how to give your camera a pretty wooden look

The very first DIY that I wrote was about customizing your phone with some contact paper. I still had some of that pretty wood printed contact paper waiting to be used. When I saw this camera on pinterest I thought "omg that's so pretty!" and then I thought "hey I can make that too" and than I discovered that the pretty pinterest camera was a craft by someone. Anyway, If you have a camera at home that can use a little makeover you should totally try this. And its not permanent at all you can just remove it, but it stays on pretty well if you do like it. Lets get started!

overlays

Yesterday the great news that the option to make your own overlays is free again on Picmonkey. This is my favorite option, with a little creativity you can make really cool effects, such as galaxy hair. so I was quite happy about it. if you want to know how I did it take a look at this tutorial.

-DIY- double, triple and multiply exposure

I have allways been amazed by the awesome effect double exposure gives. Originally this effect is achieved by exposing one film twice, now we are in the digital age we can fake this effect with some more control. I used Picmonkey to make these two. Click the like to see more button for the tutorial.

playing with photo editing

I'm really interested in photo manipulation. and I would love to have and learn to handle a open editor like adobe photoshop but for now I'll keep up with pickmonkey. from these I like number 3 most. It are little experiments I did just do something and look how it ends up. Here is what I did:
1. this is the original photo I took in our garden.
2. I added a circle as overlay, choose white and faded it at 50%
3. I added a square overlay, erased a circle and some leaves of the flower so it pops out
4. for this one I used the Warhol function
5. I whitened the teeth of the flower and after that I added some mascara
6. here i used the posterize option and faded it quite much

I think I'll make a roundup about nice editing soon.

into the woods

in the woods, is a camping called buitenkunst, and I wanted to update you some more about my adventures there. because It was such a inspiring week. At our first day we went to a workshop called "euvre in een ochtend" which means something like your entire collection of life works in one morning. we started in the first period in our lives and had to paint/draw 5 little works and after that we looked at each others works, stole ideas, and started our next period. and after 5 periods our 'lifework' was completed. This is my favorite one:

that afternoon we went to a workshop called 'scratching scratching'. In contrast with that morning we only had 10 by 10 cm to work on for two ours. we only had to scratch, just two ours scratching only. It was weird at the start. but at the end it was fun to see, everybody scratches different. here is mine and some others:

 

-DIY- bubble wands

Bubbles. Bubbles? BUBBLES! I love bubbles they stay some kind of magic to me. I was blowing them today in the garden during a semi photoshoot with my boyfriend. Than my mom came with this awesome idea, to make my own bubble wands form wire. Learn how to after the jump

buitenkunst: the paintings

At buitenkunst I did two painting workshops.
the first one was called action painting, in the morning we got a picture, mine was a bird and we had to paint it. In the afternoon we did the actual action painting, however I didn't really like the results It was fun. We had to smash and splash paint and paint full of action. For the square one I used some kind of pinecone to paint. ow and yes the bird is supposed to be upside down. here are the results:

The other workshop was called 'there is something happened' the assignment was to make a landscape where is a was some kind of atmosphere that there was something happened, but you could not see what. like two shoes in the middle of a quiet wood. I'm actually a little proud of these. here are my results:

-DIY- sunglasses

The idea for this begun when I was drawing things on these sunglasses with a white board marker. I drawn a lot of designs on it, because its white board marker its easy wipeable. well lets get started after the read more :) I used nail polish for the color.

someone

Today was a beautiful day.  At our calendar I found this quote and I loved it. I putted it in frond of a blurry sun picture I made today. I really like to take blurry pictures of the sun: you just have to focus close while you take the picture and than this would be the result. Feel free to share it but please give some feedback. If you'd like to know more about what I did today look at this post at Emma's blog.

-DIY- feather garland

Lern how to make this feather garland. I used it to cheer up my wall, but its also good for a indi party. I really like it, and I hope you do too. instructions after jump.

what have I done?!

Well I went to the goodbye party of a friend of mine who is going to live in the USA for one year. It was really nice and fun, we slept outside in her garden and jumped on her trampoline, sang songs by the fire and ate marshmallows, jumjum.

 I made her this camera strap, based on this tutorial.

 and packed it into this this tiny present

I pasted two wiggle eyes on my camera, now it has a face. :)

and I wore this necklace I bought at the ijhallen

and I made this list,

denim shirt

I love shirts, denim shirts, tribal prints, this DIY, but what I love the most is the combination of them: this shirt. I sewed a piece of a scarf of my mom on this denim shirt. I wanted to do this since I bought the shirt second had for only 6 euros, (its Levi's!).
this was my main inspiration:

-DIY- bracelet

I made this bracelet for the birthday of a friend of mine. she really liked it. click like to see more for the tutorial.

chevron necklace

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When I saw this necklace on pintrest, I thought 'I can do that too!' I really like it although its a bit pointy -.-
I was inspired by this tutorial too.

-DIY- reuse failed Polaroids

I had this failed Polaroid at home, and I wanted to do something with it. So I thought of this:
You can just put an other picture in it. steps after the break

camera strap

I cheered up my camera strap, and it matches my bag. I really like it now.

summer+grass+sun

I've bought a DLSR camera and I love him, I want to give him a name any ideas?

I went the evening after I bought it for a walk and took this shots.

(its a sony a300)

 

It has begun

yes it has actually begun, the summer has arrived here in Holland, hurray! I love walking around in my shorts and smelling the air of flowers and the feeling of the warm sun on my back. and the summer nature is great  here are some pictures I made today

the sea

this afternoon I painted with my boyfriend, and this watercolor is what came out. I painted this pic of mine:

first year

Today it has been exactly one year ago that I met my boyfriend,
we celebrate that and I gave him this little book I made,
more after the jump.