Recycle: Shrinky Bracelet

I was looking for this shrinks tutorial long time ago and I am lucky today to find it in the internet.

The material is from recycle plastic box such as salad container or bread container. Look for plastic marked number 6 in the recycling triangle.

Other tools you need are:
markers (light colors and black)
scissors
hole punch
toaster or oven (preheated 250 degree F)
polyurethane (optional)

Click here for the tutorial by Michelle Dupuis.

Recycle: Luggage Tag

Today we going to discuss how to make a recycle travel tag/luggage tag from recycle card holder.

Sometime when we purchase certain products, we tend to get a simple two sided card holder and normally we dunno what to do with it. I bet most of us will have more than 2 cards in our wallet, so what can we do with the 2 empty pocket? Well here is a good suggestion, especially if you going for travel.

Let's look at the tutorial here.

What you need to prepare are:

1. Card holder which to be re-purpose
2. Paper, images from magazine, cloth (yeah, you can use cloth too)
3. Glue
4. ribbon or string
5. sew machine

Plastic: Waterproof Fabric Shower Cap

Is not easy to find a shower cap design that you like, but now this problem has resolved. Following the instructions created by Maggie, you can easily make one for yourself or as special gift for your love ones.

The tools and materials you need are:

• 2/3 yard of your favorite cotton fabric
• 2/3 yard of Iron-On Vinyl
• 1 package extra-wide bias tape
• 18-20 inches of 1/4 inch wide elastic
• coordinating thread
• sewing machine
• rotary cutter and mat
• pen, pencil, string and dowel
• safety pins

For detailed instructions, please click here.

Happy sewing~

Fabric: Recycle Fabric Flower

Simple easy tutorial by eloleo.

What you need are: fabric, scissors, thread, button, needle and a small piece of felt.

Click here to see the flower tutorial.
Click here to print the template.

Recycle: Plastic Bag Pompom Flip-flops

Recycled plastic bag pompom flip-flops tutorial by Pascale

I love this idea, can bring colors to a boring flip-flops, is an useful idea for people like me staying along the equator. What you need are:

-          A pair of plastic flip flop sandals
-          A couple of plastic grocery bags
-          A piece of card board
-          Pencil
-          Scissors
-          Needle and thread
-          A glass and a coin (to draw circles)

 

Fabric: Upcycle Bookmark

For people who loves sewing for sure they will have a lot of left over fabric, what you should do with them? Make patchwork blanket?

Well, funkypolkadotgiraffe had made them into bookmark, looks gorgeous right? Click on the photo to link to the tutorial.

Materials:

• 1 piece of cotton fabric (2.5"x9")
• 1 piece of cotton fabric (2.5"x18")
• 1 piece of felt (2.5"x9")
• 6" piece of ribbon

Clay: Photo frame

Source: abang.com

Material: Clay, recycle cereal box

Instructions in Mandarin, please click here for further details.

DIY瓷砖托盘

网上抄的， 一个注解也没有， 不过应该看得懂， 再google一下材料应该就可以自己在家DIY了。 原文来自：悉心感知-布能布爱

 

Recycle toy and stool

Click at the photos to enlarge for better view.
Source: unknown

Fabric: Upcycle Flowers from T-Shirt

I am sure everyone will have plenty of old cloths to be dispose. How you going to dispose them?

Some were to be donated to charity  house, some might become dirty cloths for wiping or some may just dump into rubbish bin.

I found a very simple tutorial and you can use your old cloths to make a lot of flowers. You can make them into brooches, hair pin, gift decoration, mobile etc, name it and you will get it!

This tutorial was prepared by Craft Snob. Sara has a pretty good collection of tutorials, feel free to pay her a visit.

For this Fabric flower, you need:

• Dispose cloths
• hot glue
• scissors
• pins

Fabric: Toilet Roll Case可爱的纸巾盒

资料来源：生活的创意

 

找到个旧光盘改造纸巾盒，详细光盘收纳盒制作过程与大家分享

 

先拿旧光盘在衬布上画出圆形

剪下来，要记得留缝份哦

 

光碟做的纸巾盒-衬棉

上机喽~

我跑跑跑

一片出来了

废旧光盘的利用

光盘纸抽盒的做法-制作花边装饰

继续装饰光盘DIY

一共需要六片哦

合起来

光盘南瓜盒纸巾盒就ok了，看看还算漂亮吧！ 

装上纸巾看看

很有创意吧！

Fabric: Cloth Nursing Pads

To save money and to be a little more environmentally friendly, Craitlyn had come up with her own tutorial for reusable nursing pad. Click here to view the measurement and the instructions.

Paper: Sticky Note Holder

This is a great idea for recycling paper and made them an useful gift. The tutorial is prepared by  Creative Kismet, click here to view the pictorial instructions.


Materials: plenty of wrapping paper, glue, pencils, binder clips, sticky notes and sticky magnet strip.

Felt: Upcycle Photo Frame

Found any photo frame at home and don't know what to do with it? Try this tutorial, you can refurbish and make it a meaningful gift to your love ones. See the tutorial created by holiday-crafts-and-creations.com, click here to view the instructions.

Fabric: Rose

This is a useful tutorial to dispose your old cloths which have nice color and design, you can turn them into rose brooch or a decoration for your photo frame. The tutorial is prepared by Susie Harris, click here to view the fabric rose instructions.

Recycle: Bottle Organiser

A very good recycle project to be introduce to everyone. A piece of cloth, a water bottle, some threads will make a nice piece of organiser for your study desk or kitchen.

The tutorial is written in Chinese language and posted in Rounding.com. Click here to view the instructions.

Paper: Recycle Paper Flower

Each day we get lots of fliers and brochure in our letter box, what we can do with these papers? Throw them in rubbish bin? Collect and send to recycle center? Or maybe you can do something even better for home decoration.

See the tutorial by How about Orange on how to transform a paper to a paper flower and you can use it as any decoration.

Vinyl: Cutie Crayon Pouch

Your kids having trouble to keep their crayon in their bag? Here is the instructions from Obsessively Stitching. Simple and a quick tutorial and you can make in one hour.

Fabric: Re-usable, Recycle Sandwich Bag

Instructions from Noodlehead.

Another green project where you can reuse your old pants pocket and make it a sandwich bag.

Fabric: Hanging Storage Basket

This is a very good idea for home storage, see the instructions from Ucreate.