DIY School Supplies

This collage is so colorful- you know it's going to be a fun post ;)

Hey girl!

Today I'm excited to share 3 fun DIYs- back to school supplies! These are my favorite kind of DIYs because I use them everyday during school. They're all totally customizable, so make them with your favorite papers and colors! I hope you get good use out of these! ♥

DIY Scotch Tape Dispenser

Supplies:

- Scotch Tape with Dispenser

- Patterned Paper of your choice (I used plain white paper, and painted it pink- I explain more below)

- Scissor

- Pencil

Start by removing the roll of tape and the original paper liner that comes in the dispenser.
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Now, trace the liner on the paper you've chosen.
I had a super cute pink paint that I wanted to use. So I cut on white paper so I'd be able to paint to the paper, and end up with a pink paper. I know that's confusing... sorry about that! Just use whatever patterned paper you want to!

 Now cut out the tracing.

 And the circle in the middle...

 Place your new lining and the roll of tape back in the dispenser.

Here's the finished product once I had painted the paper

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DIY Paper Clips/Bookmarks

 Supplies

• Paper clips
• Washi-tape 
• Scissors 

Start by cutting a piece of washi-tape about 2 inches long. Slip the tape through the paper clip like shown above.

Now fold the tape over so it sticks to itself.

It should look like this.

Now trim the tape to the length you like. I think it looks neat cut at an angle.

Ta-da! These are great as bookmarks for your planner or textbooks!

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DIY Pencils

Supplies:

• Pencils
• Washi-tape
• Scissors 

Measure out a strip of tape that is the same length as the pencil. You'll need to do this twice, so you will have two strips.

Take the first strip and carefully stick it to the pencil.

Now, wrap the tape around the pencil, like shown in the picture above.

Aren't they super cute?! So much funner than the plain ones you can buy from Walmart.

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DIYs are my favorite thing about back to school. Having bright and fun supplies makes me actually want to use them! I hope you try these out! Let me know if you do!

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♥Katie

DIY Colored Cork Board

When I walk into Hobby Lobby, my common sense sometimes stays at the door and I often end up walking out with things I wasn't planning to buy, or don't even like! Take these cork boards for instance, I don't know why I bought them. But they came home with me one day- and have stayed in my desk drawer ever since. Last week, while cleaning out my drawer, I discovered them and decided I should find a use for them, and of course painting them with acrylic paint is the obvious solution, right?! Well, obvious or not that's what I decided to do to these cork boards and they couldn't have turned out better! I LOVE the color they bring to my wall and I honestly didn't want to cover them up when it came time to hang things on it! I did end up adding a few things, just to complement it. ;)

This tutorial is really pretty simple- but I'll go ahead and show you how I decorated my cork boards to hopefully inspire you for you own design! Feel free to replicate mine if you like. I'm decorating four small pieces of cork, but you can do the same thing with one large piece, or whatever collection you have! :)

~ DIY Colored Cork Boards ~

Supplies:

• Cork board
• Acrylic paint (Have you noticed I use this stuff a lot?! :D)
• Foam/sponge brush
• Masking tape

 I'm using two different colors of acrylic paint, you can use as many as you want! Or you could just use one color- it's totally up to you!

I started off, by painting the first square blue.

You'll want to put a piece of scratch paper, or a paper towel down underneath the cork board so you don't get any paint on your work area.

(It's really pretty self explanatory- just brush on the paint!)

Then I did the same thing with the pink paint on the second square.

For the third and fourth squares, I painted half of the square blue, (It won't matter if you're exact or not for the first color [blue for me], you'll be able to cover up the messy edge with the second color [pink].)

Allow the paint to dry completely.

 Now is where you want to get exact. Using a piece of masking tape will help a ton! Just mask off one half of the square and you won't have to worry about having a messy edge.

Now you can apply the second color of paint.

 Do this with both squares. Allow to dry completely before removing the tape.

When the paint has dried, remove the tape!

Ta-da!! Now they're all done and just need to be arranged.

I used foam tape to hang them on my wall. Then they were ready for me to hang my knickknacks on!

Other projects in picture: DIY Dry Erase Board

I love how they look next to my desk! I just painted my room (it used to be green!), so this is the first thing I've hung on my wall yet, and I love the color it brings to my room. :)

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 Do you have a cork board? What kind of things do you hang on it?

 ♥Katie

DIY Notebook Cover

I always get so excited when I get a new notebook for a subject in school, because that means I can decorate it! I've never decorated two notebooks that ended up at all similar, but that's the fun of it! Today I got a new notebook to keep science notes in, so I DIY'ed (that is a real word right?!) a new colorful cover for it. In this post I'm giving you some ideas for decorating your own notebook by showing what I did! So here we go!

~ DIY Notebook Cover ~

Supplies - whatever you want! There really isn't a simple list of supplies for this project- it's totally up to you what you use to decorate! Here is a list of the things I used:

• Scissors
• Mod Podge, glue stick, or some other kind of adhesive
• Decorative Paper
• Acrylic Paint
• Masking tape (I would have used washi-tape, but I ended up having to substitute masking tape instead. I'll explain why/how below.)
• Stickers 

Some other ideas are washi-tape, ribbon, buttons, stamps or anything else you can thing of! :) So now lets get started! Here's the tutorial for how I decorated my notebook.

First, open the cover of your notebook so it's lying on top of your background paper. Now trace around the edge of the cover.

Close the cover, than cut out the tracing. Now you you have a piece of paper the size of your notebook.

My paper was actually a tiny bit too short, but I knew I was going to add a piece of paper across the bottom anyway, so it didn't really matter. 

Now for my blue piece of paper to go across the bottom. Luckily for me there are no rules when it comes to using your creativity for crafting. :D I have a bottle of acrylic paint that I think is the most beautiful color ever. So I decided to try something a little different, and color a piece white paper with the paint, to get a beautiful piece of blue paper!

The paint warped my paper a little bit, but it really turned out pretty good!

 

 I'm using Mod Podge to adhere my papers onto the cover of my notebook. Any kind of craft clue, or a glue stick will work too.

Apply the Mod Podge to the back of your paper, using a foam brush.

Adhere the to your cover.  *TIP* When gluing onto the front of a notebook. Always open up the cover before gluing onto it to avoid gluing any pages together*

Next, I cut my blue paper down to the size I wanted. Then glued it on the same way I did the pink paper.

I wanted to put a piece of washi-tape down the side of the cover. But I couldn't find a color of washi-tape that I liked with the pink and blue. So I ended up painting a strip of masking tape with acrylic paint. To get a silver glittery strip of tape!

Then I stuck it along the inside edge.

The last addition to my notebook cover were these glittery stickers to spell out the subject I'll be using the spiral for. I love how simple and pretty it looks right on the edge of the blue!

Ta-da! From a plain black notebook, to a bright glittery one with my two favorite colors! 

No two notebooks I've decorated have ever turned out the same! If you try this, I'd love to see the design that you come up with! You can find the information to send a picture to me, on the contact page. I hope you do! 'Till next week! ♥Katie