Festive Revamping Brochure Hire Rubbish Revamped for something different for your event or organisation this festive season
Decorations Eco-wrappings Small Gifts Post festive revamping ∗
Ideal for quick drop-in events & longer sessions
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Crafts to suit all ages, talents and tastes
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Fun, do-able and thrifty
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Sociable
Welcome the festive workshop brochure There’s a fantastic mix of recycled crafts to choose from ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗
Decorations Gift wrapping Small presents Post-festive revamping projects
There are crafts suitable for all ages from young children to experienced crafting adults looking for new ideas. We’ll help you put together a great programme to suit your organisation or event, including your target group and the time you have available— whether it’s a couple of hours or a series of weekly sessions. You can gather your own rubbish to revamp or we can supply everything for you. The crafts are: Fun, doable, thrifty, sociable and good for the environment, as well as of course being attractive and even useful! Please browse through the brochure and get in touch for a quote anytime by email to danielle@rubbishrevamped.org.uk or phone 07910 270 789 Danielle Lowy Rubbish Revamped danielle@rubbishrevamped.org.uk www.rubbishrevamped.org.uk www.facebook.com/rubbishrevamped @rubbishrevamped
Rubbish Revamped Festive brochure ~ www.rubbishrevamped.org.uk
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Decorations Deck the halls with Rubbish Revamped! There’s a great choice of decorations and craft techniques for you here. Whether you want to decorate a wall, window or tree, we’ll help you learn to festoon your home or office with upcycled finery!
These rag stars can be hung up or put on chopsticks as wands.
Put your junkmail to good use with these fun spirals
This beautiful layered petal hanging is made from old cards or food packaging
Festive bunting from old cards
Festive Peacocks!
Upcycle old cards and junkmail into unique baubles for a tree or to create festive window decorations
Tabletop junkmail tree
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Wrappings Doesn’t a nicely wrapped present look tantalising, all wrapped up, waiting to be ripped open? There’s no need to spend lots of money on wrappings and ribbons (after all, they are mainly chucked out). We’ve lots of ideas for unique, thrifty and eye catching gift wrapping.
Made from greeting cards, these handy little boxes are decorative and ideal for small gifts.
These little birds can be used as gift tags or tree decorations
Newspaper gift bags
Wrappings from newspaper and comics are embellished with concertina flowers and junkmail gift bows
Junkmail bows
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Cards
There’s lots of room for creativity with Christmas cards. Here’s some variously made from junkmail, sweet wrappers, maps, and old office files. Old Christmas cards are also revamped into new ones.
Buttons galore! These button designs—and others— can be created on mini canvasses to create pictures.
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Small gifts People often join a Rubbish Revamped workshop to make gifts for their friends and family and many crafts in the main brochure make great presents. Here’s a little selection to choose from.
Button bracelet in a gift box
Hand-warmers from old jumpers Quirky Turkey brooch from a tie
Armadillo brooches from ties
Juice carton wallets
Junkmail Jewellery
Fun desk tidies
Everyone would love a little Mousevvark friend from an old sock
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Post Christmas Revamping Whether you want to feel better about the indulgences of the festive season or to immortalise your memories of it, we’ve got a lovely choice of post-festive crafts for you. Save your wrapping paper, ribbons and cards to up-cycle for these projects. Keep cards for next year to turn into gift tags.
This pretty jewellery display is made from wrapping paper, cracker ribbons, pegs and buttons. It can also be made in a circle. What might you clip to yours? Photos, tea-bags?
This ‘junkmail’ jewellery bracelet is made from used wrapping paper
Save your cards to make this amazing globe. They can be made in all sizes from mini to massive
Did you indulge in some cheeky ready-made meals this Christmas? Turn your indulgences into a useful woven basket. Quite fiddly this one, but good results!
Topsy Turvy pot upcycled from wrapping paper
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A Handmade Festive Extravaganza Treat yourself to a day of festive workshops, packed full with different activities. Check out the different crafts and photos on the website at www.rubbishrevamped.org.uk