recycle your magazines, two times!

i flip through magazines as a hobby. i study them. cut out of them. paste pictures into journals. and quite frequently i try to figure out a craft i can do with them before i send them to their final destination, the recycle bin. i've used pictures to decoupage coffee tins, tv trays, magnets, and a toothbrush holder. i've cut out cool pictures and framed them for art. with the magazines that don't have cool ideas and pictures, i cut out big sections of color, which i then decoupage into framed art.

by far the magazine craft that was the most involved was the greeting card... very specific to the recipient. it's not as easy to be creative when i'm not my own target audience. i tore out a magazine page and cut it in half length-wise for the base. i'm not sure what made me think scotch tape would be the best thing to put this craft together, but it seemed to work ok. might choose something less noticeable next time. i think the pictures are from the three different ones that i made but they're sort of hard to tell apart.