Luloveshandmade

Inspiring DIY Projects (with Pinterest)

March 30, 2015

Hello everyone! Thank you for your encouraging and sweet feedback under my last blogpost, you made me happy! :)
This time, I have a great collection of DIYs for you for your next creative afternoon or craft party.

Yippie! I am teaming up with Pinterest to show you some of my DIY boards in order to give you some inspiration for upcoming projects. As most of you know, I spend much time on my own Pinterest profile, collecting and curating inspiring content and browsing for upcoming projects.
Thus, my collection of tutorials has grown and I want to share some of my fave boards with you, paired with matching DIY ideas which I have already done in the past. :)

Last spring when it became warmer, I have turned my balcony into a green oasis and planted lots of colorful flowers and fresh herbs and veggies.

For more balcony, plants and garden inspiration, have a look at the board which I have created for this topic and which has helped me to improve my green thumb. :)

What about an upcycling pen holder as a quick afternoon project? This one is made from a bottle.

If you are simply looking for a random DIY project, you can find hundreds of wonderful ideas on my board. There’s everything from making bird houses over concrete tutorials to weaving DIYs. Simply have a look and get inspired.

Another easy and quick idea is making a faux leather envelope, for example as business card holder.

Find more inspiration for (faux) leather projects on my board which is full of accessory tutorials, jewellery DIYs and other pretty craft projects.

Having a crush on felt as awesome material to work with? Learn how to make a felt kitty cat needle case.

Find more cool felt DIY projects on my board.

Learn how to make your own geometrical wooden necklace.

If you can’t get enough of jewellery DIYs and want to see many versatile projects, look at my pinboard.

Last year, I taught you about the nautical rope bracelets. They are still part of my fave DIYs so far. :)

On Pinterest you’ll find a lot more wonderful projects with ropes and knots.

What about making a tulip paper flower bouquet in spring?

Here you’ll find many inspiring DIYs with colorful paper flowers in all kinds of shapes and sizes. This is so much fun!

Eeeeks, one of my fave DIYs ever: a handpainted camera pillow.

Wanna learn about how to make plushes, toys or dolls? ;) Check out my board.

One of my fave weekend projects for a long time has been making rubber stamps myself.

Get inspired by all those rubber stamp tutorials and inspiring images.

Let’s go and make your own drop shaped rattle or pillow case.

Here’s the right place for sewing love.

Spring and summer are coming soon, my bright handprinted textiles are just perfect for the warm season!

Find lots of inspiration for colorful textile printing projects over on my board. :)

Yippie, I’m super inspired and wanna start crafting immediately.
What’s your fave technique or project?
Enjoy checking out all of my bright DIY boards on Pinterest and make sure to tell me about your most loved project!

Happy day!
Lu

P.S.: This blogpost was written for a cooperation with Pinterest. :)

Handlettering & Illustration

New Handlettering and Illustration Prints in my Shop

March 26, 2015

Eeeeeeks, I am SO SO excited! After a long pause, I finally added products to my Luloveshandmade DaWanda shop again and today I want to show you everything. :)

Since the beginning of the new year, I have been doing handlettering like crazy, I simply couldn’t stop. There wasn’t nearly any day in the past few months where I didn’t use my pens to create a new piece of handlettering. :)
In this blogpost, I wanna show you some of my favorites and and make you curious about what kind of prints you’ll find in my shop.

Wow, so many new prints. See some of my highlights:

Nearly each print holds a memory for me. The original drawing of the cat motif was a present for my best friend which I made for her birthday. The handlettering ‘Excitement’ print has been made – well, can you guess? ;D – on a day of pure excitement to cope with all my happy emotions.

This illustration has already been made last fall, I love those bright colors and craft supply shapes so much. I also got this motif printed for me as mouse pad and phone cover so that I can enjoy it everywhere I go.

Trying to express my love for Berlin and sharing it with other Berlin lovers. :)

Two of my faves: my love for dancing (I’m listening to LOTS of loud and fast music these days and even go to concerts more often) and my love for colorful and delicious fast food. Mhhh!

Eeeks, I made the left one in a moment of happy excitement the evening before my last birthday. Enjoy and be happy! :) The right one is for everyone heartbroken.

Is there anything better than all those happy words on the left print? And of course, everything is better with ice cream on top, never forget! :)

Make compliments, other people will be happy!

For all the video game lovers and those who express their love through fast food! :D

This one was made during a day trip to the Baltic Sea. We should all go to the seaside way more often! :)

Mixtape love and words of motivation.

For all urban jungle lovers and plant fans. :)

Saying ‘thank you’ in a pretty way. :)

Wuoah, I’m so so damn excited! Click here onto the banners to visit my shop and to see all other prints!
Happy week!
Lu

Merken

DIY, Videos

DIY Video: Princess Costume

March 18, 2015

Hello my lovely readers! Back at the beginning of the year, I have made a set of new videos with DaWanda for a little girl’s princess costume. :)

The special thing about this costume including a pink princess dress, a magic wand and a sparkling crown is that the sweet little girl took part in designing the costume and then I sewed it just like she wanted it to be. :)

Enjoy watching the three full videos, showing how we met, made the sketch of the dress, then there’s a full tutorial for each of the three pieces and you can see the little girl’s excitement when opening the box with her custom made costume. :)

Make Your Own Princess Costume

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This was sooo much fun!

Maybe this was one of my happiest video shoots so far. Children are just awesome! :)
Have fun making your own kid’s costume (or maybe a grown-up version for yourself? ;)).
See you nex time!
Lu

Project idea, content and performance of all three videos by Luloveshandmade // Produced, filmed and cut by wonderful Lena Schmidt for DaWanda.

Merken

DIY, Freebies, Handlettering & Illustration

DIY: Easter Handlettering and Free Printable

March 6, 2015

Hello hello, it’s handlettering time again! I was recently contacted by a magazine (dekolux – coming out these days :)) and asked if I wanted to do some handlettering for Easter – here it is. :)

For you to print it out yourself, I made some Easter handlettering tags for putting them into flower pots or even into cake (the file for download is at the bottom of this blogpost).

DIY: Easter Handlettering and Free Printable

You can either print out those or make your own ones.

Moreover, I drew onto eggs for having pretty table decor during the Easter holidays.

Last but not least, I also made pretty name tags for a coffee date or for inviting friends and family over to Easter brunch.

Supplies for Handlettering Easter Crafts

What you need:

– Hard-boiled eggs

– Permanent markers (mine are from edding)

– Rolls of (masking) tape

– Flower pots

– Wooden sticks

– Paper, pens, scissors, a rubber

– A hot-glue gun

How to Make Handlettering Easter Tags

If you prefer the premade version, go to the bottom of this blogpost for downloading the free printable.

If you want to make those tags yourself, then first of all, use a pencil for making a sketch and for drawing the outlines of your tags. Try out different fonts and shapes for a more dynamic look and for some variety.

Next, use a permanent marker or felt tip for finishing everything. Then use your scissors to cut everything out, either of your own piece of handlettering, or out of the printable.

Then use your hot-glue gun to glue the letter tags onto wooden sticks.

Yippie, you’re done with this easy DIY. Now you can use the lettering sticks to decorate flower pots or even cake.

Handlettering Easter Eggs

Making hard-boiled eggs pretty is such a nice thing to do.

Take the eggs and a permanent marker, pick out pretty fonts and write nice words onto them.

While drawing onto the eggs, you can use masking tape rolls (or egg holders) to hold them.

Sooo pretty!

Handlettering Easter Namecards

Use a piece of cardboard and a pencil to draw different fonts and shapes, try out several different letter styles. Then use a felt pen for the finish.

Now you have pretty namecards for your Easter table.

Have fun with working on handlettering and if you want to, follow my handlettering adventures and progress on Instagram. :)

Here’s the free printable, click this handlettering printable link for full size download.

Happy day!

Merken

Freebies, Handlettering & Illustration

Handlettering for Beginners (with Pinterest) & Valentine’s Day Printables

February 11, 2015

Hello my sweet readers! Today I’ve got a really special blogpost for you, a mixture of a freebie, a tutorial and an advice blogpost.
Let’s start here: my friends Anja, Sina and Janine have recently all been talking a lot about handlettering and I got super curious about it. Moreover, lovely and super talented blogger and Instagram pals like Frau Hölle or Roxy Prima have inspired me even more.

So I wanted to give handlettering a try and started doodling some letters and made first sketches.

Handlettering with the help of Pinterest:

After some first tries which came out really good and better than I had expected (see my first steps and development on Instagram under the hashtag #LuloveshandmadesHandletteringAdventures), I wanted more. :D I recognized that my letter inventory was really limited, so I thought that there wouldn’t be any better place than Pinterest to seach for letter inspiration. :)

First of all, I started filling my brand new handlettering & calligraphy board and got super duper inspired again.

Then I looked at my typo & fonts board which I had already been filling for several months. On Pinterest you can find thousands of lovely fonts in all different kinds of styles, this is so exciting and interesting at the same time.

My next step then was to simply copy and imitate fonts that I liked and this was great practice. Thus, my hand got used to all the movements and while really practicing and not only looking at pretty fonts, I was able to learn better.

I picked out single letters that I liked and formed new words myself. This was tons of fun.

Doing this was so satisfying and these days I also often browse my Pinterest handlettering and fonts boards on the train, looking for new inspiration and excercises for then being able to create new words and layouts with handlettering all by myself.

When trying out a new motif, I always start with a rough pencil sketch. I then erase a lot, correct a lack of symmetry, adjust sizes and font styles and experiment a little.

Then I either use my sharpie pen or my staedler pens to draw the lines in black. It’s always so much fun letting a phrase in my head or a quick thought become visible on paper and then even in such a pretty way. Practice makes perfect and got totally hooked and will work on becoming better. So much fun! :)

Free Valentine’s Day Handlettering Printables

>>> Download this Valentine’s Day printable

To thank you for your support and your sweet encouragement and all the flattering compliments on Instagram, I’m now sharing my Valentine’s Day motifs with you as a free download, yippie! :) Either hang them on a wall, send them as postcard or give them away as a sweet message for someone you love.

PLEASE NOTE: you will see the full size after the download is complete! :)

>>> Download this Valentine’s Day printable

The first one is my one favorite, because it came super spontaneously and didn’t take any research or practice, it just came super naturally (I only changed the cupcake afterwards so that it is at least recocnizable as a cupcake ;)) and the last one is my other favorite, because I made it in a moment of pure joy and excitement and it will always remind me of this special memory. :)

So have fun with downloading those handletting pieces of mine and enjoy giving them to someone special! :)

If you plan on posting them online, tag me in the photo on Instagram (@luloveshandmade), I’d love to see those prints in their new homes! :)

Happy Valentine’s Day, have fun with handlettering and using Pinterest as inspiration and learning tool for this. :)

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, I’m thankful for you!

Lu ;)

P.S.: This blogpost was written during a cooperation with Pinterest and this does of course not influence my personal opinion!

Merken