Are you a Green Crafter?

I have been a green crafter long before it was cool.

As a child, I used what I had to create.

That might be pebbles and twigs from nature, scraps of fabric or paper, tin cans, or anything else I snagged from the trash.

I continued that trend my whole life.

I am so pleased that many others recycle or repurpose or reuse.

Do you have any of these items around your house?

Old Jeans?

Brown Paper bags?

A board book?

Canning Jars?

Fabric scraps or old clothing?

Dryer Sheets?

If you do, and you love to create, you need to get a copy of the Autumn 2015 GreenCraft magazine from Stampington.

Inside, you will find over 80 stylish projects made from these and many more common materials....

For example, remember those jeans?

They can become this

 Made by Nikki Meiners.

or this

made by Julia Schneider.

or this

made by Melinda Barnett.

Brown paper bags

made by Lorrimarie Jenkins.

A board book

made by Vanessa Spencer.

Canning Jars

from Michelle E. Black.

Little bits of fabric can become

from Ashlee Park.

Dryer sheets can become a variety of useful new projects like this

or these:

Here is where I admit that the dryer sheet projects in this issue are all made by me.

Really.

If any of these projects inspired you, you need to go grab a copy.

GreenCraft is available at major bookstores, many craft stores and directly from Stampington here.

Even better, I am lucky enough to work with Stampington again for another giveaway.

Leave a comment below telling me your favorite thing to recycle and what you do with it to be entered for a chance to win your own copy of GreenCraft.

I will be choosing a winner from the comments next Sunday and the winner will be announced Monday.

Stampington will send the copy directly to you.

It does not get much easier than that...

I cannot wait to hear what things you recycle and how.

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Workbench Wednesday: Canning Lid Ring Pumpkins

Inspired by a canning ring pumpkin I saw  in Mary Jane's Farm magazine, I decided to try my own.

Pen N Paper Flowers made a fabulous white version with book page strips added.

I bought a couple dozen mason jar rings at the flea market and set off to make myself a pumpkin.

I followed her directions and tied together about 2 dozen rings.

Then I spray painted them....

That did not work out. 

 I had to keep moving and respraying them, many, many times.

So I cut my string that was holding them together and repainted each one separately.

This was actually much faster, easier, and used less paint.

I did some with white paint and a few with ivory paint I had leftover from another project.

Ready for the next step...

Gluing on the book strips.

This took forever. 

Each lid needed more than one strip.

For my wide mouth lids, each ring needed 2 1/2 book strips.

Each pumpkin has 24-25 rings.

Once the strips were all glued on, I used cotton twine to tie them all together into a ring.

Then I cut a piece of a log about 3-4 inches long.

I glued it to the top of my pumpkin and covered the glue with spanish moss.

I also turned it over and added extra glue underneath to reinforce it and then used Spanish moss to cover the glue there as well.

I do love the way it turned out.  I am sure the other rings are on their way to becoming fall decor as well.

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