I Made an Animal Crossing Balloon Present!

so how's everyone's quarantine going i personally like many others have been playing a lot of animal crossing i remember back when new leaf came out i had just started college and it was a great way for me to occasionally escape the stress of exams and late nights and now that new horizons is out it's a great way to escape the stress of the outside world i know not everyone is super into animal crossing but i thought this would be a cute video idea and i knew it'd be a wasted opportunity to play this much animal crossing and not make at least one casual video about it and i figured it'd be nice to make one fun relaxed wholesome video before i jumped into another big one so it was my friend christine's birthday in early april and i was having a really really hard time trying to figure out what to get her and how to put it together see christine's a very crafty person so every time she gifts anyone anything it's always put together really nicely and neatly like a pinterest dream and then the rest of us feel ashamed for putting our gifts and reused gift bags with white tissue paper because all the good tissue paper colors in the assorted pack were used three birthdays ago come on you know the struggle i was planning on getting her the new sailor moon collection from colourpop because she really loved sailor moon but it was sold out immediately and then i found out it was being restocked at ulta but then all of the ulta locations closed because well you know so at this point i'm kind of at a loss trying to think of how i'm gonna make this birthday present look half decent i am by no means a crafty person in any way my creativity exists in the space of 2d and nowhere else a third grader could probably out arts and crafts me on any given day of the week i was two seconds away from just checking out with an online ulta gift card and accepting defeat but then i had an idea so like myself christine has also been playing a lot of animal crossing she still has to go into work every day and every time she comes home her relaxation times put into her animal crossing island now for those unfamiliar in the game there's presents attached to balloons that occasionally fly over your island and if you pop them with a slingshot you can get goodies like money and furniture and clothes so here's my how to put together an animal crossing themed balloon present even if you're not good at presents video and perhaps you're thinking emily it's literally a wrapped gift with a balloon attached to it that's incredibly simple and you know what yeah but like i'm still really happy with how the little touches turned out and just let me do this okay i'll be including links to where i got everything including the artists who shops i purchased from so if you're interested in anything you see in this video links will be down below so i wanted to give the gifts a little animal crossing flair to fit the theme of the presentation even if the gifts themselves didn't really have anything to do with animal crossing for example for these sailor moon caps i purchased off of etsy i used an able sister sticker from redbubble that i thought was super cute and placed it on the outside of the packaging to make it look like it was something i bought from the able sisters themselves i actually liked these so much i bought extras to use for future occasions where i'd be gifting apparel for this aries candle the star choker and these animal crossing earrings i decide to make separate diy recipes diy recipes are a new thing that's been introduced in new horizons where players can collect little recipe cards and use crafting materials to make various items i thought it'd be cute to take this concept and make recipes that used actual crafting materials from the game for these i used some cardstock that i had lying around in my closet a pair of scissors for cutting and rounding out the edges of the cards acrylic paint some cheap paint brushes and a black sharpie for writing you could also use painters tape if you want to get clean white edges since i ordered the aries candle in the scent island breeze the diy recipe calls for one aries fragment two coconuts and two peaches the recipe for the star choker calls for 10 star fragments and these cute little animal crossing earrings have a simple recipe of one single gold nugget i really liked how the diy cards added that little extra touch of making it feel like you pulled the gifts out of the actual game and it was really fun to come up with the recipes too i placed the gifts and the diy recipes in a box and prepared myself for my biggest challenge wrapping to match the lick of the presents in the game i purchased white wrapping paper red ribbon and red balloons the balloons could also be blue green or yellow but i felt like the red balloons had a more classic animal crossing feel to them now obviously i can't make the present box float but i do want to make the balloon float so i ordered a small helium tank it's a bit expensive so the balloon is of course a skippable step but i thought it would really tie the whole thing together and the nice part is i can save the rest of the helium for future balloon presence last but not least instead of the standard birthday card i used some leftover cardstock to make a letter like the ones you send and receive in the game there's a lot of different designs you can choose from but since her birthday's in april i decided to paint the limited edition cherry blossom printed letter of course you don't have to use paint for any of this i just happen to have nothing else so i'm using paint but if you already own copic markers or colored pencils or if you want to just color it digitally and have it printed literally any of those options would probably be easier and less messy than using cheap acrylic paint i'm just willingly giving myself a hard time i guess i placed the finished letter in a pink envelope along with these incredibly adorable animal crossing sticker sheets from toaster kiwi they were so cute i had to get some for myself too finally i added the red dot sticker to match how the letters looked in the game and made sure to address it to her in-game villager name for the finishing touch i baked some sugar cookies and used these ramen and marshall shaped cookie cutters that i also got from etsy raymond's her favorite and marshall's mine the cookie cutters are a little difficult to work with because of how detailed they are so just a word of warning and ta-da there you have it a finished animal crossing balloon gift by the way to all of my local friends this is how you're all receiving your birthday gifts this year to my non-local friends i can't send helium balloons through the mail but i can still send wrapped gifs and letters so if anything it'll be even more accurate to the animal crossing gift receiving experience if you're not at all interested in animal crossing and you still manage to sit through this video thank you and i'm sorry if you happen to have any friends who are aboard the animal crossing train maybe this will give you some ideas for when their birthdays come around the corner there are small little additions here and there but i think they really add a lot of fun and an extra personal touch also i'd like to mention i'm definitely not the first person to think of this idea animal crossing is an incredibly popular game series so balloon presence have always been a thing and it wouldn't surprise me if irl diy recipes started becoming a thing too just thought i'd share my own experience than playing with the idea if you plan on doing something like this and you're like me and you like to order your gifts online i'd recommend doing all of that well in advance of the birthday you're planning for just so you don't have to stress about the separate shipping times of the things you're getting i learned this the hard way anyways i'm gonna get back to working on my next video and of course playing plenty of animal crossing on the side

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Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Tue May 05 2020