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Dick and Jane Vintage Reader Gift Tags

bluejean, member | November 1st, 200912 comments

I made these tags from vintage Dick and Jane readers. I love the style of art and the colors are so vivid. They can be used for so many things; gift tags, book marks, altered art or...

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Stamp Box

TinTinJunkFan, member | September 24th, 200910 comments

A simple lidded wooden box that was once used to ship a ceramic bowl.... ...lots of colorful stamps....

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Treasured Trunk

TinTinJunkFan, member | July 31st, 20097 comments

A beat up old college trunk (from Kmart some 30 yrs ago!) and a journal full of ephemera from a beloved great-aunt---She saved clippings, Valentine cards, stamps, advertising cards, notes from...

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Arithmetic, Vintage Flashcards, Resin, Ball Chain = Really Groovy Necklaces

byabpryor, member | June 25th, 200915 comments

This is a series that combines; pendant blanks, vintage Ephemera (in this case Arithmetic Flashcards), and Ball & Chain links all coated in resin. "Money Honey", "Ying Yang", "Over...

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Navigational Chart Tote

TinTinJunkFan, member | June 10th, 20099 comments

My son the merchant mariner brought home all his navigational charts (which the ship's crew junks after sailing is completed) from his six months at sea. He knew that his mother would find...

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You Will Always Hear Me

MaxwellStreet, member | May 9th, 20096 comments

A roll of yellowed rummage sale paper becomes a new type of painting surface. I loved how it was so aged looking, so I glued parts of it together to form the top, and added an alla prima painting and...

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Floods

MaxwellStreet, member | April 16th, 20099 comments

Floods, another piece done on a found cupboard door. Features pages from a vintage Scarlet Letter and a bit of a wasp's nest.

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bridge scorecard transformed to bookmark (s)

MelHow, member | March 30th, 20092 comments

I probably made about two-doxen of these found these sweet bridge score cards at the thrift store for 49 cents or so for the lot.

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Junk Art Doll - She had many faces, the reclaiming of self!

rosiemoonbeams, member | March 10th, 20094 comments

Junk art doll was completed using Photoshop to arrange scanned images into a collage. The doll was constructed using some wire to connect the junk pieces.

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old bread box - a project that went south

MelHow, member | February 25th, 200910 comments

I have several of these solid wooden bread boxes. They are a great place for storing cds, small books (I am a bibliophile) or other junk. I painted this one black last spring and it hung around my...

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More Upcycled Boxes

MelHow, member | February 7th, 20092 comments

Thanks to the MIL - I have lace and ribbon coming out of my ears.

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Upcycled Boxes

MelHow, member | February 7th, 20097 comments

I am obsessed with boxes right now

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Woven Hearts Pockets for Valentine's Day

MelHow, member | February 7th, 20096 comments

Woven hearts - fun, easy, and satisfying

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shoe box, pie box, candy box

MelHow, member | January 31st, 20096 comments

Gift boxes...

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Pringles canister make-over

radicalrecrafter, member | January 23rd, 20093 comments

After posting the other day that Pringles canisters were a good substitute for photo tube pencil cups,I found I had one.I also realised I needed another container for my taller knitting needlesSome...

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Box Art

Gretchen Schaumann, contributor | January 17th, 200912 comments

Many of you know I'm a jewelry designer, that took a few years off, regrouped and am now back doing this creative work again. So after posting a photo of my new collection of pendants one of the Junk Market members actually purchased my first piece of this new venture. I decided to make her a special little box to ship the pendant in. Here's what I came up with.

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Cardboard tubes recrafted!

radicalrecrafter, member | January 17th, 20094 comments

I scavenged these from the trash bins at work originally.I could see such potential!Then people started saving them for me,once they saw what could be done with them.Other sources for those of you...

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blueprint wallpaper

bluejean, member | January 1st, 200912 comments

My husband builds custom homes, so it only seemed fitting to use old house plans to wallpaper the back wall of our home office. I just stapled the blueprints to the wall mostly as is. I...

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Junk Kitchen Makeover

missartgurl, member | December 31st, 20083 comments

I junked up my kitchen by decoupaging cool torn turquoise paper on my cupboards and whitewashing the dark panelling! I even subbed old silverware for the drawer pulls! The counter top was a...

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grandma's compact

MelHow, member | December 19th, 20082 comments

When my husband's paternal grandmother died. My MIL gave me her purse and the compact they found in it. I have plans for the purse but have never had the nerve to carry them out. Here is waht I did...

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