DIY Ring and Jewelry Holder

Happy Earth Day!

I was inspired by recycling (and recently ran out of my favorite face wipes), so I decided to reuse and repurpose some things laying around my room.

Taking the container, I decided to make a little box that I can put knick-knacks in!

All you need is:

• a container
• some kind of adhesive tape (duct tape, washi tape, masking tape) — I used the left over glitter paper from my first craft!
• a sharpie

First thing I did was take off the label. Once I had removed that, I covered it with the glitter adhesive!

And on top I decided to write a cute little quote using a sharpie!

And here is the final product!

All in all, I am super excited with how this turned out!

I think any kind of jar or container like this really spruces up a boring desk.

Rating: 1/10 – the easiest project to date!

xox, 

Corinne

DIY Picture Display

This week I have been super homesick. Partially because I just went home for Easter weekend, I am so beyond ready to be back at home! I miss my family and my friends a lot. 

What better way to bring them back into my life and display them in my room than with pictures!

This way of displaying your pictures is super easy, cute, and affordable!

All you will need are:

• ribbon
• hot glue gun
• pictures
• scissors

First, cut a piece of ribbon to your liking. Then, take your ribbon and lay it out. At the top, fold over an edge to make a loop. Using your hot glue gun, glue it in place.

Making a loop allows you to hang your picture display! Next, take the photos you’ve chosen and space them out along the ribbon. Then, hot glue them in place. Once that dries, hang it up!

 

I love the way this looks hanging up on my wall! It is super easy and takes no time at all!

Rating: 3/10

xox, 

Corinne

 

DIY Ocean Canvas

Hiya! This week’s craft is a painted canvas, inspired by the ocean. When I saw this one, I knew I had to make it. I mean, who doesn’t love puns and the ocean? All you will need are:

• a canvas
• pencil
• paintbrushes
• assorted colors of paint

The first step is to write out all of the words on the canvas. I chose to use my own handwriting, in both regular print and cursive, but you can do whatever you would like!

Next, I painted the background a gorgeous coral color. Again, the colors you choose are totally up to you!

Then, since I could still see through the paint, I just traced over words with a skinny brush in different colors. I chose to do an ocean-y theme, so I started with green and went to blue.

I also added some gold glitter. All in all, I love how this beach-y ocean craft turned out. I think it is perfect for summer and is great to brighten up any dull space!

 

Rating: 6/10 (super easy, but hard to be so intricate with the letters!

 

xox,

Corinne

DIY Earring Holder

Spring is in the air, which means spring cleaning is too!

In an attempt to clean up (or rather, organize) my ever-growing jewelry collection, I decided to make an earring holder (inspired by this one).

All you will need is:

• a frame of some sort (mine is wooden, I bought it at Hobby Lobby)
• tulle
• a hot glue gun
• paint
• paintbrushes
• mini scissors
• earrings!

The first thing I did was take this super bright neon pink paint, and paint the frame. I ended up doing 2 coats, letting them dry in between.

While this dried, I took the piece of tulle (not very big at all!) and folded it a few times. Then, I placed the frame overtop.

Next, I put hot glue on the back of the frame, and then laid the frame back on the tulle. Since there were a few layers of tulle, I had to glue between the layers.

After, I used small scissors (like nail scissors!) to cut along the edges to remove the excess.

I also decided to add this ribbon that I had laying around my room, so that I could hang the earring holder up.

Then, I added my earrings!

Truthfully, this was super easy! And, it looks super cute hanging up. It is a fun way to display some of your jewelry to brighten up your room after our dreary winter!

Rating: 6/10 (gluing the tulle was the hardest part!)

 

xox,

Corinne

Painted Canvas

This week at Elon University was Greek Week! Inspired by these events, I decided to do a sorority themed craft! My sorority is Alpha Xi Delta, and I found TONS of canvases on Pinterest. Inspired by this one, I made my own.

All you need are:

• canvas
• paint
• paintbrushes
• a pencil

Many of the pictures I took went missing. However, the first thing I did was paint the canvas the light blue color. After letting that dry, I wrote out the saying in pencil.

Then, I went over it with blue paint, but made the greek letters yellow. Lastly, I decided to trace the letters in paint pen!

That’s the final product! It was super easy, and you don’t need to be very artistic to do it!

Rating: 4/10

 

xox,

Corinne

DIY Crayon Art

Searching “crayon art” on Pinterest yields all kinds of results. Granted, some appear harder than others. 

Personally, I think they look super cool. So, of course I had to go try it out! 

It was actually a lot simpler than you might think!

All you will need is:

• a hot glue gun
• crayons
• a canvas (of your desired size)
• a blow dryer
• newspaper/cardboard/shopping bags

The first step is to lay out the crayons in the order you want them. Since these were neon crayons, I chose to do a more random order rather than a rainbow. 

Taking your hot glue gun, glue down the crayons. You can either put the glue straight onto the crayon, or onto the canvas. Both techniques work well. Instead of doing a straight line, I opted to do a zig-zag.

Looking back, I wish the crayon labels all had the color names facing outwards!

The next step is to take your blowdryer and start heating up the crayons. I recommend a high heat, but a low blowing power. THERE WILL BE SPLATTER! Make sure that your work area is properly covered. You want to aim the heat at the tips of the crayons, near the edge of the label.

At the end, it should look something like this!

After seeing how easy that was, I decided to make another crayon art.

This time, I used metallic crayons and organized them in rainbow order, in a straight line.

Heating them the same way, the wax started to drip.

Here is the final product!

What I think is so cool about the metallic is that the silver glitter in each crayon gets dripped with the wax, giving it a shimmery quality.

This project was MUCH easier than expected. The hardest part was probably lining up the crayons on the canvas with the glue. The blowdrying was easy, as long as your surface was properly covered. 

I would give this a 5/10 on the difficulty rating scale!

I cannot wait to hang these up in my dorm room!

xox, 

Corinne

DIY Glitter iPhone Charger

As a dedicated Pinterest user, I am always seeing glittered iPhone chargers. Instead of dealing with the hassle of using loose glitter, modge podge and a brush (like this one) I found this nifty glitter tape at Michael’s Craft Store.

 

Seriously, it is some awesome stuff. Not only is it my favorite color, and glittery, it is an adhesive tape so it is SUPER easy to work with, and there is little fallout. 

All you will need for this project is glitter adhesive tape (any color you prefer!), scissors and a pencil. Oh! You will also need whatever you are adhering the tape to. 

I started out by measuring the height of my charger.

Then, I traced a line on the top, marking where I would cut across with my scissors.

Next, you cut along the line. I recommend cutting a little bit more than needed, this way there is overlap, rather than a gap. Now, you just peel off the paper backing… 

Wrap your plug, and ta-da! 

After seeing how easy this process was, I admit I went a little bit glitter-crazy! I did the cord of my charger, both the USB side and the iPhone port side. Here’s the final product! 

 

This was a super easy craft, that I think anyone could do! 

Difficulty rating: 2/10 (10 being the hardest, of course!)

Happy crafting!

 

xox, 

Corinne