September 2013 ~ Fantastic Creative Mind

It’s been such a long time since I last updated this blog — which also means it’s been a long time since I shared any creative ideas here!
Why? Well, life happened. These days I’m working as an engineer, which keeps me super busy (and honestly, quite exhausted, lol).

Another reason I stopped blogging for a while is because my online income dropped after one of my advertisers banned my account. I ended up getting removed from one of the biggest ad providers, which was really disappointing — especially because I lost the rest of my earnings before I could even withdraw them. I’ll admit it: I didn’t always read the terms and conditions carefully, and I accidentally broke one of their rules. That experience really demotivated me to keep blogging.

But now, I feel refreshed and ready to write again — as long as I’m not too tired after work. 😄
I know this blog is supposed to be all about creativity, so maybe I shouldn’t share too much about my personal ups and downs here. But after being away for so long, I just couldn’t help it. Lol.

Anyway! Let’s move on to something more fun — today I want to share my DIY Tissue Paper Box Cover!
My DIY Tissue Paper Box Cover

My online name is Anjieya — there’s a little story behind it.

So, what do you think about my tissue box cover? Cute, right?

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own:

Materials:

1. A used carton box (I used an instant noodle box, but any cardboard box works fine

2. Materials that you need

Ok.. what do you need is:

1. A used carton box (I used an instant noodle box, but any cardboard box works fine)

2. Gift-wrapping paper

3. Protective tape

4. Double-sided tape

5. Pencil, eraser, ruler, and scissors

You can design your box in any shape or style you like — just use your imagination!
If you want to make one similar to mine, here’s a sketch I made to show the layout:

Purple parts: front and back sides
Green parts: top and bottom
Yellow parts: left and right sides
Dark blue: hole for pulling out the tissues
Light blue: glue flaps for assembling the box

It’s a simple design, even if it’s not perfectly to scale.

To make it look prettier, cover the box with gift-wrapping paper (either before or after you assemble it). I personally wrapped mine after forming the box. Once it’s all covered, you can add some decorations.

For mine, I used DIY paper snowflakes as decoration — but you can use whatever you like!

If you want to make the snowflakes like mine:

Cut out 4 paper snowflakes (2 large and 2 small).
Stick each small snowflake on top of a large one using double-sided tape or glue.

Then, attach them to your tissue box cover.

If you don’t know how to make paper snowflakes, I actually wrote a tutorial about it in my post: Recycled object to decorate your wall, it’s all about using recycled materials for wall decoration.

Here’s how my DIY tissue paper box cover turned out — I remembered to take photos after finishing it, so the materials you see might not look exactly the same as in the tutorial.