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♥ 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 13: Goofy Tsum Tsum Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies!

It’s day 13 and that means we are half way through the Countdown! And this day we will make Goofy Tsum Tsum with his cute little hat!

So for this DIY you will need:
♥  Yarn: in the colors White, Black, Beige, Red and Green.
♥  Cloud Yarn in white (optional).
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Fiber fill.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Embroidery needle with Black thread or black felt.
♥  Scissors.

Stitches used:
SC = Single Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

♥ Pattern:

Body:
Start with White.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc) 2 times, 3SC, (1SC White and 1SC Black in the same st) Change back to White, (3SC, inc)3 times. [30]
6: (4SC, inc) 2 times, 3SC, change to Black, 1SC, inc, 1SC, Change back to White, 3SC, inc, (4SC, inc) 2 times. [36]
Change to Black.
7: SC in each st around. [42]
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14: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to White Cloud Yarn.
15: SC in each st around. [42]
16: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to Red
17: SC in each st around. [42]
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29: SC in each st around. [42]
30: (5SC, dec), 6 times. [36]
31: (4SC, dec), 6 times. [30]
32: (3SC, dec), 6 times. [24]
33: (2SC, dec), 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
34: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12]
35: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Snout:
In Beige, you won’t work in continues rounds.

1: Ch7, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 5SC, 3SC in the next st, 4SC, inc, slst in the first st. [14]
2: Ch1, inc, 4SC, inc 3 times, 4SC, inc 2 times, slst in the first st. [20]
3: Ch1, 20SC [20]
4: Ch1, 20SC [20]
Fasten off, leave long tail for sewing. Stuff the snout lightly.

Legs: (4)
Make 2 in Black and 2 in White.

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: Inc in each st around. [8]
3: SC in each st around. [8]
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5: SC in each st around. [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. You don’t have to stuff the legs.

Ears: (2)
In black.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (3SC, inc), 3 times. [15]
4: SC in each st around. [15]
|
6: SC in each st around. [15]
7: (3SC, dec), 3times. [12]
8: SC in each st around. [12]
9: SC in each st around. [12]
10: (2SC, dec), 3 times. [9]
11: SC in each st around. [9]
16: SC in each st around. [9]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing. Stuff the ears lightly.

Hat:
Start with Red.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: Work in Back Loops only, SC in each st around. [24]
6: SC in each st around. [24]
7: SC in each st around. [24]
8: (6SC, dec), 3 times. [21]
9: SC in eacht st around. [21]
10: (5SC, dec), 3 times. [18]
11: SC in each st around. [18]
Change to Green.
12: (4SC, dec) 3 times. [15]
13: SC in each st around. [15]
Change to Red.
14: Work in Front loops only, (1SC, inc), 7 times, 1SC [22]
15: (2SC, inc), 6 times, 4SC [28]
Fasten of and leave long tail for sewing, stuff his hat slightly.

♥ Assembling:

To make sure you sew all parts in the right place, you can use some sewing pins to position them. When you are happy with the position, you can sew them on.
Sew the legs on to the bottom of the body, the front legs are pointing to the front. The back legs are pointing to the side.
His snout you will sew on covering the lower part of the white, which you used for the face. this way you create the shape of the eyes.
Sew his ears to the sides of his head. And sew  his hat on top of his head, slightly to the side
For the eyes and nose you can either choose to use felt or you can embroider them on. I chose to embroider them on, cause yeah why choose the easy way haha. But which way you choose, Goofy will look cute.

I had fun making Goofy, and I hope you had to! Don’t forget to show your with the #DelinleaDIY
Have fun and Good luck~

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 11: Winnie the Pooh Tsum Tsum Amigurumi

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Hey lovelies!!

While writing this blog, it’s snowing outside! It’s so pretty! I wanna go out! haha, so, I’m a little bit distacted.
Snow is the thing I look forward to all year, the white world that becomes so quiet is just so wonderful. I can enjoy it every minute. And when you have been outside for hours, walking and making pictures, coming inside and make hot Chocolate. to enjoy the snow falling from inside. And when I’m warm again I go out again until I’m so tired I can’t stand on my legs anymore haha.

Okay back to my countdown, it’s day 11 and Winnie the Pooh’s turn! one of my favorite shows to watch on television~! I have so many good memories of him! Do you have any special memories with Disney characters?!

Anyway on to the DIY.

For this DIY you will need:
♥  Yarn: in the colors Yellow, Red and Green.
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Fiber fill.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Embroidery needle with brown thread or brown felt.
♥  Scissors.

Stitches used:
SC = Single Crochet.
DC= Double Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

♥ Pattern:

Body:
Start with Yellow.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc), 6 times. [30]
6: (4SC, inc), 6 times. [36]
7: (5SC, inc), 6 times. [42]
8: SC in each st around. [42]
|
14: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to red.
15: SC in each st around. [42]
16: SC in back loops only, in each st around. [42]
17: SC in each st around. [42]
|
26: SC in each st around. [42]
Change back to yellow.
27: SC in back loops only, in each st around. [42]
28: SC in each st around. [42]
29: SC in each st around. [42]
30: (5SC, dec), 6 times. [36]
31: (4SC, dec), 6 times. [30]
32: (3SC, dec), 6 times. [24]
33: (2SC, dec), 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
34: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12]
35: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Now at row 16 and 27 you worked in the back loops only. Join now, with red in the front loops, and crochet 42SC around. [42]

Legs: (4)
In Yellow.

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: Inc in each st around. [8]
3: SC in each st around. [8]
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5: SC in each st around. [8]

Ears: (2)
In Yellow.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in eache st around. [12]
3: (3SC, inc), 3 times. [15]
4: SC in each st around. [15]
5: (1SC, dec), 5 times. [10]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Shawl:
In Green.

1: Chain 7, insert in the 3rd CH from hook, 5DC, turn.
2: CH2 (this counts as the first DC), insert in 2nd st, 4DC [5]
Repeat row 2 until you are happy with the length to tie it around his neck.
Fasten off and weave in tails.

♥ Assembling:

To make sure you sew all parts in the right place, you can use some sewing pins to position them. When you are happy with the position, you can sew them on.
Sew the legs on to the bottom of the body, the front legs are pointing to the front. The back legs are pointing to the side.
Flatten his ears and sew them on top of his head, slightly to the side.
Tie his shawl around his neck, I left is loose but you can choose to sew it to the body.
For the eyes, nose and other detaul you can either choose to use felt or you can embroider them on. I chose to embroider them on, cause yeah why choose the easy way haha. But which way you choose, Pooh will look cute.

I hope your Pooh bear turned out cute as well. I will run, to go out again and enjoy the snow while it’s here haha. Enjoy the rest of your day!
And don’t forget to share yours with the #DelinleaDIY

Love Danielle

 

 

 

♥ Day 10: Tinkerbell Paper Decoration

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Hey lovelies!

Today it’s time for another DIY! How is it going by you so far?! Enjoying my crafts?!
Anyway, since I love paper so much, I thought why not make some decoration. I chose to draw out Tinkerbell on a present, and devide her in little parts, so you get a 3D effect, kinda. Let’s just start the tutorial, so it get a bit more clear!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Cardstock in the colors Green, Red, White, Yellow, Blue and Beige.
♥ These templates.
♥ Soft Pastel. (optional)
♥ (Colored) Pencils
♥ Scissors.
♥ Glue.
♥ Things to decorate, like glitter, gelpen, etc. (optional).

Start of with downloading these templates, you can either choose to print them out, or trace them from your screen. Then copy all the little parts from template 2 and 3 onto the cardstock, every part on the right color. The numbers show which part goes where so you can easily pick your colors for you creation. You can always choose to change colors if you want to ^-^.
When you are done tracing all the parts, you can cut them out.

If you are ready with cutting all the parts out, you can choose to make the edges of the paper darker or lighter with some Soft Pastel (or you can use colored pencil, but that makes it a little harder). What I did is go along the edge with the pastel stick and rubbed it with my fingers. (but if you don’t like to get dirty fingers use a tissue or something like that). To do this you create a bit more depth in the end result.

When all the parts are done, you can start gluing all the parts together. Use template 1 as a guidance. This way you almost can’t mess up. and when you are ready draw on her eyes, mouth and nose.

Now it’s time for the fun part, decorating! This is totally optional to do, but I had so much. I drew little snowflakes on the present and use glitter glue for her wings and dress. It gives just that little extra.

I hope you had fun making Tinkerbell! I know I had, cause I needed a small break from all the crocheting xD.
Don’t forget to show me yours with the #DelinleaDIY

Love
Danielle