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Crafts and Arts And Recycling - An Introduction

By: Zita Duppeoj

There are so numerous ways to integrate recycling with arts and crafts and still have hours of entertainment and perhaps make several holiday gifts.

One of my favorite crafts is to decopauge. The materials needed to do this are simply old magazines, a pair of scissors, some white glue and some thing to decorate. I've seen people use this art medium on every type of article from wooden boxes up to queen bed head boards.

Once you've the item (or items) you desire to decorate you may put them aside and start flipping in the magazines for pictures and words that start up at you or aid convey anything you need to say. The excellent point about this craft is that there is no "wrong" way to do it. Some people will use an entire advertisement including the background from the ad and others may possibly cut out the individual or object during the background. The thought is to have a piece of a write-up to become layered upon the object being decorated.

After you have sufficient pictures and words cut out it is possible to start to decorate your object. The ideas and creativity, from this factor on, are endless! Use all cut outs of flowers and birds to decorate your project, cut out every picture of a dog and see how quite a few there are and use all of them to decorate your recycled project!

Arrange your clippings onto the surface of whatever it's you will be heading to reuse or decorate and put a layer of glue more than the entire project. Using white glue or Mod Podge will give you a clear coating over your art and when that layer is dry, coat it again, and so on. The coatings of glue will protect your artwork and should you use a gloss-finish, it is going to have a nice shine to it, too.

I began creating "Blessings Boxes" for ones Christmas gifts I would give to my children's teachers. I would reuse an old shoe box, and cover the entire outside of it with cut out pictures from magazines. The main objective was to cover up the shoe brand on a outside with the box from the pictures and words.

The thought behind the "Blessings Boxes" was that throughout the year, after there was a blessing in their life, perhaps a ticket stub to a baseball game or a movie shared having a friend, birthday cards, get well cards, etc. they had been to location these blessings into the box. Probably the most part is that, during that year, once they had a day wherever they would think blue or needed a smile, they knew they could often open their "Blessings Box" being reminded from the beautiful items that have happened in their life.

These gifts were the talk with the elementary school the very first year I produced them and I am going to say that at the incredibly commencing of each year after, my children's teachers would allow me know how beautiful they notion my creations were and (wink, wink) they wouldn't mind owning one for themselves!

The greatest part is that I never spent additional money doing 1 of individuals gifts! It was a accomplishment all due to becoming recycled materials.

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