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1 Take a magazine page. Use the pen to draw elongated tri- angles about 3/4-inch
wide at the widest end and 3-4 inches long. Experiment with the lengths and the widths of the trian- gles to get different bead shapes and size. The longer the strips, the thicker the bead.
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Take the widest end of the strip
ATurn Glossy Paper Into Wearable Art
pril 22 is Earth Day, or repurposing, items. A lot up but are not supposed to choose. For example, if you benfranklinhawaii.com. I butalotofusare of gardeners repurpose bot- go in the recycle bin. We’re chose a striped paper, do you encourage you to make more making projects all tles and other containers to going give them a new life want the stripes to be hori- crafts with repurposed items.
month long to keep Earth plant their seeds for starter by turning them into pa- zontal or vertical? Also, once Email them to joyofcraft-
safe and healthy into the fu- ture. One thing we can all do is recycle — by properly disposing of items in our blue recycle bins or by upcycling,
crops.
This week’s project will
per beads. This is an easy project and quite addictive. One thing to keep in mind— you’ ll want to pay attention to the design of the paper you
you’ve selected a piece of pa- per, you’ ll want to square it up before getting started.
ing@gmail.com and if I share them here, I’ll send you a Ben Franklin Crafts gift card.
help you upcycle old maga- zines, coupon inserts and oth- er shiny papers that can pile
You can find the complete project sheet and more at
Happy Earth Month and happy crafting!
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and wrap around a bamboo skewer or toothpick. Add a little glue to hold it in place. Make sure you do not get glue on the stick — you’ll need to slide the bead off later.
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Carefully roll the strip around the stick,
Cut apart the triangle strips.
Trim the corners on the wider ends of the strips.
keeping the paper centered. Add a little glue every so often.
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