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My friend Mitchell is always full of creative, imaginative and innovative ideas. She's always
taking everyday objects and turning them into something, well, extraordinary, if not spectacular.
Hey beautiful people. Let's make an autumn wreath. This is gonna be fun and it's really
super easy and it's made out of all recycled stuff that I promise you you have plenty of
around your house. The deal is that making recycled paper crafts is not only cheap and
easy but also really a nice thing that you can do for society at large, because we as
a world throw away 68 million tons of paper every year and only recycle 43 million tons.
So, if we recycle enough to make a beautiful autumn wreath this size, we will putting a
major dent in the carbon footprint of the whole year, and making a cool autumn wreath.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is take this recycled piece of corrugated cardboard. It
really can be from anything -- a cardboard box or whatever. Then I took -- made a circle
out of just something as big as I wanted my wreath to be. And I cut it out like this.
And now I'm gonna cut the hole out of the middle. And I like using a click knife. And
I made my middle circle out of this and just set it on there and measured it out with my
fingers, because I eyeball stuff all the time. I like my stuff a little rough-hewn anyway,
just like me. So, I'm making my wreath shape. We're gonna saw through this -- none of this
is gonna show, none of it. Ta-dah, now we've got a wreath shape. Alright, now, I've taken
a bunch of old magazines -- like this is from 1987. This is from '67. When you're using,
like, magazine pictures and stuff, you wanna look for a color palette. So I think we're
gonna do like a brown family, the green family, and some purple. That'll be good autumn, all-together
colors. So I've gone through and just kind of flipped around, dug around, and then I'm
just looking for color. Doesn't matter what the picture is or anything. So, like, I ran
across that. That's a good autumn color. So I'll tear this out. And I'm just gonna cut
this part off and throw it like that. Put this in my little pile of greens. So that's
how I've been flipping through looking for stuff. Then like this is part of the brown
family, so I'll use this in my browns. So, cut this off, stick that in, throw that down.
This is kind of a fashion-y thing, but it's got a lot of purple and the yellow in it,
so I'm gonna use this piece too. I'm also using some scrap. I took come scrap scrapbooking
paper that I had some pieces left over from, not really enough to make a big, and big project
on its own. So I started off with those and I cut some leaf patterns out. And they're
not even or anything. And then I'm gonna do that with these as well. So I'm gonna stack
these up and I'm gonna make them about that big, because we're gonna do a big leafy pattern.
And this is it -- you just cut these. And then it's just the pattern. So that looks
really cool. And then you put it in a stack. And, ooh, this could go on either side. I
think I like this side better, even. Those are one of those happy surprises that happen.
With magazines, you can do so many pieces at one time. But look at what these leaves
start looking like. And then you mix it in with these, like, fun patterns in this purple.
So I have a really good start right now on paper. So I'm gonna go ahead and get started
making this really cool wreath. So I am grouping all the little oranges and the greens and
then the bright purple and reds together. We're gonna go backwards around. I'm just
gonna lay some glue down here. And I'm folding it in the middle, each leaf. And I'm gonna
put one in the middle. And then it gives it a little bit of volume. And then I'm gonna
try and mix it up. And fold this here. So I'm gluing this down like that. And I'm not
even paying attention about the letters sticking up or anything -- I think it'll look cool
when it's all done. Oh, I like the way this is looking. Okay, we're almost done. Easy,
easy, this weighs nothing. So we can hang it -- cut a piece of tape like this, little
slits like that. You fold this over like that. You wrinkle it up a little bit. You stick
it anywhere you want, and look, there's your hanger, because this weighs nothing. And this
means that you can hang it on a nail or anywhere you want. And here we have a recycled paper
autumn wreath that looks amazing. Made of stuff that I had laying around my house that
I'm absolutely positive you do too.