The first thing I did was cover the entire back of it in a turquoise nail polish. I've found that this seems to work exceptionally well, and has so far stayed wonderfully. I had to do several coats, letting each one dry in between so that bringing the brush back across did not clump the polish. Make sure it's completely dry, and not at all soft, before you touch it. Otherwise you have a nice fingerprint in it. Light coats, while tedious, do the trick just fine. I didn't take a picture of this step since it seemed fairly self explanatory.
Step two: My incredibly talented mom cut a chevron pattern out of contact paper for me. I imagine you could use masking tape to tape it off, but contact paper was what we had. This worked lovely. I adhered it to the back of my phone. (With the actual iPhone NOT in the case at the time) Next, I painted the open areas with a black nail polish, which is shown in the picture below. Let it dry completely before adding glitter. I didn't wait long enough, and it was stuck in all sorts of places that I didn't want it to be.
Step 2- After adding the black nail polish and removing the contact paper |
After the glitter is dried on, apply a coat or two of clear nail polish topcoat to the glitter chevron stripes. This will hold it in place and keep the glitter from flaking off as it is wont to do. I also painted a silver nail polish over the Otterbox logo at the bottom to make room for a small design. You should be able to blow off the extra glitter if it hasn't stuck to the other polish.
After adding glitter and the silver polish |
Ta-da! My back part is finished! |
It's still a work in progress, but I'm pretty proud of the end result on the outer layer. Plenty of colors and styles could be used instead of what I did, and this method just screams for a monogram to be done. But here you go, my crafted Otterbox that is a much better show of my personality than the original camo! :-)
<3 M
P.S. This is the print of the case before, straight off the Otterbox website.
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