"... create a holiday card which re-uses, re-purposes, re-cycles, up-cycles, or in some way "rescues" a bit of... well, SOMETHING... which you'd've either thrown away, or perhaps just overlooked in terms of card-making..."
Having had the best teacher in the form of Danielle over at EcoScrapbook, I had a lot of fun tackling this prompt and produced a whole crop of green(er) cards.
First of all, I decided that I could only use my scrap paper box and my small box of cut out elements in addition to anything I found lying around.
This first card uses some pretty tissue wrapping paper I received full of Christmas goodies from my wonderful friend Heidi. Then I die cut and embossed a scrap of brown paper from the wrapping of my Christmas exchange from Helen back in December and I topped it off with a tag sent to me by Ginger during a Christmas card swap. The sentiment was a scrap I found in the bottom of the box, already stamped.
Again, only using scraps, I cut out the background paper and a piece of cardstock. Then I cut out the pretty motif from a card sent me to by Heidi in that Christmas goodies package and tied it off with a length of red ribbon that had come on some Doodlebug packaging. The small round tag is also from that Doodlebug item and I covered it with a scrap of paper and added the sentiment that I had cut out from Heidi's card. The string was from the Christmas exchange presents.
And this last one features a die cut shape that I took from a card a couple of Christmases ago and some more of that parcel string. The sentiment was just lying at the bottom of my scraps box. Simple.
I don't spend much time on any of my cards and so they are all relatively simple and hopefully lighter for postage than last year! But that growing pile makes me smile. More than 30 cards already and I had challenged myself to 60 before November. so I'm well on track :-)
30 cards? That's amazing! and such lovely ones they are too. Yes, we're all thinking about postage costs with the rise here too
ReplyDeleteYou've done incredible well already making 30 of them, and I really enjoy seeing your style. I'm determined to do one of the Jingle Belles challenges soon
ReplyDeletePretty cards! And 30 done this year? That's awesome!
ReplyDeleteWay to rock that scrap box ... and kick out three more holiday cards ... love your classy style ... so glad you joined us at jingle belles.
ReplyDeleteholy ♥WOW♥! just when i think you could not make me MORE impressed with your cleverness AND your gorgeous style... you knock out THREE scrap-based, found-object, saved-little-goodies MASTERPIECES!!! these are brilliant and beeeeeeeeautiful... hmmmm... that sounds a bit like a certain lovely jingle belle i know!!! :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteWow, you really got into the recycling mood AND turned all your finds into some pretty amazing cards. I've been browsing our old Christmas cards this week. Plenty of material to work with but not enough time to play...
ReplyDeleteI believe I'm at 28 Christmas cards right now, so I'm right on track, too, LOL.