The brilliance of badges!

Hallo, vie gehts, danke gut und dir? Just a wee tad of Germanicus to kick things of...Right! Yes! Badges! Ok, so badges can be a cute, sweet, funny, powerful, or just plain awesome accessories to brighten up any outfit! And here I shall show you a blindingly obvious way of making them (I know I'm underselling, but I can't deal with criticism, so I'll get it out of the way myself!) Okely doo...on with the show!
You will need:

• Circular images
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Safety pins
• Sellotape
• Scissors

Sticky back plastic (can use sellotape instead)
 Step one: Gather some appropriate images you wish to badge-ify - it helps if they are circular, but I guess you could cut circles into them. Print them off. Here are mine:

Right..next, cut said images out. This sounds fairly straightforward, but for me this was the part that took longest! here are some I cut out earlier...

Then, my jolly pals, stick the circles onto a piece of cardboard - mine was fairly thin, simply because that was the only cardboard available, but you can vary the thickness depending on how sturdy you want your badges to be!

Now, this is where your stickyback plastic comes in. I happen to have a massive roll of stickyback plastic I bought in Year 7 (Aaaah..nostalgia...) to cover my books with, but you probably won't. So, if you don't you can just use sellotape in strips to do this. Just cover your cardboard with plastic/sellotape, making sure their are no lumps/bumps/air bubbles! This will make them vaguely waterproof.You probably can't see in the picture, but I have done this.

Now, time for some more cutting out! So, yeah, just...well, cut them out!

You probably can't see that these have been plastic-covered, but hey ho a diddly o! Now, take your safety pins, and using a liberal amount of sellotape, attach firmly to the back of each badge. On reflection, I should have used bigger circles or smaller safety pins, so, take my advice, and learn from my stupid mistakes!

Yaaayyy! Clapclapclapclapclapclap! Give yourself a pat on the back! All that's left to do now is go crazy and stick them on everything! I hope you enjoyed this, and I bid you a temporary farewell! *Salutes and disappears in a cloud of rainbow sparkles*

Please excuse hastily drawn note...
Oh yeah, guys - just to ask your opinion - I'm considering CHANGING THIS HERE BLOG'S NAME. (Gasp) I know. Radical, right? It's just...I'm sick of having to tell people:

• What miscellaneous means
• How miscellaneous is spelt
• Why the hell I called my blog that instead of some normal name

So...my proposal is I change the troublesome word 'miscellaneous', and exchange it with the word 'marvellous'! I like it! My Marvellous Mess! Leave your thoughts in the comments!

The Power Of Polaroid!

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Hello, me hearties! I see you have sailed over to my wonderful word of blogdom that is  this..,well,blog! Now today, I have for you a tutorial! Yep, that's right, pretty exciting! So, the tutorial in question is: Polaroid pictures!

So, this is a ridiculously simple THINGY, and I'm sure you don't require my tutorial! But here goes! Ooh, and before we start, I must point out that I'm not the firstest coolio persona to do this tutorial - check out Hanni's version right HERE! Right, on with the show!
1. Gather appropriate images. Of something beautiful, like..

• Flowers!
• Friends!
• Family!
• Pets!
• Eddie Redmayne!

 

 

Sigh...

Now, before we print off these images, we need to vintagify them! and we shall do this by changing the colour settings to sepia - like so:

 

2. Print off said beautiful things! With the printer!

3. Cut out said beautiful things!

4. Stick said beautiful things onto pieces of paper, with a large gap inbetween each of them! I rubbed the paper with a tea bag first to add some more vintage feel, but the effect achieved wasn't amazing, so this isn't a must.

5. Cut out the pictures, but make sure the margin of paper around each one is about three times as wide at the bottom than it is at the side or top edges. See what I'm on about from the picture!

6. Now, I am the proud owner of a 'Typo Printy' - basically just a stampy device I never use, and have no idea where it came from. I think they use them in libraries..?

I thought that I would add a little more vintage sparkle to my pictures, however......it became clear that their practical limitations outweighed their vintage assets. In  short, they were impossible to use, and...just look at the picture, ok?

Yes. So, it doesn't really work! I reverted to doing the text by hand, because that was reliant and easy! here is the result:

So, there we go! T'end! You can do whatever you wantwith the photos, but here's what I did:

Yep, so imaginative! I stuck them on my wall! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Oh, before I leave you I shall share the other fascinating details of my day with you - I went to a pub called the Bull's Head, was served by a farmer wearing BRACES, and wore my lovely new shoes and favourite skirt!  I also saw some lovely chairs, and toyed with the idea of chair - napping them, but was dragged away by unreasonable people. :( Ta - ra!

Oh, and popping back for one more thing (Sorry! Sorry!) You may have noticed the Bloglovin icon on the right! That's right, I am on Bloglovin, and I would be so grateful if you followed me!