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Pencil Case with EMOJI Exchange

You save your school supplies in this fun case that unfolds in three levels, you can also change the faces according to your mood or feelings.

We show you how it is done in our video:

The materials you need:

  • Thin cardboard like cereal boxes
  • Rubber eva or foamy
  • Silicone
  • Drawings of emoji faces,

It is very easy to do, you need to make three compartments that consist of a 19cm diameter cardboard circle…Captura de pantalla 2017-05-31 a las 22.43.45Make strips of 1.8cm wide and long enough to surround each circle. Line all the pieces in eva rubber.Captura de pantalla 2017-05-31 a las 22.45.11
Paste the strips by the edge of each circle and you will see them like this…Captura de pantalla 2017-05-31 a las 22.46.02

Place the three drawers on top of each other and take the measure of the height
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With this measure you cut a strip with that width and so long that reaches to surround the drawers
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Line the strip as we have done with the previous ones
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On the bottom of the drawers, you measure the circumference and divide the circle into three parts.
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Having as a reference the divisions of the drawers mark and fold on the strip each section
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Now, in each of the three divisions you paste one of the drawers
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To finish the drawers, cut strips of cardboard of 1.3cm and line them. Then, you paste them inside to create separators, you can distribute them according to your school supplies or the objects that you are going to keep. Also, you finish lining the bottom of the last drawer and paste a thin strip around the bottom to make it look more beautiful.

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For the cover, you repeat the same procedure you did with the drawers, only that the diameter of the circle must be the same as that of the part of the finished drawers
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and the width of the strip is 2cm.
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The up part you does not cover it, what you have to do is a frame of 0,7cm
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This frame you only have to paste it in the middle, by the outer edge, so that from the inside you can get up and you can place the little faces…
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Now it’s time to make the faces. You cut out circles of the diameter of the circle of the lid (eye: without having stuck the strip of the edge). You prepare the pieces of the faces, which you can download from the list of materials above or create your own faces that surely you will find many on the internet …

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Paste them and give them more color by making a faded edge with markers or acrylic paint with water… Remembe, you do not paste the protruding parts so you can fit the edge of the face well inside the frame.

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Ready… you can put your first face in the case
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It looks super nice and funny… You can express that you are very happy and joker…
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or that you are suuuuper happy…
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or to be in love or flirtatious…
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or maybe you are very sad…
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We hope this idea you liked
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We encourage to make it
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and bring your school supplies in a super-ordered way
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Until a next idea… Thousand little kisses!

Have a nice DIY!