Vacation Time: Drawing on Old Books

Upcycle Old Books by Drawings

Hurrah!!! Vacation Begins...

It's time for the most awaited vacation for kids... Summer vacation. Time for a short break from the daily routines for kids and families. Time to live together. Enjoying and creating memories for lifetime.

This is the time of the year when kids are free from their studies and enjoying their free time. Many activities kids love to participate in during their vacation. Best time to utilize for building creativity.

To help you all building your creative today I am here with my this diy blog post. So, first let me know your answer to this question : what you are going to do with your old books?

Old Books

I know the answer would be throwing away, lending to someone, giving away to waste paper collector or piling the old books in a corner of the house. Have you ever thought of using these old books for making something creative? If not yet, then let's do it now. 

My this post is about how to enhance your creativity by drawing in old books pages. I am going to share with you some of the draws and then you can imagine and using your creativity drae something new.

Let me tell you a secret: using old books to draw will save some money and not to worry about shortage of pages :-P

Drawing on old pages

This one is the simplest way to Upcycle old books. Any age group can participate in it. Based on your drawing skills you can draw anything on the old pages and give it a new look. Even the easiest and simplest picture looks great on it.

Kids are going to love these simple, quick and adorable piece of art. 

Flowers (source)

Cute Owl (source)

Adorable girl (source)

Painting flowers (source)

The moon (source)

Aren't these really really awesome??

You can draw or paint anything you like everything looks great. Also, this will be a relaxing activity in summer and of course a great way to pass time.

Do try this and share your piece of art with me.

Happy Drawing!!
Happy Vacation!!!

Simple 3d flower Pop Up card

Simple 3D Pop-Up Card

Hello everyone....

Few days back it was my dad's birthday and I thought of making a simple card for him.
Based on his likings towards nature and flowers I got an idea of making a 3d flower pop up card.

Simple Pop Up Card

The front side of the card.

Popping Up Flowers

Inside the card.

Let's get started with the procedure..

Stuff required :

Pencil

Papers (white/color)

Scissors 

Glue

Card stock 

Paints

Process :

1. We require 5 rectangular pieces of paper to make the flowers. Based on the size of our card we should take the rectangular piece.

2. Now fold the rectangular piece horizontally and then fold it vertically.

Then fold diagonally from both the sides.

3. Next to get proper and identical petals fold the little triangle into half. Now using scissors cut small arc as shown below.

4. Now we got the flower ready with identical petals.

5. Next cut a small triangular petal and put some glue on one end and stick other on it. This would give our flower a 3D look. Make 7 such flowers.

6 Now, lets assemble these flowers.

We just need to put the little amount of glue where X is marked. Arrange and stick as shown in the above image.

7. Once we complete the assembling process the last step is place this between the folded card stock. Stick only the tip so it can easily pop up.

We are ready with our 3D flower pop up card.

3D Flower Pop Up Card

Simple yet beautiful isn't it?

Try this out and would be eagarly waiting for your feedbacks 😊

Tips :-

I had used white papers to make the flowers. So once all my flowers got ready I had painted them red and detailed them with golden lines to make it elegant.

You can use color papers instead.