How to make a cardboard stand

A cardboard stand is a great accessory for any home and will always come in handy. After all, you can use it as a stand for your phone, photographs, business cards, as well as pencil holders and so on. You can make a paper stand with your own hands.

What is needed for manufacturing (materials and tools)

Before starting work, you need to prepare the following:

• paper and cardboard material - colored and white;
• glue;
• pencils - plain and colored;
• ruler;
• glue brushes;
• scissors;
• Scotch;
• stapler;
• stationery knife.

For decoration, you may also need different decor. elements.

Step-by-step description of different stands

Making a cardboard stand yourself is not difficult. If the material is not very dense, several sheets are glued together. Microcorrugated cardboard is most suitable for such an accessory.

A special stationery knife is most convenient for cutting out of cardboard. With such a tool, the workpiece is cut more accurately and much easier. Let's consider how this is done in each specific case.

For pencils

Such a stand is a useful and necessary item for a desk so that stationery is not lost or scattered around the table.

"Penguin"

A small cardboard box is required (volumes and sizes are determined at will): you can take a suitable one from under the juice (it is washed and dried). Cardboard cylinders will also work.

Next, the packaging is pasted over with paper of the appropriate size (black - this will be the little body of a penguin).

Then templates are cut out of paper:

• breast - from white;
• wings - black;
• paws - yellow.

Eyes are also made - from black paper and a beak - from yellow.

All elements are sequentially glued to the appropriate places. The penguin pencil is ready.

From paper tubes

First, you need to prepare them. For this purpose, newspaper or magazine sheets are taken. Using an ordinary knitting needle, the tubes are twisted. There should be a lot of them. Then the ends are sealed with glue.

Next, the tubes are painted in the intended color, left to dry. The juice packaging is cut to the required height. The tubes are cut along the height of the future stand and glued along the perimeter of the blank box.

Allow the product to dry and then it is ready to use.

Pencil holder with flowers

A pencil holder can be made with flower decor. To do this, you can take napkins (color - optional).

The napkin folds in half twice. In the center, it is fastened with a stapler.Using scissors, the edges of the napkin are wavy. Each of its layers must be raised up, while at the base you need to press a little.

You can make several multi-colored flowers and decorate with them a ready-made paper pencil holder. Flowers are "planted" on glue, or fastened with tape from the bottom side.

For phone

It is not difficult to build such a stand. Such work will not take much time. This is a practical and easy way to make your own fixture. And, besides, to do it - at any moment.

The following is a step-by-step briefing of the most interesting ideas.

Shell

No special instructions are needed in this case. The main thing is to get a suitable, large enough shell.

For work, you need glue, which, when solidified, turns into a plastic tight mass - the so-called. rubber or liquid nails. There's no such thing? Then acrylic plasticine is used, which does not stain anything.

A layer of glue is applied to the area where the phone will come into contact with the shell surface. If the "blank" is not stable, glue is also applied to the lower part for a stronger fixation.

Wine corks

This is a great material for creativity. Therefore, you should not throw them away.

A smartphone stand made of such material will turn out to be environmentally friendly, comfortable, durable and very original: thanks to the unusual design itself and the decor.

For work you need:

• twenty plugs;
• leg-split;
• lace;
• Super glue.

The plugs are arranged in a row and glued together.

First, the back wall of the gadget stand is made (the plugs are glued in a row to each other, and the "second floor" is assembled in the same way). One "floor" is glued to another. The back wall is ready.

Next, the front is glued. The bottom part of the stand is glued gradually. The plugs are leaned against each other, one at a time. Then the back wall is attached.

As a decor, you can add a thin twine or lace to the stand. Floss threads, as well as other cute little things, will do.

Bamboo sun lounger

To make such a stand you need:

• bamboo sticks and a rug;
• dye;
• six coffee sticks;
• nippers.

You can find out how to make such a stand step by step here:

Upon completion of the work, you get a stylish and unusual accessory that no one will definitely have. The stand can be presented as a present or to decorate your desktop.

The easy way

You will need a thick sheet of paper. Squares of 15x15 or 10x10 (cm) are suitable for a standard smartphone.

It is necessary to act as follows:

1. The sheet is folded in half twice.
2. Unfold and fold at first the lower, then the upper halves in half.
3. Now they make the creases.
4. Unfold the workpiece, make a bend on the other side.
5. It is necessary to repeat all the previous steps in the opposite half.
6. The workpiece is unrolled. All folds should be clear.
7. The paper is turned ninety degrees, one corner is lifted and put inside. It turns out a kind of pocket.
8. Two corners are pressed against one another - the paper should wrap naturally.
9. The central part is tucked under the prepared pocket.
10. All steps are duplicated from the opposite side. You need to start by forming a pocket.
11. At the final stage, the central fold must be made clear: this will be the part of the stand holding the main weight of the gadget.

The stand is now ready.

For an easter egg

Step by step work:

1. Take colored paper. It should be 15x15 cm square.
2. Fold in half twice.
3. Then you need to open the sheet and fold the lower and upper parts to the middle.
4. Next, the workpiece is opened and positioned so that the fold line is on top.
5. A triangle is formed on both edges.
6. Wrap back on both sides to make the same.
7. Now, on one side, the bottom corner is tucked up, on the other side, they do the same. Unfold the workpiece and duplicate the previous steps.
8. The upper triangle is folded down - everything is done on both sides.
9. Now it remains to open the resulting "wallet".
10. Then it is straightened so that the stand takes the desired shape.

You can now insert the Easter egg.

What can be used for additional decor

Decorating stands, for example, for office supplies, you can use buttons, twine, fabric, craft paper, lace, etc. There are many options.

More ideas

It is easy and simple to make a pencil holder from toilet paper rolls.

In this case, you will also need corrugated colored paper.

It is necessary to act as follows:

1. Measurements of the bushings are made - the diameter and length are needed.
2. Strips of colored paper are prepared according to the size of the cylinders.
3. Then the blanks are pasted over with it.

Now you need to work on the "platform" for the stand:

1. A cloud is cut out of a sheet of paper (it is better to take a different color than the one with which the sleeves were glued) so that all the sleeves are located on it.
2. Then they are glued to the cloud.

To decorate the stationery stand, you can cut out small flowers and glue them onto a pencil holder.

Today in stores there is a huge selection of stands of different functionality: for paper, pens, pencils, phones, photos, etc. way, express yourself creatively.

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