Zero Waste Sewing
Zero waste has been a growing trend in the fashion industry, and Iām very excited to see it catching on in the craft world, as well!
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5 Ways to Make Custom Stamps Natural or Recycled Items
You don’t have to buy stamp carving blocks to create hand-carved stamps. Check out these five natural or upcycled alternatives!
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How-to: Carve Your Own Custom Rubber Stamps
Need a perfect image for a business card or wedding invitation? Anyone can create hand-drawn, hand-carved custom rubber stamps with a few tools and a little time.
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It’s National Remodeling Month
May is National Home Remodeling Month, will your remodel be green?
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10 Places to Find Eco-Friendly Art Supplies
10 places where you can shop for eco-art supplies.
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3 Awesome, Upcycled Cinco de Mayo Decorations
Cinco de Mayo is just a few days away, but there’s still time to get your DIY on if you’re planning some festivities. Whip up some guac and margaritas to go along with these crafty decorations, and celebrate Cinco de Mayo in DIY style!
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Recycled Craft Room Decorating Ideas
We’re building an addition on our house, and when it’s all finished up, I’m going to have my very own craft room. Right now, my husband and I are sharing the front office of our house, but soon he’s going to move his music and writing stuff into his own office, and I am planning to totally redo the room to make it a crafty sanctuary.
Of course, no craft room would be complete without some good storage and organizing solutions! Here are some of the recycled ways I’m hoping to deck out my new studio.
Five Natural Crafts to Make Using Seashells
Have fun on your beach vacation? Put your sandy seashell souvenirs to use, and create a handmade object that will forever remind you of your special trip.
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Green Crafter Ethics: Is it Okay to Collect Seashells?
Is it okay to collect seashells for your own crafty purposes?
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Five Eco-Friendly Mother’s Day Crafts
Here are five eco crafts you can make for mom.
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Use Junk and Trash to Help Make Your Garden Grow
SImple junk or trash items can be transformed to help your garden grown.
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April Stash Bust is Over But not Out
How have you been faring this April Stash Bust? The month is almost over and I’m happy to say that I can claim victory over my quest to not purchase any new craft supplies, though my stash is only a little bit lighter.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Making Vegan Jewelry
You might not think of animal products when you think jewelry, but there are more sneaky animal components to jewelry making than it might seem at first glance. Like we’ve talked about before, vegan doesn’t equal green, so it takes a bit of extra love to find eco-friendly alternatives to animal products. Here are some places where you might encounter animal products in jewelry making and ways you can replace those products.
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Suitcase DIY: 3 Craft Projects for Vintage Suitcases
What is it about vintage suitcases? I think they carry so much history. Those sturdy, beautiful, old-timey pieces of luggage are packed full of trips and stories. Vintage suitcases are not so ideal for modern travel: they’re heavier than modern suitcases and they often don’t have those handy wheels on the bottom, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still worth salvaging! Here are a few suitcase DIY projects that rethink those suitcases.
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Five Upcycled May Day Baskets to Make with Recycled Materials
Surprise your friends and neighbors on May Day by leaving one of these upcycled baskets filled with flowers on their doorknobs for them to find. Shhh, it’s a secret!
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Five Crafty Projects to Upcycle Your Potato Chip Bags
Keep potato chip bags out of the waste stream by upcycling them into one of these five crafty projects.
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Winners of the ReadyMade 100
The ReadyMade 100 contest winners have been announced.
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Earth Day Giveaway: EarthLust Stainless Steel Water Bottle
Enter to win an EarthLust water bottle.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Knit and Crochet
We’ve talked about vegan sewing supplies and vegan soap making, and I don’t want you fiber artists to be left out! There are lots of wonderful options for vegan knit and crochet supplies. It just takes a little bit of extra attention to materials to suss out common animal products.
Fab Fabrics: New Organic Cotton Prints from Betz White
These super-sized, bold prints from Betz White are perfect for those spring sewing projects!
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Five DIY Travel Toys Guaranteed to Make Your Trip More Bearable
Make traveling with kids more fun and less expensive with these five D.I.Y. travel toys made with recycled and/or natural materials.
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Make Tie Dyed Easter Eggs!
If you’re tired of regular old Easter egg dyeing, then try making tie-dyed Easter eggs for a change. It’s a stash-busting project!
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Soy-Gel: A Must Have for Furniture Refinishing
Have furniture to refinish? Try soy-gel.
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The Creative Entrepreneur: A Visual Guide to Business Planning
If you are a creative business owner check out The Creative Entrepreneur
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April Stash Bust: Five Projects to Bust That Fabric Stash
Kelly talked last week about the April Stash Bust, and we’re pretty excited about busting our stashes around here! That “use what you have” mentality is part of the heart of green crafting, and there are so many fun, creative ways to take supplies you have on hand and turn them into something wonderful. Here are a few stash busting projects for those fabric scraps!
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Vegan Soap Making
With a little help from Tracy Perkins, vegan soap superstar, we take a look at common animal ingredients that vegan soap makers should look out for and what vegan soap making supplies are out there.
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April is Stash Busting Month!
It’s that time of year again. Time to pledge your allegiance to buy no new craft supplies and materials and only use what you have. Can you make it for the entire month?
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Five Easter Egg Projects Using Recycled Materials
Say no to store-bought Easter egg kits, and keep some trash out of the waste stream by trying out these five Easter egg projects that feature recycled materials.
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Attention, Indie Crafters: Crafty Supermarket Seeks Your Swag!
If you’re an indie crafter or crafty blogger with an eye toward getting the word out about how awesome you are, then check out Crafty Supermarket’s Call for Swag.
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Participate in TerraCycle’s Nationwide Creative Recycling Programs
Get involved in these recycling programs that help you recycle creatively and donate to charity at the same time. It’s double good green karma for you.
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Gardeners: Save Those Easter Egg Cartons and Egg Shells
Save your easter egg cartons and your eggshells. They’re handy to have for a garden.
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How-to: Make a Washer Necklace Out of Leftover Furniture Parts
Use your leftover furniture parts to create this simple necklace.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: Vegan Sewing Supplies
One of the main things I hear from non-vegans about the vegan lifestyle is that it seems difficult. While I agree that any lifestyle change is tough, I don’t think going vegan is any harder than any other big life change. It takes a little bit of research, a bit of knowledge, and some compassion.
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Fab Fabrics: Geometric Prints from Ten14 Textiles
Ten14 Testiles prints bold, geometric designs on a variety of different organic fabrics and even offers custom design for a fabric that’s 100% unique!
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Five Trashion Fashions that You Can Recreate
From a fused plastic bag raincoat to truck tire sandals, you can create the season’s hottest trashon fashions for your own wear.
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How-to: Hold a Trashion/Refashion Fashion Show in Your Town
Need another fun weekend activity? Organize a fashion show of outfits that consist primarily from refashioned or trash materials–it’s an eco-friendly fundraiser that the entire community can participate in.
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