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Hello everyone & Happy Saturday to you all. Nearly November - WOW!!
today I am happy to introduce to you another talented & prolific artist
Yvonne Yam from Singapore! Yvonne has been hanging out online
for a LONG time so perhaps she is familiar to a lot of you?! If not...
Not to worry, she will be after today!!
If you enjoy it please let me know by leaving a comment, in which case I will
continue this series of Trade Secrets posts from the best of the best!!
This post is the 3RD in my series about Home Decor/Off-the-Page projects,
"Hello there! Greetings from Singapore! *waves* My name is
Yvonne & I'm
honoured to have been invited by the lovely Helen to share my
love of altered art.
I love to make stuff, especially using unexpected "found" stuff around my house
(or someone else's!) *Winks* Old vintage photos. Pretty trinkets. I love them all! :)
(or someone else's!) *Winks* Old vintage photos. Pretty trinkets. I love them all! :)
I love to experiment with mediums & play with textures but my projects always
involve some form of up-cycling & loads of colour! :) Other places you can find me...
Check out Yvonne's creations on her prolific blog HERE & remember to
sign up as her official follower if you LOVE her content (see her followers'
gadget in her left hand side sidebar!} I know she would really appreciate it!!
Now let's take a look at Yvonne's work & see what we can learn!!
What can we learn from Yvonne?
1. That we need to be on the lookout - SEE THE WORLD THROUGH NEW EYES!
2. If you are going to alter a box, book cover, etc, make sure it's sturdy so that it's
worth the time taken to make it pretty. Now this is a GREAT TIP! I had had
experience with altering cheap items & it is not worth the time unless you
START WITH A STRONG BASE.
3. Go "shopping" in your own home...there are lots of treasures you can alter.
Like the remote control holder in the living room, or that empty honey jar!
This is SO TRUE - every time I want a style update now I just grab the
gesso & get started on a makeover or even a RE-MAKEOVER!!
4. Wrapping tissue from packaging creates awesome background texture...
& it's free! If you have the space start saving - SAVE WRAPPING & PACKAGING!
5. Incorporate OLD objects that have personal meaning to you on you - for example
a belt buckle from a loved dress or a charm from an old key chain.
ADD A BIT OF SENTIMENTALITY to personalise your gifts or home decor.
6 USE A GREAT GLUE! Yvonne & I agree on the hot glue gun for speed &
durability but Yvonne also loves Liquitex products & also uses their matte medium.
Isn't this last transformation incredible?! One thing I myself have learnt from Yvonne is :-
7. If you're on social media DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A BEFORE PHOTO!
Did you enjoy that? Learn anything new?? Let me know in the comments
& don't forget to pop on over to Yvonne's blog & join as a follower if you
& don't forget to pop on over to Yvonne's blog & join as a follower if you
love her work! Here's the link again!! http://yyam.blogspot.co.za/
If you enjoy reading my articles I would really appreciate you helping me reach
my goal of 1 000 Followers by the end of this year by checking that you are
a follower via Google Friend Connect in my top right side bar HERE.
11 comments:
Aaah! Yvonne - one of my fave scrappers!!! Great showcase of her talent here:):)
Great post Yuonne :) Thanks for sharing!
Yvonne is amazing.. so talented..
Helen,
I love all of your blog posts, be it one of your beautiful pages or this series with other designers sharing their ideas. I always learn something from your posts, photos or narratives. I love Yvonne's work and have not seen it before, but will most certainly subscribe to her blog and social media. Thanks for sharing - a wonderful series.
Miss Yvonne ROCKS! I respect and admire her for a lot of reasons, but mostly because she can make ANYTHING pretty...still waiting to see her alter a frying pan, but knowing her she is working on it...
Thanks Helen and Yvonne, I enjoyed this post and would like to see more ideas in the future. I'll check to previous posts as well. I'm already a Google follower to both of you ladies and will look you up in Instagram as well!
I love visiting your blog Helen, there is always something new to learn. Love Yvonne's work too, she is so good at upcycling and revamping items that the rest of us might simply throw out. Brilliant post with some great tips!!
Yvonne is just amazing! I loveeeeeeeeeee everything she creates!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great post, Thanks for sharing :)
Yvonne is brilliant I love her blog and all the tips she so freely shares with all of us to help us in our scrapping.. thanks for sharing..
Thanks for having me on your blog Helen! :)
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