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How-To: Candy Wrapper Barrettes

Looking for a sweet way to show off your upcycling style this Easter season? This year’s best accessory is something that you were about to throw away. In this project, I’ll show you how to dress up your Sunday best with this fun candy wrapper project. Start collecting those Cadbury candy and gum wrappers and you’ll turn your Sour Patch into a sweet fashion accessory!

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How-To: Dictionary Easter Grass

Cathe of Just Something I Made has a simple tutorial on how to make vintage-style Easter grass or nest fill by using the thin pages from an old dictionary and feeding them through your printer to create that wonderful light-green tint. Maker Faire: Cathe will also be demoing at the CRAFT booth on Sunday May […]

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DIY Advent Calendars — It Takes All Sorts

Take a look at the photo above. You’re looking at my first and only attempt at a homemade Advent calendar. Next year, I’m going to save up and spring for the $40 Lego calendar, as you, Craftzine readers, are my witnesses. I love the idea of Advent calendars. A small gift every day for 25 […]

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Bread Bag Tabs Art

Bread bag tabs art. Try saying that 10 times fast! I often feel a little bit of hollow sadness throwing away bread bag tabs. They come in interesting colors, and they would be so easy to save… but for what? Fine Diving arranged them on a piece of paper to resemble a hand, and I […]

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Zombie Barbie Garden

Crafty mama Carrie Lundell did a great job of taking a tutorial on the Savers thrift store site to the max with her garden of zombie Barbie dolls. I love this image of the zombie Barbie assembly line and her daughter “creepifying” one of the dolls. I second Carrie’s emotion when she says she can’t […]

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