trendy chic recycle week! day #3 toilet roll cuff bracelet

isnt this so cute!?!  i LOVE it soooo much!!!  when i first had the idea i didn't think that it would turn out this

cute!!  i love the colors i used!  i would have never put yellow and pink together before but i think it looks really good!  who would have thought that a piece of trash could be so chic?

 

 you will need: scissors, some fabric, book pages, some bling! (like feathers and pearls), a toilet paper roll, mod podge, and a hot glue gun (not shown)

 

 first you will need to get out your handy dandy...scissors!  cut your toilet paper roll in half so that it is still a full circle, but just shorter (hamburger style).  then cut the edges of the toilet paper roll so that they are curved just like the picture!  i found that the white rolls are stronger than the brown ones so i used a white one...i have a HUGE collection of these!  i have been accumulating them for a couple of months!! haha.  every time one runs out of toilet paper somebody adds it to the collection cause i have let everybody know that i am collecting them!

 

the words didn't focus very well, but you could probably tell that this is where i mod podged the book page onto the toilet paper roll.  all i did was tear out a page from a book and unroll the toilet paper roll so that it was flat.  then i traced it and cut it out.  after it was cut out i mod podged it!  after it was all done drying i started decorating it.  for the flowers all i did was cut out little circles and folded them twice so that they would look like a pie shape then i hot glued the tip and stuck it on!  i decorated this cuff with feathers, pearls, and fabric.  then i cut a strip of fabric out and hot glued the ends of it to the ends of the cuff so that it would be a tie.  the toilet paper roll is kinda skinny, so it doesn't reach all the way around my wrist.  this is why i needed a tie.  i hope you enjoyed this post!  and thanks for visiting my blog :)

trendy chic refashion week! day #2 the ruffled soda can ring

 

this is the beautiful ring that i made from recycled soda cans!  the soda can i made this one out of was A&W cream soda. it was really easy to make and it didn't take that long at all! i usually don't wear trash and try to avoid it at all cost, but i think this is too cute to pass up! haha.  i LOVE the ruffle design it makes!

i also though that it would be cute to spray paint it but hat would take away from the recycled look of it but i think it would be a good idea if you were going for more of a put together girly look...anyways here is the tutorial! (i forgot to number them so they just go in order from left to right)

1. you will need: a hot glue gun, scissors, and soda cans

2. first you will need to wash out your soda cans because nobody likes sticky fingers! then cut out nine circles about the size of a dime.

3. then you will fold them in half twice to make these pie shapes!  when you fold them they get squashed, so just open them up with the tip of your scissors.

4. now you will make the actual ring part!  to make it so you don't cut yourself cause tin cans are kinda sharp, i folded bot edges in and then i folded it in half so that it had nice curved edges!  then i hot glued the ends together.  the last and final step it to hot glue your ruffle flower to your ring! tada!  now you have a trashtastic piece of jewelry!

rustic necklaces tutorial

 this is the first necklace i made.  its pretty much just a compilation of things that Ive found.  i think my favorite part is the bottle cap that i found on the street.

 i really love the flowers on this.  i have never made a necklace with fabric flowers before.  i think it looks cute.  i love owls so i had to put an owl on there. haha

 this is the second necklace i made.  i was sooo inspired that i decided to make another one! haha and because i had left over materials :)

 for these copper charms i mod podged a feather and some sheet music to them so they wouldn't be so plain

 as charms i used an old buckle i took off of one of my belts and an old house key.  to make the key look a little distressed i used toll paint and covered it when mod podge when it dried.

 i used copper charms that i found at Hobby Lobby and i punched holes in them with this nifty hole puncher thing that i also found at Hobby Lobby...i love that store!!!  anyway, its really easy to use and it was really cheap too!

for the flowers i hot glued them onto the copper charms that i punched holes into and i tied them together.