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  • In this video I'm going to show you 10 crazy, unique and a bit weird DIYs for back to school.

  • Notebooks, pens, school bags, pencil cases and much much more.

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  • Hey guys! It's almost time for school!

  • Yeeey...

  • I hate school.

  • OK, I know that going back to school may not be your favorite thing in the world, but you

  • got to admit that preparing for new school supplies, backpacks and all that stuff, is

  • a pretty exciting part.

  • And this year I want you guys to have the coolest school supplies at your school, so

  • I put together the most crazy, unique, epic DIY school supplies you've ever seen.

  • I'm going to show you 10 ideas and Sue from the channel DIYlover will show you another 10.

  • Her video will be linked at the end of this tutorial and in the description bar.

  • But let's not wait any longer, because school is almost here, come on!

  • We're going to kick off with this epic bottle pencil case.

  • It's hard to imagine that it's actually made out of plastic bottles, because it looks so cool!

  • Take two bottles, a zipper, glue gun and scissors.

  • Cut your first bottle right below the point where it starts getting narrow.

  • This is just below it's neck.

  • The second bottle needs to be cut much lower, as this one will act as a lid to our pencil case.

  • When both bottle pieces are ready it's time to grab a zipper.

  • Place it on a flat surface and apply a bit of glue on each side of the zipper like this.

  • While the glue is still soft, stick on the bottle pieces.

  • Apply the glue all along both sides of your zipper.

  • Then simply roll both bottle parts down so that they stick to the zipper firmly.

  • That's it!

  • If your zipper is too long, you can cut away any extra, otherwise you are pretty much done

  • with this awesome pencil case.

  • I love how inexpensive this DIY is plus it's a great way to recycle empty bottles.

  • To make your new pencil case even more epic you can also decorate it with stickers or sharpies.

  • These pens are so unique, pretty and sparkly no wonder that everyone would like to have one.

  • But hey you gotta make your own!

  • And relax I got your back because I'm going to show you how to make these glittery, bendable,

  • liquid pens with a lava effect.

  • I knowawesome, just awesome.

  • To make these magic pens we'll need a transparent pipe, baby oil, water, a wide pen, food coloring,

  • glitter and a glue gun.

  • Take a pen that should be about as wide as your transparent pipe.

  • Unscrew the front part of the pen, take one ink refill and save the end cap for later.

  • Fill the front of the pen with a bit of glue and stick the ink refill in the center.

  • Grab your pvc pipe and apply some glue on the inner part of one side.

  • Quickly stick in the front piece of the pen.

  • You can also screw it a bit so that the glue really grabs all the edges and makes our pen waterproof.

  • Now it's time to mix together the liquids!

  • Take a bit of food coloring, I went for orange, and mix it with water.

  • Use a syringe or a funnel to pour some of that liquid in the pipe of your pen.

  • Fill it about half way.

  • The most exciting part to me is adding glitter.

  • So go crazy and pour a lot of glitter in the tube.

  • I went for several colors like dark blue, orange, silver, and even some light blue stripes

  • and stars. Yep a full on party in a pen!

  • Suck some baby oil into a syringe and use it to fill up the pen until it's almost completely full.

  • Apply hot glue all around the edge of the pipe.

  • Make sure that you are using a glue with a good hold for this as it has to make our pen

  • waterproof. Lastly cover the opening with the end cap that we've saved earlier.

  • Yay, we are all done with this gorgeous glittery, bendable, liquid, lava pen!

  • What a mouthful.

  • I also made one in pink and blue, so pretty.

  • I wanted to make mine extra crazy so I used long piece of pvc pipe but you can totally

  • make yours shorter.

  • Like this one for example. How cute right?

  • I seriously think these pens look amazing and I really enjoyed making them.

  • When I said we're making crazy and weird DIYs today, I wasn't joking.

  • The next one is a notebook made using potatoes!

  • I remember making potato stamps in primary school and I have to share with you this unusual

  • but really cool painting method!

  • You need a notebook, a piece of white card-stock paper, a potato, double sided tape, acrylic

  • paint, paint brush, and a black permanent marker.

  • Take an inexpensive notebook and stick on a few pieces of double sided tape or use any

  • other glue of your choice.

  • Place a piece of white card-stock paper on top and we got a plain white notebook ready

  • to be decorated.

  • For the watermelon notebook, cut your potato in half.

  • Cut it again to get a potato quarter, which works perfectly for a watermelon stamp.

  • Squeeze some red acrylic paint from the tube.

  • Use paint brush to apply it on one potato side and we can start stamping.

  • Press the potato on your notebook cover to get a yummy watermelon print.

  • I like how this stamping technique makes the shapes kind of imperfect and rustic.

  • I think it looks so beautiful!

  • Besides the red watermelons I also want some orange ones.

  • Using orange acrylic paint and another potato quarter I'm making orange prints on all the

  • empty areas of the notebook.

  • OK, now let's make these red and orange half-circles look like real watermelons.

  • Dip your brush in green paint and draw a line below each red half circle.

  • Leave a bit of white in-between to make it look more realistic.

  • For the finishing touch grab a black pen or marker and draw a few seeds to each of the

  • watermelon slices.

  • This detail really brings the design together and makes the watermelons look so real and yummy.

  • Watermelon is such a pretty fruit - I love its colors.

  • Plus I like how it reminds me of summer and it tastes delicious.

  • All these facts combined, this notebook just makes me so happy, only by looking at it!

  • You can make any kind of shape using potatoes.

  • Here I made triangles stamps from the potato halves.

  • Put on a bit of acrylic paint of your choice.

  • I'm going to use three colors and the first one is green.

  • Press it on the notebook cover and there you have a beautiful triangle print.

  • My next color is pink, then a blue and repeat.

  • I went for the pattern where every other row has triangles turned upside down.

  • You can see that even if you're bad at free hand drawing, like I am, you can still make

  • beautiful creations using paint.

  • You really can't mess it up with potato stamping!

  • I honestly had such a great time making these potato notebooks and they turned out so cute.

  • You know what they say.

  • One man's trash is another man's treasure.

  • I'm going to show you how you can make an awesome pencil case out of trash.

  • Hehe no, out of your favorite candy bag.

  • This DIY is so much fun and let's be real, it looks absolutely adorable!

  • You'll need a bag of candy, duct tape, glue gun and a zipper.

  • Take your scissors and trim away the upper and the bottom edge of your bag.

  • Flip it around and make a vertical cut along the candy bag.

  • Next step: Eat all the yummy candy!

  • Just kidding, you can totally save some for later, because that's a lot of sugar.

  • Now you need to decide how big you want your pencil case to be.

  • I want mine quite small so I'm cutting away the sides and I'm left with about eight by

  • eight inch square.

  • Take some duct tape or washi tape and use it to cover the back of your candy wrapper.

  • This will make our pencil case more sturdy and durable.

  • Grab a zipper and place it on a flat surface.

  • Apply a stripe of glue along one side.

  • You can use hot glue or any other glue that has a good hold.

  • Stick the candy wrapper sheet on like that.

  • Flip your work around and temporarily fold the zipper down.

  • I'm using some hair clips to help it stay in place.

  • Apply a stripe of glue along that side of zipper as well and fold the candy wrapper

  • up to stick it in place.

  • This is what we have so far!

  • Unzip the zipper and flip your pencil case inside out.

  • Glue the sides together like this.

  • It is really important to have the pencil case unzipped at this point otherwise you'll

  • never be able to flip it inside out!

  • OK, the glue has set so flip your work around to reveal your gorgeous candy pencil case!

  • Isn't this the cutest thing ever?

  • Candy bags are always so colorful and pretty.

  • And the fact that you can turn the wrapper of your favorite candy into an amazing pencil

  • case is just the best thing ever.

  • With this one you would totally win school's most creative pencil case award if such thing

  • existed.

  • Desk organizers out of old jeans?

  • I told you we're making weird DIYs today.

  • This one is super easy and handy.

  • You know when you are making shorts out of jeans you always just use the top part.

  • Well this is a great DIY that makes use of the bottom part of your jeans!

  • We're gonna need the bottom part of any jeans or pants, scissors and a glue gun.

  • Start by cutting about seven inch long piece of fabric from your jeans.

  • Flip it inside out.

  • Take a glue gun and apply a stripe of glue along that freshly cut side.

  • Fold the edge up and hold till the glue sets.

  • Apply a bit more glue and stick the back piece of fabric on as well.

  • Now we are left with a little pocket.

  • Turn it on one side and fold it down like this.

  • Apply a drop of glue on the bottom corner and fold it up.

  • Do the same on the top corner but this time fold it down.

  • Flip the pocket basket or whatever you wanna call it inside out.

  • I like to roll the top edge down as I think it looks even more cute this way.

  • To jazz up these organizers I decided to stick on some jeans patches.

  • You can also use badges or fabric markers to make your organizers all nice and pretty.

  • They look so adorable and they are super handy to have on your desk.

  • You can put in your pens and pencils or other desk necessities like paper pins, tape and so on.

  • These jeans pockets will keep your desk tidy and organized, plus they look totally cute

  • so they're a perfect little desk decor.

  • I love this DIY because it's so creative and different.

  • It will only take you a few minutes to make it and I bet you already have all the supplies

  • at home.

  • You need an old lipstick, a pencil and a small piece of baking paper.

  • Pull the eraser out of the pencil's ferrule.

  • Now roll a piece of parchment paper around the top part of your pencil like this.

  • Secure it in place with a piece of tape and set it aside for a minute.

  • Next we gotta melt our lipstick.

  • Make a double boiler, take a piece of lipstick and place it in the glass container.

  • Optionally you can also add some glitter, but remember to use lipstick grade or edible glitter.

  • Wait for the lipstick to melt.

  • Give it a little stir and pour the mixture in the lipstick mold that we've made earlier.

  • I like to pour it up to a quarter or half an inch above the pencil end.

  • Finally we can unwrap the parchment paper to reveal our awesome lipstick pencil.

  • I think it turned out so cool and I love all that blue glitter.

  • I also made one blue lipstick pencil.

  • And I have a tutorial on my channel on how to mix up epic lipsticks from scratch using

  • different methods.

  • You can tell how how much I like these lipstick pencils by how many I've created.

  • Look at this galaxy inspired oneso gorgeous!

  • You never know when a cute guy will walk into your classroom and these lipsticks will have

  • you ready at all times.

  • I'm kidding, with or without lipstick you are just as beautiful.

  • But this is a really cool DIY and you'll be the only person at your school who has a lipstick

  • pencil, which is quite awesome.

  • This is probably one of the coolest backpacks I've ever seen and you can have one too.

  • You can make this beautiful snapchat rainbow filter design on any kind of school bag or

  • backpack that you own.

  • We'll need a backpack, paint brushes, and fabric paint.

  • First I like to sketch the design on my backpack.

  • You can skip this step and paint directly but I would mess it up for sure, because free

  • hand painting is not my thing.

  • Alright, time to grab the fabric paint!

  • For the lips you can use any color like red, pink or even nude.

  • I went for red, since red's a classic.

  • I get asked a lot about the fabric paintswhether they last, if they are washable etc.

  • And yes, fabric paint is completely washable.

  • So no worries if rain catches you on your way to school - your backpack should be totally fine.

  • Of course we want our backpack to have a big bright smile so here I am coloring the teeth

  • in white.

  • To make the edges neat and precise rest your elbow on the table and move your brush slowly.

  • There we go, a perfect smile!

  • For the rainbow vomit... eww, that doesn't sound appealing... I should rather call it

  • rainbow waterfall or just rainbow-fall.

  • Anyway for the rainbow feel free to use any colors that you have.

  • I don't have a violet or orange fabric paints but that's OK.

  • I'm just gonna use what I have.

  • So I colored the first wavy stripe in pink and the next one in dark blue.

  • I could also mix blue and pink to get a purple but I decided to keep it simple and make a

  • little bit different rainbow waterfall.

  • You can use any kind of fabric backpack for this DIY.

  • It could be white or a darker one like mine here.

  • I actually think that this colorful design looks so pretty on the darker background.

  • The rainbow is done and the backpack looks stunning already.

  • If you look at the snapchat filter, you can see that there are some white stars here and

  • there on the rainbow.

  • So dip your brush in white and draw a bunch of plus signs to represent the stars.

  • A flat stiff brush works best for drawing such thin lines.

  • Voila, our backpack is complete and I couldn't be happier with the result!

  • I think it looks so cool, unique and trendy!

  • Awesome backpack can be very expensive, while you get plain ones for only a few dollars.

  • So this year make your own dream school bag!

  • You'll save some money and have a lot of fun crafting.

  • Who should we examine today?

  • Actually, we don't have time today... Let's continue with lessons.

  • School can get very stressful and nerve wracking!

  • So I had to include an easy DIY stress ball in this tutorial.

  • Even if you're not at schoolthese are so squishy and fun to play with.

  • To make your own stress ball all you need is a balloon, water and corn starch.

  • Turn the heat on and pour about 2 deciliters of water in a pan.

  • Add a spoonful of corn starch.

  • Keep stirring until the mixture thickens and you get a gel like consistency.

  • Take the mixture from the heat and pour it into an empty plastic bottle.

  • Now blow your balloon, I chose this yellow one to go well with my snapchat backpack.

  • Something like this is more than enough.

  • Twist it a couple of times to prevent the air from escaping and attach it to the bottle

  • opening like this.

  • To fill up the balloon simply turn the bottle upside down.

  • You may need to shake it a little to make the gel fall down and fill the balloon up.

  • Pinch the balloon at the top and pull it from the bottle.

  • Let the air escape from the balloon so you only have the gel inside and make a knot.

  • You can make your stress ball smaller or larger depending on how much gel you pour into it.

  • We' re finished! This is so satisfying and squishy.

  • You can also tie a short piece of string around your balloon like that and attach it to your

  • school bag.

  • That way you have it on hand whenever school becomes too stressful.

  • And I also think it looks very nice as a little decor.

  • Anyway, whether you still go to school or not this is a really simple and enjoyable

  • DIY to make.

  • For all you cereal lovers I have a fun DIY that makes use of your empty cereal boxes.

  • We're going to transform them into pretty desk organizers.

  • What we need is some wrapping paper, cereal box, scissors and a tape.

  • First you have to cut your cereal box diagonally like this.

  • Now take a wrapping paper of your choice.

  • I went for this bright green one.

  • To cover the cereal box, start in the same way as if you would be wrapping a present.

  • The only difference is the top part where we have the diagonal opening.

  • Here I like to make four straight cuts going up to the cardboard from the cereal box.

  • As soon as you feel that you have reached the cardboard, stop cutting.

  • Lastly fold the wrapping paper inside the box.

  • You can also secure it in place with a piece of tape.

  • There we go, our cereal box organizers are finished!

  • I also made one using hot pink wrapping paper, because you know I love me some pop of color

  • in my room.

  • I think they look very pretty on the desk, plus they will keep all your notebooks organized.

  • What an easy and inexpensive DIY, right!?

  • Sara! You're sleeping again?!

  • Let me present you world's most gorgeous and epic notebook, which also doubles up as a

  • sleeping pillow.

  • You know like water bed, this is a water pillow.

  • I am completely obsessed with this glittery liquid notebook, which is inspired by FimoKawaiiEmotions.

  • Even though this DIY looks out of this world amazing, it's actually very easy to make.

  • For your own glittery liquid notebook you will need a notebook, two sheets of acetate

  • paper, glitter, food coloring, baby oil, and a piece of parchment paper.

  • With a help of an exacto knife and a ruler, cut a rectangle piece out of the center of

  • the cover.

  • I placed a cutting sheet under the cover to protect other pages in the notebook.

  • We are left with a notebook cover that looks like a picture frame.

  • Set that aside and let's now work on our waterproof pocket.

  • Put two transparent acetate sheets into the fold made from a piece of baking paper.

  • Take an iron and iron along the edge.

  • Heat will melt the plastic and seal the sheets together.

  • One side is done, we still have to melt these two edges.

  • When the plastic melts it turns white.

  • This is when I know that the edge is 100% sealed and waterproof.

  • The most exciting part of this DIY is making the magic glittery liquid.

  • Grab two glasses and fill up the first one with water and the second one with baby oil.

  • Take a bit of food coloring, I went for the blue one, and mix it with water.

  • Grab any kind of glitter or sequin of your choice and mix it in the baby oil.

  • Then just take a moment to admire how pretty this thing looks.

  • No joke, when I was filming this, I totally took a break and was playing with this glitter

  • liquid for 10 minutes, because it's just beautiful!

  • Ok let's continue.

  • With a help of a funnel, pour the glittery oil and colored water inside the waterproof pocket.

  • Oil and water don't mix, so together they will create this awesome lava effect.

  • To make our liquid pocket completely waterproof, we need to iron the top edge as well.

  • Do that in the same way as earlier using a piece of parchment paper and an iron.

  • There we have it - our liquid glitter pocket is all done, looking rather phenomenal, so

  • let's quickly stick it on the notebook.

  • Take a glue gun or other glue with a good hold and apply it all around the inner side

  • of your notebook cover.

  • Last step is to stick it on the liquid pocket and we are finished with the hands down most

  • amazing notebook my eyes have ever seen.

  • I wanted to make mine look like a galaxy so I went for blue water and loads of blue glitter

  • and sequin.

  • I think being generous with glitter really makes this notebook so mind blowingly awesome.

  • You can find a great selection of inexpensive glitter online.

  • They have all the possible colors too.

  • I'm kinda tempted to make these notebooks in green and pink as well, because I feel

  • like I just need them in my life.

  • Don't spend a lot of money on pretty school supplies that everyone has.

  • Because you can make so much more epic and unique school necessities that you could ever

  • buy in a store.

  • That's it for this video.

  • I hope you guys liked it and give it a big thumbs up if you want another back to school

  • video on my channel.

  • Also, tell me down below when do you start school this year, because I know it's very

  • different from country to country and I really want to know.

  • Make sure to check out Sue's video for more amazing back to school DIYs and of course

  • subscribe to her channel.

  • I've been watching her videos for years and I love how unique and creative her DIYs are.

  • Thank you so much for stopping by, I love you guys, take care and I'll see you soon.

  • Bye!

  • Whether it concerns school supplies or life in general, don't be afraid to go your own

  • way and stand out.

  • Because that's exactly what makes you so special and unique!

In this video I'm going to show you 10 crazy, unique and a bit weird DIYs for back to school.

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