Decorated Letter Home Decor

Decorating our home is something that we all love doing. I have shared quite a few Home Décor ideas that you can check anytime on the blog. Today, I am again going to share an amazing idea of home décor that is Decorated Letters. This DIY is so much fun to make and play as you can customize it as per your desire. Let’s get stared!!

Jewelry Box

In this post, we will see how to make a super easy Jewelry Box. It is just a box and you can use it for any purpose. Earlier also I have shared a DIY of Utility Box made up of newspaper but this box is quite different from that one. Let’s get started with the procedure!!

You will need some old magazines for making this box. If you don’t have magazine then you can use any old book or old newspapers. Divide each page of magazine into two halves vertically. Roll each half vertically into small tubes which must be of equal size. We will need quite a lot of tubes for the box so make them in quite a good number.

Photo Collage

Few days back was my parent’s Wedding Anniversary and I was too confused about how to make it more special for them. After going through so much of thinking, I decided to make a photo collage for them. When I thought of making this collage, I didn't had an idea that it will turn out to be so beautiful. My parents just loved the whole idea of this Photo Collage. Today, I will be sharing this beautiful DIY Photo Collage with you all.

Paper Mache

In this post, we will be learning about a new crafting skill and that is Paper Mache craft. Paper Mache is a composite material formed with the pieces of paper mixed with glue. Basically, it is something like making clay at home but with paper and glue. It is very easy to make and use as well but it does consume some time to get prepared.

Bird and Nest Home Decor

Today we will be learning how to make Bird and Nest décor using paper Mache. If you have heard this term first time then you must go and check out my previous post of Paper Mache. In my previous post, I have shared the procedure of making Paper Mache. In this post, we will make a Bird’s Nest using Paper Mache for home décor. If you have seen my earlier posts, then you must have realized that this is our second variation of making Bird’s Nest and yet it’s too different from the previous one. Let us look at the procedure.

Tribal Dolls

I am here again with another home décor idea that will grace your home with its beauty.  You all have seen tribal women showpiece which is so elegant and also quite costly. So why not make them at home with old newspapers. Yes you read it right, we will be making these beautiful tribal dolls. The best part of making these dolls by yourself is that you can make them of any color and size as per your wish. I have seen this DIY somewhere on the internet and I really liked it so I thought of sharing it on the blog. Let’s start with this amazing craft.

Mobile Stand

We will be learning today how to make a Mobile Stand. Admit it that whenever you need your mobile it goes missing here and there and we have to search it. Today’s DIY is the solution for this problem and it is so easy to make. Let’s start with the procedure:

Golden Clutch

Today we will see an exciting DIY to make a beautiful Clutch using old newspapers. This DIY is really interesting and fun to work on. You just need some old newspapers to get it done. Let’s start the process and see how to make it.

Tea Coaster Carriage

Here I am to share an amazing creative DIY of making a Tea Coaster Carriage. Without a delay, let’s move ahead and look at the procedure.

Newspaper Utility Box

Today I am sharing a DIY to make a Utility Box. For this DIY, you don’t need any costly material you just need some newspapers and strong glue. This is so easy and inexpensive and is best suited for storing light weight things like jewelry, craft embellishments, pearls, etc.

The procedure for the Jewelry Box is as follows:

Step 1: Take some pages of a magazine and divide into half each page. Roll each page into a tube using a pencil or any thin stick. Prepare around 47 such tubes. Color 20 tubes black and other 27 with magenta. You can select any color of your choice.

Step 2: Take a spare cardboard and it must be hard. Cut two small squares of side 3 cm. Paste both the squares together to form a thick square. Wrap the tape on all the sides of this square. Now take a black tube and wrap it around this cardboard square to get coiled square as shown in figure. Seal both the ends of tube with glue and remove the cardboard square. Do this with all other black tubes. At the end, you must have twenty black squares.

Step 3: Take a magenta tube and roll it to form a closed coil as shown in the image. Secure both its ends using glue. Prepare 30 such coils leaving six magenta tubes as it is.  Now at the end of this step you must have 21 magenta circular coils.

Step 4: Now take one magenta coil and paste it inside the black square as shown in the image. Do this for all black squares and 20 magenta coils. We will use one magenta coil that’s left later on. Let them dry properly.

 Step 5: Take two black squares with magenta coil pasted at the center and paste their one side with each other. Do these for all other black squares and you must have 10 pairs of squares now. Take two pairs of squares and paste them together such that they will form a big square grid having four smaller squares. Prepare three such big squares. At the end, you must have four pairs of squares and three big square grids. Take a magenta tube and wrap it around the sides of all pair of squares and two big square grids. Leave one square grid as it is for later.

Step 6: Now take one big square grid whose sides are wrapped with magenta tube and paste four pairs of squares on each side of this grid. Do this step very carefully and the glue must be very strong so that it can hold the parts together. This will be the box.

Step 7: Take another big square grid whose sides are wrapped with magenta tube and square grid which does not have magenta tube wrapped on its sides. Paste them together upside down and grid with magenta tube wrapping will be the top. Take leftover magenta coil and paste it on the top at the center. This will be the lid of the box.

Step 8: Take sheet of any color and draw a square on it which must be equal to the big square grid with magenta tube wrapping. I have drawn square of side 7cm. Now mark a point 4.5cm from all the four sides of the square. Draw straight line on all the four points such that an outer square is formed. Then extend all the sides of Inner Square from both the ends and you will get a grid having small squares at the corners. Next cut the marked sides in the image and score all the lines so that folding becomes easy. Form a container by pasting the cut sides on to the other as shown in the image. Now place this paper container in the paper box and close it with the lid.

Paper Utility Box is ready!!

Happy DIY!!

Newspaper Basket

I find using waste material in some way or the other quite interesting. It is because it enhances your creativity and moreover helps in getting rid of the waste material in environmental friendly way. Now each house has newspapers which are of no use after sometime. We can create wonders using these newspapers; we just need time to make use of it. I used newspapers for making a small basket which can carry light weight things like cosmetics, medicines, flowers etc.. 

We just need newspapers and glue to make the basic structure of the basket. Firstly, roll a page of newspaper into a thin tube like structure with the help of a thin pencil. Then these tubes are rolled into spiral fashion to get circular shape. Size of the circles depends on your requirement. Lastly, just paste them carefully to get the desired frame.

One tip that you must apply while trying it is that once circles of newspaper are done then just apply glue on both sides of the circle to make it more secure.  Also you need to be very careful while pasting these circles together to make sure they don’t fall off. Once you are done with pasting just let it stand for about 4-5 hours. Afterwards, just do the coloring and you can also paste any kind of beads, stones or other things to decorate it.

The basket that I have made is circular and I have used three different sizes of the newspaper circles- Larger circle for the base and other two in the walls of basket. Have a look at the picture of the basket that I have made-

I am also working on the wall hanging using these newspaper tricks but it will take some time to get completed. Once it gets done then I will surely share on my blog. Till then just think the other ways in which we can recycle the waste material.