♻️ DIY Soft Plastic Upcycling

Get a free lifetime supply of circular materials. 
Turn your favourite snack wrapper into your next sewing project. Transform everyday trash (noodle packets, chocy wrappers, coffee bags and more) into sewable materials without fancy tools or equipment.

💚 Take Impact Into Your Own Hands

Trust me, you are not alone in the fight against waste. Align your values with your craft and join thousands of like minded upcyclers with this easy to follow at-home upcycling process. 

🔥 Key Outcomes

Delivered in 20 fluff-free minutes of info packed videos and visual content:

• How to source, prepare and safely set up your process
  

• Techniques for the two part upcycling process (refined through thousands of experiments)

• Details to explore different creative applications, layering effects and composition ideas

• Troubleshooting potential issues (different layering and heat applications)

• Membership to our growing upcycling community (1500+ members from around teh globe)

• Direct support through the comment and chat section

🛠️ Equipment

If you can iron a shirt, you can upcycle soft plastic! No special tools, training or knowledge needed... all you need is:

• A standard iron
• Baking paper (non-stick / parchment paper)
• Vapour mask (plastic fumes are no joke, safety guide included in tutorial)

💚 Suitable Soft Plastics

• Your favourite food packaging. Noodles, chips, chocy bars.
• Cling wrap / pallet wrap
• Plastic coffee bags. Your local coffee roaster will have heaps!
• Mesh fruit netting bags
• Bubble wrap, protective covers and heapssss more

♻️ Why This Tutorial?

A new vehicle for creativity: Apart from a lifetime supply of free material, this tutorial opens new doors for creativity. Whether you're in a creative slump, or in flow and looking for new projects, this tutorial is the perfect vehicle to boost your creativity and align your craft with your values. 
Great bang for buck: We've done thousands of experiments through a decade of upcycling. Get the distilled learnings and successes with this easy to follow process so you can spend less time testing and more time creating!

🌍 Start Upcycling today

Backed by a decade of experiments, this method has helped 1500+ community members create quality materials from household trash. Get instant access and start your next head-turning piece today. 

Soft plastic is the most overlooked material in the world of upcycling. Yet, it can be recycled with everyday household equipment. This online tutorial details the process start to finish so you can turn soft plastic waste into new creative materials. 

We've trialled countless types of soft plastic over hundreds of experiments and identified an easy to follow fundamental process that will get you creating new material from soft plastic trash. All with stuff you have lying around your house!

Estimated Tutorial length: 30-45 minutes (19min 18sec Video + 20-30 min visual)

♻️ Key Learnings

♻️ What to look for when sourcing soft plastic

♻️ Equipment needed (key items are iron, baking paper and mask)

♻️ Safety (important)

♻️ How to prepare your soft plastic for upcycling

♻️ Detailed step by step guidelines of our two part production process

♻️ Invitations to experiment with different soft plastic materials and upcycling processes

♻️ Troubleshooting potential issues 

♻️ Access to INTO online community to connect with other upcyclers from around the globe

🚀 Learning Format

The tutorial is a combination of visual and written learnings. There are explainer videos at every step of the process plus imagery and text to accompany each step.

This tutorial is hosted on 'INTO', our online community for likeminded upcycling explorers to connect, share ideas and kudos. 

Feel free to post your work to the community page for feedback from us or the rest of the community!

***A unique link to join the community with the tutorial inside it will be sent to your email after purchasing***

💚 Who this tutorial is for

Pressing soft plastic is great skill to have in your making tool belt. If you already sew, being able to create your own materials will open a world of creative possibilities. If you're new to the world of creating or upcycling, this will kick start your curiosity in bringing value back to overlooked materials.

This tutorial is hosted on the INTO community platform. This is an online space for like minded change-makers to learn, connect and share ideas. 

The INTO community is free to join so feel free to check it out before purchasing this tutorial. As you purchase tutorials, they will each be added to your profile so you can continue accessing them again and again.

We encourage you to post and share your work with the community for feedback and inspiration!

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