Five Creative & Simple Ways You Can Decorate Your Phone Case

We all love to give our favourite equipment and items a personal touch. Be it an online profile or our smartphones, customising make them appear a bit livelier to us. When it comes to phone cases, we easily buy it from an online store or nearby market, however, why spend money at all on it when you can make them at home. So, if your existing covers have bored your eyeballs or probably have become old and scrappy. It’s time that you give your phone a unique and more personal touch using everything that you already have at home. Here’s what you need to do:

Marbled Cell Phone Cover

Allow your vibrant nail polishes to enhance the beauty of your smartphone’s case too. Use them to make this stylish marbled design.

Supplies

• Old transparent phone case
• Nail polishes in any three different shades
• A large bowl
• Tap Water
• Toothpick or paintbrush

Steps

• Take the bowl to fill it with water. Now, pick your first polish paint. Drip a few drops of the colour onto the surface of the water.
• Mind carefully dropping from just about an inch or so above the surface of the water otherwise paint will settle in the bottom.
• Once you drop the paint correctly, the nail polish will start to spread.
• Quickly drop the second and third colours in the same manner.
• Spread all together around the surface of the water at random.
• With the help of a toothpick or the handle tip of a small paintbrush carefully swirls the paint around more. Try achieving a marble effect on the surface of the water.
• Take your cell phone case and hold it by making it face down toward the water. Lightly touch it to the surface of the water. You will notice nail polish will start adhering to the case. Need not fully submerge the case in the water.
• Once the case is fully covered in the marbled polish, remove from the water and let it dry.

Bohemian Tapestry Phone Case

Every Indian household has a few tapestries that they don’t use. Why waste them by keeping in storage, instead make this classy looking phone case using it.

Supplies

• Patterned tapestry fabric or ribbon
• Any phone case
• Rubber solution
• Embroidery thread
• Needle
• Pen & Paper

Steps

• First, trace the case on a paper and then on the tapestry to avoid mistakes.
• Horizontally or vertically lay out the fabric.
• Cut your fabric exactly to the size of your case and embroider all around the edges with a simple chain stitch. Chose contrasting threads for better appearance.
• Trace the camera hole on your fabric and cut out.
• Embroider around the camera hole too.
• Using rubber solution paste the tapestry onto the case and press down.
• Especially mind the edges are pasted well. Cut off excess thread around.

Collage Phone Case

Customised pieces are adorable and full of life. Make your own personal phone case at very easily at home using old photos.

Supplies

• Old phone case
• Photos
• paintbrush
• scissors
• Clear Adhesive
• Any colour paint

Steps

• Firstly, paint your case using a brush for a better appearance.
• Pick the photos and adjust them as you want them on your case. The photos shall not be very big in size.
• Apply a thin coat of your clear adhesive over the photos. Let it dry for an hour.
• Now, apply another coat, a very thin one. Again let it dry out for 2-3 hours.
• If you want you can add glitter before applying the second layer.

Jewellery Phone Case

Are you also one of them, who just doesn’t want to give away her jewelleries, despite not wearing them? Bring those to work and enhance your phone case looks using it.

Supplies

• Phone case
• Jewellery
• Gems, and beads
• Metal Glue
• Pliers or Cutters

Steps

• Start by sorting the most attractive pieces. Remember you don’t need similar looking pieces, select random ones.
• Make the pieces small and detach from its shells or chain using pliers or cutters.
• Take your case, arrange the pieces according to your wish. And then pick one to apply metal glue and place back.
• Repeat with all the other pieces.

Pompom Case

Its summers and you don’t need those colourful woollen threads anymore. Why not make a trendy pompom from it and give the phone cover a cosier look!

Supplies

• Small-sized pompom or woolen threads
• Adhesive
• Old cover

Steps

• If you have coloured pompom you can work with or make them yourself using woolen threads.
• Circle the thread on one finger. Take it out, tie from between. Cut the edges from both sides and spread making a ball.
• Repeat for making many more.
• Now, stick those as you want on the back of the case and you’re done.

Image Courtesy: Ali Express, Divas and Dorks, Narce Cases, Pumpkin Emily