Art and craft ideas – Trash To Flash with cereal box card Jewelery.
Craft projects using upcycled materials can produce very impressive results.
Take this big and bold pendant made partly from cereal box cardboard.
This artsy pendant is a great example of upcycling material that would otherwise be junk to throw away.
Once you learn how to treat cardboard to ceate a solid material, you realise how valuable it is for crafting.
Click here to go to the video I made showing exactly how to make this upcycled pendant.
Are you looking for good art and craft ideas to start crafting?
If you are, this is a great project for beginners because the results are quick and stunning.
When you finish working the magic on an empty cereal box, you will see just how strong it can be.
You will never throw away another cereal box!
And you will start looking at other junk differently as you wonder how you can turn more trash to flash.
The pictures above show how my mind works regarding junk.
Since I focused on getting art and craft ideas from the smallest scraps of junk, I see potential everywhere!
I saw this bland and insignificant piece of scrap wallpaper in a rubbish bin at The Range a while back.
At the time, I was wandering around looking at craft supplies.
My immediate thought was the challenge of how I could use it to make something pretty and wearable.
So I asked if I could have it.
I think it stunned the guy who was sweeping up scraps up off the floor in the wallpaper area!
If you want to see the post I wrote on what I did with that scrap of paper, click here.
Children also love art and craft ideas that use junk.
This cardboard pendant project is a lovely one to do together to perhaps make a beautiful upcycled gift for someone.
These kinds of projects are great for getting children thinking about recycling while being creative with the earth’s resources.
It does fire the imagination when you can turn something so mundane into a piece of pretty jewelry.
Especially when no-one would even guess is made from cardboard junk.
Of course you will need other items to make the pendant in my video.
You will need some good PVA glue because it’s the PVA that ultimately gives the cardboard it’s strength.
It makes it completely ridgid, like a light wood.
You will also need a design for the front of your pendant.
I used a mandala design from a coloring book (click here to see the post and video on using your coloring book work in crafts).
However, you could easily find a stunning design to punch out of a magazine.
Old magazines are another great source of inspiration for art and craft ideas.
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You will find products similar or the same as those used in my videos.
I update my Amazon storefront with new products each time I make a new video.
It helps people find the resources they need to try out the projects.
Note: Items that were available at the time of posting may not be in the future.
Watch the video through to the end.
See the unexpected blip I had a couple of days after I finished the pendant. `🙄
See how I fixed it and then tell me, in the comments section under the video on YouTube, what you think I could have done to avoid the blip in the first place.
I love hearing other people’s ideas because there is always more than one way to climb a mountain!
Thanks for reading and let me know in YouTube comments if this helped you with your art and craft ideas – see you next time on Rainbow Lane – the YouTube channel to get you creating.
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Happy crafting!