DIY Magazine (Birthday) Flags!

Another day, another DIY:)
Cleaning up the other day I found a gazillion old magazine (some of them not even read, shame on me!)
Now, it's my 'little' brother's birthday next week and the birthday flags I dug up from the bottom of the cupboard are just plain ugly. And family deserves a little something special don't you think?!

What I do know is that i've seen this DIY, though done a little differently, on a website or in a magazine ages ago, I just really don't remember where. So long as you know i'm not claiming the idea:)
So after finding the magazines, the idea for flags emerged in my head, like great awesome ideas or memories sometimes do, and I got started straight away!

Flipping through the magazines, I used Flow Magazine, I found loads of beautiful pictures, sketches and inspirational quotes that I cut out as flags. As with loads of magazines some of the pictures had adverts on the back. No-one wants to see adverts on the back of flags, so I simply made some of the flags double sided.
Digging through cupboards you can find any hidden objects forgotten over time:) I found some beautiful green velvet ribbon that was great to string the flags up.

Now on the double sided flags I made sure not to glue them right up to the top. When attaching the flags to the ribbon I slided the ribbon between the two flags and stapled them together. This way the ribbon flows through the flags and can't be seen when strung up.

The only thing that makes this project so time consuming is the finding of pictures and cutting them out. This took me a whole evening to do. Glueing them together and stapling them to the ribbon was a piece of cake:)

Once I finished up I decided that I would love one for the bedroom to! We have a whole load of space above our bed that needed filling so I made one for the bedroom:)

The flags look super nice and will do perfectly while we keep searching for that perfect piece of art we want:) The flags are recycle friendly as well as you are recycling old magazines and you can use the flags for whatever reason you decide. They can also be stored away until you stumble upon them while cleaning!Just kidding!

Happy DIY'ing and thanks for letting me share:)

Xox Elena

DIY Scrabble song lyric picture

What I love about DIY's is that they usually don't cost that much money to create something beautiful for your home. And when you get fed up of it you can just change it up!

A while ago I posted my Instagram photo-art I made for in our bedroom. Well it was kind of getting slightly boring and I wanted to change things up. I made sure I could re-use the frame by sticking the photo's on with cellotape. So getting the pictures off was easy. I give this as a tip to anybody who wants to DIY but not make it permanent. Never use glue unless you are either really sure you want to use the DIY over and over. Unless you just want to keep buying new frames and materials, but that's just not what recycling is all about is it?!:)

Well as I was saying, I was looking for a new project to spice up our bedroom wall when I came across loads of different Scrabble letters in the cupboard just waiting to be used!
Now I love using my favourite quotes and song lyrics as art on the wall so I decided to incorporate this into the picture.

In making this DIY you need to make sure you have at least three sets of Scrabble letters, so from three games. It's fun to have different coloured letters as well to make any quote you want to incorporate pop out! I chose lyrics to one of my fave song by "The Gaslight Anthem". Love that band:)
I also chose to incorporate mine and my boyfriends and our cats names into the picture;) Although he is yet to notice this:)

I chose to glue the letters onto the canvas and I know this isn't recycling but otherwise the letters would just not stay on! So I had no choice I guess!

I love the way the picture looks in the bedroom. It's different and one of a kind :) And you can make this DIY super personal with your favourite quotes or even song lyrics:)

Happy Scrabble hunting and thanks for letting me share!

Xox Elena