It seems that every time I need to crochet a flower, I have to Google for the pattern.

I found a blog that shares a few type of flower patterns here : 10 Beautiful Ways to Crochet a Flower.

The fabric lollipop was made exclusively for the hair clip. I have to make it really small to fit on the space of the black felt. Maybe next time I should make it bigger and combine it with a tiny crochet butterfly. What do you think?

Hair Clips – Crocheted Flower and Fabric Lollipop originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on May 11, 2012.

I stocked up some craft books recently and to thank my buyers, I decided to make more bookmarks.

This time, after some major complaint from Hubby that I made the same style of thank you bookmarks, I decided to dig my craft stash and find some new ideas. It’s hard to be really creative and create something different when you are working on a space as small as a bookmark…(well, that’s certainly an invalid excuse for a lazy, old brain!)

Anyway, as I searched deeper in the craft box, I found the lollipop fabric I made a few months ago. After playing around with it on the plain bookmark, I thought it looks nice. I cut the leaves from Prima flower petals..heh!

I love the rose picture taken from graphicsfairy blog – French Roses Postcard. I mistakenly printed it out too big but since I wouldn’t want to waste the printer ink and my acid free paper, I decided to stamp the thank you sentiment and make a big bookmark out of it..heh! Now that I look at the picture, it reminds me of ATC (Artist Trading Card).

You should check out her blog because she has so many wonderful images that you can use for crafting.

The last one shown here is my boring, same old style of bookmark that I have been copying for the previous batch of craft book buyers. Errr..I think the quote that says with age come wisdom does ring a bell. As I celebrated my birthday last month, I did notice the sudden spike of creativity in my right brain..haha!

To all the book buyers, thank you for all your support in making crafting world a nicer place.

Thank You Bookmarks originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on May 9, 2012.

I made this picture frame as a farewell gift to a friend who migrated to Finland in January.

It was done in a basic decoupage technique. The wooden frame from IKEA was painted in Plaid Taffy and then I sealed the strawberry motifs. After that I varnished the whole frame.

For the inside of the frame, I used scrapbook paper and a sentiment sticker. Of course if the person wants to put any picture, the quotation can be removed later.

Basic Decoupage On Picture Frame originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on March 30, 2012.

This came out on 22 March 2012 in Harian Metro. The last of 4 articles.

I made bunga dulang from bunga dip to accompany the box I decoupaged. The item for barang hantaran can be put inside the round box.

Gubahan Bunga Dip Kotak Decoupage originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on March 26, 2012.

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For this particular gubahan coklat for hantaran, I used rose made from daun getah (rubber tree leaves) bought from a supplier. I took out the inner petals to fit in the Ferrero Rocher inside.

It’s now available for sale at RM50 (not inclusive of the chocolate).

If you are interested to buy, please leave comment.

Gubahan Coklat Bunga Daun Getah originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on March 16, 2012.

I bought this Malma frame from IKEA since last year and didn’t do anything with it until recently. This time using the plain color Malma frame, I painted it in Plaid Taffy. After I have decoupaged the surface with the decoupage napkin with pink rose motif I decided to apply Jo Sonja Crackle Medium on top of it.

Once it has started to crackle, I rubbed in Plaid Forest Green. The Crackle Medium used creates a tiny, porcelain like cracks that are quite hard to notice unless you rub in a second contrast color than the surface.

Oh, the wording has been printed on paper, traced on tracing paper then traced again using graphite paper on the frame surface. I colored in with black acrylic paint using a liner brush. Some people prefer to use marker pen for wording but I always color in my wording using acrylic paint. This way I don’t have to worry about the marker ink bleeds when I varnish the finish product.

Overall I was very pleased with the result. The frame has been given to a friend as a gift.

IKEA Malma Frame For Decoupage originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on March 15, 2012.

For those who are interested to try crackle effect, Jo Sonja has 2 different medium for crackle. The one that I used here is Crackle Medium. It’s a one step process which can be applied on top of the finished painting to get a fine crazing effect.

The other medium for crackle needs a topcoat color.

To make sure I can see the effect of the crackle, I rubbed some walnut stain into the cracks. However I think I used too much stain and it made the background color turned very dark (and look ugly) from the original color..huhu!

I think next time I will use acrylic paint in contrasting color (like dark green) with retarder to rub into the cracks instead of using walnut stain. Lesson learned!

Crackled Effect Using Jo Sonja Crackle Medium originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on February 20, 2012.

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For this demo, I used bunga dulang made from red songket to decorate the gubahan hantaran.

Gubahan Hantaran Bunga Songket originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on February 2, 2012.

I’ve bought this wooden box since 2006 but never do anything with it. So during the last long weekend, I decided to try the Jo Sonja Crackle Medium (again!) on the box. After putting a basecoat color, I applied the medium and it started to crack. I then applied walnut stain into the cracks.

I don’t really like the effect of the stain has on the surface as it created such a shabby rustic look. I proceeded with sealing the motif of roses from decoupage napkin. I then traced the wording and color in with black paint.

After I have finished doing all the wordings on the box, I realized that it looks much better plain like this. Well, what can I do, things were done and I have to live with the consequences. After all that’s what experimenting in craft will give you, a lesson to learn..heh!

Decoupage On Wooden Box originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on January 30, 2012.

At last one of the gubahan hantaran I made for the photo shoot last year has been printed in the local newspaper, Harian Metro.

For this particular one, I demonstrated on how to assemble bunga stokin into a set of simple bunga dulang and as an embellishment on top of the mengkuang box.

I didn’t even realize that it has came out on yesterday’s paper until I checked my blog stats. There was a sudden spikes of visitors on both the official website and news blog for Bungatelur.com.

I hope the other 3 sets of gubahan hantaran I made will be chosen to be featured in Harian Metro soon.

Gubahan Bunga Stokin In Harian Metro originally appeared on BungaTelur.Info on January 13, 2012.