Studded Cuff Bracelets from Mailing Tubes
Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This shows you on Teen.com how to make these trendy studded cuff bracelets from mailing tubes. [via Craft Gossip]
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New Year’s Noise Makers
Brenda on Alpha Mom shows you how to make these festive New Year’s Noise Makers out of empty raisin boxes.
How-To: Recycled Gift Tags
Every year, after the holidays I sort through the Christmas cards we’ve received and cut some of them up to use as gift tags for the following year. I plan on doing that again this year, but in the meantime I decided to use a stack of craft fair postcards to make some really flash […]
Upcycled Gift Wrapping
By Vanessa Coppola The holidays are here, presents are bought (unless you are a procrastinator like me), and now the wrapping begins. I personally love taking the time to make the outside of a gift look just as great as what is inside. Tossing your gift into a store-bought bag is fine but hardly does […]
New in the Maker Shed: Stray Sock Sewing Book
The Stray Sock Sewing book gives you inspiration for ways to repurpose your unpaired, old, or just plain ugly socks. The book includes a gallery of the author’s inspirational creations, a section on stitches and techniques needed for sock sewing, and detailed instructions on 8 different projects you can make from socks. We decided to […]
Coffee Sleeve Wreath
What a great way to reuse your caffeine-fueled detritus! This Simple Coffee Sleeve Wreath transforms those ubiquitous bits of cardboard into something quite elegant for the holidays. As Siobhan at Magpie and Cake shows you in her tutorial, you can whip up some seasonal and environmentally friendly cheer in no time! (Well, of course, it […]
Upcycled Umbrella Tree
By Jessica Wilson If you’re anything like me, a child of the ’80s, you may have been slightly obsessed with cartoons. When I was a tot, we didn’t have cable the way we do now. We had Select or ON television, and them channels only played a handful of movies over and over again. We […]
