Upcycled Crafting: Final Sales

Every Thursday for the entire month of March we have celebrated National Craft Month by featuring upcycled craft supplies available on Etsy.  Each week we have discussed fifteen different shops that have offered our readers EXCLUSIVE SALES in honor of this crafty month. 

Here is our final three featured shops and their awesome coupons!!!

rope

Anna, from rope, collects beautiful vintage fabrics and other supplies in her unique Etsy shop.  Finds like this yard of Daisy Blue fabric! 

Or this collection of vintage fabric pieces perfect for your next upcycled project!

And how cool are these vintage zippers? Most still in their original packaging!

rope SALE:

Enter coupon code UPCYCLE at checkout for 20% off your vintage supply order! This offer is good for this month only! Follow Anna and her creative adventures on her blog, Lasso the Moon!

Our second shop...

Girl A Go-Go Designs

Robyn from Girl A Go-Go Designs makes some amazing DIY DOLLS from recycled materials. (I should know I bought one this month).  Let your children, grandchildren and friends get creative with these handmade dolls that inspire imagination!

Colour Your Own Doll (Bunny)

Colour Your Own Doll (Mermaid)

Colour Your Own Doll (boy)

GIRL A GOGO DESIGNS SALE:

Enter coupon code FIFTEEN at checkout for 15% off your DIY supply order! This offer is good for this month only!  Follow this creative shop on Facebook as well!

Our third shop...

ITSYOURCOUNTRY

This shop is full of a variety of original designs, many which are created in whole or part from repurposed, upcycled vintage linens, cutter quilts, feed sacks, paper ephemera materials and other findings. 

Check out the unique handmade Cutter Quilt Appliques!

Folk Art Crowing Rooster

Shabby Vintage Tulips

Handmade Heart Embellishments

ITSYOURCOUNTRY SALE:

Enter coupon code LUVCRAFTING10 at checkout for 10% off your supply order! This offer is good for this month only!  Check out their Sewing N Craft Supplies section for more supplies, AND check out their newly opened shop, ITSYOURCOUNTRYSPIRIT, featuring upcycled eco refashioned!

We hope you enjoy these unique upcycled crafters and their special sales! Hurry and check out ALL our featured SALES in honor of National Craft Month HERE!!! Just one more week of upcycled savings!

Happy Crafting!

Bee
The Wooden Bee
www.thewoodenbee.com

Weekly Giveaway: Pwark!

We hope you've been enjoying National Craft Month and the beginning signs of Spring~ the perfect time of year to start all kinds of outdoor projects for your home and garden! And we hope you enjoyed browsing the sales in the shops we featured in last week's giveaway~ including mine, lol! Congrats to Shani, the lucky winner of my funky fibers, I hope she enjoys them, I'll be shipping them out to her later today!

This week we've got another funky prize~ A Pwark! What's that you say? They are wacky looking upcycled, stuffed monster creations that each have their own quirky personality! The creator, Tiwi, has generously offered one of these lovable and unique Pwarks to our followers:

I was fascinated looking at all the creatures in Tiwi's shop on Etsy~ Pwark but then I went to Pwarkland and was blown away by the dozens more he has there! And I was able to get to know more about his creative adventures when I read his Pwark blog as well. His monsters are evolving as he tries new medias like needlefelting and crochet.

Tiwi is also creating custom orders~ Here's a teddy bear he created recently for someone, but now he has to make another because a friend begged him for the first one!

Here are a few of my favorites from Tiwi's Pwarkbook in Pwarkland and from his shop on Etsy:

I just had to smile at these cute and quirky creations~ I know you will too! If you'd like a chance to win #444, it's easy! First be sure you are a follower of our blog~ Love 2 Upcycle! Then choose four of the five ways to enter. Be sure and leave an email address in one of your entries so we'll know where to send your new friend!


#1. Favorite Pwark on Etsy and tell us here which Pwark is your favorite!

#2. Go to Pwarkland and tell us which creature in the Pwarkbook is your favorite!

#3. Follow Pwark on Twitter or Become a Fan on Facebook! 

#4. Pin one of the Pwarks on Pinterest! 

#5. Tweet or share this Giveaway using the buttons on our blog!

Remember! You have to leave a separate comment for each entry and only four entries count! Deadline for entry is March 26th at Midnight!

*Winners will be chosen using Random.org

Good Luck!!

We need sponsors for our Giveaways! If you are interested please contact us at Teamupcyclers@gmail.com  

Upcycled Crafting: Part 1 of 5

March 2012 is National Craft Month! Team Upcyclers is ready to celebrate the wonderful world of crafting by bringing you an entire month of Upcycled Craft Supplies! Each Thursday during the month of March we will highlight our Etsy shops that provide UPCYCLED crafting supplies. 

The best news, each featured shop is providing our readers with exclusive sales and coupons!

So let's get started... here are THREE amazing upcycled handmade crafters!

 

Our Childrens Earth

Stephanie from Our Childrens Earth uses items from the earth, or items that are recycled, up-cycled, reused, and repurposed, to make her lovely creations.  She also produces an upcycled blog, that features everything from tutorial & interviews, to family crafts & healthy living tips.    

Our Childrens Earth has a large selection of Detash/Supplies in their eco-friendly shop! I had so much fun looking through all of them.

Check out these Recycled Bottlecap Buttons

And how cool are these Recycled Car Crayons?!

I love the selection of vintage sewing patterns she has in stock as well!

Check out all of Our Childrens Earth's upcycled supplies and save 10% off your entire purchase. Enter coupon code: marchupcyclers. Offer only good during the month of March.

Our second shop of this week's feature is...

Coolclimates

Rachel from Coolclimates is a talented artist who created an amazing line of upcycled eco-friendly yarn that's great for knitting, crochet and other crafts.  With an extensive background in textile design, paper making, and ceramics, Rachel also produces a lovely blog that like her shop, combines her skill, her love of design and the natural world around her.

We love how she cleverly names her colorful yarn creations.

 Like this Upcycled T-shirt yarn, she calls Cedar Key.

Or this Blueberry Raku upcycled yarn, made from strands of unraveled sweaters!

This handspun yarn she calls Icebergs, is an work of art by itself.

Come check out this successful Etsy shop and see how Rachel takes yarn to a whole new level. Enter coupon code COOL10 for 10% off your entire purchase. Offer only good for the month of March.

Our third shop featured this week...

One BLESSED Mommie

One BLESSED Mommie is just that... A mother who has been richly blessed with 4 beautiful children. Natosha opened her shop to raise funds for a specialized power-chair that would give her oldest daughter, born with a rare genetic disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the independence she needed! Her successful shop has reached its goal, and she now donates a portion of select sales to a non-profit organization that helps families with SMA. 

Of course a passionate mom would create kid friendly crafting supplies! Like these Rag Letters & Numbers! A clever way to decorate a room or any creative space, and a clever way to give your child a little tactile educational fun. 

Check out all of One BLESSED Mommie's upcycled fabric letters and numbers and save! One BLESSED Mommie is offering FREE SHIPPING on their crafty letters and numbers. Offer only good for the month of March.


We hope you enjoy these unique upcycled crafters and their special sales! Look for next week's featured shops...with more savings!!!

Happy (Upcycling) Crafting!

Bee
The Wooden Bee
www.thewoodenbee.etsy.com

Sustainable Sundays: Amy C. Lund

Each Sunday we select one item to feature from over 1,820 sustainable shops on our Upcyclers Etsy Team! Any Upcyclers shop on Etsy that is actively selling, promoting and participating on our team is available for selection.

This week's upcycled selection is...

Decorative Hand Woven Fabric Nesting Eggs in Basket of Recycled Rag

by Amy C. Lund Handweaver and Handspinner

Amy C. Lund is inspired by the textures, structures, and colors, and tries to incorporate these elements into her work to create artful experiences.  I think she's done exactly that with this spring design.  Three handwoven striped lavender, light blue, orange and yellow recycled fabric eggs are included with a recycled rag basket. This handcrafted nest would make a great decoration for Easter, for a new baby's room, on a shelf in the country farm kitchen, or just because!

Check out more of Amy C. Lund's creations for "Simple, Sophisticated & Stylish Hand-Woven Textiles for Artful Living!"  She produces an array of linens, rugs, weavings and gift ideas so stop by her shop for look!

Shop Stats:

Opened on Jan. 22nd, 2010
200  items for sale
48 sales
Feedback: 22, 100% positive

It is always hard to pick one upcycled item from all our active shops each week! Here are this week's runners up:

Wooden Oregon Belt Buckle made with Reused Materials by CHunksOWOod

Black and White Teacup Beeswax Wood Wick Candle by jagraybill

World Time Zones Travel Journal with Lined Pages by PrairiePeasant

You can find more sustainable creations on Etsy by using our official team search tag: teamupcyclers when shopping.

Happy Upcycling!
~Bee
The Wooden Bee
inspired to recycle woodwww.thewoodenbee.com

Love 2 DIY on the Weekend: Everything has a Place

I would post a picture of my craft desk, but we would all just be embarrassed of the mess. So you can imagine I'm always on the look out for cute, cheap, upcycled storage solutions. This little tote is perfect because you can carry it room to room or even take it with you to craft night at someone else's house.
Honestly there is no reason you can't just use a little 6-pack tote as is. But I decided to decorate it so you wouldn't necessarily recognize it on my craft table.

Any six pack cardboard container will do. I found this one in a neighbor's trash. Not really.
I used some craft paint I had left over from another project and my 8 year old daughter helped me put on a coat.

It didn't seem quite enough coverage so we decided two coats would be better. 

Much better! Next, we chose 3 fabric samples from my huge supply a friend of mine sent me. My daughter loved the floral and green, and i decided the orange and yellow were a perfect compliment. 

I cut out some of the flowers and glued the other pieces of fabric directly onto the tote. If you don't have fabric, you can paint directly onto the tote, or use paper to decorate. Make it your own! 

I can't wait to show you what other easy, fun DIY upcycle projects I have to share with you, but feel free to leave a comment if there is something in particular you would love to see a step-by-step tutorial on. 

Sammi