How to Make Recycled Jewellery

To make the card pendants, paint some corrugated card white and leave to dry. Then create a colour splash effect by drizzling paint onto the card from the bottle. This works best with runnier acrylics, like the ones we have used here. But if your paint is thicker, mix it with a little water first. Then go crazy with the paint. When you're happy with the design, leave it to dry overnight.

Cut the sides off a Styrofoam tray. If it does not have a textured pattern on it already, use a pencil to create one yourself - draw a design on, pressing quite hard with the pencil to get a good imprint. Add a coat of paint then print the design onto scraps of card.

When the printed and paint splash card is dry, draw simple shapes in pencil and cut out to create pendants and beads. If you like you can make different sizes to stack them.

To make tassels, wrap wool around your hand about 30 times. Gently remove and tie it near one end of the loop to secure. Cut through the loops at the other end and trim to your preferred size.

To make pom poms, wrap wool around a small pom pom maker. When full, close the maker and snip. Tie with a piece of wool and remove, then neaten up the with scissors.

Use a sharp pair of scissors to pierce a hole in the top of bottle tops to turn them into beads.

To make a stacked necklace, thread both ends of some fine wool (about 80cm) into a needle. Thread on some pony beads and bottle tops (holding the loop of the wool so they don't fall off!). Push the needle through the centre of the card shapes and add a tassle at the bottom. Loop it back though the card shape and tie just above it to secure - making sure it is long enough to go over your head.

For a different effect, thread the needle through the corrugations on the card to show the print off more.

To make a more traditional necklace, thread one end of the wool onto the needle and build up your design with the beads. Push the needle through the corrugations in the card shapes as before.