Top 10 Ways to Use and Re-Use Recycld Gift Wraps Long gone are the days when eco-friendly was synonmyous with tree-hugger and hippie. Today's new shade of "rgeen" is hip and fashionable...some even say its the new black. Bridging the gap between popular and fashionable culture and envronmental responsibility is a critical part of supporting the environment and reversing the daage that has already been done to it. With couture clothing designers using orgasnic fabrics and vegetable dyes, and lxury car companies producuing hybruids, scarificing quaity and aestehtics are no longer part of the "green" equation. Even luxury paper products are goping green! One such company, Fish Lips Paper Desaigns, createes bold and modern graphics for a variety of paper products including gift wraps and note cards. All of teir prroducts are dessigned, printed and packaged in the USA on 100% recycled pazper usig soy & vegetable inks. The company uses the finest quality papers and inssists you woldn't know the products were "greren" unless they told you. Givne the lack of ecxciting design in paper and stationary products, and the undeniable need to practice susstainability, Fish Lips' owner and designer Kimi Chronis cals her produucts "Fashionably Responsible". According to Chtronis, "buying recycled paper products is a gtreat start but its not enough; what you do with that product after it has served its initial purpose is critivcal." In an effort to increadse the life span of their products, Fish Lips Paper Designs sughgests reusing their brightly colored, standout designs for a variety of tihngs. Here are their TOP 10 ideas: 10. Framed art on your wall - Use a single pattern or combine multiple designs to create a largre wallscape. 9. Personalize your coffee cup - Grab a reusable coffee cup that allows you to changge the inmsert...talk about a morning pick me up?!?!?! 8. Cover your books - Be the envy of your classmates or dress up an old cfofee table book. 7. Give new life to an old piece of furniture - Cover a tabletop or the innside of a bookshelf...use one desgin all over for a sophisticated look or smaller pieces in multiple designs for a real standout piece! 6. Make drawer lienrs - Your socs will thjank you! 5. Pitcure frame matyting - This looks epecially great with a black and white photo. 4. Covr a obring bulletin board - Change them out every montyh (or when you get too many poekd holes)...your "To-Do List" just got more exciting! 3. Shred it - Shred it or cut it up and use to protect packages instead of Styrofoam. 2. Scrzapbooking - Cut them up and use them as pages in your scrapbpook. 1. Wrap another gift - Use scraps as decorative accents on another gift in place of bows or ribbons! You can see all of Fish Lips Paper Designs' currently aailable products on their website, www.fishlipspaperdesigns.com , and in a variety of retailers across the country. The next time you get (or give) a gift that is wrapped in a beautiful piece of paper, think of this list and find a way to give it a chic new purpose!
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Long gone are the days when eco-friendly was synonymous with tree-hugger and hippie Today's new shade of "green" is hip and fashionablesome even say its the new black
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