Paper & Cardboard

Remember the Upcycled Denim Challenge I took part? Well, I liked participating to it so much I decided to participate also to this months challenge, which is all about upcycling paper! There's three reasons to this:
- These challenges  give me a lot of inspiration and ideas
- I hope that small competitions like this help to raise the avareness of all the beautiful things that can be made by upcycling
- Um, well, even as a professional craft instructor I need sometimes a deadline for my personal projects so that they get finished...
 
For this challenge, as for the previous one, I wanted to create articles for daily use. In our house, we're always short of storage and small furniture pieces that we can move easily to a new home, as we've been moving quite a many times! This is why I created a storage tray that can also be used as a small shelf, a foldable bowl, and a storage stool.

My main materials were recycled cardboard and recycled wallpapers rather than just paper, however, papergoods were okay and I was inspirad about these materials so I just went for it. I love crafting with cardboard, because it's so sturdy that you can really make a lo of things out of it. The flat cardboard used cardboard made out of recycled paper.
 
I was also inspired of geometric shapes, hexagon in particular. Here we go!
 
 
First of all, here's the foldable storage bowl, it unfolds flat by deattaching the string.I find it's a perfect center piece for a table as it's quite big, roughly 50 cm wide! This one took my a lot of time, just for figuring out the folding system.

 And here's the storage tray... 

...that also works as a shelf. I'm thinking to add some compartiments to it, so that I can store even more things when it's on the wall. This is maybe my favourite design out if these, and I'm thinking to make a bunch of these and to hang them all together. If you want to, I can show you step-to-step photos to make this, I took some.

And here's the stool, it's made out of old fabric spools I got at a local fabric store. It's covered also with recycled wall paper, all different. It's also great for to store all my craft papers, because I can have a different paper quality inside every spool. It's actually so sturdy one can sit on it, but I'm thinking to use it as a bedside table.

With the leftover materiel, I made also this pen cup and hair elastic covers, just for the fun of it. 

Hope you liked my creations! Ask me if you want to know more of them!

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