DIY iPhone 4 Case Design

I saw this idea on Pinterest (my new obsession) and I tried to find the original link but it was a dead end. No fear, I figured this was really simple and dug right into it! Of course, I had to share!

First gather your materials. You'll need a transparent iPhone 4 case and the little insert card it comes with, a pencil, an exacto knife and cutting board, scissors and something you'd like for your design! You can use scrapbooking paper, your kids artwork, a print out from your computer, a magazine page, a label from a product... the possibilities are endless! I chose to make one from my blog header for this tutorial and for shameless advertising.

Size up your image. Be sure that the image you want to be seen is the right size for the case. Maybe you just want part of the image? Check your camera location. We are going to cut out that little hole. Is there some font there or part of the image that you don't want to lose? Better work on resizing or positioning. Next, take your card insert that came with the clear case and use it as a template. Position it over the part of the image you want to use.

Once you have it lined up right, hold it in place with one hand while tracing the edges with your pencil. The insert might be a little bumpy along the folded part. No worries though, we'll be trimming this!

Take your scissors and carefully cut out your image along the traced line.

Place your cut out image into the back plate of your case. Does it fit? Trim if necessary to get the right fit. I had to trim those bumps from the folded insert and a little along the bottom to get it just right.

Check out your camera location. We are going to cut this piece out.

Take your image out of the case and slip it under it. Make sure your non-image side is facing up to you (image against the table) and that it is going the right direction so that the hole you cut is where you want it. Line it up as best as you can and trace the hole for the camera.

Take your case off the image and place your cutting board underneath. Take your exacto knife and carefully cut out the hole.

Place your new case design inside the back plate of your transparent case, lining up the hole with the camera and place your phone in gently.

Click the top part of the case on and there you have it!

Enjoy the new look!

Changes

Hi everyone!

You are not mistaken, "Testing 123" has been changed to "MIZAS GIRL". I'm going to be taking some time to clean up this blog and add a few new things, so I hope you can all hang in there with me. Hopefully there will be a much more organized result in the end!

Art Journal Pages 2

Art Journal Pages

I've been in the middle of some creative sparks lately so hopefully there will be more posts to come here soon... I currently have 5 on going projects right now and art journaling is one of them! Here are a few of my pages. Since all my pages are thoroughly layered, I work on multiple pages at a time which helps with my impatience of waiting for certain things to dry! I plan on binding them all together in a book later when I feel that a book of them is finished.

100 Days

I know... It's been a very long time since I posted any crafty stuff here and I'm sorry! My only excuse is that we have been terribly busy. I'm hoping to get more back into blogging and crafting once again! Here's a little something that my 6 year old daughter Akela and I crafted up for her 100 Days of Kindergarten Project! A collection of 100 favorite stickers adhered to a board book!

Cast Shorts Tutorial

So my little one is in yet again another spica cast! I thought I would make her some cute little shorts to go over them and in the process create this unique tutorial for all my OI mama and POLP friends! Here we go!

Materials needed : pair of shorts, sharp scissors, 1/2" wide Velcro, sewing machine, thread.

Start off with a pair of store bought shorts a good few sizes larger to accommodate the cast. That's right, store bought... you didn't think I was that crafty did you? Besides this is supposed to be easy peasy! I don't have time to follow patterns! If you are wondering, I found these at Target in the little girls section. They are a girls size 4/5 and my daughter is typically a 12 months size. To make sure I had the right size and shape (some shorts taper in in the leg which is not what you want for thick casted legs) I held them up to her casted waist making sure that the seamed sides lined up to her sides all the way down and were baggy enough to accommodate the casts.

Take a pair of very sharp scissors and cut straight from bottom to top along the side next to the seam. Do not cut on the seam, just next to it. My seam is to the left, scissors to the right leaving about a half inch distance from the seam.

Cut through the elastic carefully.

Open your pair of shorts up.

This is the side with the seam. Since the seam is here on this side we don't need to stitch what we cut, it's already done for us.

Take your velcro and size it up. You want it to be long enough to run the length of the side of the pair of shorts but not too long that it sticks out at either end.

I lined mine up just about a half inch from the top and cut it at about a half inch from the bottom.

My velcro overlaps the elastic and runs down to the bottom seam on the shorts. Since this is the butt side of the shorts (the seam closest to the behind, see the tag) I will use the rough side of the velcro here.

Do not sew your velcro on the side shown above (inside of shorts) rather sew it on the outside of the shorts (the side that shows) close to the edge of where you cut. Sew the velcro on by stitching all around the four edges of the velcro (like a box).

Trim your threads. Take a look at the other edge of your shorts where you cut. There is no seam on that side. We need to make one so that the fabric doesn't unravel. Fold the side of the shorts in, just enough so that you can stitch a seam down the side.

Trim your threads. Now take your softer counterpart of velcro and match up the size needed with the velcro that you have already sewn on. Make sure when you go to sew on the soft sided velcro that the placement is correct and that it lines up with the rough sided velcro.

Sew on the soft sided velcro on the inside of the pair of shorts next to the seam that you sewn.

Trim your threads. Now you have two sewn on velcro strips along the edges that you cut open. Now you can close up your shorts!

Here's a pic to show you what I'm working with here in cast land. Yep, that cast goes up her whole leg wraps around her waist and goes down the back of the other leg. Believe me stretching an elastic waistband only goes so far... in this case it's not enough! Some modifications were absolutely needed! Diaper changing is a whole other story as is her diagnosis.

Here are the first pair I made.

Ok, so here's how you get them on easy peasy! Put the one casted leg through and pull up making sure that the back of the shorts don't get scrunched up behind the cast.

Velcro her up!

Feed her some snacks and juice for being such a champ!

Happy crafting!!!