Making a Gothic Folding Fan // DIY Hand Fan Embellishment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2021
- Today I use many different materials to embellish a basic bamboo and cotton hand fan, turning it into a metallic gothic inspired accessory to use with my Cicada gown Victorian costume projects! I sculpt, sketch, paint, and sequin away here to complete my first project of 2021.
How I was sewing the sequins: americanfeltandcraft.wordpres...
Some hand fans that inspired me can be found on my crafting Pinterest board here: / crafting-ideas
Images:
Comb 1: i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/32/...
Comb 2: www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera...
Cicada Brooch: www.collectorsweekly.com/stor...
Cicada Painting 1: www.invaluable.com/auction-lo...
Cicada Painting 2: artsandculture.google.com/ass...
Cicada Inro 1 www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Cicada Inro 2: www.bonhams.com/auctions/2055...
Cicada Inro 3: i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/f7/...
Spiderweb Lacquer Writing Box: www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-l...
Spider web box: kagedo.com/wordpress/g/koda-ka...
Music and Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound.
Where I get my pattern drafting paper: atlaslevy.com/Paper_c_13.html (not sponsored)
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A Pasta Maker can be used when you are working with clays to roll out flat, uniform thickness sheets. Just don't leave your eight-year old niece alone in your kitchen when you have clay on the kitchen table.....don't ask me how I know this.
Lol, I made cinnamon Christmas tree cookie cutter decorations and my 19 year old nephew thought they were cookies.
I've often wondered, when seeing certain items in museums or different foods, "how did they think of that?!" Well, now we know 😄
What treasures did she make?😊
@@shirleydrake1602 Necklace beads that looked like little eggrolls and cinnamon buns. 🥠🥠
Brave girl, knowingly giving controversial sequin opinions in these controversially opinioned times. Happier New Year!
Your little cicada dudes and dudettes are so freaking cute. I think providing a template would be lovely, I would definitely appreciate it as I can't draw to save my life.
Thank you Sarah! Good to know!
Michaels carries an inexpensive "gold leaf" that is of course completely not made of real gold, but it sticks very well to raw polymer clay and can be baked. I use it on beads and fairy doors. The fan turned out beautifulI; I love the addition of the sequins (totally agree that flat sequins look classier for some reason).
Thank you Natalie! The "gold" leaf sounds awesome really!
Reminds me of the locust colony we had to look after when I was a school lab technician
Niiice! If you want more polymer appliques in the future, check out cake fondant molds. They are reasonably priced and there are hundreds of different styles.
Thanks Rob! I bet they have such good ones with nice fine details!!! That is a most excellent idea 😅
That fan is gorgeous. The small flat sequins really made it pop!
Thank you Michelle!
Admittedly I couldn't see the vision at the beginning.. I stayed because I find your voice soothing but Damn! This turn out beautiful, I love the webs...
Thank you! 🕸
Thanks for the lovely respite in the midst of a crazy day - moving our business to a different location. Exhausted husband, grumpy son, and I disappeared into the delightful world of pretty and creative. Nice!
I hope that your move brought you more happy results when completed . I like the part where you deep clean before moving in and going back to the old place to deep clean. A lot of satisfaction in a job well done.
Thank you Kaytie! I hope the move is going okay now!
All good, thanks to sanity revivers such as your videos!
Coming to your channel is just the escape I needed today. Thank you
❤ Editing it was a good escape/distraction for me this week too
I make so many comments durning the early morning hours, I bet you think I’m a insomniac! You’d be right about that. It’s amazing the things I have watched and the things I have learned during the night. These fans are so pretty! I really wish we had fancy things to enjoy in today’s dressing customs. I can’t imagine future generations trying to imitate our current dress code of flannel pajama bottoms and sweat shirts. We do dress up sometimes by substituting yoga pants or jeans instead of the standard PJ bottoms, when we go out somewhere fancy, like Walmart or Burger King. I loved your project. I’m beginning to think there is no end to your talents for design and construction. I bet you could design furniture for your eras of interest. It wouldn’t surprise me to tune in and see a classic mid century dressing table, or bed ensemble, designed on your pattern paper, and spread out on the Blue Table Of Doom!
Wow, that was a blast from the past! I haven’t heard of fimo since I was a kid in the 80s. My mom used it to make miniatures, and I remember her having to special order it from a craft store that had never heard of it before.
I concur on the cupped versus flat sequin debate, I've never been able to get on board with cupped sequins!!
Bravo! I like the variety of projects in this series. I made the beaded necklaces and the beaded brooch. I want to do this fan. Bring on the hat!!!
Thank you Amy Jane! I have my box of ribbons and feathers at the ready for hatting next...
Loving the Halloweeney vibes in January! Gotta love a gothic moment any time of the year! At least I do 😊🖤
All halloween all the time 🦇🖤
@@TheClosetHistorian it's a lifestyle! 🦇💀🕷️🕸️🎃🔮
Hope you had as good a Christmas and New Year as was possible 🖤
thank you for your cool content. today I saw a girl on youtube ordering on wish over and over again and wondering about lacking quality. I appreciate your elaborated style, self-made outfits and your claim on quality. I think that's how people can enjoy fashion the most: with a sense for respect making good, long-lasting fabrics, etc. and sewing some good stuff which sparkles joy ^^
Can I just say, it's not the quality of the tools but the talent of the artist! Big standard brushes might not be as easy to use as expensive brushes but your obvious talent shows everyone that expensive tools aren't necessary if your talented enough to work miracles with less expensive equipment!
Thank you!
You are so very talented!! For someone who has never done this before, you have done a heck of a job!! Amazing!! Fan turned out beautiful!
Thank you!
Oh this was SO good. I do not have the patience to detail fans that I know my child will find and break. But your turned out so lovely!
Thank you Stephanie!
Oh. My. God! This is a project Ive been wanting to do for awhile now and was actually considering again a few hours ago. Please do teach and inspire me! So excited to watch this!
My battery died part way through but I was able to come back to finish this. The video was awesome and I loved your finale result. Ive never known anyone who agreed with me about sequins before so that was fun. And I enjoyed the work work word play. I am definitely feeling inspired but sadly it is late and for the sake of good sleep hygiene their will be no new projects tonight.
Thank you for the video! Loved getting to see you craft.
I love hand fans. This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing how you did this one. I'm inspired to do this, but we will see if I become brave enough to try it. Looking forward to the hat!
Thank you Hannah!
Everything you make has me so hype before I even click on it, yessssssssssssss
Thank you Breanna! ❤
Wow! This came out so well. Got to love good old craft acrylic, so many uses for it. I would have never thought of using gel pens for the finer details, such a good idea. Can't wait for the hat!
Thank you! I always love an excuse to buy more gel pens, I remember I was obsessed with them when I was a kid 😅
@@TheClosetHistorian I was the same way! I had a couple of journals with black paper specifically for the metallic gel pens in middle school. Passed many a note on that paper.
When you were antiquing the large cicada I thought "she's making greeblies!" 😆 Lovely, as always. I'm looking forward to your next project!
Thank you Krystal! Indeed, hand made greeblies!
Gold leaf works really well with polymer. Mica powders (or eyeshadows) are great on polymer too, esp for insects because you can get lovely iridescent colours. They can be dusted onto raw clay using a paintbrush. Or even onto baked clay. The only thing is that the pieces need sealing to avoid the powder wearing off. Works particularly well on black clay as iridescent colours usually do.
Hey, and ID watch you tambour a whole dress....tambours pretty fast really, but who cares lol
Thank you Catz! I should totally try using eyeshadow sometime!
World Market is AWESOME! And yes, they do still sell those blanks, my family buys them all the time for stocking stuffers and gift bags. :)
The noir montage at the end was really great. I’m going to produce spooky noir videos for all my sewing projects from now on. It just bumps it up to another level. Another amazing detailed project. You will need to do a dress try on with the fan, hat, corsage and walking suit so we can all get the full affect. Lovely!
Thank you!
Oooh I think making a rough stone (like a rough ver. Of amethyst) would look super cool. I love how much your video inspired me since I’m making my own fan
Ooh I love all the metallics. The cicadas looked so complex and then you explained making them in an easy looking way lol. They came out great! I've thought about fan decorating before. I should finally get some blanks!
I agree with your classy flat sequin preference, except for when putting a medium sized bead in the middle. Then I prefer the cupped shape.
Thank you Reina! It definitely took me at least an hour of failed little cicadas before I settled on how I could make them a way I liked 😅
Showoff! That is gorgeous and such a fun project. Something else to add to the pile of crafts to do. Seriously, it turned out lovely.
Thank you Kimberley!
I have crossed oceans of time to find YOU 💜
Thank heavens for Bianca keeping us sane and inspired! I so enjoy these videos, especially during quarantine. I find them endlessly fascinating even when they involve techniques I probably wouldn’t try. Also here’s to Bianca’s parents: Your totally cool, multi-talented daughter is helping us keep it together. Thank you!
Thank you Jane!
You are sooooooo talented!!!!! This project was wonderful and it turned out beautifully. I wish I had just enough talent to fill my little finger...it would make me so happy! My wish for you this year is that you take time to really look at your accomplishments over the last year and soak in the talent it took to complete all of those projects. I hope doing that allows you to believe in yourself more. It is amazing what you do and how you do it! Thank you for sharing yourself. I learn from you and appreciate it so much.
Thank you so much Peggy you are too kind!
Nail polish is my favorite way to paint polymer clay. Its cheap (if you buy cheap) and you can get a great variety of colors and neat finishes!
I so enjoyed this incredible project, Lady! What a talent from start to finish.
Thank you! ❤
You're welcome!
I love this! the sun hurts my skin so i use fans when at social events ( like when thats happening again) but this gives me so much inspiration. i love your ideas
Thank you!
They make a liquid “glue” for sticking polymer clay together. You also might like a youtuber Turtlesoupbeads. She makes some fancy clay jewelry.
I work with polymer clay a lot ( I make brooches to go with my dresses plus I love making sculptures) your doing great for your first time ! Pigment powders are fantastic on polymer clay you can do neat metal and wood, all kind of effects on it , the creative expressions are the cheapest iv found and they are brilliant, well done you done fabulous!! Love your hair today btw ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you AliLou!
You keep doing it! Is your talent limitless? I am beginning to think so! You fire up all my artistic juices, which normally wouldn't fill an eye-dropper. Lol. Rock on Miss! 💜🦘🦘
Thank you so much Elizabeth!
Laying a black base coat down on the areas you want to be gold helps with the metallic shine.
Off subject but I was thinking of you yesterday. Enjoyed the video, keep up the good work.
Thank you Kaye ❤
Very pretty! I must admit, I initially hoped you were going to CONSTRUCT a fan!
I. am. not. worthy. You: gothically instructing us on how to custom decorate one of my favorite things in the world: a folding fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! Christine M would be so proud!!!! And your source inspiration of the incredible asymmetrical lacquer designs! Oh my gosh when you added the tiny sequins I lost my mind. There is a doll making acrylic gloss called Super Sexy that is used to top coat repainted dolls eyes to look like glass that would get your fan sticks to be like high gloss lacquer.
Thank you Thea! ❤❤❤ I do love some tiny tiny sequins ✨
Very cute fan and I am impressed with your sculpting action! Also, if I dare say so, your hair looks gorgeous today!
Thank you Andrea!
Your fans are so beautiful! I can’t draw or do anything artsy to save my life, but if I could I would love to make stuff like this.💜
Thank you Amber! ❤
The cicadas are so cute. I also like what you did on the fan.
Thank you Fay!
Awesomeness! I love how it turned out!
Cicada Dudes needs to be the name of a bluegrass or rockabilly band...
Thank you!
I am a huge FAN of this project doll!🥰 Beautiful & oh so relaxing to watch ! Thank you! Xx
What a beautiful fan! It would be sooo satisfying to go to an event knowing you were wearing a one of a kind outfit with one of a kind accessories, all created by one’s self!
Thank you Dawn!
You have so much more patience than I do.
Stunning!
Thank you Elizabeth!
This is so creative!! It’s something I never would have thought of doing and it turned out great!
Thank you!
What a great project! I may have to try this out; I really love the idea of using gel pens
Thank you! Finding just the right paint pen can be annoying, but gel pens are always fun 😅
Wow, beautiful!
Thank you!
Love your videos! 🦋
Thank you!
Such a fun project!
Thank you Katherine!
I'm so inspired to draw on some fabric accessories now!
Absolutely beautiful,
Thank you Lesley!
Wow.. this turned out amazing!
Thank you Denise!
It’s so good!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you Carmen!
Fabulous work!
Thank you!
It turned out really beautiful! I kind of want to make a fan now. You should definitely do a video on tambour embroidery! I've been teaching myself and there aren't many good videos on it. Using a proper frame for tambour makes it way easier than using a hoop because you can get more tension. I've got an elbesse star tapestry frame which is pretty good except that I had to drill extra holes in it. They come in loads of different sizes and are pretty cheap. I would like to make a big slate frame at some point though. I'd love to see what kind of design you'd come up with for a beaded dress
Thank you Maria! I'd love a big slate frame as well, a project for a future time...
WOW 😲 gorgeous.
Thank you Jocelyn!
That turned out to be a very detailed project. Beautiful! Almost too good for the cheap fan that you started with. I'm thinking of all the variants you could make with that theme. Black feathers and rhinestones, Oh my!
Thank you!
I really liked this! Can't wait to try to do one myself.
Thank you Lisa!
That turned out pretty darn cool!
Thank you!
Nice techniques Bianca! It came together beautifully! 🤩 💃🏻
Thank you Diana!
Wonderful outcome, this was a great video. Thank you for bringing us along.
Thank you!
It turned out so well.
Thank you!
@@TheClosetHistorian You are very welcome.
Beautiful fan wonderful job loved watching your work!
Thank you!
Great detail work. It turned out beautifully.
Thank you!
That is beautiful Bianca.
Thank you Tracie!
Gorgeous project, delightful video - I now feel positively chilled! Thank you.
Thank you Leonie!
Bravo! Great job. The fan is beautiful.
Thank you Sherry!
A great first project. Enjoyed watching you create it.
Thank you Dannie!
Very cool!
Thank you!
great job!
Thank you!
Very nice!
Thank you Kelly!
Was a lot of fun to watch and I love the fan. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Susan!
@@TheClosetHistorian you're most welcome
You are a bright spot in my day! I love fans and have been teased when they have been spotted in my purse. On hot summer days when the air conditioning goes out in a building they make life a little better. My son brings me fans from different countries. The little things make me happy. I'm looking forward to the hat making. You always have excellent content!🕊❄💄👠🎩🕶
Thank you Mary! Fans from different countries sounds like a wonderful collection!
I have never worked with polymer clay either, but you made it look easy! Fun video! You should design fabric prints, you are very creative.
Thank you Sue!
That looks terrific i think you are very talented
Thank you Trudi!
Craft time! Yay!!!!
So beautiful . I wish I had as many talents as you . You are an amazing lady
Thank you Louise!
I would have been so tempted to polish my nails with the gold paint while painting the bugs.
Hiya, good job! Never would’ve guessed you’re a newbie with the ckay, came out beautiful! Jet 🧡🎸🎶⚡️🦇😻🐈⬛
Thank you Jet!
I love World Market!
Wow..awesome fan..it was fun watching you create it..I hope it lasts for many years..the other fans you showed were also beautiful..wonderful 😀😀😀😀
Thank you Cheryl!
Hi Bianca!! Happy New Year!! How beautifully the fan turned out.. Your absolutely amazing at what you can do....
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Thank you Deana!
Greetings from Florida! Very familiar with Cost Plus from when I lived in California (20 years ago). An equivalent here in the Southeast (maybe even the same parent company), is World Market. Not sure of what they carry, but that's what company websites are for, yes? Now, back to the video!
Wonderful thank you 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖
its sokkoooooooooooo beautiful wow
Thank you Stevie!
This was very enjoyable and relaxing to watch! I too would love to see what kind of hat you make.
I think I might have been the only person thinking 'glossy taco!' each time you said 'glossy topcoat' - which I suppose says a lot about me.
Edit: spelling
Thank you Jennifer!
Very lovely
Thank you!
As Ace of Clay would say, you made some good snakes of clay. Love how this turned out. :}
Thank you!
very cute hair!
Thank you!
I wonder if dipping the whole thing in a diluted black calligraphy ink would work at the start or if it would cause the fabric to become unstuck.
This is so cool! Also, idk if this was purposeful, but this video on the hand fan is not included in the cicada gown playlist on your channel. ❤
Oriental Trading Co. used to have them..
Would that be fans or Fimo clay please?
@@maryblaylock6545 sorry...should have said fans..
Amazing that u can create bugs and what have you free hand.
Thank you!