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January 31, 2018

DIY Wall Banner + How To Make Tassels

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DIY Wall Banner + How To Make Tassels

I’m going to show you how to make a banner and I’m also going to show you how to make tassels that are going to go on the banner. This DIY wall banner is really cute and easy DIY room decor idea.


What you will need for this DIY is two pieces of paper, any type of stick that you want, I used a barbecue stick, wire cutters, a ruler, scissors, a pencil, a paintbrush, paint, two or more colors of twine string, or thread, tape, a needle, fabric, and a glue gun.


The first thing you want to do is print or draw out a template of words. The words can be anything that you want. I chose the words "Stay Positive".

After you made your template, you want to put it under a piece of fabric and then you want to draw out the shape of your banner with a ruler and a pencil.

The banner can be any size or shape and you want to make sure you make the banner long enough for the words.

Now you need to cut out your banner with scissors.


After you cut out your banner, you want to place the banner over the template and trace the letters onto the banner.


Now you want to place the banner on a new piece of paper or on the template paper so the paint doesn't get on anything if it goes through the fabric and paint the words in with any color of paint that you want.

Now you have to wait for the banner to dry and make sure you pick up the banner every now in then so the banner doesn't get stuck to the paper.


While it's drying you can measure the stick that you are going to use and cut off any of the extra stick that you don't want. I cut my barbecue stick with wire cutters and then I sanded down the sides of the stick.


For the tassels, you want to take a book and wrap the string you want to use for the tassels around the book. Remember the longer the book the longer the tassels are going to be.


Once you are done wrapping your string, you want to cut off any extra string, and then you want to take another piece of string and put it under the string that's on the book and tie it to the tassel.


Then you want to pull off the string from the book and cut the loop at the bottom. You don't have to worry if it's not even at the bottom because you're going to fix it at the end.


Now you want to take another piece of string and place one string onto the tassel. Make sure this string is long as the string that you tied earlier onto the tassel and then you can take more of the same string to make a loop and place the loop over the same string.


Then you want to wrap the string, that's from the loop, around the tassel. You can tie it around as many times as you want.

When you are done tying your string you want to take the string that you are wrapping with and then put it though the loop and then you want to pull the other string that not the loop.


All you have to do now is cut off any of the extra string and then you won't see that string.

If you need to you can take some tape and wrap it around the bottom of the tassel and cut in the middle of the tape with scissors to make sure the tassel is even on the bottom and then you can pull of the tape.


If you want to make another, just follow the same steps.

When your banner is dry you want to flip over your banner and place your stick near the top but leave some room.

Take your glue gun and start putting a little bit of glue at a time and wrap the fabric over the stick. Do this until you get to the end of the fabric.


Then you can tie on your tassels onto the stick.

The last thing you have to do is take one piece of string and tie one end of the string to one side of the stick and then you want to tie the other end of the string to the other side of the stick. All you have to do now is to cut off any of the extra string.

For this optional step you can draw a shape onto the banner and put some thread onto a needle and then you can sew on the shape with any type of stitching that you want.


and that's how you make this wall banner! In the comments down below let me know what you think about this wall banner.


DIY Wall Banner + How To Make Tassels

DIY Wall Banner + How To Make Tassels

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January 30, 2018

4 DIY Geometric Room Decor Ideas

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4 DIY Geometric Room Decor Ideas


I'm going to show you how to make geometric sculptures, then I will show you how to make a geometric wall art, and for the last DIY I will show you how to make a coaster.

The geometric pyramid sculpture and the geometric diamond sculpture are really simple to make and you can make them out of straws, barbecue sticks, or lollipop sticks.

The geometric heart wall art looks really cute and its really easy. You can use any type of pattern for this geometric wall art idea.

The coaster can have type of design.

Here's how to make all of these DIYs:


DIY Pyramid Sculpture


DIY Pyramid Sculpture

The first DIY I'm going to show you how to make a pyramid sculpture.

You want to take a barbecue stick and cut four sticks off that barbecue stick that measures to be 4 inches long and then you want to cut four more sticks that measure to be 5 inches long. You can use wire cutters to cut the stick.

Then you want to cut four more sticks that should measure to 5 inches each. You can change the size of the sticks to make any size that you want for the sculpture.


Now you want to take the 4 inch sticks and a glue gun and you want to glue the sticks into a square.


For the pyramid part of this sculpture, you want to take two of the 5 inch sticks and glue one end of each stick to a corner and at a angle that is diagonal from each other and then you want to glue the other ends of them together. Then repeat that again with the other two sticks to create a pyramid.


Now you want to put some more glue on each end so it helps keep the sculpture together and it will look like its all one piece when its all together.

The last thing you have to do is to paint the sculpture. You can paint the sculpture with acrylic paint or spray paint.

You can put anything that you want inside of the triangle sculpture like a flower or a bowl.

DIY Pyramid Sculpture

DIY Geometric Heart Wall Art


DIY Geometric Heart Wall Art

The next DIY I'm going to show you how to make geometric heart wall art.

For this DIY you will need two or more colors of cardstock paper or scrapbook paper, a piece of white paper or another color for the background, scissors, a binder clip or a picture frame, a ruler, a pencil, and a glue stick.


If you are only using two colors of paper like me, you want to cut five 2 inch squares out of each color of the paper you are using for the heart. If you are using more colors than me then cut out as many squares that you will need and you ca trace the squares to make identical square.


Now you want to cut each of the squares diagonally in half to make triangles.


Then you want to lay the triangles out to form a heart onto the piece of paper you are going to use as the background. I used a white piece of paper.

Then you have to glue the triangles onto the paper with a glue stick.


The last thing you have to do is to put the geometric heart into a picture frame or put a binder clip onto the paper to hang the picture up.


DIY Diamond Sculpture


DIY Diamond Sculpture

The third DIY I'm going to show you how to make a diamond shaped sculpture.

You can use barbecue sticks for this sculpture or you can use lollipop sticks like I did.

You want to cut five sticks to 3 inches, fifteen sticks to 2 inches, and five more sticks to 4 inches.


Since the lollipop sticks that I have are slightly under 4 inches, mine will be a little bit shorter but you can play around with the size of the diamond to make any size.

You want to take the five 3 inch sticks and glue them together to form a pentagon with a glue gun.


Then you want to take two of the 4 inch sticks and glue each end into a corner of the pentagon at a angle. Then glue the other ends together. All you have to do is repeat the same steps until you get a pyramid with a pentagon base.


Now you want to take two of the 2 inch sticks and glue each end to the bottom of one of the triangles and then you want to glue the other ends of the sticks to form a triangle.

Then you want to glue another triangle next to that one and now you want to glue a stick to the tops of those two triangles so there will be another triangle between them and they will be connected.


Now all you have to do is to follow the steps for the rest of the 2 inch sticks the same way as the triangles.

After you glue all of the sticks together you want to add more glue into each corner of the sculpture to help keep it together.

Then all you have to do is paint the sculpture with acrylic paint or spray paint.

If you want you can put anything under the diamond like a flower or a candle.

DIY Diamond Sculpture

DIY Coaster


DIY Coaster

For the last DIY I will show you how to make a coaster out of polymer clay.

The first thing you want to do is to measure out a 4 inch square template out of paper.

Then you want to roll out some polymer clay and then you want to trace the template onto the clay and trim the extra clay off with a knife used for clay.


Then you want to bake the coaster by following the clay instructions.

When the coaster has cooled down you can paint anything that you want onto it. I decided to paint a white diagonal triangle onto it.


When the paint has dried you can put Mod Podge onto it to protect it. You might want to use your finger instead of a paintbrush because you will probably see the brush strokes when it's dry.


DIY Coaster

and that's it! In the comments down below let me know what you think about these DIYs.

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January 29, 2018

DIY BTS Notebooks

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DIY BTS Notebooks

I'm going to show you how to make a notebook that's inspired by BTS. This DIY notebook is really easy to make and you can make any design that you want.

This is a really cute notebook idea that you can make out of a notebook or you can make your own notebook with lined or blank paper.


Instructions on how to download the notebook covers:

Click on the link to image that you want.

Then you right click on the image and click save as and save it to your computer.

Here are the download links for the notebook covers that I made:

Mic Drop
Love Yourself

Here's what they look like:


The first thing you want to do is to start working on your cover and you do that by going to Canva and make a image that's 11 by 8.5 inches.


Once you have done that, you want to take a gray square or rectangle and make it really skinny and make it the same height as the image and put it in the middle of the image. This will act as a folding point after you print the cover out.


Now you can do any type of design that you want. I decided to put a microphone and the words Mic Drop on the first one that I made on the right side of the line and then on the second one I made I put a rose and the words Love Yourself on the right side of the line. I also used similar colors to the cover of the Love Yourself album on the images and the text besides the Mic Drop text.


The right side of the line is where the front cover is so that's why you want to put it on that side but if you want the other side to be the front cover then you can put the design on the left side.


When you get your design done, you want to download your pictures and print them out. You can print more than one notebook cover on one piece of paper if you want or you can print one cover on a piece of paper.

I'm using a Windows computer and you can make the notebooks any size that you want by changing around with the printer settings.


After you get your cover printed out, you can fold the cover on the line that's at the middle of the piece of paper and cut the cover out. You can use the line in the middle to see where the bottom and top of the cover is if your cover is white and for the sides use the text or image to where the side of the notebook cover stops.


For the inside of the notebook, you can take ten or more pieces of paper and trace the cover on top of it. Then you want to cut out the paper with a x-acto knife or scissors.



Now you want to fold each piece of paper in half and stack them all on top of the the cover.



To connect all of the piece of paper together, you want to take two staples and a push pin. If the staples are stuck together, you can pull them apart.


Now put the staple near the top of the folded part of the notebook and measure how big the staple is by poking holes where the two ends of the staple are. Do the same thing again but near the bottom of the notebook.


After you poke the holes, you want to poke through the same holes all the way through to the cover with the push pin.


There should be four holes for two staples on the folded part of the notebook.

Now you can put the staples in at the front and close the staples inside the notebook.


If you need to cut off the extra paper that the cover is not covering.


Something that you can do is take a piece of washi tape that's the same size as yur notebook and place it over the staples to look like binding of a actual notebook.


If you want to make more notebooks like this you just follow the same steps to make more.

That's how you make these DIY notebooks!

What do you think about these notebooks and will you be making one?

DIY BTS Notebooks

DIY BTS Notebooks

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