Recycled Bangle Bracelets

by MissMalaprop on June 29, 2009

I’ve seen a lot of variations on recycled paper products used to create cool accessories, but I think these bangle bracelets crafted from recycled magazines are a particularly stylish solution to the waste problem:

Recycled Bangle Bracelets

You can select from these three different styles, and find them along with many other unique clothing and accessory ideas at Artfulwears.com.

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1 Tori {Thoughtfully Simple} June 29, 2009 at 7:44 am

These look amazing– and out of magazines, love it! I just did a post about making coasters out of recycled magazines…I really like this idea too! Thanks for sharing.

2 MissMalaprop June 29, 2009 at 10:05 am

Tori, those coasters are super cute! I love useful recycled crafts!

3 Rachelle @ greenKangaroo June 29, 2009 at 12:46 pm

I’m a sucker for any kind of bangle, but these are especially cute/cool.

4 Linda Largent-Whitfield June 29, 2009 at 6:49 pm

These remind me of my childhood. We recycled when recycling wasn’t cool…..haha…..my mom had craft projects to keep us busy in the summers and one project was using magazines to make jewelry. Seems we cut them in squares and covered them in some kind of glue….rolled them on knitting needles to get a good form….and used them as beads. Wish I could remember how we did them ’cause they were pretty cool.

5 MissMalaprop June 29, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Linda, were the beads sort of like these?
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22575783
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27154716

I’m pretty sure there are probably tutorial somewhere online for them. Oh, yes! I just found two good ones:

http://guidezone.e-guiding.com/kdpaperb.htm
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/magazinebeads.html

6 Joost Hoogstrate June 30, 2009 at 2:10 am

Hi Mallory, your post on paper bangles made out of recycled magazine paper was really good. The things that people make handcrafted items out of are truly amazing. We have so many things lying around at home that we hardly think could be used for anything creative. Perhaps that is part of creativity… finding a use for the common and the neglected! Great blog. Maybe http://climatarians.org can help you find other interesting and creative ideas.

Joost Hoogstrate

7 kristen July 1, 2009 at 5:58 pm

pretty! i like these.

8 ecofriendlyjewelrylover July 2, 2009 at 4:36 pm

ooooo these are really pretty and ingenious!!! how much are they? i think i might have to feature these on my blog too! thanks!

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