Back to School Origami Book Corners

It's weekend! For today's Graphic 45 blogpost, I'm sharing something a little simple, with practicality - origami book corners. While bookmarks are quite common, it can be quite interesting to do something a little different. 

Over here I'm showing you how to create these simple book corners that you can even get your kids to get involve. Let them make their very own book corners and I'm sure this will be a good bonding session with your children.

Enjoy! Happy crafting!

A Lovely Romantic Death

Allow me to present something a little off, perhaps quite dark to some. My youngest sister has been swearing on the kind of work I've been doing up lately just because she suddenly finds me too morbid and depressing. Haha... As I promised that I'm still in my most right sense of mind, I'm just trying to bring some sweetness out from the very dark - a lovely death...

I was on the papers one fine afternoon, a wedding picture featuring a couple using coffin as part of their wedding photography concept caught my attention. They are undertakers by profession. But hell, I love this very cool idea despite of it's morbidity! With my admiration of Tim Burton's melancholic fantasies, I started to have this wild idea of doing up a skeleton wedding couple. 

This piece is available for sale HERE...

Who doesn't want to die romantically with your loved one? I bet most of us want that. Till Death Do Us Part. To be able to be embraced as such till point of death is seriously the most romantic thing to do, even we ended up as pack of bones. But how many of us are actually blessed like this? I wish and am always fantasying in my lala-land...

A pledge of love, stands firmly above. Coffins are not that bad. While it's only natural for most homo sapiens to take it negatively, I just want to dismiss this morbid notion by injecting love. Not trying to encourage death and lead a tragic love life like Romeo and Juliet, but to show the other side of how love can withstand death. 

A coffin bed with a bed of roses. Life is not always a bed of roses, but it's definitely beautiful the way it is. The real essence of true love is always evident when both is able to go through thick and thin together on all circumstances. That's definitely the most beautiful thing of all.

Supplies List

• Tiny Little Coffin Boxes – Decayed Collage Sheet
• Tiny Little Coffin Boxes - Newer Collage Sheet
• Paper Mache Coffin Box
• Clockworks Laser-Cut Wood Embellishments
• Wood Skull Cut-Out 
• Plastic Skeletons
• Acrylic Top Hat 
• Jeweled Oval pendant Frame
• Die-Cut Chipboard Clock Hands Set
• Black Mini Paper Blooms
• Half-Round Dresden – Black
• Thin Looped Dresden Borders – Black 
• 19mm Fancy Metal Drawer Pull/Box Feet
• Rosary Chain – Jet 
• Mixed Silver Filigrees
• Silver Stickles
• Tim Holtz Flourish Stencil 
• Gilder’s Paste – Silver
• Molding Paste 
• White Gesso
• E6000
• Graphic 45 Mon Amour 8” x 8” Paper Pad 
• ScrapFX Chippies (Chain Corner Collage, Mini Cogs, Micro Cogs, Steampunk Heart, Mini Alphabets) 
• Mixed Media (Shimmerz Paints, Clear Snap Smooch Pearlized Ink Accents) 
• I Am Roses 2 tone black/white mini roses 
• Own Stash – Wooden Box Frame, Black Satin Ribbon, Black & White Tulle, Prima White Mulberry Mini Petals, Rhinestone Crystals, Off-White & Black Wool (skeleton bride’s hair)

A Fairy Door...

On today's blog post with Graphic 45, I'm sharing this cute little fairy door which I built from scratch... When Graphic 45 announced a re-release of Once Upon a Springtime for the Winter CHA, I was super excited!!! Always wanted to build something fairy-tale like and the moment I received the sample pack last year, without a second though I went ahead and build a fairy door!!! 

This door was built and designed to be mounted on the wall or even at one corner of the house... It's a mini door within a door, with a fairy prayer right at the front door... As you open the door, what you can find inside are many various fairies treasures such as pixie dust, butterflies, wings, etc... 

Keep Calm and Dance On

Altering a mobile case is probably one of the most practical projects. And it can be easily accomplished by using various elements. ScrapFX has a huge range of chippes which I find them interestingly very easy to use. Over here, I altered a plain plastic mobile case into a dance theme mobile case using the various mixed media goodies by Shimmerz Paints and the various dance and music theme chippies from ScrapFX...

I started by giving the surface a good prime with generous amount of Gesso prior to misting. Love contrasting colours! I created a gradual blue background filled with musical notes and contemporary dancers, and placed the message right at the centre. This makes it stand out. As it meant for a daily necessity for a mobile phone, I decided not to build up the design too much and sealed it with 3 layers of PU varnish so that the colours won't run that fast...

This makes a great gift for any dancers and this mobile case is available HERE for sale in my Etsy store...

List of Supplies:

• Gesso
• PU Varnish
• ScrapFX Chippes (Contemporary Dancers, Keep Calm and Dance On, Record; Life is a Song)
• Shimmerz Paints (Coloringz - Heidi Ho Blue, Well Blue Me Down, Spritz - Rock-a-fella Blue, Dazzelerz - Sea U in the Mornin', Creameez - Ride the Tide, Inklingz - Sheer Bliss)

Dr. Drake's Lab Oratory

During my entire collage years, while struggling hard to complete my Bachelor of Science, I was once very fascinated on the various colourful chemical reactions in the Chemistry Lab. One ultra boring subject - Inorganic Chemistry was one of my most hated modules. Yet making crystals and forming beautiful chemical reactions were one of my most look-forward Lab sessions. That was the only "colourful" hands-ons I could ever get throughout my entire Biomedical course. Haha! I just couldn't get enough of such hands-ons, just for the sake of viewing colourful chemical reactions. I think I can literally burn the whole Lab down if I wanna go crazy. My Prof would probably bar me from the Lab and fail me!

After I graduated and started to work in R&D, I never became a Chemist and was working on boring colourless, tasteless biological stuffs. Proteins, Bacteria and Viruses became my most best friends and they stinks! You bet on the kind of food e.coli eat, they smell and vomit proteins. Mind you, some of the drugs you are probably taking are spilled by these creatures. Oops! Not meant to freak you out, but some of them are just too good in making such stuffs and Scientists love them deeply. And could you imagine, I was making them vomiting proteins almost every week! 

This piece is available for sale HERE...

Alright I digress... So out of inspiration with my little Chemistry knowledge, I decided to build an interesting Lab Oratory owned by this freakish Professor, Dr. Drake for Graphic 45, Alpha Stamps and ScrapFX. It's a little Lab Chapel where he concocted all of his finest herbal and insects poisons. Beware as you enter his Lab and don’t get too freaked out by the huge Exhibit A entrance! He has most of the deadliest delights, charms, potions, herbs and notions you could ever think of. 

As you tour around his Lab, you will be amazed by this gigantic Sands of Time in his movable herb garden. Flip to see how those minute orange sand falls to time; a therapeutic way to keep your mind off. Beware! Evil hypnosis will take place when you stare of it too much. Before you could realize it, your brain will be hijacked!

Indeed a little freakish Lab Chapel! The Exhibit A speaks it all! Who would place such a display to freak people out? You bet, that's Dr. Drake...

Supplies List

• Secret Spell Book Part One Collage Sheet 
• Tiny Magic Books & Potions Labels Collage Sheet
• More Witchy Potion Labels Collage Sheet
• Tiny Little Books Collage Sheet
• ATC Book Box
• Graphic 45 Rare Oddities 8” x 8”Paper Pad
• Graphic 45 Rare Oddities  6” x 6” Patterns & Solids
• Metal Door Pull – Antique Brass 
• Antique 3D Gold Crown
• Halloween 3D Skull Cameo
• Small Hinged Tin
• Blank Altoids Tin
• Amber Resin Potions Bottles 
• Ghoulish Green Mini Resin Jars 
• Green Resin Perfume Bottle 
• Mini Clear Resin Whisky Bottle 
• 1½” Glass Bottles 
• Tiny Round Bottles
• Amber Even Tinier Bottles
• Wooden Doll Stand
• Pumpkin Pods 
• Large White Turquoise Skull Beads
• Tiny White Turquoise Skill Beads
• Round Antique Broze Filigree
• Funky Bronze Scissors Charm 
• Hourglass Charm 
• Acrylic Die – Pre-Drilled in Black  
• Clock Face Buttons
• 12mm Glass Cat Eyes 
• Small Ceramic Horned Owl
• Tiny Green Leaf Garland
• 10mm Clear Glass Marbles 
• 5/8” Bronze Skull & Bones Charms 
• DIY Tine Bottle Stoppers Mix
• Bronze Pentagram Charms 
• DIY Potion Bottles Bead Mix 
• Set of Miniature Books 
• Word Bands – Observations  
• Tim Holtz Gothic Stencil
• ScrapFX Chippies (Clockface, Steampunk Frame, Mini Feathered Wings, Mini Alphabets, Baroque Frame, Flourish Diamond Mini)
• Gina’s Design Steampunk Dollies (black) 
• Mixed Media (Shimmerz Paints, Clearsnap Smooch Pearlized Ink Accents) 
• Own Stash – hourglass, twigs, miniature wood pieces