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Since it’s getting more demand and positive feedback, creating something different is a great way to spend your spare time, change a current style and same money in some cases. This post is about very important accessories, Lamps. As you can see on the pictures below, many designers and artists fight against plastic indulgence in the world, and results are outstanding. Besides plastic as a material source, carton, pens, beer caps, cup holders, even used lamp bulbs are good to go. Imagination is unlimited, so get ready to cross the borders…

Let’s face it Christmas is gone, all presents have been already given and most of delicious treats are gone. The only thing which keeps reminding us about Santa’s magic is wrapping paper. Usually we don’t throw away various colorful rolls, right? Usually we keep them somewhere in shelves or baskets till next year. But what if we go unusual way this time, make something unexpected but useful too. And wrapping paper can be a good sampler to start with.

Here’re some innovative methods of recycling it:

1. Run it through a paper shredder and use it to stuff gift bags or baskets. The finished result is beautiful.

2. Redecorate your walls with wrapping paper. Try abstract way of thinking using ornaments, ribbons, pieces of plastic, etc. I bet yours will be worth several hundreds of dollars.

3. When taking down your Christmas tree, use wrapping paper to wrap delicate ornaments, and to provide cushioning between ornaments wherever they are stored.

4. If you plan to remodel your house, wrapping paper is your best friend then. You can cover the floors, walls, furniture and other household items with it.

5. Wrapping paper can be shredded and used to protect items you have to ship throughout the year.

6. Instead of buying wrapping paper next year, try to collect your comics, magazines, shopping brown paper bags throughout the year to use it instead of wrapping rolls. Plus, the look adds some spice in each package.

7. You can donate wrapping paper to your local scrapbooking club. I’m sure “scissor-masters” need this kind of supply all the time.

8. Create your own way and share it with us.

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Christmas spirit has woken me up early this year. On December fifth or six I felt a need to hand-made something beautiful. So my first step toward my hand-cravings was Michaels store. And take a look what I bought from there. Quick review: various paper pads, scissors, wrapping paper, adhesive tape and borders, colorful ribbons, foam sticky snowflakes, ruler and pencil.

I also checked the Papirus store to see what’s is on the market nowdays, because I haven’t made postcards for several years  and decided to remind few details to my imagination. As soon as something clicked in my head, I started the project.

First I started with paper and scissors. The size of a pad is 12 inch by 12 inch. So I separated it in three parts.

Then bent the slice in the middle.

So in the other side it looked like this.

After it I was done with scrutinized work and let my mind go wild. I took one see-through wrapping paper and put it on the top of a future card to draw the borders for cutting purposes. Next was (as you probably have already guessed) I cut off all unnecessary parts of a wrapping paper.

Then I bent it over too.

And to make my postcard steady and rigid, I took a self-adhesive type, which looked like plastic laces (there’s lots of variations in Michaels). I stuck to one side, flipped the card and stuck on the other, cut off the remains 

Then I took adhesive foam snowflakes and decorated the card with them.

One more ornament detail was a wide ribbon, which I wrapped around the card and stuck with a type on back side of a card.

Basically that was it. It took me about 20 minutes to make a first postcard, but next 50 pieces took much less time. I had a great time, my hands were pleased and I’ve created really beautiful small gifts ( I don’t mind if you want to call them a masterpiece). From a budget point of view, I spent around $40 in Michaels and produced 50 cards. So, let’s roughly assume it’s a $1 per one (stamps, envelopes and time aren’t included).

One more important thing is what to write inside, because after all hard work people still pay attention to what is says on the card. Here’s a great site for holidays exclamations and greetings. Good Luck.

As consumers tend to get use to different sorts of advertising methods, such as print media, TV, radio and billboards, creative firms are on a mission to find new ways of distracting, shocking and memorizable ads. This post is dedicated to the fresh point of promotions - beach and bath towels. The main objective of all campaigns is they give towels away for free, and raise the awareness among involved audience.

1. Israel Cancer Association: Grill Towels

2. TV - week of murder scenes.

Summer is a season of violate TV ratings. Creative team has come up with the idea of promoting show right on the beach by giving out “pool-of-blood” shaped beach towels, so when people lay on them, they would look murdered.

3. Ending Piracy Towel

Idea is based on giving out towels to people, who later will spread them out on the beach and it will look like the make-shift stall to sell things at.

4. AXE - Shower Gel

The campaign was performed in male - gym communities, in the locker showers rooms. The Branded Towels visually reflect the benefits of using Axe products. The low-budget give-away have became very successful and turned to promotional campaign with the strong word-of-mouth assistance.

5. Playboy Cover

Every girl thinks to be placed on the cover of Playboy magazine at least once. And probably every boy thinks of having a chance to see his girls on the cover of the same magazine. Now it’s possible and not only once, but every single day.

Inspired by the gestural language depicting the use of the phone, the color rings by BCK design team, including Javier Bertani, Ezequiel Castro and Vera Kade, are an accessory for your mobile phones that apart from making your chatter more natural and comfortable also turns your flamboyant fashion accessory in to a functional device. The color ringsare intended to be worn in the thumb and little finger that works as a microphone and headset, while connecting wirelessly to your mobile phone. All you need to do is to point your thumb and little finger towards your ear and mouth respectively to make or receive a call, thanks to the built-in distance sensors.