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Advertising Arts & Crafts: recycle magazines into gift bows

For complete instructions, visit Craftster.

Mad Men paper dolls

Created by illustrator Dyna Moe.

Click images to enlarge.

 

Advertising Arts & Crafts: cereal box journals

Naturally, I would have made them with the cereal box graphics showing on the cover of the journal, but to each his own.

Complete directions are at The Long Thread.

Advertising Arts & Crafts: newspaper dress

Complete instructions for pleating and sewing your own newspaper dress are at Instructables.

 

Advertising Arts & Crafts: soft drinks can jewelry

Source: Green, Grown & Sexy

Advertising Arts & Crafts: Sculptures from product packaging

Created by Japanese artist Kazuma Takahashi.

 

Source: Boing Boing

Pepto Bismol ice cream -- the recipe

Wish you hadn't eaten so much Halloween candy? Try some Pepto Bismol ice cream.

This recipe comes from Blogjam -- not from the Pepto Bismol people who chose not to endorse the recipe, a decision which is, in my opinion, a wasted marketing opportunity.

Find the recipe for Pepto Bismol ice cream by clicking here.

Cashmere TP makes beauty while making a difference in the fight against breast cancer

 
Cashmere toilet tissue in Canada held its Sixth Annual White Cashmere Collection 2009. It's a fashion show in which 15 fashion designers from across Canada showed off their talents while raising money for the fight against breast cancer by creating fabulous fashions made from Cashmere toilet tissue.

“The collection is an amazing way to celebrate the incredible courage and strength of women coping with breast cancer and support them in their fight against the disease,” says Montreal-based rising star Anastasia Lomonova.

In addition, 25¢ from the sale of each special edition package of Cashmere Pink will be donated to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Love this idea.

Cashmere has created a meaningful concept that will raise lots of money and awareness while promoting its product which isn't always the case in 'Pink' marketing.

And Cashmere is encouraging creativity and helping to bring a little more beauty into the world.

Take a look at what talented people can make out of plain old TP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Ecouterre

Advertising Arts & Crafts: The Crocheted Jagermeister

Click here to see a more practical Jagermeister product.

Source: Craftzine

Advertising Arts & Crafts: the FedEx wine rack

Source: Craftzine

Advertising Arts & Crafts: credit card bracelet

Now that banks are showing us their gratitude for bailing them out by raising our credit card rates, lowering credit lines and threatening to bring back annual fees, you may be tempted to throw out your cards. Don't. Make jewelry out of them instead.

Complete directions for making credit card bracelets are at Scavenging.

If you're not the jewelry-wearing type, you can make a credit card mosaic mirror.

Behold the Tweeting Fart Chair

Instructables has posted complete directions for retrofitting a common office chair so that when the person sitting on it passes gas, a tweet automatically announces the event on Twitter.

The inventor, Randy Sarafan, describes his motivation:

This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens."

Advertising Arts & Crafts: stacking hexagonal boxes made from cereal boxes

Evil Mad Scientist has complete directions for making these hexagonal boxes from empty cereal boxes. I haven't tried making them, but the directions actually make it seem easy.