Featured Shops

This month's Featured Shop list is a compilation of Etsy Team members who created team treasuries featuring other team members anytime before May 1, 2013. Team members can read more about it here.

tutorial : buckskin card holder

Submitted by sneezerville
on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 07:24

today i am going to share how to make this little card holder. it's a perfect gift for mother's or father's day.  it's simple and quick to boot!

here's what you need:

4 x 8.5 inch piece of buckskin (or any leather. leather can easily be acquired from rummage sale or thrift store bags and purses. making them low cost and upcycled!)

leather needle

button and craft thread in contrasting or coordinating color (i used brown on the tan buckskin)

1.  take your cut piece of leather and fold one short end up 1.75 inches. pinch at the folded corner.

2. insert needle and knotted thread inside that

bass fishing t-shirt and tutorial

Submitted by sneezerville
on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 10:16

i recently made this bass fishing stencil and just had to make my oldest boy a t-shirt using it.

here's what you need:

t-shirt (whatever size you need to fit the one you are making it for)

scrap jersey fabric a little bigger than the stencil size (@ 8.5 x 10 in)

needle and thread (i use button and craft thread.)

stencil (you can find my stencil here and here. or use one of your own!)

mark b-gone marker (permanent marker or fabric paint)

freezer paper.

1. transfer stencil design to freezer paper.

Narrative Paper Mache Necklace

Submitted by hen on the edge
on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 22:29
I love the colors and textures I find on broken pieces of pottery.
The patterns on their surfaces have symbolic connotations for me.
Replicating these surfaces with paper mache is a joyful experience.

tote bag from upcycled goods

Submitted by sneezerville
on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 07:21

i recently made my sister a tote bag with a detachable wallet/pocket for her birthday.

tote bag removable pocket

the material for the tote came from an old pair of denim trousers and a vintage table cloth.

wallet

i used book rings to attach the inside pocket.

folded

the pocket can be removed (of course) and folded in half to become a little wallet. versatile, i like that too.

hope she likes it. i get to give it to her tonight!

Tags: 
tote
bag
denim
vintage
cotton
flowers
wallet
pocket

DIY Recycle craft- Make coasters from waste CDs

Submitted by DesiFabrics
on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 00:26

 

So, I have made these Recycled CD coasters during this weekend. Sharing is caring so I thought sharing the DIY with my fellow crafters would be a nice idea :-)

So, here you go:

Materials required:

Wastes CDs (2 CDs are required to make one coaster. However, you can get this done with 1 CD too)

Jute strands (get it from a hardware shop or a dollar store)

A Thick cotton fabric to cover the back of CDs

Hot Glue Gun

Pen or Pencil

How To:

I started with the CDs. FIrst of all I marked the thick cotton fabric, making the exact round shape as CD’s.

New to the Recycle Party Team

Submitted by hen on the edge
on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 10:07

I am a new member of the Recycle Party Team. Once a week I will create a treasury featuring shops from our team. Let me know about you. I'd love to include you.

I create narrative paper jewelry, paper bowls and vases from discarded scraps of paper and phone books. My husband can testify to the fact that I have an "obscene" amount of recycled paper in our house. I can unabashedly say it's an addiction. I see trash and I see art. I make many of the beads in my jewelry out of paper.

My First Blog Post: FALLEN MADE

Submitted by Fallen Made
on Mon, 04/08/2013 - 21:39

Hey Everyone,

My story begins at a very young age. Growing up in a lower middle class family, my father never wanted to pay a carpenter, plumber, or electrician to come and fix things. So as he threw himself into these fields of work to save money I followed because of interest. I have always enjoyed building/creating with my hands. As I grew up i tinkered with working on cars, building computers, and making small wood crafts. As I got older my love for working on wood grew. As life throws its crazy hands I met my wife the last week of college.

April 5-7, 2013 FFAW Event

Submitted by recycleparty
on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 20:26

It's hard to believe that almost a month has passed since our first collaboration with the First Friday Art Walk team on Etsy! If you would like to participate for the April Art Walk, please use the April 5-7, 2013 FFAW Event thread to share up to 4 of your best items created using recycled materials.

For more information on First Friday Art Walk, check them out on blogger, facebook, twitter and Etsy.

Featuring shops in April

Submitted by recycleparty
on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:43

How the April Shop features will be determined is outlined in this discussion thread on the Etsy team.    

Requesting an Etsy shop critique

Submitted by scratchmade
on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 06:20

To request a shop critique, create a new thread on the Etsy team discussion board.

While there is no guarantee that you will get very many responses, if you make the thread private when creating it, you may get more candid responses.  Also, by requesting a critique, you are open to criticism, so try not to be offended by what others suggest.

If you would like to help others requesting critiques, here is a critique thread with great feedback.  

Our first cross Etsy team collaboration!

Submitted by recycleparty
on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 22:57

We just signed up to collaborate with a well established Etsy team (First Friday Art Walk on Etsy).  If you would like a chance to be featured on the AWE blog (which has been around for multiple years and has many followers), make sure to post your best work in our team collaboration thread.

Let's take it up a notch with pinterest!

Submitted by scratchmade
on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 19:43

As some of you already know, we have a team Pinterest Board.  Currently, our board rules allow for only one pin per day per member, but I'd like to make our board more interesting (and draw more followers) by having more than just Etsy items pinned to our board.  

To encourage members to add interesting pins (other than items for sale on Etsy - or other venue), the new board rules will be:

  • I will not post the same pin more than once.
  • I will not pin more than one item I am selling per day.
  • I will not pin more than 3 things per day.
  • All items I pin will be related to recycling or being
Tags: 
Pinterest

3000 Team Members

Submitted by recycleparty
on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 07:37

It looks like we just crossed over the 3000 member mark on our Etsy team at some point yesterday!  

The members of our team are creating wonderful things from materials that others discard!  They rescue crayons, computers, wood, clothing, plastic, glass, paper and much more from a fate that might include an earth polluting landfil - thank you earth-friendly artisans, crafters and collectors.

Members span the globe as well.  Taking care of the earth is team effort after all.  No one region, country, or continent can do it by themselves.  If you are among the 3000, thank you!

Member Blogs are Here!

Submitted by recycleparty
on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 20:39

Did you notice the new menu item?  It's Blogs! Yes, every member here has their own blog.  If you are a member, check out the links under "My Account" at the top of the page.  Those links will help you manage all your content here on Recycle Party.  

Just joined Copious

Submitted by recycleparty
on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 12:29

We just joined Copious.  You can find us on copious here: https://copious.com/profiles/recycle-party

Tags: 
copious
social networks

The term 'Etsy' is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. This website uses the Etsy API but is not endorsed or certified by Etsy, Inc