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Fun Crafts Using Rolled-Up Magazines

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Do you have piles of magazines at home that are just waiting to be recycled?  Before you toss them in the recycling bin, how about some fun craft ideas for how you can take rolled-up magazines and turn them into vases, organizers and other pretty pieces to decorate your home.

How to Make a Rolled-Up Magazine Vase

All you need for this craft are a few magazines, a glue stick, glue gun and a paper or plastic container (like a recycled food container).  You may also want ribbon, pipe cleaners or rope to finish off the edges.

This video shows you how easy it is to make a magazine vase.  You can use this idea to make a pen holder, trash can, or any size holder you’d like.

Video by PattieWackDesigns

And this video uses the same rolled-magazine technique, but shows you how to make a decorative box with it.  In this example, she has made a magazine holder.  How appropriate, right?


Video by kelseyr2

How to Make a Rolled Paper Trash Can

These two videos show you variations of the rolled-up magazine technique.  Rather than creating long tubes with the magazine pages, these two ideas both use coils of paper.  Definitely more time consuming to do it this way, but the result is pretty cool.

Video by Flux Magazine

Video by Keepinitsimple101

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Water Bottle and Paper Bangle Bracelets

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Take an old water bottle and turn it into a fun bangle bracelet that you can wear alone, or layer with other bracelets.  This is recycling and upcycling at its very best!

How to Make a Water Bottle Bracelet

The premise of this DIY bracelet is that you’ll sandwich some pretty paper between two layers of plastic cut from a water bottle.  Finish off the edges with an adhesive tape that holds it all together, but that also adds a pretty contrast to the pattern in the paper.

Video by EcoHeidi Borchers

Supplies for this craft are minimal.  You’ll just need some paper, glue, decorative adhesive tape and a water bottle. An inexpensive way to accessorize your outfit.  You can make the bangles as thin or as thick as you’d like, so you can create lots of variations for mixing and matching.

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Cinco De Mayo DIY Craft: Tissue Flower Garland

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This tissue paper garland tutorial was created for a Cinco de Mayo celebration, but I think it’s perfect for any party or holiday gathering.  Use whatever color tissue paper that goes with your theme, or with the holiday.  So pastels would be perfect for Easter and a red/white combination could be used for Christmas or Valentine’s Day.

Tissue Paper Flower Garland Tutorial

Tissue Paper Flower Garland

Cinco De Mayo DIY Craft: Tissue Flower Garland | Dress This Nest

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This fun craft would be fun to make with the kids.  I love that it’s so inexpensive and just takes a little tissue paper to create.

To get a pretty detailed edge on the flowers, Yvonne used an edge puncher.  This gives the flowers a level of detailing that you can’t get with scissors, but you certainly could use the same steps in the tutorial to make a flower garland without the use of an edger.

Supplies needed:

  • Tissue Paper
  • Scissors
  • Stapler
  • Edge Puncher
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Filed Under: Holiday Crafts, Paper Crafts Tagged With: cinco de mayo, holiday crafts, paper crafts

How to Make Paper Flowers

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Paper flowers can be used for so many things.  They are perfect to use when decorating, and they make great gifts, either as is or as part of the wrapping.  This DIY tutorial teaches you how to make tissue paper flowers that are perfect for Mother’s Day, or for decorating the table for a party or bridal shower.  These flowers would also be a fun way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and add a little color to your house.

Not only are these paper flowers easy to make, but they are also really inexpensive to make.  And because they are so versatile, I love to have extra tissue paper on hand so that I’m always ready for a crafty project.  My daughter loves to help make these as well.

DIY Paper Flowers Tutorial

DIY Tissue Flowers

DIY Tissue Paper Flowers

Visit Design Every Day for the complete photo tutorial on how to make this beautiful tissue paper flower.  This is a great tutorial that walks you through every step of the process.

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