I totally want to try this… my husband would have a FIT 
WOW! I found a neat project on Violette’s Creative Juice blog:
Not only is this the coolest topiary tree I’ve ever seen… but its made from the ads in your Sunday paper (cheap!!)
Check out the complete tutorial here!
Love it! Thanks to Violette’s guest blogger Wendy T. Gibson
from Erin Bassett’s blog, CreativitE
Well with the CHA trade show looming close I have burned through quite a lot of adhesive…and of course I saved all my cartridges instead of throwing them in the recycling container so I could play around with them and see what else I could make with them. Well…this is what I came up with this time, two jewelry pins. One for me & one for a friend of mine. I’m not really sure if they are “steampunk” style or not…but I couldn’t figure out what other style they could be LOL. To top that off I don’t know if I should call them a “pins” or “brooches” either. Guess I need jewelry identification 101. :) Keep reading to learn how Erin recycled and transformed old to new!
Article courtesy of Scrapjazz.com, by Michelle Francis
Hair Clips and Broaches: Use the hot glue gun to glue a flower onto the alligator clip. Make sure that the metal on the alligator clip is covered. If the flower doesn’t cover the clip, you can glue on a piece of ribbon over the clip before adding the flower. Then add a rhinestone to the center of the flower with the hot glue. When everything is dry, spray a coat of glitter over the flower for extra shine. 
For my daughter’s tea-party-themed birthday party, I wanted to give each girl a little make-over. For the hair, you need:
I just love this technique I found on YouTube.com today… She’s taken something old and repurposed it into something functional, all while creating a beautiful stained-glass-looking effect!
Here are some really fantastic tips for reusing your supplies and reducing your waste. Save money and be a little “greener” with these great tips from Simple-Scrapbooking.com:
Scrapbooking Tips for Stretching Your Supplies
1. Do not throw away your scraps. Scrap pieces of patterned paper can be used to embellish pages. You can use these to punch shapes or use as strips for borders.
2. Use the negative portion of your sticker also.
3. Convert your solid paper into patterned paper by using rubber stamps, inks and stencils.
4. Scan fabric designs or other materials into your editing software to print out as background paper.
5. Need a certain colored paper for layering. Do not rush out to buy. Just use your marker or inks to change a white piece of paper into the color you want. Just color only the edges.
6. Go online and download free elements for your pages. Lots of free fonts and cliparts are available on the internet.
I just stumbled across this handy tip, and several others, at Everything-About-Scrapbooking.com:
Scrapbooking Tips #4:How to spread liquid adhesive quickly over a large surface area? Instead of dumping those phony plastic credit cards you received in mail, save them. Save your used phone cards too. Then you can simply use these wasted plastic cards as glue-spreaders! Use the plastic card to swipe and spread the liquid glue into a thin, even layer of glue over a big surface area. What’s more? You can just wipe the card clean and reuse them again and again.