50 DIY Toilet Paper Roll Crafts You Need to See!
Do you love toilet paper roll crafts as much as we do? Today we’re sharing 50 projects that you need to see!
50 DIY Toilet Paper Roll Crafts You Need to See! Read More 👉
Do you love toilet paper roll crafts as much as we do? Today we’re sharing 50 projects that you need to see!
50 DIY Toilet Paper Roll Crafts You Need to See! Read More 👉
I talked last week about the awesome superhero birthday party that we threw for my son and shared how to make cute superhero capes from recycled felt. Today I’m going to share another superhero birthday party craft: printable cupcake toppers!
Printable Cupcake Toppers for your Superhero Party Read More 👉
Need to wrap a cute gift in a hurry? Here’s how to make gift tags out of junk mail security envelopes in under 10 minutes.
How to Make Gift Tags from Junk Mail Envelopes Read More 👉
Got some old folders in your stash? You can use them to make a sweet Valentines Day card!
Valentines Day Card from an Old Manila Folder Read More 👉
These sweet dessert toppers are simple Valentine’s Day crafts that come together in a flash!
Valentine’s Day Crafts: Heart-Shaped Dessert Toppers Read More 👉
Are there some holiday cards on your mantle that you can’t bear to part with? Turn them into a decorative keepsake by using them to make covered clothespins!
Christmas Card Crafts: Make Covered Clothespins! Read More 👉
You don’t want to forget all the wonderful memories that you made on your vacation, do you?
Tutorial + How-to: Brown Paper Bag Travel Journal Read More 👉
‘Tis the season for making origami Mayflowers!
Tutorial + How-to: Make Origami Waterproof with Beeswax Read More 👉
This week I worked on my fall mantle decor! I needed a fun, pop of color, so I created these bright recycled cardboard letters!
Fall Crafts: Recycled Cardboard Letters Read More 👉
Searching for simple fall crafts to spruce up your decor? Revamp faux pumpkins with recycled paper!
Fall Crafts: Revamp Faux Pumpkins with Recycled Paper! Read More 👉
If you’ve got any source of recycled cardboard that has a natural crease–think food packaging, USPS flat rate envelopes or other mailers, or the old record album covers that I’m using here–then you’ve got a natural greeting card just waiting for you to cut it to size, write in it, and mail it off!
DIY Crafts: How to Make Greeting Cards from Record Album Covers Read More 👉
Just because you love books doesn’t mean that you can’t subject them to the (craft) knife. Check out these book page craft projects to give old books a new life.
Book Page Projects: Reuse Your Old Books Read More 👉
How to make your own greeting cards that aren’t super cutesy and twee?
Include something vintage!
I made these DIY greeting cards not with rubber stamps of teddy bears or foam stickers of ducks in bonnets, but with vintage book pages. Pages trimmed from a ratty, torn copy of The Turn of the Screw and an old dictionary, embellished with paint, compose the front images of a set of all-purpose blank cards, suitable for either the kids or the adults in the family to use.
Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright Read More 👉
Sometimes, if you’re an artist or a crafter, you have the chance to give out business cards that have a lot more flair. Business cards that you give out at a conference or networking event, with a purchase at a craft fair, or in a package that you’re shipping with an order from your etsy shop can afford to be a little fancier, and include a little bonus gift to make you memorable.
These DIY business cards may not fit in a potential customer’s wallet, but they’ll still stand out. Whether it’s a string of hand-painted beads, a small charm, or another trinket, these items may be just more of your unneeded stash, but to others they’re gifts, a little added value that costs you nothing but a few extra seconds of time, but positively impacts how your business card is received.
How-to: DIY Embellished Business Cards–with a Treat! Read More 👉
When my friend Bonnie said that she wanted a book-themed baby shower, I couldn’t wait to get crafting!
You don’t even have to actually tell the recipient of your thank-you card that it’s written on recycled elephant poop paper.
But why wouldn’t you?
Why I Write My Thank-You Notes on Recycled Elephant Poop Paper Read More 👉
Whether you run a crafty business or just nabbed a swag bag at a craft market, chances are you’ve got some business cards handy that have outlived their usefulness. Instead of tossing them in the recycle bin, try some of these projects to upcycle business cards!
Upcycled books are a fabulous craft, but making one always leaves you with one question to answer:
How to bind it?
Review: Zutter Bind-it-All for Making Upcycled Books Read More 👉
Back in the day, I would make a “coupon book” for my parents full of free hugs and chores that I disliked. I decided to put an eco-friendly and personalized spin to my average coupon book. Here’s how you (or your children) can make one, too!
DIY Father’s Day Gift Idea: A Recycled “Coupon Book” Read More 👉
Do you have art or craft supplies that you collect? If you’re out shopping the sales, however, it can be hard to remember if you have that exact color of something already, or if you should snap it up while it’s cheap. Especially for things like markers, paint, and fabrics, which come in more colors than it’s possible to own, these little swatch cards, made from upcycled paper, come in really handy.
The swatch cards are small enough to put in your pocket if you know you’re on your way to the art supplies store, handy to reference when you’re there, and quick to duplicate when you’re back home with your new supplies. Here’s how to make them
DIY cardboard embroidery floss spools are quick to make, at least as sturdy as store-bought floss spools, and they’re free!
Here’s how to make your own.
How-to: Upcycled Cardboard Embroidery Floss Spools Read More 👉
Ditch plastic Easter eggs entirely! These papier mache Easter eggs are just as fun to hide and find, and they have just as much room for treats inside.
Thrill a kid in your life by building them something huge out of cardboard. All you need is a collection of cardboard boxes and a lot of imagination!
Cardboard Constructions for Kids: Bigger Projects to Make Using More Upcycled Cardboard Read More 👉
I’ll show you how we made our restaurant book using the eco-friendly supplies given to us by Full Circle Crafts, and–best yet–tell you how you can enter a giveaway to win even more Full Circle Crafts supplies.
Kids love to play Memory! Here are a ton of handmade memory games that you can craft using sustainable supplies.
Handmade Memory Games Crafted from Sustainable Supplies Read More 👉
Scrapbooking chipboard is really easy to repaint and embellish. Here’s how I did it.
Confession: I love making Valentine’s Day crafts, because I love cutting out heart shapes! This upcycled heart streamer is a fun DIY Valentine’s Day decoration that you can whip up in under an hour.
DIY Valentine’s Day Decoration: Upcycled Heart Streamers Read More 👉
It’s super simple – and fun! – to create custom DIY art using old book pages! Here’s how I made this space art for our baby’s nursery.
Kids love to make their own jewelry, and these pendants, crafted from upcycled cardboard, are especially fun to create and wear. The pendants cost no money, slip easily inside a letter to a pen pal, and, if the kid gets tired of wearing them, can be tossed right back into the recycling bin.
Store-bought wrapping paper offends me for a lot of reasons–the wasted money, the wasted resources, the energy misspent on buying ephemeral window dressing instead of focusing on family time.
And yet brown paper bags and sheets of newspaper, the go-to gift wrap for the thrifty and eco-minded, aren’t so much…well…cute.
To solve the cuteness dilemma, I spent a lot of effort decorating my first several packages with various upcycled materials and stash components. And then…
…I did something different.
Yes, I DID Wrap All of My Christmas Presents in Newspaper and Brown Paper Bags Read More 👉
Worried that in twenty years you’ll have trouble remembering what it was that your little kid wanted more than anything else for Christmas this year?
Record their wish lists for posterity with an ornament!
Here’s how to turn yesterday’s newspaper into a temporary toy that your kids will love using to increase their spatial reasoning abilities.
How-to: Build Newspaper Structures with Your Kids–It’s a Toy that You Can Recycle! Read More 👉
There’s something so sweet about little origami puffy hearts!
Got some old books that need a little love? Check out 10 creative ways to upcycle old books into something new!
See how proud that kiddo looks? She and I made that witch’s hat, the exactly perfect Halloween costume accessory, out of recycled newspaper and cardboard (and a lot of tape!). Considering that everything except for the tape and paint came from our recycling bin, and that this is EXACTLY the tall, polka-dotted hat that she had wanted, I’m declaring it a Halloween win.