MIxed Media Book Marks, Embellishments, Tags and Art.

Recycling has made me realize how much 

material I was wasting, it`s amazing!  Wonderful opportunities

are now being discovered and I hope you are inspired with all 

this too!  Now I turned to cardboard packages, it`s becoming 

an obsession to identify this reusable stuff and I keep pushing 

my creativity out of my comfort zone and it`s challenging

 to change the mind about trash becoming art!  This will take
time to become part of our lives but I assure you , this feels good!

I am certain that you will have plenty of material to collect at home

and create many, many different cute embellishments for cards,

invitations, gifts, tags, and also art to be hanged, given and for your

art journals, altered books and even scrapbook pages! This will make 

exercise your creativity!

I used my collection of punches and die cuts to cut the 

packages, probably you want to sand them first on the paint 

side, you can also paint the whole cardboard first to save time 

or paint them later like I did so I can go as I feel!

Punches are a lot of fun and they can be easily found!

I can`t believe how many of them I made!  Soon I will have to 

give them away to friends! What I like is that what was left

of the boxes was reduced to very, very little waste!

You will have the shapes and also some stencils to use 

in your mixed media projects!

Here you can see I saved the sides of the boxes to make

my beautiful book marks which I really wanted one to use in 

a new book I `m reading now!

Beautiful flowers, I love how they look without paint, just 

like that is a beautiful color!

I had to find how to store them...

The best of this... it feels like I didn`t have to spend any money!

I am saving lots of money doing this! Lol!

They actually look great just with the sand step

but of course I love painting so I added guesso to

prepare them for it!

Here are the book marks on their make over!

Care free painting, playing and with nothing in mind but to 

enjoy the process of this!

I love my cropadile! After using a transparent laminated sheet to

protect them after finished and dried, I made the hole

to attach the ribbons...

Aren`t they lovely?  

Who would say this came from a box

that was meant to  be thrown away?

They all have a special quote on the back to get inspired!

This can be beautiful gifts!

Remember the toilet rolls?  Lately I`ve been covering them

with vintage music sheets, my favorite! This is an example of

using the die cuts to make mixed media paintings, grown ups 

and children will love this!

Some tags for my future presents, having them ready
can be handy!

This is a lot of fun!

Ready to give with some cookies! :D

To end, I am leaving you with the cutest flower

on the block! All this was made with the card boards 

shown at the beginning, I find it awesome! 

I will be adding more creative projects with the idea of recycling

so stay tuned for more!

I hope you are inspired to create ! :D