How To Craft a Table Using Old Magazines. If there's anything we have too many of in our apartment, it's magazines and plants. So we solved the problem by re-purposing six magazines (and that's all you need—no glue or scissors required!) Into this plant stand. It took about ten minutes. Here's how: We were inspired by a project done by our friend Erica. She has the coolest job of anyone we know: she crafts and does the store design for Anthropologie. We snapped the photos below when we visited her home in Portland, Oregon. The concept is similar to cardboard furniture. What You Need MaterialsOld magazines.
Instructions 1 Pull out any subscription cards from inside the magazine. Tutorial 01: How to make a gift bag. November 8th, 2008 I’m doing a couple of craft sales running up to the festive period and was trying to think of an easy and nice way to wrap my goods without having to buy packaging…so looked around the house for stuff to recycle and settled on magazines. I wanted something that was easy to make, didn’t involve gluing or the use of sticky tape and was also adaptable so that I could make different sizes to accommodate different products. I settled on the use of origami and after a quick search found something perfect. So here’s my tutorial on how to make one of these: Video tutorial below… I’ve chosen to use pages from a magazine, as I prefer to recycle what I have than buy ‘new’ – with the next lot I make, I might use some old wrapping paper I saved from birthday presents, as that way I can determine the size, as I need to make some bigger bags.
You could easily use fancy or plain wrapping paper. Potholder from old newspapers. Alma Stoller - How to Recycle a Magazine. I wrote about this technique in the May/June 2007 issue of Cloth Paper Scissor Magazine. Here is a quick recap. Supplies: Magazine pages and cut-outs, double-sided tape, sewing machine, gesso, gel medium and acrylic paint. Pull out seven pages from a magazine. Stack them up and use double-sided tape to adhere one page to the other. Machine stitch the entire stack. Use gel medium ( I use Golden Regular Gel Matte) to adhere other images. Cover up any logos or identifiable images. Let it dry. Gesso over the paper canvas. Blot out some of the gesso here and there. The idea is to blur and muddy up the image and text.
Let it completely dry, then paint it with an acrylic paint. Here I've painted most in white, one in pink and one in yellow. Now the canvas is ready for you to paint your original art. GIVEAWAY:This package of SIX can be yours. Leave your name to sign up to win. The random selector will pick out a winner on Thursday. Enjoy! Make a basket out of plastic bags! Always Chrysti - Always Chrysti - 100+ Ways to Creatively Reuse Old Magazines.