C. crEATion: 2012

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Happy Birthday~ wrapping wine bottle 生日快樂! ~禮物包裝: 酒瓶

Happy Birthday~ wrapping wine bottle
生日快樂! ~禮物包裝: 酒瓶

May all your wishes come true ~ dear girl friend! Maker’s Mark is one of her favorite and of course, birthday girl can indulge herself with it. I try to wrap the bottle in a subtle way that it won’t be recognized at first sight.
壽星女~ 願你所有的生日願望都能實現啊! Maker’s Mark是她其中一個的至愛~當然在她生日那天她能盡情享用波旁酒啊. 為了製造驚喜, 我盡量把酒瓶包裝成別的樣子, 免得立刻被認出.

Gather all materials: wrapping paper, flowers, sandwich bag, cotton, big parcel tape, “airbag” for sculpturing, ribbon, accessory, etc
集齊包裝材料如包裝禮物紙, 花, 三文治袋, 棉花, 包包裹的膠紙, 氣袋-用作雕塑造型, 琳琳種種的裝飾物.

Gather everything you need~

Wrap the bottle with a plain paper-- in case the wrapping paper isn’t thick enough to cover up the label and sign of the bourbon.
用白紙把酒瓶包起, 以免因包裝禮物紙不夠厚而令酒瓶招貼/文字透出.

Wrap with plain paper first

Wrap the bottom of the flowers with soak-wet cottons and place them in a sandwich bag. Use parcel tape to stabilize the sandwich bag with the flowers around the top of the bottle. Add “airbag” to give extra “curve” or different shape to the bottle. Use curvy accessory to decorate the top of the bottle or flowers.
用非常濕的棉花包裹花的尾部, 再放入三文治袋中. 用包包裹的膠紙把花及三文治袋穩固在酒瓶的頂部. 用氣袋塑造曲線或增加枝線, 令酒瓶看起來不像酒瓶. 再用彎曲的裝飾品裝飾花及酒瓶頂部.

Cut the flowers to the similar length

Put the flowers in the sandwich bag,
tap the bag and flower at the top of the bottle

Use the curvy accessary to decorate the top of the
bottle and connect the flowers

Use wrapping paper to cover up the whole bottle-- for a more neat wrapping, cut the wrapping paper into smaller pieces that fit the shape of the bottle and the extended structures.
用包裝禮物紙把整個酒瓶包起----- 若要細膩一點的包裝: 把包裝紙跟著形狀裁剪, 然後一張一張的貼上,把整個外形包起.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Welcome~ the Little One. Wrapping a bottle rack.

Welcome~ the little one!
哈囉~小天使

Congratulation to my dear friend~ she is having a twin: One boy and one girl!! Woo Hoo~~ one stone hits two birds!! Knowing that she was desperate to have kid and now she will have two~ how exciting!! What’s next? Celebration!! I got this bottle rack from her registry but it seems too boring if I just wrapping the box...so I Jazz it up!!
恭喜恭喜~我親愛的朋友懷孕了〜而且還是雙胞胎呢!! 嘩哈哈~ 一石二鳥, 她懷了一男一女, 可算是功得完滿了! 深知道她渴望有小孩，現在她懷有龍鳳胎, 真值得高興~慶祝. 我在她的禮物註冊表裡挑了奶瓶架作禮物~但若只是包起盒子~似乎太平淡了~所以我在包裝上加了些色彩~

First of all, gather ribbons that you like. I chose 1 boy & 1 girl color to symbolize the twin. I picked the thin ribbons for the narrow poles and 1 wider ribbon for the central pole.
首先,揀選喜歡的緞帶. 我選了能代表男生及女生的顏色的緞帶各一條. 由於所有奶瓶桿都比較細小, 所以我都因應桿的大小而挑選較窄小的緞帶. 而中央的重心桿則選用較闊的緞帶

I got the Martha Stewart ® “Welcome Little One” sticker and “Chipboard animals” to decorate the bottle rack.
我用瑪莎·斯圖爾特®的“歡迎~小生命”的貼紙及“動物纖維板”來裝飾瓶架。

I wrapped the bottom with brown paper to represent the ground-- gold color will work well too~ as most of the time carousels are very “shiny” with a lot of light. ^^
我用棕色紙包裹底部以代表地面 - 黃金色也會非常合襯〜因為大部分的旋轉木馬都很“閃亮”因為它用了不少的燈泡。 ^ ^

Double-Sided tape in between the back of the pole and the arch of the ribbon

(Front/ the side touching the pole), 1 tape at where the ribbon crisscross,

and 1 tape in between the front of the pole and the cross of the ribbon

I wrapped the narrow poles with narrow ribbon once. Use double-sided tape to secure the ribbon to the pole.
我用緞帶在奶瓶桿繞一圈。在緞帶交叉的位置, 交叉位置的背部與奶瓶桿相接的位置, 及緞帶頂部拱形的位置與奶瓶桿相接的地方用雙面膠帶固定緞帶.

Repeat ribbon loops with all poles, and then stick the Chipboard animals to the poles~ like a carousel with different kind of animals. ^^

重複用緞帶繞奶瓶桿直至所有奶瓶桿都有緞帶裝飾. 把動物纖維板貼在奶瓶桿上~ 就像有些迴旋木馬一樣, 有不同的動物在迴旋帶上滑行.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Bucklet List Food Tour in Seattle and Vancouver Day 3-5 9/23-26

We cruised back to Los Angeles with Golden Princess from Vancouver instead of flying back-- simply because of the food and the lay-back vacation-style. We mainly focus on food, restaurant, afternoon tea and room service; occasionally watching movies and participating in activities. Since there wasn’t any port of call, we could relax completely and didn’t have to stress out with getting to places.