 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you a Recycle and Reuse project. So this is the article that I have in the September issue of the Social Paper Crafter magazine. So this is my tutorial to sit side by side to the pictorial that you'll find in that magazine and all those links will be shared in the video description box below and also over on my blog. So I have done these before and I thought it was a really good way and there's a couple of other bits that I'm using that I'm recycling as well but this is making tassels out of your old magazines. So I have lots of craft magazines and not all the bits I want to cut up because I want to keep it for inspiration but they're great magazines to reuse because they're always so colorful. So these are the tassels so I'll just bring this one up here and what I've done is I've stuck this is foiled sellotape that you can buy in a lot of craft shops and again all those links will be shared of all the supplies that I use and then I've just popped it on some baker's twine and popped a loop on it so you can just thread it through your gift bags and yeah okay so now I've got this really fun trim with all these tassels hanging. So now just flip it over now whenever you're working with a shiny surface so for example I've folded this over on the top because it's going to roll even if this didn't this wasn't folded over it was just plain magazine paper because you're going to be rolling this shiny side and it's going to touch that it's always best to use the red tape unless you have a very very strong double sided but this red tape will stick anything it's pretty good stuff so I'm just using a little quarter of an inch wide there and again just go over making sure you squeeze all the air and all the bubbles out so it's all nicely stuck down and then I'm going to take off my backing and this is going to be the end that we end with okay so I'm going to grab some twine and what color do I want to use because it's all kinds there at the end so I'm going to bring in just looking down at my twine I'm going to have the green I think or do I want to have let's bring in let's do a different one here yeah I think the green I look nice so I've just got a bundle of this it's up to you how much you want to cut off I'm just going to do what I got here this is 17 inches but again it doesn't matter and then just fold it over so it's all nice and lined up even and then I'm just going to stick this onto this end okay so it's just attached there and then I find just using a poke tool and just stick your poke tool onto the very end there or just somewhere and you can use that just get it in there to start rolling your tassel it's only to kind of start it off once it's in place then you can do it yourself and you just want to get it to start to attach to that red tape it will stick really well so you can see now my twine is completely encased inside the bit that we're rolling okay so I'm just going to keep wrapping that around keeping the silver all lined up with this okay try not to go off course you want to end up just each time you roll it just kind of brush out your tassels there keeping everything lined up so don't rush it and just keep doing that until you get to the very end okay and then the very end but just neatly wrap around and there you have a really really fun tassel if I lie against the yellow there you can see how fun they look now you could have both of those together so what I can do now is just cut the end and let's take this one back off okay I've just tied a little knot there I've got them both kind of hanging at different heights and then I can just tie it around this piece here so I'm just gonna do it like so so I've got one of each color on each side and there you have it and see now how cute that looks so it just needs a little gift tag or I might put a little sentiment down the bottom there but how you know you get such a great effect which is cost you know very little to do so that's that way of doing it with the foiled salatate now if you don't have that and you have foils and just double sided tape I've just cut another strip of from the magazine I've said I like this I want this to be the piece that we end with so this is again this is three and a half by ten so it's a little bit bigger and then I'm just going to bring in let's try um what kind of I've got there so let's bring in the red foil so I've got some of my red foil here I'm just going to take off do one at a time so do the bottom first I've just ran a half inch double sided tape along the bottom there and then I'm going to stick my foil directly on there I know the length that I've got and take that off and just trim this piece off here and I'm going to take this one off and stick that one over there like so and then with all foils it's exactly the same just grab your finger and just rub over it okay sometimes it will start to lift in areas and that means it's obviously all nicely stuck down I also like to go over mine with my bone folder just to really make sure see now that's what you want see when it starts to lift off naturally and it goes completely clear and now I can peel that off and you get that really cool bring this up foiled edge so again just rub that one over that one's really quick and then just peel that one off like so so now I've got that lovely red foil and then if you've got any sticky bits that you can feel there's a couple there you just go over it again like so okay so I'm really pleased with that and then just do exactly the same thing again so you're just going to cut strips again about a quarter of an eight quarter of an inch sorry all the way up like that I'm now going to carry on with my scissors because it's much much quicker okay and there we have all of our tassels again so just flip it over and along the top I'm going to add that strip of red tape there's green in this one so I'm bringing in the green twine done this one a bit shorter so this one is 10 inches and just do exactly the same process again so make sure you pop your twine at the end where there isn't any color and you want to make sure that the end that's free is the one that you're is the color is that the one that's free because that's obviously what you're going to end with and again just start wrapping it all around okay and there you have it using the foil and I think these are really fun to make they're really good to do with the kids as well especially with the glitter because it's always fun to get the glitter out um as I showed you there and you just do exactly the same that's double-sided and then just sprinkled glitter over and you get really really cool cool effects so there is with the foil these ones are with the sellotape and this one's with the glitter I think the sellotape ones are my favorite maybe it's just because that silver's so shiny and it's already on the gift bag but I think they look really great so that is my recycle and reuse tutorial I hope I've inspired you and yeah if you're short on maybe some pattern papers and you've got loads of magazines use them up it's great ways to uh yeah recycle so please check out the 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