DIY Japanese stickers earrings

I saw those lovely Japanese candy sticker at book shop the other days. I love these Japanese candy stickers especially those with cute shapes and nice colours. But I always think why the makers don't make them into cabochons so that I could DIY them to cute accessories. These stickers are hard coated and gloomy at night, such a waste for just use on scrapbooking or decoration. Moreover, I don't scarpbooking. Looking at the sticker sheet at my hand at the book shop, a quick idea ran thru my mind. Why not I make them to stud earrings? These little size and the quality of the stickers should be able to become an earring. And here they are, a result from my experiment of using the sticker to become earrings. It's not hard to make, what you need is patient, time and the love for crafting when making them.

A Simple DIY Instruction - DIY Japanese Stickers Earrings

1) If you have those stickers like what I have as per picture above, you can use them for making the earrings. Only hard coated, resin, epoxy or acrylic stickers could be used in this projects.

2) Soak the stickers in hot water. Yes, hot water but not boiling water please. Soak it about 1 or 2 mins.

3) Rub the back of the sticker that have adhesive on slowly. The process of soaking and rubbing the adhesive might take some times. Repeat the process if the water get cooler. The rubbing process only could be done if the water are still warm.

4) After all the adhesive on the back of the stickers has been rubbed off. Let it dry.

5) Using strong glue for metal and plastic to apply on the stud and stick it to the sticker. Follow the instruction on the glue label before apply. Let it the stud stand for a while for the glue to dry up totally.

6) And there they are finished and ready to be wear or give away as gift.

Disclaimer :
You are welcome to use my project idea to make these cute earrings for selling but please do not claim that it is your original project idea. Thank you.

Little key ring memo pad

This is made from plastic charm for curtain garland, scrap papers and key ring. Simple DIY projects that to reused the scrap papers and reduce the rubbish. It could be use as key chain to store your keys and at the same time be as a handy small writing pad. Or you could just hang it in your bag for easy usage when needed. I have a simple DIY instruction on how you could make it. Try it out, it's a fun project to do.

DIY Instruction

1) Materials : 2 plastic charms, pencil, scissors, cutting knife, scrap papers, hard card stock or carton cardboard (You can use cereal box or other packaging box), hole puncher and key ring.

2) Trace the pattern of the charm to hard card stocks or carton carboard.

3) Using cutting knife to cut out the pattern. Keep the cut out pattern, it will be useful and could be made to other project. I will shown what it could be made out of in my next DIY project. What we need now is the mold of the pattern to trace papers.

4) Using the card mold that we have made to trace the pattern to scrap papers.

5) Cut the pattern out and punch a little hole at the middle of the paper. If possible mark the place to punch same as the hole at the charm.

6) Lastly, just thread all the cut pattern papers and charms to a key ring.

Bicycle brooch-Sliver and pink

Bicycle brooch-Sliver and pink
Originally uploaded by cottonbud_design

Very sweet colour. Didn't expact the colour combination came out so nice and sweet when I made it. I was so worried the pink will look weird with silver. The result came out very satisfying and I love it.

Available at Little Teeth Shop

New shop opening!!

I have set up a new shop for selling kawaii and cute purses, bags, stationeries, accessories on a new blog of Little Teeth Shop. Still in the midst of setting up all the products to this new shop. And I am offering these sweet rose shape pocket mirror for free if you puchase USD35 and above from the shop. This offer is for limited time only and while stocks last. You can choose from the colour of dark pink, light pink, white and black. For more information, you could find out more from Little Teeth Shop.

Candy colour bobby hair pins

Just love these candy colour butttons bobby hair pins. They are made from plastic star and round ball buttons in sweet colour of pink, blue, green, white, yellow, black and dark pink. Cute and fun to wear.

Available at Little Teeth Shop

I am on Twitter

Just created this Twitter accounts. Still not sure how it's work. Anyway, I will post update of new products from both of my Etsy's shops of Cottonbud Design and Little Teeth Shop. Also news from online shop that me and my husband are now working on. If you like to receive these updates, come follow me on Twitter. ;)

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I'm making brooch as well

Black bicycle brooch, available at Little Teeth Shop

Moose brooch, available at Little Teeth Shop

I'm now experimenting crafts here and there. I have lots of ideas running in my head and just need to find time to make them work. Some trying has fail and need some fine tuning, but some did work out well. However I'm still not quite satisfy with the results, I guess I need to find some solutions to fine tune them.

These are two new brooches from my crafty experiment. I upcycled some key chain charm on this project. Seem quite fine to me, but..... I don't know, just somethings that seem not quite right.... well, I will figure it out later.