I am on a roll here. Thanks to
Lauren and Steph at Jingle Belles where the current challenge is to use a
recycled element on a card. I have been playing with recycled elements off and on all week and this morning's card is no exception. However, this card takes recycling to another level because the ornament that I created is removal so the recipient can hang it on a tree. To make the ornament, I downloaded an image of Santa from the internet and enlarged it in MS Word and printed it. The ornament itself is made from a DIY shrink plastic. If you read my previous post (
here), I used a panel from a #6 bakery plastic container and shrunk it to make snowflakes. However, in the previous post, I didn't add color. For the Santa ornament, I placed the image of Santa beneath a piece of #6 plastic, taped it in place with masking tape and used acrylic paints to add detail. (You can use markers to color the image, but I get more vibrant color with paint, probably because I don't have the right brand of marker for the plastic surface.) After the paint dried, I used a heat gun and shrunk it. I adhered an ornament hanger to the back with a hot glue gun and attached it to the embossed white background (I poked a hole in the cardstock with a needle.) I added pine branches and mounted it on a white cardbase with dimensional adhesive.
I have to be honest, after I was done painting it, I wasn't sure I wanted to shrink it, because I loved the vibrant colors. But, I did and I'm happy with the results. The white paint (which is really White Out because I had a limited supply of white paint) sort of flecked off and created "falling" snow over the image.
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| A close up look at the ornament. |
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| This is what the image looked like after I was done painting it with acrylic paint. |
Supplies: # 6 Bakery plastic container, Cardbase/Cardstock: Recollections, Image: Deposit Photos, Acrylic Paint: Master's Touch, Heat Gun: Marvy Uchida , Embossing Folder: Darice, Pine Bough Punch: Martha Stewart, Bic White Out, Dimensional Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Squares
I've created another card for the current challenge at Jingle Belles. In honor of Earth Day, the challenge involves recycling an element on a card. For this card I recycled a paper towel tube. I used it to create the inner petals for the poinsettia. First I flattened the tube and then I sliced off strips that were about 1/8" wide. I folded each strip in half creating two petals from a single strip and adhered them all together in the shape of a flower. Then I painted the flower shape with acrylic paint. Once the paint was dry, I used liquid glue to attach the cardboard petals to a piece of red cardstock. I also cut petals from red cardstock and layered them underneath the cardboard petals and then added the hand cut leaves. To give the flower more dimension, I added a bit of paint inside each petal. I created a yellow center from three punched/fringed circles. I attached the flower to an embossed mat and added the sentiment.