The Folding Chair

FAUX LEATHER PASSPORT COVER

I've wanted to do a cover for my passport for a while now. I just can't find something that is simple but cute at the same time. And, I still have a lot of faux leather that I used here for my kitty's litter box..so I thought it would be a good option to use that fabric for the cover as well. You will probably see a lot of green leather in the future also because this fabric doesn't have an end.. This is what I used to make the cover:

-Multi-Purpose Glue in spray

-Faux leather square of about 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft

-Embroidery Thread

-Embroidery Needle

-2 Pieces of Card stock of 6" x 4" (I don't  know if all the passports have the same size, so feel free to adjust the size if you need to)

-Scissors

(I ended up using acrylic paint also)

Cut a rectangle from the leather  of  1.5"W x 6"H, and another one following the shape of picture above of: Bottom width 3", top width 1.75" and a height of 5.25", these two pieces will be the flaps inside the cover that hold your passport. Also, cut a rectangle of 10" x 7.5". This one will be the actual cover.  Spray some glue on the back of the card stock you are using, if you are using something with pattern like I did. Try to do this outside or your entire room will end up sticky, plus is not good for your health to spray this inside your house. (I know the picture looks like it is inside my house, and it is indeed but I was lazy and didn't want to move the tripod to the balcony). Oh, you need to know that this glue ruins your nail polish. I was upset about it the whole day :)Now, glue the 2 covers next to each other on the leather leaving a space between them of a little less than .25". I left a book on top of this for about 7 minutes so the card stock sticked to the leather. Trim the excess leather from the edges. Now, that everything is glued and the edges look fine use the embroidery needle and thread and stitch the first two pieces that you cut at the beginning and place them ike the picture above. I made a knot at the end of the stitches and cut the thread excess.   After, I finished stitching I though it looked a little more simple that I wanted so I added a beautiful golden heart to the front cover. 

PHOTOSHOP ANIMATED PICTURES TUTORIAL

Remember I said I was going to

share the toturial on how to do animated pictures?

Here it is! Click here to see tutorial. Have Fun!

IRON+TISSUE+PAPER BAG NOTEBOOK

I've wanted to do a DIY I found to transfer tissue/napkin on card board. You can find here the video I used to follow the process. It looked so easy an fun to make..and very cheap also. I decided to make a notebook using the cardboard with the transferred tissue as the cover. So here Is what you I used:

1.Paper bag, used the card stock on the bottom for the transfer.

2.Tissue

3. Washi tape (this is optional)

4. Scissors 

5. Embroidery Thread

6. Sewing Needle

7. Kitchen Plastic Wrap

8.Large notebook

9.Iron  You can use a new piece of card stock or you can use any recycled card stock that you have at home like I did. You can always cut the card stock to any size you want. Take your napkin or tissue and peel  it apart until you end up with a really thin layer where the graphics are printed. Then, cut a piece of wrapping paper a about the same size of the tissue and a little bigger than the card stock. I folded the card stock in half before transferring the graphics. Now, using the notebook layer the card stock, then the wrapping paper, and lastly the tissue. Make sure the plastic and the tissue are covering all the area of your card stock. Cover all 3 layers with one of the pages from your notebook. Set your iron to medium and pass the iron over the notebook page making sure to press a little the card stock and napkins. What happens here is that the plastic melts and turns kind of into a very thin glue so the tissue transfers. And, the transfer is done! I wonder how this lady found this out, i love it. (or maybe I am the only one that doesn't know how to do it, very fun anyways). Now using some pages from your notebook or if you want you can use white paper. Cut about 10 to 15 pieces (you can add more pages if you want) of the over all width of the notebook when is open (not folded) and the height of the notebook. Line up the paper and the card stock and sew them together in the center of the notebook. I only did 2 stitches on the top and 2 on the bottom. It was more than enough for the amount of paper I used. Finally, I used wash tape to cover the edges of the notebook to prevent the tissue from peeling and to add a little more color. And that's it! I took me about 30 minutes to finish the whole thing. It is really easy and looks very cute :) 

ORIGAMI STAR

This is a long but fun DIY! I've been doing this origami "star" ,as i like to call it, since I was 14. And, I've taken it beyond its "paper stage". I will show you different things that you can do with the star in other DIYs. Today I will show you step by step how to make the star. You need 30 perfect squares of paper. Mine's were 3.5 inches. I suggest doing your first star with regular printing paper. A thicker paper could be a little frustrating specially if it is your first attempt. Then you can use as many colors and type of papers as you like. I always use 1 or 3 colors. Let's get to it :) 
Fold one piece of paper in half and make sure the mark of the fold is visible. This would be your guide for the rest of the folds. Open up the paper and take the right bottom corner  to the center and fold it. Make sure you ALWAYS fold the bottom right corner first and that the mark of the first fold you did is on top of the triangle you just created with the last fold. Take the top left corner and bring it to the center. Now, flip the paper over. Place the paper in front of you so that the widest part of the paper is horizontal. Take the bottom right corner and create a fold so that the edge of the bottom of the paper ends up parallel with the line going across the paper.(Follow the pictures also so you don't get lost). Do the same using the left top corner so the widest edge of the paper is parallel and overlaps  the line across the paper. Now, turn it so the paper is vertical and flip it over. Take the left top corner and fold it creating a triangle. As reference, use the top right corner of the paper that will be the top point of the triangle. Now, fold the little flap that is sticking out the triangle to make the perfect triangle shape. Turn the paper up side down and do the same with this side. Take the top left corner and fold it creating a triangle, fold the flap sticking out and now you should have two perfect triangles one looking to the north and another one to the south :) Flip over the paper and fold your shape in half. And that is basically all the folding you need to do. Once your hands get used to the folds it would be very easy. Now, you have to do the same with the 30 squares of paper.  

Now, take one of the papers and open it up so you have the 2 triangles looking to opposite directions again. Take the little flap from the left side and bring it to the right side like if you were unfolding the top triangle. Do the same with another paper. Here we are going to start building the star. Insert the paper on you left side in to the other one. Matching the folds on each paper that create a triangle shape. You will notice when the 2 papers a locked. Take a third paper and do the same process. Now use the first and last paper to close the peak by doing the same process of inserting one paper into there other one. You should have a peak with 3 triangle sides. Now, take one of the triangles of the peak you just created, open it up and start doing the same process. This time you only need 2 extra papers because you are using one from the peak that counts as the third. Keep doing this until you have 4 peaks. When you are here, create the 5th peak by using the two bottom triangles of 2 of the peaks with the same process as before. Opening up each paper and inserting one paper into the other. Then take a third paper and close up the peak just like you did before. This is how your star will start coming together so always pay attention when you have 4 of these peaks. Keep forming groups of 5 peaks until you don't have more papers. You should now have 3 loose papers, insert one into each other like you did before and you are done! If your star doesn't look like it is closing go back and make sure you have groups of 5 peaks! Well, I hope you are not intimidated but the length of the tutorial. I guarantee you it looks wayyyyy longer than it really is. Try it out and have fun with the different colors and papers you can use. They are awesome for decorating or even hanging them!