Loving recycled crafts
I'm back from my little blog break! It's great to be able to regroup and come back fully centered and refreshed. While I was away, I managed to make a few easy and practical crafts using mostly recycled materials and I'm sharing them with you today.
I'd like to make recycling a way of life! With this change in consciousness, I'm taking some small steps by making recycled crafts like these playing card notebooks using CraftyPod's tutorial. For this project, I used an old, colourful card deck and small bits of recycled scratch paper. For the spine, I simply used card stock paper bound with double sided tape since I don't have any binding tape. I made several of these mini notebooks for a variety of uses i.e, pocket address book (it's tiny enough to fit inside a wallet), quote journal, mini doodle book, shopping list notebook, prayer/gratitude/dream journal and wee journal to record thoughts and creative ideas among others. So cute and practical. This is one craft you can actually make and use.

I've been wanting to make some toadstool mushrooms forever. Toadstool mushrooms are just so magically beautiful and I imagine some happy gnomes living underneath them. I made a few of these using felt scraps. The tutorial is here if you're inclined.
Who knew that old, broken crayon stumps can be recycled into crayon cookies? Crafty Daisies shows us how with her Crayon Nibble tutorial.
And the ultimate easy to do craft has got to be the matchbook notepad! I made some using Mr. Monkeysuit's clever tutorial! Scraps of bond paper, specialty paper or old greeting cards would work well. These notepads can be made as big or tiny as you wish. You may want to use The Small Object's free lined stationery. It has ample space to stamp in your personal logo or design.
That's all for now. Have a gorgeous week and happy recycling!
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