Kitchen Craft: Five Homemade Valentine’s Day Sweets
Get crafty in the kitchen and whip up some homemade Valentine’s Day sweets.
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Sealed With A Kiss: Five Valentine’s Day Cards Using Recycled Materials
Craft a greeting card from the heart using recycled materials.
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Five DIY Valentine’s Day Decorations
Whether you’re planning an intimate evening with your sweetie, a big Valentine’s day shindig with friends, or just like getting your holiday decor on, there’s no reason to hit the party store for mass-produced decorations. Not only do handmade Valentine’s decorations have more heart, if you make them yourself, you can choose eco-friendly materials.
How-to: Create Recycling Inspiration for Your Kitchen
Recycling comes in varying degrees of difficulty depending on where you live. In my urban Chicago life, it’s kind of a trek to get my recycling to the proper bin each week, and I never look forward to it. Inspired by the Gulf oil prints by Anthony Burrill, I wanted to create some kitchen art to remind myself of the importance of my efforts. The final product is a pair of corresponding prints, one a photograph and the other a newsprint with inspirational words. This eco friendly craft also serves as a reminder that no matter how annoying the triviality of recycling chores may be, it is totally worth the effort to save piles of waste from filling up more of our land and oceans.
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Fab Fabrics: Organic Block Prints from BIRCHseed
Stay at home mom Nikki Shipard creates beautiful, food-inspired block prints on organic fabrics.
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How to Make Glue with Natural Ingredients (5 recipes!)
No matter what project you’re working on, we can show you how to make glue to suit your needs. Try one of these five recipes!
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How to Make Laundry Soap for Three Cents a Load
Have you been wanting to make your own green cleaning supplies? Here’s how to make laundry soap that’s eco-friendly and only costs three cents a load!
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Cosmetic Container Crafts
Do you have ideas for crafty cosmetic container upcycles or fun reuse?
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Five Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day Crafts
Looking for love inspired and possibly heart shaped eco-crafts for Valentine’s Day? Then look no further than these five cute and green Valentine’s Day crafts
Are You an Artist or a Crafter?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the difference between craft and art. Primarily my question is: if I am a crafter, at what point do I become an artist?
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Five Hair Accessories You Can Make With Recycled Materials
Perk up dull winter attire with five hair accessories you can make using recycled materials.
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Crafty Kids: Tristin and Tyler Document Green Crafts in the City
Don’t you just love when you see kids getting excited about crafting? It’s even better when they’re fascinated with repurposed materials. A new web series featuring 7-year-old twins Tristin and Tyler is chock full of green crafting inspiration for kids and grown-ups alike!
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5 DIY Bike Accessories
Here are five DIY bike accessories you can make now or when it’s time to dust off your bike this spring.
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Upcycling Contest Offers Prizes for Creative Reuse
Have you entered the Rit upcycling contest yet? Our very own editor extraordinaire, Kelly Rand, is one of the judges, and the prize list is pretty darn sweet.
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Green Crafter Book Review: Carefree Clothes for Girls
Carefree Clothes for Girls offers loads of patterns for easy, comfortable outfits sewn in natural fabrics, but will your girl like any of them?
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How-to: Sew a Simple Drawstring Bag with Stashbusting Materials
Stash fabric and the need for portable storage are practically all that you need to sew up these quick, easy, and awesomely useful drawstring bags.
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Early Eco Spring Cleaning with a Side of Craftiness
Eco crafty ways to approach spring cleaning this year.
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Robot Lamps Made from Recycled Materials
Aristic and functional, industrial robot lamps by Brauer are made from recycled materials
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5 Projects You Can Make Using Leftover Fabric Strips
Don’t let your fabric strips from other projects go to waste! Here are five tutorials utilizing them in fun and useful ways.
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Five Ways To Re-Imagine A Pull Over Sweater
Create new pieces of clothing from a used sweater with one of these five projects.
Pillowcase Crafts: 11 Projects for Vintage Pillowcases
I have what you might call a vintage pillowcase obsession. I can’t pass up those beautiful pillowcases at the thrift store. A pillowcase has just the right amount of fabric for my sewing project ideas! Want to get in on the pillowcase sewing action? Here are some pillowcase crafts to kick things off:
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Fab Fabrics: Recycled Felt + 4 Felt Projects
Whether we’re talking felted wool from reclaimed sweaters or Kunin’s Eco-fi made from recycled plastic bottles, crafting with recycled felt is a great way to lighten your DIY footprint.
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Buntings, Banners, and Pennants Made with Natural and Recycled Materials: Five Projects
If you love buntings, check out this collection of five very different bunting projects that use up all sorts of stash materials, from yarn to blue jeans to scrapbook paper.
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How-to: Create an Inspirational Bunting with Stencils and Stash Fabric
With a few bits of stash fabric and some simple freezer paper stenciling, you can create a bunting with an inspirational saying.
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How-to: Easy DIY Bridal Bouquets
The current trend in bridal bouquets are pretty, semi-round, hand wrapped styles which is great for those who wish to go DIY. You can make your own DIY bridal bouquets with real or artificial flowers.
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Recycled Bride Reveals 2011’s Hottest Sustainable Wedding Trends
11 Ways to Make Your Wedding Sustainable
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How To: Mini Origami Star Banner Made With Recycled Paper
String up some recycled paper origami stars to create a mini-banner for your home or office.
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7 Crafts You Can Make Using Zippers
Even the most common craft supply, like zippers, can be used to create a slew of uncommon crafts. If you’re lucky, you can find bags of them at your local thrift store. If not, though, there is never a lack of clothing items that are un-wearable with their zippers remaining intact. Take a new look at an old thrift store staple to create an array of accessories. Here are seven projects that you can whip up using zippers.
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Sourcing Ethical Metal for Jewelry-Making
One thing that I don’t think gets enough attention is the metal that we use in our crafting. Between chains, clasps, and wire for wrapping, metal plays a huge part in any handmade piece of jewelry, but that metal can have a huge impact on the environment.
How-to: Tree Stump Card Holder
Packing bright holiday cheer back into boxes can make your home seem a little lonely after the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Not to mention that the bags of wrapping and packaging are enough to make any eco conscience a little bit guilty. Luckily, there are creative ways to use holiday décor in a whole new way as winter persists. This simple three step tutorial offers several decorating tips for a Christmas tree stump card holder – an eco friendly and free winter craft that you can make from your Christmas tree or leftover tree lot stumps.
Fab Fabrics: LinenMe
Lithuanian designer Inga’s beautiful linen fabrics are inspired by traditional methods from her home country.
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Tutorial: How to Sew a Sweet and Simple Pillowcase Skirt
If you can sew a straight line (and even if you can’t), then you can sew a pillowcase skirt.
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Six Sweet and Simple Skirts that You Can Sew from Recycled Fabrics
Check out these five skirts that you can sew using recycled fabrics ranging from T-shirts to bedsheets.
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ReadyMade’s Top 20 Projects of 2010
Check out ReadyMade’s top 20 projects from 2010.
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Craft Space Organization Eco Style
As one of my crafty new year’s resolutions is to get organized, here are some eco-style solutions for your craft room.