Upcycled Crafting: Part 3 of 5

Did you know that March 2012 is National Craft Month?! Well I've been telling you every Thursday all month long. :) Team Upcyclers has been celebrating the wonderful world of crafting by bringing you an entire month of Upcycled Craft Supplies! Each Thursday we've highlighted our Etsy shops that provide UPCYCLED crafting supplies.

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

Here are this week's THREE upcycled handmade crafters and their awesome coupons!

Thoughtful Rose Supply

"I craft exclusively with recycled materials. My mission at Thoughtful Rose Supply is to enable and inspire other crafters to use recycled materials as well!"
Sharon, Thoughtful Rose Supply

I found this well said statement in Sharon's profile, along with an exquisite collection of beautifully photographed recycled yarn. Sharon upcycles cashmere, silk, wool, and other materials from discarded sweaters into recycled yarns.
  

Like this pretty Spring Green Cashmere Recycled Yarn


Or this Heathered Coral Pink Cotton Cashmere Blend Recycled Yarn

I loved this Caramel Brown Recycled Wool Yarn!

Thoughtful Rose Supply SALE:

Enter coupon code ETSYUPCYCLERS15 at checkout for 15% off your supply order! This exclusive offer is good for this month only! Follow Sharon on her amazing blog, which is full of sustainable conscious crafting!

The Wooden Bee

So I couldn't pass up an opportunity to promote upcycled crafting. Our business model is vital to this wonderful hobby.  We offer an array of upcycled craft materials, like both natural and colored corks.

Or our reclaimed cabinet doors, they offer a great canvas for all sorts of art and crafting.

Our bulletin board, trivet and coaster kits offer an eco-friendly frame box for saving & designing wine corks.

The Wooden Bee SALE:

Enter coupon code CRAFT2012 at checkout for 12% off your supply order! This exclusive offer is good for this month only! Follow the wood, and other upcycled materials, on our blog!

gr3een

We love this fun eco-friendly shop!  Annette, from gr3een, does a fabulous job creating and collection upcycled, eco-friendly items.

Soda Can Pop Tabs are a popular craft supply in this shop! 

And how beautiful are these chocolate brown recycled gift tags?!

This green shop even offers eco-friendly sea shells for crafting,

like these Shark Eye Shells!

gr3een SALE

Enter coupon code UPCYCLERS32012 at checkout for 10% off your supply order! This exclusive offer is good for this month only! Follow gr3een on Facebook for tons of environmentally conscious status updates!!! 

We hope you enjoy these unique upcycled crafters and their special sales! Check out all our team's craft sales this month HERE!

Happy Upcycled Crafting!

Bee
The Wooden Bee

Upcycled Crafting: Part 2 of 5

March 2012 is National Craft Month! Team Upcyclers has been celebrating the wonderful world of crafting by bringing you an entire month of Upcycled Craft Supplies! Each Thursday during the month of March we are highlighting our Etsy shops that provide UPCYCLED crafting supplies.  

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

Here are this week's THREE amazing upcycled handmade crafters!

First up...

Mike's T Shirt Yarn

Mike opened his eco-friendly t-shirt yarn shop on in January of 2011. He has been amazingly successful in his first year and it's not hard to see why!

Recycled Mint Green Super Bulky Crafting Cord

Mike prides himself on using repurposed materials, and only selects unwanted tshirts that have amazing colors! Check out this Light Blue Tie Dye Yarn.

  

I love this warm Recycled Lemon Yellow Tarn, which comes in bulk!

SALE: Enter coupon code MarchMadness at checkout for 10% off your order! Mike is offering us this exclusive sale THIS WEEK ONLY! Follow Mike and his t-shirts on Facebook!

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

Brizel Supplies

Brizel Supplies sells a variety of vintage sewing buttons and novelty fabrics. One of my favorite things is how well this shop organizes this unique collection of supplies. Wood, metal, plastic, glass, shell, and rhinestone buttons can all be found in this gorgeous shop!

I loved these vintage wood buttons!

And how pretty are these Primrose vintage metal buttons?!

Oh the crafts I would do with this mix of assorted blue vintage sewing buttons!

SALE: Enter coupon code UPCYCLE for 10% off your order. (I know I did and I saved on some amazing leather buttons)!  This offer is good from Sunday March 4th thru Wednesday March 14th!  Follow Brizel's awesome blog! 

Our third shop featured this week...our amazing team's captain!

 

 

Cat, who founded Team Upcyclers, has a great eye for upcycled and vintage creations. Check out all three of her shops! She's offering us a sale in all of them!

 

Collagical is an eclectic mix of whimsical, fanciful elements and objects. Here Cat offes mixed media collages, assemblages, art tags, upcycled, vintage & handmade jewelry, charms, Cracker Jack prizes, vintage accessories, Suncatchers, paper crafts... yes, an eclectic mix!

I loved these 3D Art Shipping Tags! 

In her shop, Im Sew Pretty, Cat sells vintage sewing patterns, vintage fashions and accessories, upcycled and handmade fabric products, craft books, magazines & more. Check out her unique selection of vintage patterns!

In Cat's third shop, Photo Art by cnicely, she offers prints, digital sheets and JPEG's of her original photo art, vintage and antique photos, greeting cards, postcards, sheet music art & more!

 So trot on over and check out some of Cat's vintage photos!

 

SALE:  15% off all gift tags in Collagical, all sewing patterns in I'm Sew Pretty AND all vintage and stock photo JPG files in Photo Art by cnicely! Just enter coupon code: CRAFTINGSUPPLIES15 in any shop for the discount!

We hope you enjoy these unique upcycled crafters and their special sales! Check out all our team's craft sales this month here!

Happy (Upcycled) Crafting!

Bee
The Wooden Bee
www.thewoodenbee.etsy.com