It’s been a while since we looked at how to make cardboard furniture – today I’d like to revisit the topic and show you how to make this customisable Tetris-themed organiser. This time, rather than corrugated cardboard, I worked with thin cardstock. Cardboard would have been better, but I didn’t have enough on hand to scale the design up.
You’ll need:
- Several sheets of cardboard or cardstock, depending on the size you want to make.
- pencil and ruler
- scissors and/or craft knife and mat
- Glue (wood glue if using cardboard)
- acrylic paint and brush
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Use the pattern to mark up and cut as many tetrominoes as you want, scaling up as desired. I made my pieces from 5cm squares – I hope to make a bigger version of cardboard made from 20 or 30cm squares, if I can lay my hands on enough cardboard!
Two of the patterns are reversible to get the other two blocks. Cut lines are marked with a solid line.
Next, score the fold lines – mountain folds are marked with a dashed line, there are a few valley folds, which are marked on the pattern with a dotted line and a little curved mark.
Fold and glue your tetrominoes, applying glue over the whole of each tab as this adds strength. When the glue is dry, paint the inside of each piece with acrylic paint.
When dry, arrange your blocks how you want them, and glue together, coating the whole of each surface with glue. This reinforces the pieces. If you used bigger than around a 10cm square (or bigger than 25cm for cardboard), you may wish to glue an extra layer of card between each surface for added strength.
You may also wish to glue a sheet of cardboard to the back of the unit, and paint the exposed sides of the tetrominoes.
Finished! Now, if only I could find a cheap glue that doesn’t make my cardboard curl…
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Another marvelous idea. Thanks for the patterns, am just loving the seahorse and can;t wait to try them out especially for jewellery ideas! Yipee!lol. ;D
This is just *WAY* cool!! I wanna make one!! hehe ^_^
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Okay…this is super cool. My tetris loving hubby would want this in his computer area
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I think this is too fun!
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What a fun idea!
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Great blog you have here! I host a link up party every Tuesday called Tot Tuesdays where you can link up crafts, activities, teaching resources, parenting stories or tips, recipes and things you’ve made for your toddler. I’d love it if you’d stop by sometime & link up!
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Cheers!
So very cool, also makes me want to play really badly.
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great idea for summertime! come and link up to making monday marvelous!
All cute things!
I love these! Man, I haven’t played Tetris in forever!
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This is so neat!
Too funky!! You’ve got some patience!!
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This tutorial got the most views at this week’s Mad Skills party, so I will be featuring you and your blog tomorrow morning! Grab a brag button for your sidebar if you would like one!
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So unique & totally clever. Would be great in a kid’s room.
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GREAT idea! So cute!
Thanks so much for linking it up! I hope you will join me again for this week’s link up party!
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What a fabulous idea! I love it!!
Thanks so much for linking it up! I hope you will join me again for this week’s link up party!
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Wow! This is way too cool. Thanks for linking up to my party this week.