Recycle Something!

[Monica]

I recycled the inside of a floppy disc for THIS CARD. Go Green when making your cards too. I'd love to see what great things you can come up with!

[Melissa]

I just finished a layout for a Sketch Challenge that I did over on Pages In Time. ( This is another great community like this one and it is pretty new. Everyone is just great over there. I am lucky enough to be on the very first design team. Anyway here is a layout I did using recycled plactic packaging, and even milk cartons. You can cut it with sissors, die cuts, emboss on it, stamp on it, paint and use alcohol inks and markers on it. So Cool. The large scallop circle in the center is recycled cover to a scrapbook kit I bought. The flowers have different techniques ant types of plastic layered all together. Look around your house and give it a try.

[Monica]

Melissa,

That's a beautiful layout and using recycled plastic and milk cartons is a great idea! Thanks! I can't wait to see other people's works as well.

Monica

[Carolyn Hasenfratz]

Great ideas for plastic! I have Pinata Inks, Sharpie markers and StazOn ink in my arsenal so I'll have to experiment with those kind of things myself.

Here are links to tutorials for a couple of projects I did that use recycled materials:

Recycled Car Seat Bead Earrings
http://www.carolynsstampstore.com/catalog/recycled_earrings.php

Decoupage Wooden Beads
http://carolynsstampstore.com/catalog/decoupage_wooden_beads.php

Carolyn

[Monica]

Carolyn,

What wonderful ideas! Thank you for the tutorials too!

Monica