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Tutorial Dance Party

By Becky Striepe On August 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Tutorials

In case you don’t follow Crafting a Green World or Green Upgrader, I’ve been posting some tutorials in both of those spaces, and I thought I’d share them here, too! The image at the top here is how to turn disposable coasters into forever coasters.

How to Make a [...]

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How to Make a Pillow Sham

By Becky Striepe On January 31, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Tutorials

This was supposed to be Dave’s Valentine’s Day present, but I was too excited for him to see them, so I gifted him early! We had a set of pillows with covers that were pretty much falling apart. The pillow forms, though, were in perfect shape. Rather than buy all new pillows, we decided [...]

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Tutorial: How to Make a Paper Crane Desktop Mobile

By Becky Striepe On May 13, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Tutorials

It’s been ages since I made one of these little guys, but yesterday I was waiting to hear from the vet about some tests on one of our cats, and things like that always get paper cranes on my mind.

Cranes traditionally symbolize luck, health, and long life. Any time things aren’t going [...]

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Crafty Reuse: Paper Made from Dryer Lint

By Becky Striepe On February 22, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Tutorials

How awesome is this! Not only does Ashley over at Instructables show you how to make dryer lint paper, she includes directions on how to make DIY paper-making supplies! There’s some good discussion going on in the comments, including what to do if you don’t own a blender and how to make colored [...]

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Shop Talk: Making Simple, Recycled Tent Signs (with tutorial!)

By Becky Striepe On February 9, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Tutorials

Signs are super duper important, no matter what you’re making. Folks at craft shows and in stores want to know what things are made of. They want the story.

After doing a few shows, I realized that a lot of folks were asking the same questions [...]

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Recycled Ornament Trees

By Becky Striepe On December 17, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Tutorials

It turns out that we have so many handmade ornaments from Christmas parties past that there was nowhere on the tree to put our store-bought glass ball ornaments from last year. Rather than pitch them or store them for another year, I really wanted to find a new way to use these. They were [...]

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