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Product Review and Giveaway: Friendly Plastic Metallic Prints

July 9th, 2010 at 05:00am Under Product Reviews

A pound of Friendly Plastic can make dozens and dozens of projects. You can heat, melt, and mold this plastic many ways including a heat tool, flat skillet or toaster oven. Learn more and enter to win here.

Contest ends July 23, 2010. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve [...]

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Crafty Gifts for the Teacher

August 24th, 2009 at 09:19am Under Kids

With school quickly approaching or having already started for many, back to school crafts are popular here at FaveCrafts. We have two new projects for cute teacher’s gifts. Kids can help create these crafts and present them to their new teachers, especially on Teacher Appreciation Day. (National Teacher Day is the first Tuesday of May.) [...]

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Plastic Trash Crafts

July 24th, 2009 at 04:00am Under Green Crafting

I love that crafting teaches you how to use materials you might normally throw away. In the case of plastic, learning how to re-use every last bit is not only economical, but is also very important for the environment. Did you know plastic does not biodegrade? All the plastic that we have ever produced is [...]

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Please Excuse Us

June 3rd, 2009 at 08:56am Under Green Crafting+ News

We are in the midst of an overhaul at FaveCrafts.com. In the interest of better organization and better navigation for our readers, we are re-organizing our craft projects into sub-categories. That means some of the links from previous blog posts might be broken, as we have moved the project to a new category. We are [...]

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Five Friendly Plastic Jewelry Projects

May 16th, 2009 at 06:57am Under Jewelry Making

Have you ever worked with Friendly Plastic? Friendly Plastic is a non-toxic plastic which comes in different colored sticks, perfect for jewelry project. We have some really lovely Friendly Plastic Jewelry projects at FaveCrafts, compliments of Jana Ewy for Amaco. I love the bright, vibrant colors in these projects; the finished jewelry almost look like [...]

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Shrink Plastic Jewelry

May 13th, 2009 at 02:14am Under Jewelry Making+ Tutorials

We have a great new tutorial at FaveCrafts from Helen Bradley of http-design, showing us how to make shrink plastic jewelry. The bracelet is fantastic and easy to make with the help of a circle hole punch. Check out the shrink plastic jewelry tutorial here. Remember, you can recycle number 6 plastic, often the kind [...]

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