Thursday, 23 April 2015

Domino's garlic breadsticks' box turned into a fancy jewellery organizer!!! :D

Hi peeps!! Hope you all are well :) I know, I know, this blog has been quite inactive for a while, and I am reallyyyy sorry about that. But now 'Something Different' is back in action with this new tutorial : a Jewellery organizer box!!

This is one also 'best out of waste' kind of project. Mother's day is coming up, so this could be a great project for kids too to do during their summer holidays. You can make any other kind of organizer, say for your stationery accessories or say crafting tools, following the same steps.



Here we go :

Step 1: As I mentioned, this is a 'best out of waste' project. So the basic box that is used here is actually a 'Domino's garlic breadsticks box' :P :D First step would of course be 'cleaning the box' well.




Then I stapled those little flaps in back, so that we get a proper rectangular box.


Step 2: I have white paper sheets to cover the box (and later colored them), but you can always go for colored paper sheet, if you like.
First I covered the edges of the bottom part of box as shown in pictures below.





Edges of the upper part are little angled (not perfect straight lines). I covered this edges as indicated below.




So you box will now look like this.


Step 3: There are two tiny flaps coming out on the top cover of the box.

Cut those off. That will give better flexibility while opening and closing the box.



Step 4: And then cover rest of the interior portion of the box as earlier.


Step 5: For the outer side of the box, I have used this pretty wrapping paper sheet. It has a nice, elegant design and I guess that goes well with our 'jewellery box' concept. If you wanna make any other kind of organizer, you can choose the outer cover accordingly.


Step 6: Then I colored the interior white portion with acrylic colors of shades matching with the cover and then I pasted pieces of a card board paper sheets to give it a neater look.


So that's how the box is decorated. Now we can start making inner compartments.

Step 7: You can make any number of inner compartments as you wish. Procedure will be as below:

Here I wanted to make 15 cm x 7 cm x 3 cm box. For that, I took a rectangular piece of size 21 cm x 13 cm. and marked lines at distance of 3 cm from each edge. (That is going to be height of that box.)


Step 8: Cut and fold along the lines as shown.



Step 9: Apply glue to the overlapping flaps. And your first inner compartment is ready. Simple, isnt it?

In a similar fashion, you can make rest of the compartments of different dimensions. Make sure they fit in the jewellery box well.

Step 10. Arrange the boxes and put your jewellery knick-knacks in it and there you have your pretty pretty jewellery box!!!



Why throw away the boxes, if you can make such cool things out of them!! So people, enjoy your Domino's garlic bread and then make something useful and beautiful out of it... Something Different!! :)

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Wednesday, 18 March 2015

3-D, Pop-up Birthday card : 'Happy Birthday Mom'!!!

Hello everybody, good to meet you all after a long time. After a wonderful 'valentine's day special' series, 'Something Different' has brought for you another tutorial of making a cute pop-up, 3-D birthday card. Actually my mom's birthday is nearing, so I have prepared this card specially for her. <3




Here goes the tutorial :

Step 1 : Take a rectangular piece of white drawing paper of size 11 cm x 30 cm.

Step 2 : Mark all the lines as shown in image below, at given distances.


Step 3 : Cut along the dark straight lines only. Fold lines shown by (-----) in outward way (i.e. towards you). And fold lines shown by (---x----x---) inwards away from you. This is most important step. So make sure you make appropriate folds along the drawn lines only and not the rest of the card area.


Result will look something like this.


Step 4: Paint painted tiers of cake on a different sheet. Each tier has a size little bigger than our basic 3-D shape. (Alternatively, you can paint on the basic 3-D shape itself). Then paste the tier-cutouts on each of the steps of 3-D shape.


Step 5: Then decorate the card as you wish and write some sweet message on it. Taken another rectangular piece of pink drawing paper with size 12 cm x 31 cm. And then paste our 3-D card on it keeping some edge allowance.


Step 6: Make some simple decorations on the front side of the card. And there you have it! A sweet, simple looking, 3-D pop-up birthday card! :)



Happy crafting you guys!! :)

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Monday, 9 February 2015

Valentine's Day Special!!! : 'I love you beary much!!'

And..... 'Something Different' is back again with another very simple tutorial from our 'Valentine's Day Special' series. It is a cutesy greeting card saying 'I love you bearyyy much' ;) <3


Not too complicated, not too time-taking and still a very cute card!! Here are the steps :

Step 1 : Cut out a heart (of size of your choice) from a white drawing paper or red one. Also make another cutout that is similar to the lower half part of that previously cut heart-shaped cutout. 



Step 2: Make few more cutouts for head of the teddy bear, its hands and feet as shown. Make sure they are in a right proportion.



Step 3: Paint all the cutouts.

Step 4: Apply glue to the edge of the backside of half-heart cutout. And paste it on the whole-heart shaped cutout such that their edges match perfectly. In this way, we will get a heart with small pocket in front :)


Step 5: Then paste the teddy parts appropriately. And the card is almost ready!!



Step 6 : Make a small rectangular card and write your love message in it. Put this card in that little pocket in the heart :) You can also decorate it with a ribbon bow (as I have done here). 

(Tip : Draw an outline of this ready card on another drawing paper. Cut it out. And then paste it on the backside of our card to give a nice finishing!!)




There you go!! 'I love you beary much' greeting card is ready!! 

I will see you soon with many more craft tutorials. Till then, buh-bye!! :)


Saturday, 7 February 2015

Valentine's Day Special!! : 'Open your heart' gift box

Hi everybody!! Hope you are having a great weekend :)

Today 'Something Different' has brought something extra special for you as a part of our 'Valentine's Day Special Series'. Well, I have named it 'Open your heart' gift box!!! <3 :D


This lovely box has four compartments and hence it can be used to put together a bunch of little little valentine's gifts.
The tutorial is for a heart-shaped box of size 21 cm x 21 cm approximately. It has two semicircular boxes and two triangular boxes. Following are the steps :


Step 1: We will start with two semicircular boxes first. Each such box is made up of two parts A and B as shown. Cutout these parts having given dimensions from preferably red or pinkish drawing paper. Make folds along the marked lines.



Step 2: Apply some glue to part A along the circular edge and stick the rectangular strip to it around the edge as shown.

Finally it should look something like this :


Step 3: Take some satin ribbon and apply glue to it. Use it to connect part A with Part B.


That is it. One semicircular box is ready!


Repeat the same procedure for the second semicircular box.

Step 4: Now lets start with other two boxes. These boxes have three parts A, B and C as shown in image below.

Step 5: Make folds and make a partial cut in Part A as shown below :


Apply some glue to that overlapping flap and it will look like this.


Step 6: We need to make triangular slits in rectangular strip as we did previously for semicircular boxes. And make folds along the marked line.


Step 7: Now as earlier, stick this strip to the curved edge of part A.


Step 8: Repeat step 5 with part B to form lid of this box.

Step 9: Again using satin ribbon, connect both parts A and B together and the box it ready!!


Repeat the steps to make another similar box.

Step 10: Put all four boxes together and you will get a whole heart :) The final result will be like this:



I have carpeted the bottoms of each of the boxes to make it look neat. You can decorate it with some ribbon flowers etc. You can also make a heart-shaped base to which these boxes can be pasted so that they all stay together or just leave it like this.


Now you can put together your valentine's gifts in it and present this to your valentine with some romantic setting... you know candle, flowers, a greeting card and all!! ;)


Hope you liked today's tutorial. Stay tuned for more!! :)

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Ciao!! :)