I painted 300+ flowers to make THAT dress (ft. withwendy)

- Swifties I come in peace, okay.

Stream folklore.

I'm just kind of winging it.

Here goes nothing.

- These tiny ones are
murderously difficult.

Look how beautiful.

- Oh my God.

I'm actually speechless right now.

(upbeat flute music)

- Hey besties, this is your
reminder to go drink water,

if you haven't already today.

Welcome back to yet another episode of

Amanda doing random things on her channel.

I'm tired of being confined to
a small sized piece of paper

and I'm breaking free of those shackles.

I've been wanting to do bigger
art projects on my channels

besides like the regular
bullet journal stuff.

But I didn't really know
exactly what I wanted to do

until I had a nice, little video call

with my fellow Toronto
YouTuber @withwendy.

If you guys don't know who she is,

she is an awesome YouTuber who sews stuff.

She DIYs stuff.

And she is just a lovely,
lovely human being.

We put it on the back burner for a while

until the Grammys that happened recently.

And she immediately
messaged me and was like,

"how about this?"

She sends me a picture of Taylor Swift's

lovely outfit from the Grammys.

And it's just with all these flowers

all over her dress that
are, like, hand embroidered

and she just looks great.

She looks chef's kiss, very cottage core.

You know, today I will be
hand-painting a ton of flowers

so that me and Wendy can
recreate Taylor Swift's look.

I'm in charge of the flowers

and then I'm gonna pass it off to her.

It's gonna be kind of
like an art DIY relay.

It'll be cool for me to see how the actual

final project turns out

because I won't be there to
see how she puts it together.

I'll only see, you know what I paint

and then it'll be magically
transformed into this garment.

This is the fabric that I have over here.

Wendy and I did a little handoff,

it felt like we were passing

off illegal substances or something.

- [Amanda] I got the goods.

- Yay!
- [Amanda] Thank you.

I will see you at the next drop off.

- Social distance drop off

Mission accomplished.

All right, bye.
- Bye.

- There's a lot of fabric.

Now looking at it,

I think I did underestimate
how much I would have to paint.

I was like to Wendy.

"Yeah. Yeah. I'll paint all those flowers.

No worries.

I can finish that."

But I'm gonna have to buckle down

and do it, for the Swifties.

For the Swifties.

I feel like I'm unlocking
a whole side of YouTube

that I don't know if I
wanna be messing with,

the Swifties are too powerful.

Swifties I come in peace, okay.

Stream Folklore.

All right, so let's just get started.

I'm gonna lay out this fabric

so we can have one nice
big space to work on.

I'll probably just be
working on it on the floor.

So RIP my back.

- [Amanda] Oh my God.

That is a lot of fabric.

I've never painted on fabric before

so I didn't know exactly what to get.

I got two different types of fabric paint.

This one is Castle Arts.

Castle Arts 3D Fabric Paint.

I'm assuming since it says 3D,

it's gonna be a little bit
like puffy paint almost.

So maybe that'll give
us some nice texture.

I thought it would be nice,

especially since a lot
of the flowers kinda

have that 3D look on her dress.

And then I also got these Arteza.

Arteza 24 Fabric Colors.

I think this is just regular fabric paint.

I don't know.

It had the best ratings on Amazon.

I'm gonna have to do a lot of color mixing

'cause these colors are extremely bright.

I'm tryna think of what
my best plan of action is.

Okay. I'm wearing pants,

it may look like I'm not wearing pants.

I printed out these pictures
so I have some reference

while I'm painting.

It also got extremely cloudy
while I was setting up,

which makes painting
flowers not as exciting.

I was so happy today
'cause it was so sunny.

I was like, oh, I'm just
gonna paint some flowers

and it's a sunny day, have the
windows open and everything.

We're gonna be painting
flowers in a dimly lit room.

So I'm gonna just get started.

Honestly. I've never
painted on fabric before

so I don't know how this is gonna go.

I'm gonna try to keep it within this,

like, the color palette
of the original dress

and we'll see how it turns out.

I'm just kind of winging it.

Okay, well here goes, here goes nothing.

(soft piano music)

From what I can tell from
the two types of paint,

they pretty much work exactly the same.

I don't really feel any
difference between the 3D one

and the regular paint.

It is taking me a lot
longer than I expected

because actually the fabric
is kind of soaking up a lot

of paint, which means
that I have to, like,

really lay it on thick and layer it a lot.

So, that was something
I was not expecting.

I was kind of, since I'm
used to drawing on paper.

I was just kind of expecting
it to be like that.

Yeah. It's gonna take quite a lot longer

than what I initially thought.

Probably gonna go ahead
and time-lapse it now

and see how much I can get done.

And then I'll try checking in

once I have a little bit more
ready for you guys to see.

(soft piano music)

Okay guys.

I have finally finished
the full flower piece.

I don't know how many I've done

but it looks like there's
like maybe over 500 here.

It took me a lot longer than I expected.

I did kind of, like, three
or four full work days.

Some of them were four hours,
five hours, three hours.

So I wanna say in total

this was maybe, like, 20 hours of work.

So, it took a while,
but we finally finished.

Let me see if I can
hold it up for you guys.

I'll put also insert shots,
but look at all of this.

I'm so excited.

Hopefully Wendy can work with this

and make this look like something good.

I'm really excited to see
how she transformed this.

I'm actually gonna be
handing it off to her today.

So, we're gonna do a little pass off

and then the next time I'll
see it, it'll be a shirt.

So that's gonna be very exciting.

(soft jazz music)

- Guys, Amanda did such a beautiful job.

I don't even really want to cut it apart.

Look how beautiful.

These tiny ones are murderously difficult.

- Okay guys, I'm so excited

because today is finally
the day that I get to see

the finished piece that Wendy
made with my flower paintings,

the hundreds of flowers that
I painstakingly painted.

I have no idea what
this is gonna look like.

She didn't keep me updated
while she was making it at all.

She did say that she wasn't
able to make a full dress.

She made a top instead, which
is totally fine with me.

I have it right here.

I kept it in the bag
that she gave it to me in

this whole time so that I
wouldn't have a sneak peek

of what it would look like.

I'm kinda nervous.

Okay. Should we just open it I guess?

Ready?

(packet ruffling)

Oh my God.

Wait.

Oh my God.

I'm actually speechless right now.

Look.

Wait, this is so cool.

How did she do this?

Oh my God.

This is so beautiful.

Wow. I actually don't know what to say.

Like, I'm genuinely shocked.

This looks so cool.

Like, I don't know if
you can see the details

but let me see.

They're all, like, individually sewed on,

all of the flowers, like,
cut and stitched out.

Whoa!

This looks so cool.

I'm gonna try it on in
a sec, but I feel like

it definitely looks like
the Taylor Swift dress

but maybe in, like, a more everyday look

'cause it's in a top of course.

Oh my gosh, Wait.

Wendy!

You did such a good job.

I was so concerned.

I was like, "I don't
know if she'll be able to

salvage these flowers 'cause some of them

definitely looked a little bit botch."

and at certain points I was like,

"I don't know if I'm doing
them the right size."

And I know, like, what she had
imagined for this, but like,

this is actually incredible.

Okay. Wait, BRB.

I'm gonna change into the top

and show you guys how it looks like on.

Can we just...

Can I hear a little
commotion for the dress?

(audience applauding)

Wendy.

(Amanda clapping)

(upbeat music)

This was a team effort.

So props Wendy, through the screen.

I actually think I prefer it as a top

because it's like more wearable that way.

I'm just wearing it with
some black jeans right now

but this looks so good.

I mean, I guess I can
wrap this video up now.

I keep looking at the shirt
because it's so pretty.

Definitely a success.

This was such a fun collaboration to do

between the painting and then, like,

dropping off everything.

It really felt like a big group project

and shout out, of course, to Wendy

for making this incredible
piece out of my painting.

I really did not know
how it would turn out

or if she would be able to
use the flowers that I made

but she definitely pulled it off.

If you do wanna check
out the whole process

of her making this top,

I think she also made one for herself,

but like a maternity style
'cause she's currently pregnant.

So, if you wanna check out
the whole process of her

turning that huge flower
painting into this top,

definitely be sure to check out her video,

give her some love.

She is so, so sweet and
so talented clearly.

And I love her and her content so much.

So, I'll leave the link
to her channel down below.

Thank you again, Wendy.

And I think that's pretty much it.

So I will talk to you
guys in the next video.

Keep doodling.

Bye.

where do I go now?

Like this is just so cute.

(soft jazz music)