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DIY MAGAZINE HOLDER FROM OLD CEREAL BOX - Upcycling Project for Home Office or Living Space
Jan 15, 2025
This video will show you how to transform your old cereal boxes into stylish magazine holders for your home office or living space. Make them to match your decor and have instant stylish storage.
I have decorated mine using decoupage which I show you in the video but you can decorate yours any way you like. How about painting it or covering it in sticky backed plastic?
You will need:
Cereal box
Scissors
Ruler
Pen
Plus decorations
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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make a magazine holder from a
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cereal box
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yep you can make them any size you like
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you can make as many as you like how
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about making a whole coordinated set for
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your home office or for your shelves
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in your living area so i'm christine
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from christiescrafts.com
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and this channel is all about crafting
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on a budget
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so what are you going to need to make
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your magazine holder
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first of all a cereal box the size you
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choose will determine the size of your
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holder and therefore what you can place
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in it so just check what you want to put
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in it before you choose your cereal box
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you're going to need a ruler to take
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some measurements
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and you're going to need a pen of some
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kind to mark them
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you're going to need some scissors to
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cut your box out
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now i'm also going to paint mine with a
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very simple white primer
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and then cover it with some decoupage
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paper
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the only reason i'm painting it is so
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that the design on the cereal box does
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not show through
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so however you want to decorate yours
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the first thing you need to do is make
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the shape
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so on the front of your cereal box at
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one side
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measure how tall you want the back to be
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now i'm doing it 12 inches
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obviously you can scale this up or down
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and on the other side the front of your
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magazine holder so for me that's four
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inches
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and when i've marked those two join them
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up
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and you can see that's forming the shape
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of your magazine holder that's going to
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be the side
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nice straight line
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then turn your magazine holder your
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cereal box
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onto its end and we're going to mark
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that front face
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so we're going to need a horizontal line
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on here four inches up
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so just measure both sides four inches
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and join them up
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so now we've got two sides marked up
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we've got a diagonal
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and we've got the short face so now
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we're going to go
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and do the 12 inches on the other
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short side so we're going to measure 12
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inches
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and either side
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and then join those marks up
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and this is going to give us the
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horizontal line to cut
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on the tall end of our magazine holder
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just join those up you can see by the
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time we finish we're going to end up
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with a complete black line
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that goes all the way around our box
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that we can simply cut along
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now to do this diagonal side you can
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simply
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look where your four inches is mark it
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round the corner
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mark where your 12 inches is and mark
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that round the corner
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and then when we join those up
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we have our other diagonal side
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so now if you want to do a quick check
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your
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black line should run all the way around
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your box
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and all of those lines should meet they
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should all join up
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so it's one continuous line so now we
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just need to cut it out
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so simply take your scissors come in
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from the top
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get down to that black line and cut all
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the way along
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i've sped this film up obviously but
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just take your time get a good
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nice straight clean cut so you get a
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good edge
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and then discard the extra bit of
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cardboard or use it for another craft
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and that's it you now have a magazine
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holder you can use it exactly as it is
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i'm going to go on to talk about how to
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decorate it an obvious way is just to
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paint it
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so you could paint it cover it enough
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coat so that it's covered it and you'll
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have
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a nice magazine holder perhaps make it
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the colour that matches your decor
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in your room and that would be the job
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done
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but what i'm going to do is give it a
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coat of paint
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and then decoupage it which will show
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you how i do that
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so the first thing you need to do is
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whatever paper you're using you need to
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either tear
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it or cut it up into small squares
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now actually because it's a simple shape
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i'm leaving my squares quite big
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but you do need them small enough to
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give you that texture and effect that
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you're looking for
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so just cut them up make quite a few you
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will be surprised how many you're going
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to use
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you've seen cut them up on mass so it's
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not like each individual one
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and then once you've got a nice pile you
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can get on with decoupaging
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so you need some sort of glue i'm using
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the deck patch glue
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mod podge pva glue all of them work
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beautifully
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and wherever you're starting just put a
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layer of the glue on now i'm starting at
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one corner so i've gone round the corner
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to make sure i can stick it on well
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take your first piece place it on
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and it should stick down so smooth it
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down
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and make sure you have plenty of glue
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underneath the bit of paper
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and also above because you're going to
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use the glue
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to give it a nice coating to protect it
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and also when the next bit overlaps you
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want some glue for it to stick to
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so make sure all your pieces overlap
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and make sure you get glue completely
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underneath them and on top of them
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ideally you put them in place using the
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brush and then just smooth them down
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you'll see my fingers keep coming into
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play because my brush is refusing to
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behave and pick them up
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as i get further on it picks them up
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fine
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so now you'll see i've sped the film up
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just to show you how it comes together
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you can go right up to the top and form
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a nice edge if you want to overlap over
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the top that's entirely up to you
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but what you are going to do is end up
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with this
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whole thing absolutely covered so
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obviously i'm not going to show you
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every little piece you're just going to
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see how it builds up and how all the
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pieces overlap
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so there'll just be a little bit of film
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now
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just showing you it all building up so
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i'm going to be quiet let you listen to
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the music and watch it build up
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and then i'll be back towards the end
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[Music]
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[Music]
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so as we come to the end you can see
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that as this is finished
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you can leave it to dry and then you've
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got a magazine holder all ready to use
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so hopefully you've made one that
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matches your decor set up a nice
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exciting home office with yours
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