A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger

Hello everyone! Welcome to another post and a new project for this week. I know things were messed up and my schedule was ruined. Well, it’s always the things we encounter in our life. Things that always force us to change schedule no matter what it is haha. Anyway, this week’s post will be a new idea that I thought to do again. This is a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger.

As you can tell by what I just said. This is something I only did one time before and it worked well. However, it was a different idea. It took me almost a week to get it done and messed up big time during that project… Haha. You can check it here and see what I did and how it turned out. I did many desk decorations, and it filled my desk to put everything haha. So I had to find a place for them.

Funny thing, I have not done many desk decorations to represent my blog and work. I did it for friends and just random ideas that you can use to decorate the desk. To be honest, I have not thought of doing so haha. I might soon do a perfect DIY decoration for my blog. I just don’t like to give myself too much, you know haha.

Anyway, enough talking, and let’s get right into the post. I hope you are going to enjoy it. Please grab your tea and coffee and enjoy it!

About the post

As I said, this is my second post doing collaboration projects, and it was fun doing it. I thought to surprise you guys with another one this time. However, I got through some troubles and had to postpone it until today. I missed so many days, but it’s okay. Because I’m back now. I’m going to do more collaboration posts if you want to work with me. You can send me a mail to work on an idea.

This time I’m working with an amazing traveler, Sandra Ans and she blogs at My Small travel guide. She has a good logo and awesome content. You can go check her work. I love reading about traveling and watching pictures.

The project tools and materials:

• Cardboard
• Pencil
• White A4 paper
• Thick paper
• Colored paper
• Glue gun
• Ruler

Here are the things we will use to make this project. This tutorial on how to craft a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger. It’s easy and doesn’t cost a lot. That’s something I love about DIY craft and crafting with cardboard.

There might be a little cost for you if you don’t have any of the tools above. Also, remember if you can use an alternative that gets the job, that would be ok. Just as long as it’s nice to use and doesn’t ruin everything for you. A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger like this need a little more attention and careful with it.

Also, I made this 3D, and that means it will take a little longer than you think. And if you have mistakes during the process, it will add up and you would take a long time to get it done. So, for that, you need to be carefully crafting this and slow. A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger like this can take time, but it’s worth it.

I started traveling but as you can tell by the situation still going everywhere. It’s hard to collaborate on the travel topic. However, I got an idea to dedicate a project to Sandra Ans’s blog and represent the blog. And she agreed to the idea. So this post will show you the project and how I made it until the last part.

A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger

So since I don’t have my workshop yet. I’m going to work with the same stuff I worked with on my first collaboration idea. Also, all the projects so far haha. The cardboard and papers which I will make everything out of them and add more touches to this project called “A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger”.

Good thing that I make out of these unlimited ideas and turn them into anything I want. And this time I did 3D desk decoration but not as I imagined it because some things didn’t go well. However, I hope you will enjoy reading this post and the idea.

FYI

It was a bit struggle to finish the plane. Mostly because I couldn’t perfectly make the front. So, if you wish to do this, I would recommend you learn it whatever way you want. Take some time to learn how to craft and then a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger.

I’m going to do my best to explain to you guys how to make a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger. Don’t worry about the results and just enjoy the process of crafting. This way, it will help you to get back faster.

Boom! This is the finished look of this project. As you can, it was a little messed up from the edges. But everything looks fine except not as I imagined haha. I didn’t have enough time to redo everything and make them even better. Next time, it will be even better as I know new things about building objects now haha.

Showing the finished project and then the tutorial is my first ever time. Because I thought it would be fun to do this. And also get the have a variety of things even on methods.

Anyway, now, let’s see how I made this and more pictures of it. Also, this is not a long project but the plane took me a few tries to make it look this shape haha. The front side is really hard to make in 3D. I tried my best to make this project 3D haha.

Extra tip:

You need to glue everything very well to get a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger. If you don’t do that, the project will fall down fas it.

Important items to craft the project

Hello, again haha. Well, as you can see, the pictures above are the items that will be used to create 3D desk decoration for travel blogger aka my fellow blogger Sandra Ans. And this one was planned before seeing her logo, and once I finished, I took a second look and found it’s the same which is a plane haha.

In the first picture, we all already know that every decoration like this requires a base haha. So I cut 17.5cm/15.5cm. However, you can do any measures as long as you keep it fit for everything you want haha.

I made the rest of the items only for this project and it will be part of the project for Sandra’s blog. The T stands for travel and S stands for Sandra Ans. It will be as Sandra Ans travel haha. There are two sides to each letter because, as usual. I want to make it 3D haha. However, it is still a little difficult to make it perfect.

The last one is the plane, and this one took a little time. I know this is not my first time doing it. But I have not done this size before haha. Also, I wanted to do it well and quickly but it doesn’t come together haha. I separated each part to know how to do it well, but still didn’t make it perfect.

If you ask me, why two of each letter? And that is because I’m going to build a 3D numbers and letters model. And I think they are important to have. So, this is just in case you have this question in the future about crafting. A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger can be a little more complicated.

The making of the project

This step will show you the items after adding the white layer and adding colors to it. By the way, It’s a new way of sharing my project that I just thought of it haha. I hope you are enjoying it so far. Please subscribe to the blog or follow if you have WordPress for more awesome projects and awesome ideas in the future.

Well, I took this way from watching videos on the internet. It helped me to think of an idea like this haha. And I will create my YouTube challenge soon and start posting DIY craft videos on YouTube. So, stay tuned guys, and keep your support. Thank you so much for helping us.

The letters for the project

As you can see, the pictures above show the letters of this project. It’s not as good as I wanted, but I didn’t have time to redo everything. Because I was trying to craft the perfect one. However, I keep ending up with bad shapes haha.

A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger can also have easy steps like crafting the letter T. It was the easiest one I ever made and took me only one attempt to make a 3D letter. The rest took me a couple of tries.

Different colors were just random and thought it would be cool. You can always choose the colors you want to wish this project to be on. For me, I thought it would be something new to try. That’s why happened haha.

For the letters, I tried my best to me make them look cool as possible. However, some minor details can be noticed, and this is why I mentioned them here. And you don’t want to give up just yet. A custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger can be worthy and you can apply this to any DIY project that takes more time.

I used colored paper to add it to the letters. And that sometimes it’s better coloring the paper on your own. Because it might not get colored perfectly.

The plane stand

Alright, here is how everything looks after adding the layers and colors. As you might notice, some things could be done better, but it looks nice. I couldn’t redo them as I don’t have time as I said. The last picture is of the plane’s stand. I positioned the plane in a new way and you see it in the next step.

And the plane stand on the sides doesn’t look the best. You can add one more white layer using glue on the wedges. This way, it will close that mess. And give you a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger.

Something you might not expect is physics. We use it a lot during any DIY craft. And it drives me crazy sometimes. Because I get lost sometimes trying to solve something physics-related. Even getting a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger will need you to have some good physic basics.

The colors of the letters were random but to mix it with the base and the blue line on it. I wanted to combine the most known colors, red, blue, and white haha. And I just mentioned that. You can choose these or any other color if you want.

Anyway, moving to the next step which I’m going to show you the final look of this project. And check what you would expect when wanting a custom and easy DIY desk decoration for a travel blogger. I will show some of the steps of me gluing together everything.

Gluing items together

Well, here is the final look as you can see the project coming together as you scroll down haha. There are some touches that didn’t make it to the project due to other matters. I couldn’t finish them. As you can see, we are all about placement. When you get everything ready, and just need to glue them together. We need to pay attention to the placement.

My idea is to make the first letter bigger, and it gets smaller as it goes to the letter T. that’s why the letter T is smaller haha. I thought would look good with a new style. However, the first two letters are the same. Therefore, my idea is ruined, and I had to go like this with it today.

Here is another close-up view of the letters. With that being said, I think this is everything to be shared. I sincerely apologized for being late in sharing this post. I have gone through some difficulties and had to deal with everything,

Something that is additional is the red squares haha. I didn’t mean to add it, but I was just feeling one more touch on the main project. And I thought of nothing but something under the letters and I put it under the first two letters.

Conclusion

As always, here we reach the end of this post. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this. Please go give Sandra Ans some love and follow her blog for amazing travel content. I will be sharing more awesome ideas and working with more awesome bloggers.

What do you think of this DIY craft? Would you make it for your friend or loved traveler? Let me know in the comment your thoughts.

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