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Jan

9

Recycled Glass Challenge

January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

Are you up for the challenge? The Creative Glass Guild of Etsy is promoting a recycled glass challenge for the month of January. See the group’s official website for challenge details and inspiration. Thanks to sender-inner Linda (who happened to create the fabulous recycled glass pendant shown) for the heads-up!
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Nov

5

Super Ugly to Super Awesome

November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This month’s Craftster Challenge once again caters to the mind and talents of the recycled crafter: The Super Ugly to Super Awesome Challenge asks that you spend $20 or less at a second-hand store on a super-tacky, super-ugly, super-revolting object and revamp it into something fabulous. (It’s also fine if you already own an ugly [...]

Oct

20

MacGyver Runners-Up

October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I hope ReadyMade magazine continues to show the MacGyver contest runners-up on its website, because there are lots of great ideas that unfortunately didn’t quite make the cut to be used in publication. For example, runner-up Brie Neel of Sophia, West Virgina, fashioned this creative, colorful lanyard for her glasses in the previous issue’s dead [...]

Oct

19

Mash-Up Contest

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Instructables / ReadyMade magazine Mash-Up Contest is a recycled artist’s dream. The idea is to take two unseemingly related objects and “mash” them into one “I never thought of doing that!” end result. The Instructables site even lists a few ideas to get you thinking, including such archived projects as Remote Control Drawer Pulls, [...]

Aug

29

Board Game Makeover

August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Craftster’s monthly challenges are usually tons of fun for those who like to repurpose or recycle objects into crafts. This month’s challenge is no different: Total Board Game Revamp. Your challenge is to take an old board game and upcycle it — the board, the game pieces, all the accessories — into something craftlicious. Leah, [...]

Jul

27

Carpet Sample Transformation

July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interior designers and architects receive a fair share of carpet samples and then discard them the next year when they receive the latest-and-greatest shipment of samples from the same carpet manufacturers. This year the Ample Sample Design Contest challenged designers to make use of yesterday’s samples.
This high-design Care-E Purse, designed by Jonathan Knodell [...]

Jul

25

Baking with Blue Jeans + Procrastinators Wanted

July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Old denim has been repurposed into many crafty things, but these simple pot holders by Canadian crafter Lise Farynowski caught my eye (OK, they actually caught the eyes of ReadyMade editors as they were sorting through the entries of their latest monthly reader’s challenge, aka the “MacGyver Challenge”). See Lise’s instructions to create a [...]

Jul

21

Go Green! Contest

July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

OK, crafters: Let’s make sure the crafting world is represented in the “Go Green!” Contest presented by Instructables, Popular Science and TreeHugger.
An overview of the contest: “We want to know how you’re reducing your environmental footprint, and hopefully saving some cash in the process! Are you modding your gear, simplifying your life, or building [...]

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