In the place of a tutorial today, I wanted to share a source of blissful inspiration: The Upcyclers blog.
http://love2upcycle.blogspot.com/
This 1,000+ group of ecofriendly Etsy upcyclers are kindred spirits indeed. Whenever I hit a creative "funk", all I need to do is peruse this blog and Etsy listings by the members and inspiration returns. :)
EnJOY!