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Running Your Crafts Business: How to Make Business Cards from Paper Scraps

With upcycling, it’s easy to make perfectly unique, eco-friendly business cards that advertise the style of your business while costing absolutely nothing.

These particular business cards are made from paper scraps, waste cardboard, and a DIY business card stamp set. They reduce the footprint of your business by removing scrap paper from the waste stream, cost nothing beyond a few minutes of your time, and are eminently customizable.

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DIY Crafts: How to Make Greeting Cards from Record Album Covers

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!

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Craftivism: 8 Crafty Groups Making a Difference

On Wednesday we talked a little bit about what craftivism means, and today I wanted to share some examples of groups that are using crafts to make a difference, whether it’s through donations or by raising awareness. If you’ve been wanting to do a little crafty activism but weren’t sure where to start, these are also good resources for getting active!

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Crafters We Love: Everyday Eclectic and a Giveaway!

We had the opportunity to interview the crafty couple from Everyday Eclectic– makers of handcrafted artisan goods like soy candles, natural soaps, and room and linen spray. They are also giving away a prize pack to celebrate CAGW reaching 5,000 likes on Facebook!

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Halloween Crafts from Recycled Materials: DIY Halloween Decorations: Frankenstein Bottle

Halloween Crafts: Upcycle a Bottle into Frankenstein

Searching for Halloween crafts that are easy to make and use materials that you have on hand? Look no further!

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What is craftivism?

We talk quite a bit about crafty activism here at Crafting a Green World, but what is craftivism, and how can you get involved?

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How do I Re-use T-shirts: T-shirt Crafts that You Can Wear

Before you take the scissors to that pile of screen-printed jersey knit, check out this master list of T-shirt crafts that you can wear–there are T-shirt mods for your top, T-shirt mods for your bottom (ahem…), T-shirt mods for kids, but all of it is just the way that T-shirts are meant to be.

Wearable.

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Running a Crafty Business: UncommonGoods Upcycle Design Challenge

Got a great idea for an upcycled design?

Want $500 and an UncommonGoods vendor contract?

Check out the UncommonGoods 2013 Upcycling Design Challenge!

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5 Onesie Tutorials to Revamp Your Baby’s Wardrobe

Does your little one’s wardrobe need a little more oomph? Check out these onesie tutorials to deck them out!

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Fall Crafts: Make a Recycled Paper Acorn Banner

Make an easy and adorable acorn banner out of recycled paper!

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Holiday Crafts: Repurpose a Wooden Spool into a Pumpkin

Looking for quick and easy holiday crafts for Halloween? Repurpose a wooden spool into a mini pumpkin!

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Baby Shower Craft: Make No-Sew Bib Onesies!

Planning a baby shower? Take onesie decorating to the next level with this cute baby shower craft idea!

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How-to: Change the Neckline on a T-shirt

Tired of always having the same old neckline on every single T-shirt?

Fortunately, the neckline of a T-shirt is the easiest thing to alter. You can create tons of different looks, it’s super quick and easy to do, and it doesn’t require any sewing skills!

All you really need, in fact, is a pair of great scissors, a T-shirt to play victim, and a brave heart and bold hand.

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How-to: Take in a Too-Large T-Shirt Tutorial

Tired of being swamped by a too-large T-shirt?

My Mammaw would tell you that you look slouchy when your clothes are too big.

Gain my Mammaw’s approval, and a T-shirt that is cuter and comfier to wear, by taking it in.

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5 Unusual Sources for Green Craft Supplies

Looking for green craft supplies and getting a little bit bummed that the big box offerings aren’t as eco-friendly as you’d like? Sometimes you have to look in less conventional places!

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Fall Crafts: 4 Eco-Friendly Pumpkin Projects

Call me crazy, but I’m already dreaming of fall! I’m ready for the cool weather, lots of gorgeous scarves, yummy pumpkin recipes, and most importantly, fall crafts!

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How To: Upcycle a Baby Food Jar into a Decoupaged Pumpkin

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Onesie Craft Idea: Got a too-small onesie? Turn it into a tee!

Got a onesie that you can’t bear to part with? Here’s a onesie craft idea to turn it into a cute tee for your babe instead!

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Board Game Storage: Build a Board Game Box

Did your favorite board game box crash and burn? Yeah, mine, too. Here’s how to make your own board game storage to replace it.

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Book Page Projects: Reuse Your Old Books

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.

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4 DIY Lighting Ideas to Green Your Decor

The right light fixtures can really change the whole mood in a room. Rather than toss your old lamps and fixtures, try these DIY lighting ideas to give them a face lift instead!

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How To: Upcycle a Teacup into a Chalkboard Business Card Holder

We’ve shared an Altoids Tin Business Card Holder, which is great for taking your business cards on the go, but what about displaying your business cards on a desk or table? I was looking for a unique way to display my business cards at my craft booth and here’s what I came up with– upcycle a teacup into a chalkboard business card holder!

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Showcase Your Green Crafts on our New Pinterest Boards!

We are ending our Green Crafts Showcase, and we will now be showing off our favorite green crafts – and craft supplies! – on our brand new Pinterest account!

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DIY Lighting: Make a Lace-Wrapped Lamp

Make your own DIY lighting! Take a glass lamp from plain Jane to shabby chic in just a few minutes with a little bit of lace or ribbon and the right sort of glue.

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How-to: Make Re-usable Chalkboard Signs instead of Posters

If your kid wants to set up a lemonade stand or hold a car wash, your first impulse is to buy some poster board and fat Sharpies and let them make themselves some signs.

If you spend a little more time, however, and make a good-sized chalkboard sign, then not only will you save some trees, but you won’t have to scrounge for poster board ever again!

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Book Page Prints into Greeting Cards from Spooky and Bright

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.

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4 Ways Fabric Paint can Revamp Plain Fabric

Got some plain old fabric in your stash that needs a little love? Check out these fabric paint techniques to give it a little more pizazz!

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How To: Upcycle an Old Window Frame into a Memo Board

Turn an old window frame into a unique memo board for your home!

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How To: Create Upcycled Splatter Paint Art

While working on the Upcycle a Guitar into Art post, I used an old cardboard box underneath it while painting. When I posted a sneak peek of the project on Instagram, my friend suggested turning the cardboard box into upcycled splatter paint art. So, I did!

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