, I bought a cat shaped mask from Spotlight and cut out the "missing area" on the mask, I also added my own ribbon and did not include the whiskers, all of this will make sense in the future..

Ok, so to start you will need:

• Gold paint
• White paint
• A pencil
• Scissors
• Ribbon (or the handles off a gift bag)
• A cat shaped mask (or you can be extra crafty and cut cat ear shapes from a normal mask~
• OPTIONAL - Black paint (inside the mask) 
• OPTIONAL - Whiskers/ wire (wire as whiskers)
• OPTIONAL - Fake blood/ red paint (if you wanna be a bloody splicer hehe)

Use this for referral if you need!

 This is all pretty easy to obtain and very cheap too. I'm sick of looking at tutorials that name items I can't even begin to fathom. Anyway, on with the tutorial!

First off, you will need to take off any price sticker that may be present on the mask, I had to do this, so you might have to.

Then, apply a coat of white paint to the front of the mask. When this coat has dried, add a few more until it reaches your desirable whiteness. If you are going to make the mask seem older or more used, you can also distress the paint by disrupting the drying! (I had fun with this)

Next, after making it all nice and white, take your pencil and mark out some very nice swirls. For this step, refer to basically any picture of a splicer mask and try to mimic the swirls. They are normally at the top of the mask, over and under the eyes and the cheeks and ears.

After marking them out, paint with the gold paint, try to stay in the lines, it isn't that necessary though. If you do go out of the lines, you can apply more white paint when it is dry.

After reaching the desired look, you may want to cut out chunks of the mask, to make it look more worn. OPTIONAL - after completing this step, you may want to apply blood splatters. You can either plan or go Jackson Pollock on it!

Now, add the ribbon and try the mask on! Isn't it cool? You made this, show it off~

OPTIONAL - after doing all of the above, you can paint the inside of the mask black, this may make it look classier~ Also, you can add the whiskers too!

With the black it looks classy!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and made the mask~ I hope it looks great! Look out for more posts and keep bein cute!

 

What it should look like when completed <3

 

 

Splicer Mask Coming Soon!!

So, Bioshock is my fave thing in the whole world and I saw a cat shaped mask in Spotlight and thought, "why not?" So! I will be posting instructions on how to make it very soonnn~! Woo!

Shiro's Crown - Instructions

 So I have just finished Shiro's crown, of course it could have a few more tweaks, but the main idea and the main look are done. So, as I promised, here are the instructions on how to make this lovely cosplay item~ doesn't even have to be cosplay, can just sit there or you could wear it to a party!

 First off, here is what you'll need:

• A medium square of foam (I bought mine from a store called Daiso, it was very cheap~)
• Paintbrushes (probably a medium and a small) 
• Paint (gold, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white and silver)
• Ruler (30cm is recommended)
• Pencil
• Scissors
• PVA glue
• Newspapers (to put under the painting area, silly)
• Tape (packing tape is recommended)

 So, here is the method~
 First off, I drew diamonds with diamonds on them, that's very confusing but you'll understand with the next picture. I don't have any actual measurements because I traced the first diamond shape from a prototype I had, so as long as you don't make them huge, it should be fine.

 See the above diamond on diamond shape? You'll need to make 6 of those, feel free to place the cut out shape on the other foam to make them all the same shape.
 Next, you'll be making the little gems that go on the sides of the crown, they're pretty simple to make, just draw a little diamond and then another one that is way tinier than the other diamond. Make 6 of the large diamonds and 2 of the smaller diamonds.

 Then draw on a pattern like the one above, this is like a painting guideline.

 This is optional but pretty helpful, on the back you may write which colours these pieces are going to be. B is blue, P is purple, G is green and the 2 tiny diamonds will be silver.

 Paint them like this, the left sides are lighter, but still different shades and the right sides are darker, still both different shades. The middle diamond should be the original colour of the paint, green is probably the best example of this.
 

 The top left square is the lightest, the one below is is second lightest, the middle is the original colour, the top right is slighter darker than the original and then the bottom right is the darkest. This way it looks, well, cuter and more cartoon-like, it also gives the diamond depth and shaping.
 Now, set them aside to dry and start painting the actual crown pieces. You should need gold and yellow paint for this, make them into a nice mix. The end result should look almost mustard.

 If you want to tweak the colour, that's fine too.

 Also remember to paint the sides of the diamonds!
 Now, leave them to dry, too. Later, you can paint the other side or add a few more coats on, just so it looks its best. Grab your lil diamonds and apply some clear nail polish to them, this will give them more of a shine and make them prettier~

This is the original shine, almost matte.

This is the shiny version! Very pretty~

 Now that you have applied the coat of nail polish (one is probably enough, unless you want more), set them aside to dry, which should be quick, and start lining up the crown pieces.

Don't mind why it is pink, this was an early picture of the pieces. Line them up like this~

Again, early picture, but later, put the gems on like this.

 In the above picture, the order of the gems are blue, purple, purple surrounded by silver, purple, blue, green.
 Anyway, line the pieces up like above and then continue to tape them together, you may need a few layers of tape, and even the PVA glue (the glue isn't just for attaching the diamonds on~) to keep all the pieces together.

 Sticky tape them all like the above picture. I used packing tape because it was probably better than masking tape, so if you can, please try to get packing tape, it is way stronger than normal tape.
 After you have taped them all together and applied some glue in the cracks (not really cracks, just places where nothing is, most likely between the pieces, you'll find this when you fold around the pieces to make the crown shape) leave the crown to dry, yet again, because of the glue. I left mine to dry for a few hours but in the morning anyway, it was perfectly dry.

 This should be your end result! If you enjoyed this or have any questions or just anything to say, feel free to share and comment, and if you have any suggestions for new things to do, feel free to suggest~ Have a good day~

A Cute and Easy Bow to Make!

So I was scrolling on Pinterest and I found this adorable bow, basically how to make it, and it is just so easy and so cute to do so it could be very fun to make~ you could put it on a book, in your hair, anywhere! Anyway, here is the picture, it was not originally made my be, unfortunately.. Anyway, enjoy!

Very cute and very easy~

Shiro's Crown - No Game No Life

In the next couple of days, probably tomorrow, I shall be posting a step by step instructional on how to make Shiro's crown from No Game No Life~ it is made out of easy to obtain items and doesn't take too long, I already started this afternoon and am almost done!

Shiro!

Blippo Store; A Kawaii Japanese Shop!

I am not sponsored by these people but would like to recommend them anyway, they have so much kawaii stuff to see and to buy, most of their stuff is cheap and they frequently have sales! You can find them here! It will open in a new window, sorry, but if you don't like new windows, the website is www.blippo.com~ Blippo has many things to offer such as magazines, clothes, pencil cases and more! They also have boxes that get delivered to you, including the Kawaii Box or the new Candy Box. I will include photos of some things they have!

They stock Blythe dolls~

They also stock adorable pencil cases!

And little DIY kits!

Welcome to The Kawaii Japan DIY Blog!

In this blog you will be able to find just about anything to do with kawaii stuff! Sometimes a few Korean items may slip in but that's just fine~ as long as something is kawaii, you'll be able to find it here!! <3 Keep cute!