20 Ways to Upcycle Gift Cards — Totally Green Crafts. Don’t toss those expired gift cards just yet. Make them into something beautiful instead. Here are 20 ways to do just that. Tagged as: credit card crafts, gift card crafts, repurpose, upcycle. Craft Stick Christmas Tree Craft. Starbucks cups with sketches by Johanna Basford - Advertising Is Good For You. Starbucks Cup Scrapbook. And I used a pick to poke 2 holes in the middle (folded part) of the pages and the cover. This baker's twine ties it all together. Worked out really well. I hope you enjoyed this little sweet idea! And thank you Angie for this adorable, brilliant idea! I really love it! Merry Christmas!! Starbucks Coffee Cup Sleeve Bracelets {Repurposed Craft} | Living Locurto ~ A Creative DIY Lifestyle Blog. {Tutorial Tuesday} Tissue Paper Christmas Trees...
So remember how I talked about hoarding? Well, if you don't remember check it out. I hoard a lot of things. One thing that I just can't break the habit of hoarding is tissue paper. I unwrap presents carefully so as not to rip the tissue paper. Sooooo, I figured out a way to put all that tissue paper to a good use. That's right! Once I had made a ba-gillion tissue paper flowers I then started from the bottom of the tree foam and began to glue them in place.
While doing this step I made sure to glue them close enough that I didn't see the styrofoam, but not so close that they overcrowded one another. When I was finished I used the extra tissue flowers to fill in the bare spots! Fact: I am somewhat lazy. Note: I used a cup as the base because it has a curled lip and it was more sturdy then just using scrapbook paper....it also provided extra height to the tree.
Didn't they turn out great! And the price? Styrofoam Tree form: $3.99 Tissue Paper: FREE Paper cup tree forms: FREE Time: 2.5 hours Hey! Best Paper Cup Crafts. I started my search for the best paper cup crafts thinking that there probably wouldn't be that many to choose from, but I was pleasantly proven wrong. Granted, most of the crafts I found are fun and easy paper cup crafts that are appropriate for younger children. For this reason I believe this article will be especially useful to elementary teachers and scout leaders.
So, if you are, or know, a teachers or scout leader, suggest that this site be bookmarked. All the projects shown in this article include a picture and by clicking on the site name, you'll be taken directly to the instruction page. Go to Parents ffor the instructions to make the cute owl shown above. Paper Cup Christmas Crafts by Darlene Michaud. Darlene Michaud's image for: "Paper Cup Christmas Crafts" Caption: Location: Image by: You can make lots of cute Christmas crafts with paper cups. Paper Cup Reindeer This paper cup reindeer can be used as a holiday decoration or it can be a handy treat cup that you use to hold Christmas candy or food items on your holiday dinner table. To make a paper cup reindeer, you will need a paper cup or a styrofoam cup, craft paints, scraps of tan construction paper or tan felt, black or brown pipe cleaners or chenille sticks, a red pom pom and wiggle eyes.
Cut your tan construction paper or tan felt so you have two 3-inch squares. Bend each chenille stem in half. Add some pink on the cheeks and draw some eyebrows using black paint or a black marker. Paper Cup Christmas Bells Paper cup Christmas bells can be hung in your Christmas tree as ornaments or can be hung on your front door as a holiday decoration.
Decorate your cups with more paint, glitter, stickers, buttons, bows or whatever you want. Rays Recycled Paper Cup Lamp is a Glowing Honeycomb of Light. Disposable cups are hardly ever re-used, and they often find their end at the local landfill. So to cut back on this paper waste, six innovative designers in Japan have banded together to save the world from being overrun by paper cups. Using reclaimed cups, the crew has created a honeycomb wall lamp that shines bright, well beyond its stunning and sophisticated modern design. The designers Chengyuan Wei, Guanyun Wang, Ye Tao, Jianxing Cai, Chao Chen and Xuanxing Yang came up with the upcycled lamp. Each paper cup was first cut in half length-wise, and then arranged in a scalloped roof-tile pattern held together with glue. Resembling a fish-scale pattern, the lamp shape slopes into an organic half-egg shape.
The lighting elements are fitted at the bottom, creating a gradated warm glow. . + Chengyuan Wei Via Yanko Design. Green initiatives | Celebrate Christmas the eco-way | TravelWeekly Asia. Paper Christmas Tree. We have been playing with Christmas patty pans (aka cupcake liners) at our place. We have mentioned previously our huge addiction to cupcake liners. We found the perfect red gingham liners for our Christmas baking, and discovered we had plenty of other patty pans in Christmas colours in our ever growing stash so it was time to put some of them to use! Inspired by the gorgeous Cupcake Liner Christmas Tree Toppers from the Cake Blog, we created some Paper Christmas Trees.
After removing the bases of the cupcake liners, the pleated paper strips are perfect to wrap around a polystyrene cone to from a Christmas tree. With so many Christmas themed patty pans/cupcake liners available, it is fun to make some trees for the Christmas table. Best of all they are really quick to assemble (under an hour to make three trees) and we had all the supplies on hand. You will need: polystyrene cone (from craft stores)patty pans/cupcake liners (approx 12 for each tree)sequin pins.