and 'Bling My Flip Phone (part 3 of 3)' here.
Hello!
In this second part, I will show you pictures of the evolution of my phone getting a new look.
This article will be separated in four short parts since I bought the furnitures one day, did two big center pieces another day, did the bottom of the phone in two days, and just finished the upper part today (and also did some modifications to parts that were already done). It will be long, and there will be lots of useless details, so I do not expect you to read it all lol.
I just think it's cool to show the progression, and it kinda gives me a reminder of what to do/not to do..
Also maybe it can give you ideas if you want to decorate your stuffs!
Day 1: Buying deco
Just before starting, just thought I could show you the decorations I already had and bought.
What I found in my room:
Since I did not have that much deco to start with, I bought so many things. At least I can use them more than once..
Some of them were quite expensive. T_T Like the bracelets at $10, but I absolutely needed the little jewels because it just gives such a nice shiny look. And thinking back, I do not regret paying the price for the quality (compared to the cheap gems on the far left, these are the ones I used to always buy..!)
I could have ordered everything for cheaper and maybe even better quality on eBay or Amazon, but I was too impatient to start blinging and did not want to wait for the shipping..
Anyway, I will probably next time because I saw many cute decorations I could not find in the stores.
Then, I started to remove the little jewels and pearls from their sticky sheets.
This was longer to do than I thought it would take...
After unsticking the last set of gems, I was so bored (I had started after supper) I did not even started blinging my phone like I had planned to... I just went to bed eh.
Day 2: Starting blinging (heart and bow)
I couldn't wait to start doing more concrete stuff, and actually do use of what I had been fed up doing the day before = unsticking gem off their sticky film.
I had seen on Youtube a video about decorating a phone case, and the girl was doing a plan before... so I thought I should do one too! But actually, mine ended up not very well-planned.
Well, I did the heart AND the bow, which is kind of a start. But after, I just started sticking them on the phone without continuing the plan. I just couldn't imagine continuing to put gems and stuffs on the sheet without these two pieces being stuck. And I was not really inspired by my plan (maybe it's better to make one while you already have an idea of what you are making... which was not the case at all for me).
Hm, the heart looks a lil bit less lean than the previous pic, but it was impossible to do the same heart on the phone as on the plan. I had to put in a pearl heart because I was too tired of trying to fix the jewels so the heart would be symmetrical. And I had to concede hiding a bit of the clock on its right. Oh well.
Really, shaping that thing was so heart (heart, hard... ha!). But it was definitely worth it. I was really proud after.
As you can see, the bow has some white in and a bit around it (I stuck the bow first before making the heart). Well, that's because when I stuck the bow, I thought it was not well placed, so I removed it and re-stuck it two times. Sadly, the glue (a different one than the E6000 one I would also use later) had already stained the phone. At that moment, I thought I would again really mess up another blinging attempt.
Added a little more deco, and then my mother persuaded me to stop (which was a really good idea, because I would have probably screwed it from being tired and less concentrated if I had continued to work on it).
I was a bit sad of the slow progression I had made (I had started decorating right after lunch, but had finished after supper). Only this result after a whole afternoon of work?!
But besides being mentally tired, I was still looking forward to continue working on it the day after.
Day 3: Continuing blinging
Sticking gems and pearls to fill in the spaces. Don't have much to say other than that. :)
A bit later, I saw pictures of bling phones with chains on them while looking on the net!
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These immediately inspired me to put chains on mine. It gives the phone so much more bling!
That bow looks even more awesome with the chain around it.
Thanks internet! (and the pictures' owners) 8D
And then, I kinda got dry of ideas for the top.. had no idea what I should do, so I decided to call it a day before screwing things up. Sticking these by the way took me an afternoon.
Well, actually, I'm lying. I did have an idea, but I had no idea how to do it, and if I was going to do it. When I discovered that chains made the phone look much snazzier, it all became about putting chains on my phone, like this picture (hanging chains on the bottom):
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As for my phone, I thought about putting part of a keychain on the upper part. I imagined it would look spiffy and I needed something big on the upper part to balance the chained bow.
At the same time, that is when I realized that transparent gems did not look that good on my phone. This always happened before, but I still hadn't learnt my lesson yet.. I actually thought that with some new glue (E6000) and gems (though not all) bought at Michaels (which I thought were maybe better quality but nope), the effect would be prettier than the one on previous attempts.
Sadly I did not snap a close-up of the transparent gems to show you the effect, but I am sure you have already seen it before anyway. It becomes kind of fuzzy (like it loses its shininess a while after being stuck on?) Also, the gem becomes opaque and not shiny anymore the minute you accidentally put a little glue on..
Therefore, putting a big chain with charms hanging down seemed perfect for me to hide all the imperfections of the transparent gems that I would have to stick on the next day (I could not put only pearls still).
So I took some of the charms and chain on the necklace I had bought from Claire's (the one which had the pink bow), did some modifications, changed charms, shortened the chain, changed charms again, and then got tired (that was the moment I called it quits). However, I was still quite proud of the work done on my phone that day and how it looked.
Day 4: Starting the upper part
I am making progress.
Started early in the morning because that keychain issue was bugging me. After a good moment of trying to figure out how I could do something satisfying, I removed two charms, put a new one (the pink heart), and shortened the chain. I put a pink flower with the chain attached to it. It does not really look like the hanging keychain idea I had in mind at the beginning, but I am so glad I actually took this idea instead of the first one. I don't have pictures showing my old idea, but I swear it was not great and would have looked so complicated to do (the chain was supposed to move freely, be longer and kind of in diagonal starting from the phone strap hole on the left side and going a bit down where the other extremity of the chain would be stuck on the phone (which is weird because I do not think the extremity would have stayed stuck on). And the charms were hiding a part of the upper heart which did not look good at all, and I realized that when flipping my phone open, the chain would move down and be noisy..
Also, I had tried to put a chain ring in the phone strap hole, but kinda screwed the strap hole (because it was so tight, the chain ring could not move and it was ugly, but when I tried to remove it, it did not want to, so the strap hole is all damaged because of the pliers squeezing the chain ring to get out).
So that is why I do not regret giving up the keychain idea (even though that meant not hiding the ugly transparent gems).
The idea before sticking the three pieces
After sticking them (and adding other things like the pink ice cream)
I actually forgot the gold heart was supposed to be a bit lower,
so the chain would make a hanging effect, but it's ok~
Now I needed to fill in the spot with gems... but this time, I put some more pearls than usual, and found the result to be prettier than what I would have imagined and very girly-like.
So I ditched the transparent gems, and just continued on with pearls and bracelet rhinestones (they shine a lot it's amazing).
Unfortunately for the bottom part of my phone, the transparent gems seemed already well-stuck, so I thought it was impossible to remove them and start over. T_T
Also, my mom cut for me a pearl in half (it was actually supposed to be a charm in my first keychain idea) so I could put it on the phone! I feel the cutting job was really hard to do (and dangerous a bit) so I'm really thankful because I wanted that pearl cut in half so badly..!!)
As you can see on the bottom part, I gradually added more and more
pearls and bracelet rhinestones to hide the bad transparent gems.
It really does improve the look of the bottom part.
Was my phone done at that moment?
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Yes, I removed a big chunk of the bottom part...
It all started when I thought putting a chain right above the bracelet gems would make my phone more blingy and prettier. But because of the big pearl right under the left bow tail, the chain was not leveled. It was going up and down (also because I had stuck other pearls on top of transparent gems earlier). It looked weird.
So I decided to attempt removing that big pearl. If I was going to succeed, it was so worth it.
And after succeeding to remove the pearl, it finally encouraged me to remove the transparent gems I really did not like (at the same time, I stuck the pink ice cream cone directly on the phone instead of leaving it resting on the gems, so it looked MUCH better from profile after).
^O^
Maybe you don't see a big difference (especially because the whole line of transparent gems is still there), but just right above, I changed pearls, put more pearls, put bracelet stones, removed a lot of superposed gems, etc.
I thought I would leave the line of transparent gems there because I would be putting anyway a chain over it, and the chain would be hiding all of the imperfections perfectly.
I believe that lighting makes my phone look 10 times cuter
But looking at it more, I found that if I put the chain, it looked a lil bit too yellow/gold on the bottom part, so it was out of balance. So I tried putting a whole row of white little pearls, but was still not satisfied. Then tried a whole row of bracelet gems, but not better. Finally, tried alternating pearl-bracelet gems, but it was worse.
So now I guess I am stuck here. As I am writing this, I still haven't found an idea. Well, thinking about it, maybe I should try a silver chain?
After looking at the picture, I found flaws. No!
1. random small pearl that got stuck (there was no glue on fortunately!)
2. bracelet gem that fell off
3. a stain on the pink gem that I figured the chain or whatever over would not hide.
Ok so after solving these little mistakes, this is how the phone looks like.
So now, what is left to do are the inside of the 'heart contour screen' (fill in some gems to cover left and right borders), and the line at the bottom of the phone which leaves me undecided..
For the inside of the heart, I think that tiny transparent silver gems would look nice, but if only they could keep shining once put on... I am stuck with pearls again, and even though I am really satisfied of how they look like, I think silver gems would look better. I will think about this.
For the inside of the heart, I think that tiny transparent silver gems would look nice, but if only they could keep shining once put on... I am stuck with pearls again, and even though I am really satisfied of how they look like, I think silver gems would look better. I will think about this.
I will continue updating my journey in the last part, but for now, I will end this article here.
Byebye!
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