How to gift wrap a bottle

Here is an idea for easy bottle gift wrapping. It can be used for Christmas gifts if you use festive colors and you will only need a few tissue papers and maybe a piece of ribbon.

Lay your tissue paper flat and stand the bottle upright in the middle of paper. bring the corners of the paper up and with your hand pressing against the paper and the body of the bottle, go around. Creases are unavoidable and will add pretty texture :) 

Cut a wide piece of tissue paper and wrap it around the neck of the bottle to hide the top of tissue paper.  I left the cap and a part of the neck without any paper, that way I could hold it from the neck. 

Cut a ribbon of a contrasting color tissue paper (maybe 1" wide), wrap it around the belly of the bottle secure with double sided tape or a dab of craft glue. Add a a cute ribbon bow and there you have it.

Check my other tutorial on bottle gift wrapping HERE.

Have a good one,

Miriam

How to make a beaded friendship adjustable bracelet

Bead bracelets are pretty and very fun to make. There are lots of different ways to make them; some require lots of tools and jewelry findings that I usually don't want to spend money on. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make a beautiful bracelet with only a few items.

This is how the finished bracelet looks:

You will need:

• Knotting cord or any kind of craft cord 
• Beads, the hole size should be a bit more than double the size of your knotting cord: my knotting cord is 0.5mm and beads hole size 1.3mm
• scissors
• (optional) Jewel-it glue or a lighter  

Okie, lets get started:

Art Journal Page - Watercolor and Ink doodle

This art journal page started with a piece of mixed media paper, added a layer of Gesso and glued pieces of pages from an old book, notebook and scrap-booking paper using gel medium. 

when dried, i doodled on top with black ink

I used acrylic paint for the yellow swirls and here is the final page:

Hugs,

Miriam

Pencil Painting - around the house

These days I think anything can be a subject for painting and drawing....it even makes it more fun. A subject shouldn't always be a gorgeous flower or a stunning view, It can simply be a: 

Baby Lotion. 

This is Burt's Bees' Baby Bee Original Lotion, I used it on Brayden's skin after each bath when he was newborn, it turned out it was too mild for him and he needed a bit more moisturizing. But in overall it was a alright lotion.(if you don't mind the scent) and a very cooperative subject ;)  

Oldies! acrylic flower and landscape painting

Today I was looking at some old pictures that I have on my computer and came across these two:

Both are acrylic paintings from a few years ago and although I don't have the original paintings anymore, It made me happy finding the pictures.

I love both of these with all the imperfections in them. They were among my of very first acrylic trials and I remember that I enjoyed painting them very much.