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Junk Creation

Archive for the ‘Junk Creations’ Category

August 5th, 2008

Cotton Monsters! The Work of Jennifer Strunge

These are mostly friendly monsters, though you might have to watch out for a few of them.
Junk artist Jennifer Strunge uses recycled clothing and linens to make these soft sculptures by hand. There’s no pattern, so no two Cotton Monsters will ever be exactly the same.
There’s lots to discover on CottonMonster.com, including a Gallery Of […]

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August 4th, 2008

Valid Reasons to Make a Paperboard Person

Believe it or not, there are just as many reasonable excuses to make a paperboard person as there are days in the week. Maybe even more.
1. Exploring the parallelism in packaging is too fun. Really. If there’s a perfect right leg, then there’s another perfect left leg nearby.
2. You’re able to free special people who […]

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August 3rd, 2008

My Paperboard Person

Just don’t call her a tea bag lady. She’s sensitive.

Ms. Twinings is proudly composed of a paperboard tea box and some tea tags. Everything is reused except the glue holding her together. I thought about making the movable variety, but she seemed like the wild type with all that caffeine.
Why make a paperboard person?
I’m so […]

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July 28th, 2008

Night Flight Frisbee

I love the peppy, but not obnoxious videos at VideoJug.
Here’s one explaining an easy project with really brilliant results: A lighted frisbee for night playing. Just add yo-yo.

How To Make An Easy Night Flight Frisbee
Tags: frisbee, lighted, night flight, night frisbee, night-lights, yo yoShare This

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July 26th, 2008

Make More from a Dollar

Some folks might argue that folding up money to make art doesn’t increase its value. I argue that if you’re giving someone a $5 in a card, it will look much prettier this way.
I can hardly call this a junk creation though. Who thinks money is useless?
To get the instructions on how to make this […]

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July 20th, 2008

Reuse for Corks: Stamps

Craft Chi has a happening tutorial on Cute Little Cork Stamps.
You can’t really lose. If you don’t like your carved design, just shave it off and start over like the tutorial says.
So, if you have a drawer full of wine corks…
Image via stock.xchng
Tags: cork creations, cork stamps, reuse cork stamps, wine corksShare This

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