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Hello, we meet again! So, today I will give you a DIY to customize your wood clip the easiest way ever!! You can get these wood clips from local craft or scrapbook stores. Or you can find it also at polaroid accessories stores. Here's the detail of the project,

You'll need:

  • Wood clips
  • Acrylic paint tubes
  • Medium size painting brush (mine's from Lyra size 2)
  • Plain masking tape or regular scotch tape will do
  • Painting palette
  • Scissors
  • Patience
Obviously, in this DIY you're going to need to be patient in mixing the colors until you got the swatch that you wanted. Below is the example of color mixing that you can use as a guide. In this tutorial, I use five kinds of colors and use a lot of white and yellow to balance the pastel. Use white when you want to saturate the color and use yellow if you want to add little vibrancy to the color. The colors that I use for these are Titanium white, Light green, Blue lake, Lemon yellow, Crimson, and Flesh tint. Below are the color guides for your pastel swatch:



This mixing guide is only as a basic mix for your pastel palette, it depends on you how you want your pastel to look like. Remember that the finished/dry colors are lighter than the colors when they are still wet.

Now, after you understand your color palette, shall we begin?

First, cover your wood clip with scotch tape or masking tape forming the pattern that you wanted. Cover the areas that will not be painted. Cover on both sides of the wood clip. Play along with the masking tape and pattern. Make sure that you have cover your wood clip tightly, don't let the paint sip through the covered edge.

After you covered all your wood clips, start mixing your paints one by one. Start with one color at once. In my case, I started with this mint color. I mix some flesh tint, light green, blue lake, and white to create this swatch. Use just enough paint amount with each color. Estimate how much you'll need to paint your wood clip. In my experience, I didn't need too many paints.

Third step, paint your clips! Start painting on one side of the clips and wait for a while until it dries then paint the other side. Overlap the paint and masking tape to create a smooth and clean finish of the pattern. Be careful not to overpaint or rip-off the masking tape. Double coat your clips after the first layer dry.
Let the clips dry for 15 minutes, and wait for the magic to work. While waiting for the first batch to dry, you can start with your second color mix. Repeat the same steps as the mint clips. You can experiments with ombre looks or even polkadots pattern.
Rip away those tape from your clips slowly. Make sure that the paints are completely dry to avoid crusty edges and chipped paints (unless that's the aesthetic that you're looking for, then it's fine :)).






That's it girls, easy peasy right?! I hope you enjoy this tutorial, leave a comment bellow if you have some questions or something to tell me. Also, feel free to share your creation on instagram and mention me @adindapb with hashtag #makekindiy I would love to hear it from you girls. So, have fun!!


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Hello, okay this is a pilot post to see how the template runs on this blog. I will probably add some pictures and quotes.

Let's not waste our time, I just got home from a seminar and talkshow about design and hijab. It was a very unexpected day as I was expecting more talks about design rather than the hijab itself. As a fresh graduate, I was hoping that I will go home with a new hope for getting a new job. But, yeah, I went home with this thought in my head whether I should be Syar'i now or should I wait until I get married. I'll tell you why I had this thought in my head.

Well, as many of us know, Indonesia is a big country with the majority of religion is Muslim. Recently, the muslim fashion industry from Indonesia is showing a very significant growth. There are some local fashion designers promoting their Muslimah designs to global audience. It is a huge breakthrough for Muslim fashion industry, it's like a new hope for the boring an usual style of muslimah in Indonesia. Those designers create new trends and new looks for muslimah Indonesia in how to mix and match their outfit and how to be creative with their hijab. It's no longer boring and it becomes fun, fashionable and exciting. Even from what I heard, there are many girls who wasn't wearing hijab now wears hijab because of the 'trend'. Unfortunately of course, many disagrees with this kind of 'trend'. The very basic movement of the trend came from the designers and us people play the role on the growth of the trend.

Now, here comes trouble. When people are given freedoms in creating their personal style, people tends to forget about "What hijab really is, and how hijab should be". So from my seminar last Sunday, I have been reminded about "What is hijab?". Let's first take a look at this illustrations first,

Source : https://www.facebook.com/alfatihstudios
Now, the one on the left seemed to be the current trend that is happening in Indonesia right now. Which I believe the one on the right is what hijab should be for muslimah. So hijab consist of two piece of clothing which is khimar and jilbab. Khimar is your head covers, it should cover the chest generously, shall not transparent or see-through and simple. While hijab is a gamis or long dress that should be wide and long enough so it covers your silhouette. Last, wear a pair of socks to cover your feet. It is said to be what every muslimah should wear on daily basis whenever they go out. It is contradicting with the current style that fashion designers created. I my self not yet ready for syar'i hijab, but I am willing to change little by little. First by starting to wear skirt more often and wear tops that is not tight with a chest covering pashmina.

Seeing the latest Jakarta Fashion Week 2014 there are some muslimah designers that applied syar'i hijab and clothing in their fashion line. Maybe this could be another break-through in the fashion world. I just hope that everyone will meet their expectations and believe. This is fashion, and it's complicated haha.

Well, this is the end of my pilot post. Tough topic, and unknown endings hahah. All I know is that,

Whatever you are wearing, it doesn't affect your creativity. 

Love,
Adinda