Mails - Newspaper Basket

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I have new project for you this week ad it a newspaper basket made specifically to keep your mails. It is made from newspaper tubes using the coiling technique. The best part about making such baskets, you can first figure out what size you want and then start the coiling process. To make this basket, I needed about 60-70 coiled tubes and now this again depends on the size and thickness of your tubes.

This basket it different from the most of the baskets I have done previously because I have used lot of techniques to make. I have colored the basket with acrylic colors and then decoupages on it using flowers cutouts from tissue napkins and mod podge. Another thing, I have incorporated is some glitter or confetti glitter at few places. To add some more dimension, I have outlined the flowers using some white 3d liner and added few 3D stickers of stamps and a beautiful chipboard key. This basket was way out of my comfort zone wrt to colors and bling...but I liked it the way it turned out.

 I started by making 8 circular coiled discs which are about 5" in diameter. I coiled them around a small bottle to get the uniform hole in the center. Then I went ahead and stuck 2 coils together to make a sturdy biscuit like piece. I made two such pieces. These will be used for making the base. The remaining 4 discs will be used for the sides of the baskets. 

Now to make the piece supported by the discs, we need to make 2 small circular coils with diameter 2" and then coil more tubes over it in a square fashion. This will give us the desired shape. Keep coiling until you are happy with the size. Repeat the step for the other side too.

Not to make the rectangular pieces for the other sides, I suggest you make these when you put your coils together. When you do so, you will come to know the size required for the sides and then it will be easy to coil it.

 Once everything is done, put them together and that should give you the basket frame. I added a coat of gesso before I painted it with acrylic colors. I used Fevicryl colors in mauve, purple and magenta and did some shading. Once throughly dried, I decoupaged it with the flowers and while it was wet added some glitter to the project. After, the drying period, I did the outline in white and then gave it a few coats of Asian Paints Aquadur varnish.

Then came the fun part, adding the little stickers and the beautiful key and some glitter alphabets. These were all glued using Epoxy 6000 just to be sure nothing comes apart ever.

I am adding a youtube link for the tour of this basket.

Thats all folks, my basket is ready. I hope you all liked it. Leave me your comments and queries and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Hexagonal newspaper basket with a lid

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I am uploading pictures of yet another basket that I have made. This basket is also made with newspaper tubes and colored with acrylic colors. I have embellished this one with flat pearls and some critters from ItsyBitsy.

 For tutorials you can visit my previous posts. I am not posting a specific tutorial here as the procedure is similar to the earlier baskets. The only change is that I have added few embellishments.

Thank you all for reading my post and have a Happy Monday. 

Newspaper Basket for Tissue Napkins

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I am back today with yet another newspaper basket. This one is incredibly easy one to make and it was custom made for one of my clients. I did it in a record time of 2 days and that includes varnishing the basket.

I do not have much pictures of this basket as the client was in a big hurry and I had no time to take appropriate pictures. I randomly clicked some from my mobile phone and got only two pics which were ok and I uploaded them here on my blog.

 I have detailed tutorials on my other posts. I am just going to give a summary about how I made this one. I started off by making some newspaper tubes and started coiling them around a pen. Did 16 small circular discs for the sides, joined 4 discs together to get the sides of the basket.Then I went ahead and did the base by coiling the tubes in a square style. After I achieved the desired size, I attached the sides to the base and then added an additional coil around the base to hold off the sides.

Once the basket was done, I gave it a glue wash and dried it, and repeated the process. Once thoroughly dried, I went ahead and painted my basket with Fevicryl acrylic colors. Then to finish it gave it 2 coats of Asian Paint Aquadur PU varnish.
Thats all and my basket was ready. this one is very easy to make. I would maybe leave this basket near the door entrance to leave my keys there,...just a thought. I would like to remind you all about the Giveaway on my blog which will be running till 27th July and you all can participate in it. Just read the post about giveaway and follow the steps.
Thank you all for reading my post and have a good day.

Newspaper Coiled Basket 2 (Olive Green)

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This month is upcycling month for me at my blog and I am trying to upcycle and make as many products as I can. So here I am today with a different basket made with newspaper coiling. Now this basket is made with neswpaper tubes which are coiled tighly and then joined together to get a basket.

For more information about how to make newspaper baskets you can refer my earlier blog posts about making Newspaper coiled baskets. This basket is bigger than the earlier basket and can accomodate more things. I could fit in 6 small bottles or 4 big bottles and if I mixed the sizes I could fir in 5-7 bottles.

That is the best part about making such baskets, you can first figure out what size you want and then start the coiling process. To make this basket, I needed about 100 coiled tubes and now this again depends on the size and thickness of your tubes. I started by making 8 circular coiled discs which are about 3"in diameter. I coiled them around a small bottle to get the uniform hole in the center. Then I went ahead and coiled tubes around the discs in square format. If you can do it directly, you can make a square template and coil it around it and then transfer the coil on the disc. The size of the square is 4"by 4".

 Once all eights squares were complete, I joined them together with a broad newspaper tube which were not very thick. So I joined a 2 square per side and I got 4 rectangles. I then coiled coiled tubes on them to make them look like a single piece. I repeated this process for all the 4 rectangular pieces. The size of the rectangles after coiling came up to be 9"by 5". This completed our sides.

For the base, I  have made 4 squares which are 2"by 2" in size and then turned them 90 degrees and coiled tubes around them untill they were 4.5"by 4.5"in size. Repeated this with all 4 squares and I got 4 big squares. I joined all of them together to get a big square which was 9"by 9"in size.

I joined the sides we made earlier with the base using flat paper tubes. Then joined all the adjacent sides with each other. This completed the basic basket.

Now, give the basket a good glue wash which is glue and water mixed to the ration if 1:2. Once it dries up, give another wash thoroughly on the inside as well as outside and let it dry. I painted it with Fevicryl acrylic color in Olive green. Once it dried, I did some handwork using Fevicryl 3D white matt lines. It took about 30 mins to dry completely. I let the basket be overnight and the next day I varnished it twice using Asian Paints Aquadur PU. Varnishing the project is an optional step as the acrylic colors make the project waterproof, but I varnish to make it scratchproof and stainproof.

This completes our tutorial about making this basket. Thank you all for reading and have a wonderful day. I have a giveaway running on my blog to celebrate 1,00,000 hits on my blog. You can participate in it by reading my post Once Lakh Blog views and a Giveaway. See you next time and untill then keep crafting.....

Coiled newspaper basket 1

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I am posting a newspaper basket today for you to see. I do not have a video tutorial now but I am working on it and will update them asap.

For now I am adding pictures of basket I made. You will need newspaper tubes to make these baskets. You can refer my earlier videos for making newspaper tubes. Once you have around 100 tubes ready which should be 10-12"in length with thickness of around 0 . 25" we can start with our coiling.

This is a very simple process. We need to start coiling tubes in a circular manner around a pencil to obtain small circular coin like shapes. Depending on the size of the basket ans its shape you can decide how many coils you wish to make.

If you wish to make a basket similar to the one I have made, you will need 16 small coin like coils. I have made each coil using 2 tubes, but then again this may vary according to the size of your tubes. Once all your coins are ready, join then together in a pattern of 4 coils very similar to the one you can see using newspaper tubes. You will need thinner ans smaller newspaper tubes for this purpose and I make them from 1/4 sheet of 1 newspaper page.

So after you join 4 coins together, you will get a square like frame. you should have 4 such frames now. Start coiling your tubes around this frame in a square pattern. If you find it difficult, then you can measure your frame and cut a cardboard piece of the same size. You can coil newspaper tubes around it. I have used 8 tubes to coil around the frame structure. Once you finish this coiling, glue the end like always to hold your coils in place.

If you used a cardboard piece to coil the square, now take off the square coil from the frame and push the frame you made from 4 coins into the square coils. Please apply glue before you push it in. Its a very important step. So now, you will have the 4 sides of your basket ready. Apply white adhesive on both sides of the sides and let them dry.

For the base, I have taken a square cardboard piece 1/2" on all sides and coiled my tube around it. I have used 25 or so tubes to make the base. The length of the sides of the base is equal to the length of the sides of the side. Once your base is ready, start joining sides to the base. Use newspaper tubes to join the sides and the base. Dun't forget to join the adjacent sides.

So that should give you your basket. I have painted my basket with acrylic colors in turquoise and teal. Then I went ahead and splashed some purple acrylic color on it. Once it was dry, I gave it 2 coats of varnish. I have used Asian Paints Aquadur exterior. To finish the look of my basket, I added purple satin ribbon to it using strong adhesive. So that's all folks.

I hope you all liked my basket and I hope my tutorial was helpful for you all. Thank for visiting me and keep upcycling...