Anyone has Creative crafts ideas using old Magazines?

Question

Am looking for creative & easy ideas to recycle old magazines, empty boxes, newspapers & printed paper....

Answer 1

Those are great if those magazines have special events and/or special period of time for fashion statements, news etc....make special cover or collage, similar to scrapbook ideas.

Checkout http://www.silkfair.com with handmade items to buy and sell.

Answer 2

Check these out--these are great.  I have also seen magazine collages, but my favorite is making beads out of magazine pages.  I'll try to find instructions.

http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/...

Here it is:  

http://www.tappi.org/paperu/art_class/pa...

Answer 3

There was a Filipino lady at my workplace who would take the shiny photo pages and cut them into strips and fold them into strawlike pieces and weave little baskets with them. A lot of work but they were cute enough for a "green" craft.

Answer 4

make gift boxes...

cover them with cools desings like collages or crazy shapes and make it custom!!!

every single box will be unique!! 'cause you wont find two things of each.

Answer 5

Collages!  I love to make collages.  You can make them based on certain themes...  For example I have a bunch of Victorian Trading Company magazines and I love to make collages out of those because the pictures inside are great!  You can get those recycled paper boxes that are really cheap at Wal-Mart or whatever and glue a collage onto it and use that decopage glue over it and it'll dry clear and look awesome.  You can just use the old newspapers to clean windows/mirrors or something...  You can also use strips of magazine to make beads.  You cut the strip into a very long triangle (so it has a point at one end), start at the flat side, using glue you wind it up with a stick until you make a bead.  Then coat it in clear nailpolish.  =]

Answer 6

Make a vision board!  This is a board you make with cardboard, or foamboard or whatever of your goals, dreams or things you would like to have or accomplish!  Cut out things from the magazines of places you would like to go, things you would like or feelings you would like to have within, whether it's love, organization, peace, money, etc.

It can be a beach vacation, a remodel that you want,  whatever goals and things that you want for yourself, words pictures, whatever, cut it out and paste it to the board and keep the board where you can see it.  You'd be surprise when you start looking at the board and wishing those things, that they come to you!  It doesn't happen overnight, but they do work!

Oprah just did a show on this about a week ago, and there are top executives that do this, it's taught in the business world and taught when you want something, you visualize it, and you think positively towards it.  So, cut out what you'd like and what you'd like to achieve in your life and make a board!

I hope all your wishes and dreams come true!!