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♥ Day 20: Mickey Bells Ornament

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Hey Lovelies!

There are only a few days left to Christmas and I decided to make a small, cute tutorial for today. Let’s not stress too much, right?! It’s gonna be a short and easy one today, but I hope you will like it anyway. Let’s make some Mickey Bells Ornaments.

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Bells in 2 sizes.
♥  A Hot Glue Gun.
♥  Thread.

Now take 1 big bell and 2 smaller ones. Make sure your glue gun is very hot and glue the smaller bells slightly off the middle of the big bell. This way you create ears on the big bell. And Tadah! you have your mickey bell ornament! haha.

Isn’t it cute?! Very easy, but I love how they look in my tree! Show me yours in your tree with the #DelinleaDIY!

Don’t stress to much right before Christmas, enjoy those days of prepping. You will regret it if you don’t!

Love
Danielle

♥ Day 18: Snowflake Clay Ornament

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Hey Lovelies!

It’s time for a new DIY, let’s make some clay snowflakes with a little Tsum Tsum in the middle. I originally planned to make those with a dragon, but there’s no way I have time for that right now! haha But I will make them after Christmas. I just can’t abandon my dragons.

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Air Dry Clay. (Colored is optional)
♥ Acrylic Paint.
♥ Sculpting Tools.
♥ Glitter. (Optional)
♥ Glue. (Optional)

♥ How to make the Ornament

Start with 5 even balls of clay and roll those out into a long, tear drop shape. Flatten widest part a bit and make 2 notches, I used a silicone brush for it. This way you make you snowflake a little bit more interesting! Ofcourse you can make your snowflake however you want.
Now attach the small ends of the tear drop shapes together, evenly spread.

Then make the Tsum Tsum out of clay. I’m not gonna explane how to do that exactly. Tho you make a round shape and add legs. You can add other features too. depends on what Tsum Tsum you wanna make, that’s totally up to you. I chose to make Mickey so I added ears as well.

I made it in white clay, so I will paint it with Acrylics. So I let the clay dry first, painted it and glued it to the middle of the snowflake. But if you don’t have to paint anything or just the eyes, you can stick your Tsum straight to the middle and let it dry that way.

Now it’s time for a bit of decorating. This is totally optional, but fun to do. I added some glitter to the ends of the Snowflake. And added some angel hair behind my Tsum Tsum. it’s give just that little extra sparkle that makes it look finished!

I hope you enjoyed this little DIY and that you will have fun creating you own. Oh! And don’t forget to show yours with the #DelinleaDIY

Love
Danielle

 

♥ Day 14: Tsum Tsum Money Bank

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Hey Lovelies!

A new day a new DIY, are you ready?! Today we will make a Tsum Tsum Money Bank! Even tho it’s not really Christmassy, I thought it would be a cute gift. OR as a new years resolution, to safe money? haha. Use it however you want, it’s cute anyways. Hope you have fun making this one! Oh! And you can ofcourse choose yourself which tsum tsum you wanna make, I chose to make Pua of Moana. ^-^

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Toilet roll tube.
♥ 2 Waterballoons.
♥ Glue.
♥ Acrylic Paint.
♥ Gesso or White Piant.
♥ Black Cardboard.
♥ Air Dry Clay.
♥ Varnish.
♥ Newspaper.
♥ Pencil.
♥ Ruler.
♥ X-acto knive.
♥ Brush.

♥ How to start.

Take the toilet roll tube and measure with a ruler about 5,5cm in length. You can ofcourse make it longer or shorter, just how you want your Tsum Tsum to look like. Now cut it down to the disired length with a X-acto knive. Be careful, don’t cut yourself. (I made made mine 7,5 cm at first so my pics are looking different at the beginning.)
When you have done that, devide the roll in 2 even parts, this is the place where your moneybank will open and close.

Take your waterballoons and blow them up, don’t make them too big cause they need to fit in the toilet roll tube, but make them big enough that it’s sticking out a bit on both sides. This way the balloon will stay in place without any tape. One of these sides, the one without the knot, will be the rounded shape of your tsum tsum.

Now on to the paper maché part, get the glue ready and make small strokes of the newspaper. Glue the strokes on to both parts of the body. Don’t cover the part where the balloon has the knot. That’s the part where the body connects again to make a full tsum tsum. Make about 4/5 layers so it’s strong enough when you remove the balloons after drying. When you are ready let the parts dry over night.

♥ The next day.

Remove the balloons when the are completly dry! Now it’s time to make the opening to put the coins in. I took one part of the body and measured it about 1cm from the edge, then made it about 0,5cm wide and 3cm in length. You can make it bigger or smaller, depending on the coins in your country. Use an X-acto knive to carefully cut the opening. When you have done that, paint the inside black and the outside white with gesso or acrylic paint.

Make from black cardboard a stroke of 1,5cm by 14cm and draw a line in length at 0,5cm from the edge. Glue this in the the part of the body where you made the opening for the coins in. Glue only the 0,5cm part in length. Now you can put the body together.

Make 4 balls out of clay for the legs. And make all other body parts of clay if needed, depends on which tsum tsum you chose. Glue the clay parts to the body and let them dry.

♥ Painting.

Now on to the last part of making the tsum tsum money bank! Let’s paint! Use acrylic paint in the colors you need. If you find it hard to paint the design straight on, draw it on with a pencil first. This way it gets less frustrating. If you want you can also varnish the whole thing when you are done painting. This will protect your tsum.

And I guess we are ready! I hope your Tsum Tsum money bank turned out cute! Let’s hope they safe a lot money for us haha (will they be magical?!) Don’t forget to show yours with the #DelinleaDIY I would love to see yours.

Have a lovely day all!

Love
Danielle

♥ Day 12: Tsum Tsum Clay Ornament

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Hey lovelies!

It’s still snowing outside! OMG I just wanna be outside haha. Snow is just the best thing in the world.
Anyway I made you a Tsum Tsum clay ornament tutorial with a homemade clay recipe, with just 2 ingredients. I love how quick you can make this clay and you can either choose to let it air dry or bake it in the oven. Let’s dive into the tutorial!

For the clay you’ll need:
♥ 1/2 Cup Cornstarch.
♥ 1 Cup Baking Soda.
♥ 3/4 Cup Water.
♥ A Pan.

Further you’ll need:
♥ A pencil.
♥ Paper.
♥ Rolling pin.
♥  X-acto knive.
♥ Straw.
♥ Watercolors.
♥ Black Acrylic
♥ Bakers twine or any other thread.
♥ Brushes.
♥ Baking tray. (optional)
♥ Parchment paper. (optional)

♥ How to make the Clay

For the clay, mix all the ingredients together in a pan. Now cook the mixture over medium heat until it starts to thicken. When it does, remove it from the heat, put it in a bowl and cover it with a damp towel until it’s cool enough to handle. Knead the clay well to be sure you have no lumps or bubbles. Now the clay is ready to use! ^-^

♥ Ornaments

Let’s start making the ornaments! Draw out some line art Tsum Tsum’s on paper, you can use google  for some reference, that’s what I did. When you are happy with how they look, cut them out, and put them aside for now. (you can also print out some line arts from google if you feel to lazy to draw them xD).

Next, roll out the clay on a flat survice with a rolling pin, until it’s about 0,5 cm thick. Don’t roll it out to thin, otherwise the ornaments won’t dry flat. Put the paper Tsum Tsum you just drew on top of it and go along the edges with a x-acto knive. Make as many as you want and put them on a baking tray with some parchment paper. Make some holes with a straw for hanging. Now you can either choose to let the ornaments air dry in a warm place for at least 24 hours. Or you can choose to bake them in the oven, what I did. If so, place them in the middle of the oven and bake them on 80°C for about an hour. When they are 30 min in, make sure to flip them over. And when ready let them completly cool down. They can still be a bit wet, but that will dry over time, don’t worry.

♥ Coloring

Now take your dry, white clay ornaments and draw on your Tsum Tsum face with a pencil. (You can use those drawings you made in the beginning, as reference.) Now you are ready to start coloring them, it’s very easy to use watercolors for this, but don’t use too much water. Well, you will know what’s too much and too little haha. Just have fun and make them as fancy as you want. I just realized you can also put some glitters on there, specially for Christmas!

To make them more neath, take a thin brush or liner brush to make lines with black Acrylic. you can also cover the sides with black acrylics if you like.

Now take about 15cm of bakers twine and put it through the little hole you made before letting them dry. And now hang them wherever you want! I love how mine turned out, they look so cute in the Christmas tree. I guess I will make some more after this countdown. Haha not much time to make more now xD.

I hope you will like this tutorial, and that you will make many! How cute would they be as a gift for someone! Have a nice day lovelies, and don’t forget to share them with #DelinleaDIY.

Love
Danielle

♥ Day 6: Mickey Wreath

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Hey Lovelies!

It’s Mickey Wreath time!! This easy, yet cute wreath is so much fun to make, and quit fast. You can use any color of garlands you want. The good thing with this DIY is that you probably have most materials at home already. So you can start right away! ^-^

Mickey Wreath

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ A Red and a Gold Garland (about 270cm in length).
♥ Wire.
♥ Aluminum foil.
♥ Paper. (optional)
♥ Pencil. (optional)
♥ Hot glue gun and glue.
♥ Something to cut the wire with.

♥ How to make the Wreath

Start with drawing the shape you want, on to a piece of paper (I used 2 sheets of A4 and sticked them together). This template you will use to see if you bend the wire the right way. If you feel comfortable to bend the wire without template, go ahead!
The big circle of my Mickey head is about 20cm in section, to give you an idea how big mine is. Ofcourse you can make yours bigger or smaller.

Mickey Wreath Base

Next you will start bending the wire, if you use a template place these underneath. Just follow the lines and twist the wire where needed (the 1st picture underneath is a small schedule where to start and where to end). To secure the wire where I twisted it, I added some tape, but you can totally skip that.

When you have the shape in wire you will start adding the aluminum foil around it, just add small strokes until you are happy with the thickness. I didn’t add to much, cause you need to keep in mind, that the garland will add to the thickness as well!

 

Now it’s time for the fun part! Wrapping the garlands around the base of wire and aluminum foil. Glue both of the garlands to the back of the base (at our starting point) and start wrapping it around. I did first a part of the big circle and then I did an ear and cutted it off and glued it to the base. Glued the Garlands to the base again and wrapped the rest of the big circle and did the other ear. When everything is covered with Garland you are pretty much done.

Mickey Wreath

The only thing left to do is, make a hook of the left over of the wire at the top of the head. Just bend it down in the middel so you have your hook, add yarn to it and hang it wherever you like in your home! And now, while writing this, I’m like how cute would it look with some light around the wreath as well..hmm..

And a little bonus, I made some small wreath to hang in the tree! Just take 2 pipe cleaners of 30 and twist them together and just like with the wire, bend them in the shape you want and you are ready ^-^

Mickey wreath small

Have a beautiful day everyone!
And don’t forget to show me your work with the #delinleaDIY

Love
Danielle