Decorations with cotton buds: if the idea of working with new materials fascinates you and you always accept new challenges dictated by DIY, today we at Pianeta Design offer you a really interesting one. How about making some decorations with the small and soft cotton buds? We are ready with 10 funny proposals and you?
THE cotton swab they are nothing but gods sticks whose ends are covered with cotton, technically used for ear cleaning but if your doctor has advised against their use well you must not throw them away! Of projects with this material there are countless.
Let’s rally our creativity and get started. Add a few more elements to create: some notes of color, a little bit of glue, pearls, ribbons et voilà we are ready to go.
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1. Dream catcher
Let’s start with a classic: thedream catcher. Together we have experimented with all shapes and sizes but above all with different materials. It is always a great challenge in the name of recycling and originality. Grab a handful of cotton buds and put your project on paper.
The sense is that of create a sinuous structure carrier to attach pendants, bells or glasses to make it as suggestive and functional as possible to capture dreams in fact. Play with colors and choose the right one placement perhaps next to the window and away with the second project!
2. Garland
What better welcome in the house than that given by one Garland entirely made with the DIY technique? Always focus on originality and perhaps on a predominant nuance that we will also meet at home: your favorite color in short. Intertwine threads, pearls and some ends of the cotton buds like flowers. So let’s move on to the next idea.
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3. Vase
A rather versatile idea is that di intertwine the cotton buds together is make containers: high or low, thin or more chubby who are ready in this case, with a glass or a thin vase hidden inside, for welcome your most beautiful flowers.
Choose gods cotton bud with colored body so as to better customize your vase. There are various types on the market: blue, greens, rose or reds everything is in the stylistic choice and in the imprint you have decided to give to your home. Green light to the imagination!
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4. Baby doll
Who said that playing with the dolls is it only for girls? What do you think of make your own starting from these little sticks? The end result will surprise you. The principle is simple: the underlying part of the body, let’s say the skirt, will be realized stacking the cotton buds in a manner a little transversal one over the other and just a pinch of glue will be enough to keep them firmly together.
For the bust it will be enough a small piece of cloth folded in on itself and guess what arms? Two simple sticks! Complete the work by adding the garment and one hair in wool to amaze.
With sticks in the same way you can also make cute little animals how about one beautiful little sheep? The paws recreated with cotton buds and a nice wad of cotton wool for the body. Go on.
5. Pen holder
As we have already seen for the vase putting our cotton swabs on top of each other or intertwining it between them you can make gods cute and colorful containers: smaller will be perfect to give a little order at your desk. So space for pen holders and markers for an extra touch of originality!
6. Flowers
This project is perhaps one of the most simple to make but of sure effect: we want to try to make some colorful flowers with you. Let’s start with a two-dimensional project: a cardboard on which to glue our cotton buds like flowers a few touches of color here and there and that’s it. Perfect for spending a different afternoon with the kids.
The three-dimensional project, on the other hand, allows you to make gods real fake flowers to put in a vase. Go to a DIY store and get one polystyrene ball on which to put half of your sticks whose end will have been colored properly, to complete insert the stem of the flower at the base and you will have a surprising perfect centerpiece also as a gift idea, don’t you think?
7. Bracelets
Now it’s time to change your look, let’s make some together jewelry: earrings, necklaces or bracelets? Let’s start from the latter and even one will suffice simple ribbon of the measure of our wrist more a cardboard of the form you want to be applied centrally e on which the tips of our cotton buds will be inserted. Embellish everything with some Stone, pearl or rhinestone et voilà your look is now complete.
8. Door embellishments
If you are tired of the usual door or it, at some point, appears ruined, cover it with an embellishment simple simple. Get a tape at least 4-5 cm wide and above apply your cotton buds alternating them in colors, some hard stones, Cheerleaders and your door will change its face: perfect for that of the boys!
9. Halloween decorations
Finally, we greet you with two themed proposals: Halloween and Christmas. There are two main ingredients: creativity and dexterity. Let’s start with Halloween and we are sure that this year you will have enjoyed making something with the most varied materials. Have you tried too to make monstrous i yours cotton swab? Make one with them skeleton scary playing with the black and white contrast and you will have a blast!
10. Christmas decorations
Finally, if you like the idea of being wrapped around the house byChristmas atmosphere, how about some ice crystal hanging here and there? More simply you can create gods decorations to hang on the tree starting from these white sticks. Good luck and the next creative project!
Decorations with cotton buds: images and photos
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