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Spring Flower Pen Holder

Spring Flower Pen Holder

10 February, 2014 ♦

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Do you have a problem of losing pens at your front reception desk of your office? This is the coolest solution to that problem… a pen pot! It is really easy to make, you can make your own recycled paper flowers with book pages or scrap book paper, or you…

Piano Turned Planter For My Patio

Piano Turned Planter For My Patio

22 October, 2013 ♦

DIY, garden, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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I know I’m way over due for giving you all a garden update (the last I did was 10 ways to create a beautiful apartment patio garden)… So here it is…. this San Diego summer was pretty brutal, it killed majority of my plants, they couldn’t handle the heat, but those…

Spooky Cardboard Tombstones | Trashy Craft #85

Spooky Cardboard Tombstones | Trashy Craft #85

15 October, 2013 ♦

Card Board Crafts, DIY, Holiday Crafts

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Need a quick and easy spooky decoration for your home this halloween? All you need are some corrugated cardboard and a small dowel (I used a shish kabob stick). Just simply cut the shapes you would like your tombstones to be and paint the cardboard black, then use a white…

Paper Fan Makeover | Trashy Craft #78

Paper Fan Makeover | Trashy Craft #78

29 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, paper craft

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My Parents found these two fun paper fans, I thought it would be fun to give them a makeover. I decided to use sheet music with some images cut out of birds and butterflies. This is a great idea to use for personalizing fans for weddings or events, its really…

Sheet Music Book Art | Trashy Craft # 77 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Sheet Music Book Art | Trashy Craft # 77 Recycled Craft Tutorial

28 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, paper craft, Recycled Art

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This is a fun way to place quote or saying throughout your home, all you need is the cover from a damaged book and some sheet music. Materials: One Book Cover One sheet of Music Two Colors of Paint Mod Podge Paint Brush and Pallet Scissors Permanent Marker First you…

Recycled Book Blocks | Trashy Craft #72 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Recycled Book Blocks | Trashy Craft #72 Recycled Craft Tutorial

23 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, paper craft, Recycled Art

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Often times you can find some really awesome old crafts at the local thrift store, I have no idea what these blocks were from, but I bought them for a buck and decoupaged some beautiful black and white vintage tree encylopedia pages onto them, it’s a beautiful clean and modern…

Glass Jar Turned Flower Vase | Trashy Craft #71 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Glass Jar Turned Flower Vase | Trashy Craft #71 Recycled Craft Tutorial

23 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor

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I had this empty rice vinegar bottle, loved the shape and decided to turn it into a flower vase. You can use any type of glass food sauce container, there are so many types. I just used mod podge to decoupage onto the jar and use some twine give some…

8 Track Tape Recycled Music Lyric Art | Trashy Craft #70 Recycled Craft Tutorial

8 Track Tape Recycled Music Lyric Art | Trashy Craft #70 Recycled Craft Tutorial

21 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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I was born in 1986, so I don’t have very many fond memories of the 8 track tape, I do however remember we had a really old suburban truck that had an 8 track tape player. My Mom and Dad were never big into music, so we didn’t listen to…

Recycled Ikea Kid Table | Trashy Craft #69 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Recycled Ikea Kid Table | Trashy Craft #69 Recycled Craft Tutorial

20 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture, Home Decor

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A few months ago we would this small ikea kids table, perfect for a small living room table next to Dave’s chair… Dave and I painted it together, he loved it I hated it… so I finally decided to give it a go once again. This time I decoupaged it….…

Book Bead curtain art | Trashy Craft #63 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Book Bead curtain art | Trashy Craft #63 Recycled Craft Tutorial

11 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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I have wanted to make a paper bead curtain for the longest time, but as you can see it takes a crazy amount of time! I used about 1,000 paper beads to make this one! It takes me about a minute to make each paper beads, soooo you can do…

Wooden Jewelry Dish | Trashy Craft #59 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Wooden Jewelry Dish | Trashy Craft #59 Recycled Craft Tutorial

7 August, 2013 ♦

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Jewelry dishes are awesome, if you are like me and wear earrings, rings and bracelets, you know how often you get into bed and forget to take off your stuff, so having a dish on your bedroom dresser rocks, so you can just put it in there instead of crawling…

Modern Neck Tie Art | Trashy Craft #58 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Modern Neck Tie Art | Trashy Craft #58 Recycled Craft Tutorial

6 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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Neck ties have been turned into a number of things, from skirts to lamp shades! It’s such a colorful and versatile item to work with. I took some old ties and turned them into fun oval shaped modern art. I got this black oval frame from the thrift store for…

Wood Block Cork Boards | Trashy Craft #57 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Wood Block Cork Boards | Trashy Craft #57 Recycled Craft Tutorial

5 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Organization

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As you probably already know, I am huge fan or cork boards, the amount of tutorials I have done in the past on corkboards may very well give that fact away, haha. I have made colorful mini circle cork boards, my cowboy board game cork board and now cork blocks,…

T-shirt bracelets | Trashy Craft #56

T-shirt bracelets | Trashy Craft #56

4 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Jewelry

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Once that t-shirt you love gets a hole its hard to part with it, I turned some of my old tank tops into a few bracelets. Materials: T-shirts Scissors Large Beads (optional) Hemp Cord Cut strips and braid them, if you would like you can add beads along the way…

Repainted Mini Frames | Trashy Craft #55

Repainted Mini Frames | Trashy Craft #55

3 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor

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Materials: Small Frame from Thrift Store Paint brush Paint Paint Pallet I found this awesome frame at the thrift store, but the color was so ugly. So I painted it green, you can prime it with white paint if you want a really bright solid job, I didn’t mind the…

Rustic Tart Photo Art | Trashy Craft #54

3 August, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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I found this wooden candle holder at the thrift store, and decided to use it for a photograph mount board. I took a photograph I had done a while back of my friends organic rustic tarts and wanted to use that, so I just printed it out and mounted it…

Old Table Top Turned Art | Trashy Craft #49

28 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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After parking my truck yesterday I was walking through the Alley and found this beauty. She needed some love, a sanding job and cleaning, and then she was ready to be turned into something awesome! I wanted something modern and simple looking, so I used word search pieces puzzle paper,…

Oval Frame Scrapbook Page Art | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #45

23 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, paper craft, Recycled Art

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I can’t tell you how many times I find really old cardboard art framed in cool oval or unique frames at the thrift store. This one I just had to get, the cardboard the image is printed on it very heavy duty, I had to unscrew the back! All you…

Coffee Mug Shelf | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #44

22 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture, Home Decor, Organization

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I have been keeping my eyes peeled for a cheap shelf for my kitchen mugs… finally after a few months of hunting I found a shelf for $4.oo at my local thrift store! I wanted it to look simple, with small pops of color. I decoupaged it with book pages,…

Colorful mini Vases | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #42

Colorful mini Vases | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #42

20 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Recycled Art

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I was at the thrift store with my Mom and Dad last week, my mom spotted these beauties, I couldn’t say no. Such fun shapes, I loved these mini vases at first sight… but drab they were! I wanted to add some color so they would stand out and be…

Mini Bathroom Shelves | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial #41

Mini Bathroom Shelves | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial #41

19 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture, Home Decor, Organization

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In my bathroom, I have always had issues with the wall decor, I have had my eyes peeled when at the thrift store. For the past few months I have been trying to find small shelves for the wall in our bathroom. We live in a small apartment, and so…

Christmas Box Makeover | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #40

Christmas Box Makeover | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #40

18 July, 2013 ♦

Card Board Crafts, DIY, Home Decor, Organization, paper craft

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Christmas boxes… it’s one of those things that awesome when its the holidays, and they are perfect for giving cookies or small gifts to friends, family and co-workers… but what about after the holidays? Now aways a lot of boxes have simple designs on the sides with christmas related images…

Colorful Photo Holder | Trashy Craft #38 Recycled Craft Tutorial

Colorful Photo Holder | Trashy Craft #38 Recycled Craft Tutorial

16 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Organization, Recycled Art

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I went to the thrift store yesterday and found this gem for a buck! It was in good condition, so I decided to give it a colorful face lift. All you need is embroidery thread of you choice and patients haha. It does take a while to wrap the threads…

Recycled Vintage Wallet Caddy | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial #36

14 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, garden, Home Decor

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I bought this awesome vintage wallet caddy a few years back, I love it, but you know how ladies wallets are, they live in our purses…. I couldn’t bare to get rid of him, so I decided to turn him into a succulent planter. He will stay by my bedroom…

Instagram Recycled Coaster Wall Art | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #34

Instagram Recycled Coaster Wall Art | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #34

12 July, 2013 ♦

Card Board Crafts, DIY, Home Decor, Kids Crafts, paper craft, Recycled Art

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If you love instagram and taking photos on your phone as much as I do, you are going to flip out with this idea! I found these old cardboard coasters at the thrift store, in a bag for 50 cents… there were ten of them. I took nine to make…

Wood Junk Bowl Lined with Fabric | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft #33

Wood Junk Bowl Lined with Fabric | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft #33

11 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Organization

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This wooden bowl is from the thrift store, the blue fabric is an old skirt I got for 50 cents at the thrift store as well…. I thought it would look nice to line the bowl with the fabric and leave the outside wood natural and not paint it. You…

Simple Key Wind Chime | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft #30

Simple Key Wind Chime | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft #30

9 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, garden, Home Decor

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My grandpa gave me this ziplock bag of old keys a while back, and I never knew what to do with them, so I decided to make a wind chime. The black hanger looking things is from some socks I just bought, the ten pack of socks of bought were…

Shabby Chic Recycled Flower Jewelry Dish | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial #29

Shabby Chic Recycled Flower Jewelry Dish | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial #29

7 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Home Decor, Organization

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If you love Shabby Chic style, this is the perfect craft for you! Head over to your local thrift store and grab a small plate you like and a glass candle holder. You need to sand the top of the glass candle holder and the bottom of the plate so…

Recycled Mini Scrap Books | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #28

Recycled Mini Scrap Books | Trashy Craft Recycled Craft Tutorial #28

6 July, 2013 ♦

DIY, Kids Crafts

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Children go through so many coloring books and paperback books, what to do with the books once they are worn, damaged and need to be retired? Use the inside of the book for decoupage projects, paper beads and collage work, and as for the cover this is the perfect…

Recycled Cardboard Cross Sunday School Project | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial # 24

Recycled Cardboard Cross Sunday School Project | Trashy Craft Recycled Tutorial # 24

2 July, 2013 ♦

Card Board Crafts, DIY

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I have been a Baptist Christian since childhood, and had never had a cross hanging in my home, mainly because most that I find are either really fancy and not my style or they are really drab, I like bright vibrant and colorful. When I go dumpster diving I find…

Colorful Crayon Recycled Art Quote | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft Tutorial #22

Colorful Crayon Recycled Art Quote | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft Tutorial #22

30 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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This is a fun and easy to make, you just do random coloring on a piece of paper, I used an old dictionary page. Be careful as you color if you choose to use a thin paper. Once you have random colors, you can do patterns if you wish, then…

Recycled Map Letter and Envelope | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #21

Recycled Map Letter and Envelope | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #21

29 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Organization

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If you are like me, and find it ridiculous to pay so much for unique and awesome envelopes and note paper to send letters to friend and family you are gona love this idea. All you need is a large road atlas that is old and outdated and some copy…

Recycled Golf Tee Recycled Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #19

Recycled Golf Tee Recycled Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #19

27 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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I am not a golfer, well thats if you don’t count miniature golf. I found this bag of colorful vintage golf tee’s at the local thrift store. They were all very beat up and dirty, but the colors… omg I die!!!! So I brought them home… and they sat in…

Recycled Modern Recycled Map Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft # 18

26 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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If you have a space at home that you want to throw a splash of color on, but want something simple and minimalistic not, not too busy, this is perfect! All you do is take a canvas of any size, decoupage a map onto it, let it dry and place…

Recycled Doodle Framed Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #16

Recycled Doodle Framed Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #16

24 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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If it wasn’t for doodling I don’t think I could have made it though college! There was many a class were doodling was the only thing keeping me awake…. All those wonderful doodles were trapped in my notebooks… when I was cleaning out my closet the other day, I couldn’t…

Recycled Sheet Music Love Blocks Art | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft # 9

17 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Recycled Art

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I found a huge box of old wooden children’s building blocks. I had painted them a while back and could never figure out to do with them, but finally decided to turn them into some love blocks. You could put any word onto the front, just get your blocks and…

Recycled T-shirt Canvas Modern Art DIY Tutorial | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #6

Recycled T-shirt Canvas Modern Art DIY Tutorial | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #6

14 June, 2013 ♦

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I am a HUGE fan of Chad Eaton’s artwork and T-shirts Called Timber, which are based on lumberjacks, business men and big foot. He is such an amazing artist, I bought these shirts like 2 or three years ago, and have worn the heck out of them, they were my favorite shirts…

Fabric Mini Pennant Banner | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #5

Fabric Mini Pennant Banner | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #5

13 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture, Organization

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I have a few friends that are interior designers, when working on projects with different clients, they quickly collect a treasure trove of super awesome fabric. The colors, patterns and textures are awesome, the problem, the sample pieces are so freaking small, the the heck can you do with them?…

Laugh Your Ass off Magnets DIY | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #4

12 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Organization

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Vintage encyclopedias offer a wealth of cheesy illustrations, and how could you let that go to waste! I bought a set of 12 vintage 1960’s encyclopedias and cut the fun images out. Then I grabbed a bottle of beer and dreamt up the most ridiculous quotes to place on each…

Sewing Pattern Vintage Natural Tissue Paper Flower – Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #3

Sewing Pattern Vintage Natural Tissue Paper Flower – Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft #3

11 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, paper craft, Recycled Art

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I see old sewing patterns all over the darn place…. thrift stores, yard sales, my grandmas sewing room and even in the trash. Let’s face it, patterns get out of date and are sometimes useless, this is a wonderful way to reuse the paper, it can add a nice rustic…

Book Page, Washi Paper Recycled Coffee Table | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft Tutorial #2

Book Page, Washi Paper Recycled Coffee Table | Trashy Crafter Recycled Craft Tutorial #2

10 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture

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My Parents had found this awesome coffee table on craigslist a while back, I really like the style it, but it needed some color. So I decided to get use some novel pages from an old book that had started to turn that old book yellow color. I then…

Colorful Circle Cork Boards To Organize Your Home Office Or Dorm | Trashy Crafter Recycled Tutorial #1

9 June, 2013 ♦

DIY, Furniture, Organization

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A while back I found this wooden disks, I am guessing they are for some part of furniture making. I bought them at a local thrift store for 50 cents a piece. I had come left over cork board, and decided to make some fun and colorful mini cork circle…