Recycled Magazine Necklace

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• Step 1

  Brace yourself. This is going to take a while. I advise you sit in a bean bag chair and turn up the radio, or turn on the t.v.

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  Step 2

  flip through your magazines and rip out a bunch of really colorful pages.

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  Step 3

  cut up the pages in different sizes, it doesn't really matter, they just need a square or rectangle shape. Making different sizes is a good thing.

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  Step 4

  Alright, now take a piece of magazine, place it on a flat surface. Make sure the side that you like the best is face down.

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  Step 5

  now, at the bottom corner, make a tiny fold.

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  Step 6

  fold that fold over, and keep doing that until it turns into more of a rolling motion instead of a folding motion.

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  Step 7

  Now, when it gets into a rod-like shape, take your glue gun and glue the corner down. You just need a tiny bit of glue.

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  Step 8

  you should have this.

• Step 9

  make a bunch of these. they will be your beads. make however many beads you want.

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  Step 10

  now, take all your rods, and squish them!!! yea! flatten themmm! squish their little guts outt!!!

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  Step 11

  Now that all of your rods are flat. It's time to start rolling them. It's best to always start rolling at the fat end. Roll it up like a fruit rollup.

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  Step 12

  when there is only a few centimeters left unrolled, grab your glue gun, and put a little glue and roll the rest of the way.

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  Step 13

  you end up with this little guy.

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  Step 14

  now do it to the rest of your rods, beware, you might get arthritus or something :]

• Step 15

  now all you do is arrange the beads how you want them side by side and hot glue them together. make sure you pull of all the little strings.

• Step 16

  now you need a chain. I used and old broken necklace. Luckily it was broken right in the middle.
  So all i did, was flip my cluster of beads overand hotglued the chain to the two seperate ends.

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  Step 17

  Hello recycling :]

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matthew t. · Adelaide, South Australia, AU 14th October 2016

Good job

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Spookachtige · Erie, Pennsylvania, US · 10 projects 27th April 2014

That's really neat. =3 You had a great idea! Looks really cool and unique.

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Stella I. · Lagos, Lagos, NG · 2 projects 19th December 2013

Its really cool. I like it

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dpriata · Pamulang, Banten, ID 17th October 2012

cool and i love it

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Emily G. 11th April 2012

wow really cool! how creative def gonna do a version of my own

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Shayna K. · 1 project 8th December 2011

i love it. i did it with a couple friends and we made some neat looking ones. we didnt have any chains but we made ours into head bands. fabric would be neat. <3

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Breanna W. 30th June 2011

Toasty! I'm sorry you don't like it! I don't want to step on any toes, but it is my tutorial :] I like to make things a bit more personal. Therefore, yes, I am in the pictures. I find it easier to learn when you know who you are learning from.

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Breanna W. 30th June 2011

The fabric idea is cute

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Freya O. · Christchurch, Canterbury, NZ · 3 projects 17th June 2011

Absolutely LOVE this and your funny comments!

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CO + K User

May 23rd, 2011

Most of the pictures are not of the necklace, but of you SlashGashTerrorWhore! I do not like that!

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