Reused egg carton - Birdie ring boxes

I decided to make some silly rings for my friends as a Christmas gift, and came up with this idea for cute ring boxes. It's really, really easy and super fast, so if you still have a bunch of friends or colleagues on your list you could try this one. Also, it's so easy that kids could do it, too.

Rings:
Ring boxes:

Read the whole tutorial here: Recycled egg Styrofoam to birdie ring boxes.

Paper Ornaments And Gift Wrapping Tutorial

Yes, I have an exam tomorrow. And, yes, that's why this day is so perfect for crafting, for finally making all those things that caught my eyes on other blogs last few days. First I saw paper ornaments on Zakka life and on How About Orange again few days ago. Maybe just because of postponing the crafting my own paper ornaments I had a chance to get an idea to make a variation of earlier mentioned ones.

Here's what I've came up with:

Also, while making it I realized that if you do not finish the project to the end, but stop on one of the steps you can get a nice gift wrapping, as shown above.

And, here's the tutorial:
1. You'll need:

• paper - I used two A4 papers of two different colours
• ruler
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• stapler (this should save your time) or thick needle and thread (but this would work too)

2. Draw your lines. I choose to have longer strips for pink one, and shorter for the vanilla one. My strips are 3,5 cm wide (about 1,4 inches).


3. Cut the strips. I got 6 pink strips, and 8 vanilla ones, but you must have the same number, so I used 6 of each.
4. Fold them into half:
5. Put the strips together in a way that you put one pink, one vanilla, one pink... :
This is how they should look:
6. Sew the strips together in the middle:
7. Glue the inner strip (if you click on the image you will see bigger one, and than you can clearly see where the glue should go):
8. Glue the outer strip (same as before):
9a. When you make just 2, 3 or 4 of them you may want to stop there, as now it makes a nice ribbon for gift wrapping:
9b. Or go all the way around until you glue them all and get this:
Final ornament is 13 cm (5 inches) in diameter.

I like how it looks different from different angles, and I'd love to play with it more, but right now I have to study :(
As soon as I get back to this, I'll post what else I've made using same technique.
I hope you liked it!

Recycled Christmas Ornaments

For this you'll need:

• can top cover from an used can
• something to make it nice and pretty: colors, papers, scissors, permanent markers...
• ribbon

This is with what you begin with, and this is what you get:

You can do what ever you like to decorate your can top covers. What's cool about them is that they already have the little hook on the top, and that they're made of metal and already have nice white, golden or silver color.
I'm really not skilled in drawing or decorating, so I'm sure somebody else would do it much better.

Anyway, I hope you like it :)
If you decide to do your own I would be very happy to see them!
... And remember you've seen it first here!

You may also like to learn how to make a two-flower paper ornament:

Ideas I recently enjoyed seeing around :)

In no specific order, just as it comes :)

From Atomic Shrimp comes a great tutorial how to make a fancy little silver-like box from an old can, and all you need you probably already have in your home.

Flickr user Claire L. Evans shows us an adorable skirt made of an old T-shirt.

From Urban Threads comes an excellent tutorial how to make your own toasty pack, to warm you during the cold winter.

As the season of joy and mostly giving some gifts is very close, here's a nice tutorial how to make a 3D star from paper to make your gifts more attractive. From High Hopes.

Beautiful fairy lights made of old egg cartons (with tutorial) are a must see, via Esprit Cabane.

If you have many friends coming at your place you may want to make some slippers, and here on Creative Babies' Blog is a great tutorial how to use some old cloth to make new slippers.

How salvaged drawers can become a beautiful modular bookcase is explained and showed on Craftynest, with tutorial!

A great piece by Flickr user cauchy09 with recycled denim, khaki and corduroy that looks just brilliant!

So, here it is, I hope you enjoyed it, I did!