Recycled Materials (See our Recycling Challenge Roundup):

• Crafts by Amanda‘s Paper Roll Giraffe is so cute!

• Crafty Smurfette made a Candy Bunting out of TP rolls and colored tissue!

Paper:

• Make Paper Chains with Julie Finn at Crafting a Green World
• Make Recycled Books out of Trash with Becky Striepe at Crafting a Green World
• Kaotic Krafter wrote her first tutorial for these Stitched Books

Wood:

• This amazing dart board cabinet was made with scraps from a redwood deck project, and cross sections of branches from the yard. Ahhh-mazing project by The Artists’ House

• Another amazing project by The Artists’ House is a cool chess set. These pieces were made from leftover dowels glued with wood glue. I love them!

Fabric:

• Whitney Moss is sewing cute clothes from hand-me-downs
• Some Art Talk made a roomy Farmer’s Market Tote and cracked me up with this statement: Please remember I am stash busting, at one point in my sewing life I was certain that I would love primitive quilting and only wanted to work in browns. I have a lot of brown fabric.
• Use up a lot of fabric with this fun Super Stashbuster Skirt at Some Art Talk

Leather:

Use up your thrifted leather garments with these tutorials:

• Leather Mushroom Tutorial by Absinthe and Orange (wow!)
• DIY Leather Baby Shoes by Prudent Baby
• Leather iPhone Case by Cathe at Just Something I Made
• Leather + Rub-ons = Cuff. Cuteness by Carmi’s Art/Life World

Fashion:

• Bust your potatoes! Caitlin Mociun’s potato-printed dress is sweet!  [via Outsapop… love that blog!]

• I like this Airmail Shirt Recon by Outsapop, too! Lookie this inspiration outfit! I think it’s so cute. You can use my postmark stencils to make one of your own!
• DIY Duct Tape Dressforms have been around awhile, but here’s a convenient tutorial by Natasha at Samster Mommy
• Love Maegen shows you how to make a fringed necklace made out of a recycled t-shirt