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Link Love: Go Green in 2013

December 20, 2012 by FaveCrafts

Last year, I made a resolution to go green. For me, this meant setting up a recycle bin at home and making sure to use it, even when it was less convenient. I also made it a point to repurpose recyclable items like jars and plastic bags. To be honest, I didn’t think it would make a huge difference, but I’ve really seen that every eco-friendly effort is completely necessary.

Recycle crafts can be made 365 days a year and tailored to any event. On FaveCrafts, there are free eBooks devoted to the subject (check out 12 Thrifty Trash to Treasure Crafts) and more specific roundups for a variety of materials such as plastic bottles. In fact, you can save the plastic tops from your water bottles and make a Bold Button Water Bottle Bracelet. Green crafting doesn’t end with recyclables, though. You can repurpose an old sock to create a Drawstring Sock Pouch – it’s perfect for carrying little treasures. If you’re a java fanatic, you probably go through plenty of K-Cups. Instead of throwing away all of those little empty cups, turn them into K-Cup Flower Pin Cushions.

There’s never a bad time to start a new habit. Once you start crafting with recyclables, you’ll be amazed how much money you save on supplies. Trim your trash haul and help the Earth – not a bad way to start the new year, don’t you think?

  1. Gift Card Holder from Paper Towel Roll from Nellie Bellie
  2. Recycled Jar Lantern from My Made Up Story
  3. Drinking Straw Bracelets from Mark Montano
  4. Jute Wrapped Recycled Bottles from The Full Moxie
  5. Manuscript Christmas Vase From a Recycled Tin Can from Wag Doll
  6. Wine Cork Stamps from Bespangled Jewelry
  7. Storage Frame from David Leon Morgan
  8. Super-Cute Fabric Bookmark from The Little Greenhouse
  9. DIY Scratch Paper from Recycled Books from Morena’s Corner

Filed Under: Green Crafting Tagged With: bottle caps, crafts using recycled items, link love, Paper Craft, plastic, recycled crafts, recycled materials

This Week on Cool2Craft TV – EcoHeidi Borchers Something from Nothing

August 28, 2011 by Tiffany

Join host EcoHeidi Borchers and her special guest for this week’s episode of EcoHeidi TV on the Cool2Craft TV Channel. On this new episode, it’s all about “something from nothing”. EcoHeidi sets the design theme with a water bottle necklace, crafts an adorable hanging doll from bottle caps, shares the popular vintage Aleene’s technique of the look of embossing with glue and Candace Jedrowicz transforms soda cans and plastic into a cool light catcher. Monday August 29, 2011 at 9 am Pacific/ 10 am Mountain/ 11 am Central/ noon Eastern. Watch craft demos and join in the live chat at showtime at Cool2Craft.com.

Something from Nothing - EcoHeidi TV - FaveCrafts - Cool2Craft

It’s easy to watch Cool2Craft TV right from your computer. This episode airs Monday August 29, 2011 9am Pacific/10am Mountain/11 am Central/noon Eastern. Go to http://cool2craft.com and find the Livestream player and chat box. See you Monday!

 

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Filed Under: Cool2Craft Tagged With: Candace Jedrowicz, cool2Craft, cool2craft tv, doll, EcoHeidi Borchers, embossing, green, heidi borchers, plastic, recycle crafts, recycling, soda cans, Valentine's Day, vintage

FaveCrafts 365 What is Friendly Plastic?

April 4, 2011 by Maria

Yesterday I showed you some beautiful earrings made from Friendly Plastic and thought some of you might be curious as to exactly what Friendly Plastic is! This material was widely available when I first started crafting; as a matter of fact, the first design I ever sold was made of Friendly Plastic and purchased by AMACO as a show piece for their booth at trade shows.

Watch this video to find out more about Friendly Plastic. And to purchase Friendly Plastic just visit CutRateCrafts.com.

To see more of Jana Ewy’s work just check out these links:

Autumn Fires

Magnetic Gift Set

Colorful Bookmark

Filed Under: FaveCrafts 365 Tagged With: friendly plastic, plastic

FaveCrafts 365 French Market New Orleans Handmade Heaven

April 3, 2011 by Maria

During our trip to New Orleans we visited the famous French Market, which is an open air market where people can open up stalls to sell their wares. A majority of the vendors are selling purchased items to resell, but many are artists and crafters selling handmade items from jewelry to delightful paintings. We had a great time and purchased a few things! Check out this video to discover our treasures.

If you like working with Friendly Plastic or are curious to try your hand creating with this material check out CutRateCrafts.com for great prices and variety!

Filed Under: FaveCrafts 365 Tagged With: friendly plastic, plastic, travel

Product Review and Giveaway: Friendly Plastic Metallic Prints

July 9, 2010 by FaveCrafts

A pound of Friendly Plastic can make dozens and dozens of projects. You can heat, melt, and mold this plastic many ways including a heat tool, flat skillet or toaster oven. Learn more and enter to win here.

Contest ends July 23, 2010. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning!

Filed Under: Product Reviews Tagged With: giveaways, plastic

Crafty Gifts for the Teacher

August 24, 2009 by FaveCrafts

With school quickly approaching or having already started for many, back to school crafts are popular here at FaveCrafts. We have two new projects for cute teacher’s gifts. Kids can help create these crafts and present them to their new teachers, especially on Teacher Appreciation Day. (National Teacher Day is the first Tuesday of May.) Crafting teachers might also appreciate making the beaded necklace with shrink plastic school shapes. Kids will also enjoy making the garden frame just for fun.

School Bead Necklace

Tribute to Teacher

More Back to School Posts:

Learning Can Be Fun

Child ID Tags

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Projects Tagged With: frame, Kids Crafts Projects, plastic, school, teacher

Plastic Trash Crafts

July 24, 2009 by FaveCrafts

I love that crafting teaches you how to use materials you might normally throw away. In the case of plastic, learning how to re-use every last bit is not only economical, but is also very important for the environment. Did you know plastic does not biodegrade? All the plastic that we have ever produced is still with us, filling up landfills all over the world. You may use reusable shopping bags to reduce the number of bags that enter your home, but then you have the inevitable packaging of any and all consumer items in plastic. Turn that plastic into something fun and functional with 8 Ways to Craft with Plastic Trash.

I love this idea for re-using 2-liter plastic bottles. Though Halloween is still far away, you can use this concept to create luminaries with stars and other designs any time of year. For more ideas, see 8 Ways to Craft with Plastic Trash

Filed Under: Green Crafting Tagged With: Candles, green, jewelry, plastic, thrifty crafts

Please Excuse Us

June 3, 2009 by FaveCrafts

We are in the midst of an overhaul at FaveCrafts.com. In the interest of better organization and better navigation for our readers, we are re-organizing our craft projects into sub-categories. That means some of the links from previous blog posts might be broken, as we have moved the project to a new category. We are doing our best to find and fix these as quickly as possible. As always, you can use our search function to find specific craft projects. If you have trouble getting to a project that you want, just send us a note and we’ll find it for you!

Thanks for your patience as we try to improve our website! You guys are the best!

P.S. I hope you like this brand new addition to our Green Crafting section.

Plastic Bottle Birdfeeder– Instead of sending more plastic to the landfill, create birdfeeders with plastic bottles. This one looks like a bird house, so you won’t mind showing off a little “trash” in your garden.

Filed Under: Green Crafting, News Tagged With: green, plastic, recycling

Five Friendly Plastic Jewelry Projects

May 16, 2009 by FaveCrafts

Have you ever worked with Friendly Plastic? Friendly Plastic is a non-toxic plastic which comes in different colored sticks, perfect for jewelry project. We have some really lovely Friendly Plastic Jewelry projects at FaveCrafts, compliments of Jana Ewy for Amaco. I love the bright, vibrant colors in these projects; the finished jewelry almost look like stained glass.

  1. Brightly Colored Bangles
  2. Blooming Cylinder Necklace
  3. Butterfly Necklace
  4. Dragonfly Pendant Necklace

  5. Eclectic Cylinder Necklace

Filed Under: Jewelry Making Tagged With: friendly plastic, jewelry, plastic

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