From Fidgety Fingers: Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging. Weiss traces the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through. The lights were exhibited at Eat Drink Design in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week […]
Craftershock tips us off to a great tutorial by Little House in the Suburbs, which shows us how to make holiday ornaments from aluminum cans.
Craftster user Knickertwist found an unexpected use for old wine barrel lids when she created these unusual (and really well done!) “Spirit Boards”.
Betz White shows us how to use felted sweaters and embroidery hoops to create this seasonal snowman decoration. Love his jaunty hat! Related: Felted Sweater Flowers with Betz White – CRAFT Video Podcast
Design*Sponge has a tutorial for how to make Chinese paper cut spice jars using NY Public Library designs, old jars and etching cream.
The Crafty Crow tips us off to this great tutorial on Just Like Martha, which shows how to turn old magazines into colorful recycled paper trees.
Here’s an interesting contest: recycle discarded mattresses into useful products! Deadline has been extended to December 19: The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale. Entrants must create designs that take into […]
