3 Budget- saving, innovative, custom DIYs

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Assalamualykum everyone!

We are featuring 3 DIY budget-saving and creative crafts that require minimal supplies and a jar of your own creativity, let's jump in!

This simple art piece doesn't cost a dime.

This broken clock was saved for a creative art piece to be done, after removing the paper inside it and flipping it to the plain side - we drew a simple silhouette of a peacock and added gold touches to it. 

We collected a couple of ordinary duck feathers from our park, washed them well, and left them to dry.

 Afterwards, we decided to blend in a bunch of radiant, beautiful colours on the feathers using TiTi crayons and added some silver polka-dots, swirls as well as stars using a gel pen.

Once, they were done - we gingerly glued the feathers to the bottom area of the peacock, 

screwed the clock together, and with that, we were done!

We gifted this to our loving Ummi!

                                    

 You know those moments when you drop a bunch of earbuds onto the ground? You definitely wouldn't insert those into your ear as it would be a bit dusty or unhygienic perhaps. Well...  at that time tossing them into the trash would be worthless instead, you can grab a hot glue gun and those earbuds and start mending them together creating a placemat for your coffee table!

To start off, we subsequently placed the earbuds in verticle rows to our desired length making altogether three sets, and glued them together - and then our placemat was ready.

It would be awesome if you had bamboo coloured paint to go over the earbud placemat as it would give a realistic touch to it as it would look similar to those shop-bought ones. Since we didn't have bamboo coloured paint, we re-used some old butter-cream coloured paint to go over the placemat and allowed it to dry for a couple of hours and Voila, we were done! 

No more fallen earbuds into the trash!

 Instead of purchasing an expensive art piece to insert into our frame, we wanted to directly paint onto the cardboard that was slipped into the frame because we thought it had a nice texture to our chosen medium of art.

Again, using our crayons and a little black paint we blended in the shades of blue in descending order and drew the scenery we always see from our balcony at night. It turned out to look pleasant Alhamdulillah.

                                                  

We hope you got some inspiration from these simple and easy, budget-saving crafts. 

See you next time, InshaAllaah!