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DIY Upcycling Plastic Jar Into Cute Holder

I found some plastic jars in my storage room and thinking it would be great if I can change the look and use it for some kind of cute holders. Then I think of a fresh look, yellow color and ribbon. A little spring look with a bright summer touch. And of course with its function as a multi function holder.

From beginning, I was intended to make DIY holder anyone can do because it’s a no-sew project and easy supplies to get. So, you would only need glue to do all the work. I made a tiered ribbon like a cute yellow skirt dressed to the plastic jar and finished it of with a lemon craft foam and a flower ribbon ornament. Yes, summer meets spring as we are in spring and about to transitioning to summer soon.

Things To Prepare

It’s a great upcycling projects to help you re-use things that we usually turn into plastic waste. And you would only need common craft supplies to decorate this plastic jars and turn it into cute holders. Anyway, here are the list of supplies you will need to make this DIY holders :

Plastic jars with or without cover ( I used two plastic jars without cover and one with yellow cover)
Yellow ribbon
Gold ribbon
Yellow craft foam
Flower ornament
Drawing pen
Glue

How To Make

Playing with ribbons to decorate the plastic jars can be fun, so you can bring along your kids to help with this cute holders. These are the simple steps to make upcycling plastic jars :

Make sure all your plastic jars and cover are clean.
Take the yellow ribbon and glue it to the plastic jar starting from the bottom jar. Make a fold every inch.
It would look like a skirt on the plastic jar, all the way to the top of the jar.
Finished the top jar with ribbon which circling around the jar’s mouth.
Draw a lemon on the yellow art foam and cut the outline of the lemon.
Glue it to the top of the jar and add a little flower ornament.
Whereas the holder with cover is slightly different with the smaller gold ribbon to finish off the “skirt” ribbon.

Easy and fun to do alright? You can make lots of these cute holders and use it to organize you working desk or craft room. These upcycling plastic jars are perfect for any dispenser too and you can play with many colors as you like. Or match it with your room decor, yes, a little color coordination. Well, have fun with the DIY Upcycling Plastic Jar Into Cute Holder.

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DIY Fall Maple Tree From Cardboard

I’ve found so many cardboard on my storage. I had to do something with it instead of just throw it on the garbage. So first thing I think of was making a fall diy of maple tree from those cardboard.

Maple tree is a beautiful tree; it has a distinguish shape of maple leaf and amazing colors that changing over the seasons. I tried to capture those beautiful colors of maple tree during fall season. And I made an abstract shape of the tree.

Things To Prepared

Things to prepared for making this upcycle diy fall maple tree are:

Cardboard
Watercolors (red, yellow, orange, green, brown) – fall colors
Poster color in white
Glue

How To Make

Easy steps to turn cardboard into a pretty fall maple tree decoration are:

Draw different shapes of the maple tree on cardboard and then cut it. Make 7 sheets, less or more sheets depend on the thickness of the cardboard you have. Make it thick enough to be able to stand.
Paint each cardboard sheet with white poster color. Let it dry.
Mixed colors of Fall and paint it on each sheet with different composition. Let it dry.
Glue all sheets together to form a fall maple tree that able to stand. Let it dry.
Your diy fall maple tree is finished!

Very easy and cost you almost nothing to make this fall diy. It would look fabulous if you combine it with the rest of your fall decoration collection. A fall maple tree from cardboard, perfect upcycle fall diy project for your spare time.

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Pedestal Tray From DIY Upcycle Frying Pan

I have mentioned before on my old post, DIY Upcycle Frying Pan Into Shabby Wall Decoration; that I got lots of un-used frying pan. One of it have to be out of my “junk” collection and up-graded into something useful, yes, a up-cycle project.

At first I wanted to make it into a lovely tray, but then I think it’s too deep to be a standard tray. So, I came up with the idea of making it as a pedestal tray. The shape, the diameter and the depth of the frying pan does better as a pedestal tray. A super cheap pedestal tray, because I only need to buy a leg as the pedestal. It would be better if I got something I can use to serve as a pedestal, but I don’t, so I just bought a wooden sofa leg, ready to use and cheap!

These are only what I need to make a pedestal tray :

Un-used frying pan
White spray paint
A wooden sofa leg
Glue

How to up-cycle the frying pan into a pedestal tray?

Take off the handle of the frying pan.
Clean the entire surface, back and front of the frying pan thoroughly. Make sure it’s clean and not greasy.
Glue the wooden sofa leg as a pedestal to the back of the frying pan. Leave it until it completely dry and firm. Now, you got your raw pedestal tray.
Spray paint the pedestal tray evenly with white color paint. Start from the back pan and the pedestal first, let it dry then follow with the front pan and let it dry.
The pedestal tray from un-used frying pan is finished!

Now, you can use the pedestal tray to contain some fruits, cakes, decoration ornaments, succulent arrangement, centerpiece, and more other decorative functional use that you can think of. Super easy and super cheap, right? I’m sure you have an unused frying pan laying somewhere in your home, up-cycle it and have yourself a new functional decoration. Happy up-cycling!