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April 22, 2009

A load of old rubbish?

I set myself and my friend Sue a challenge this week to make a card out of something you'd normally throw away or recycle, but nothing from our craft rooms as that would be too easy!

I was about to make something with bottle tops when I found this in my hand.....One of my little lads Easter egg boxes, contents of which I happily helped him to eat. Actually no that's an outright lie - I ate it for him! OK he got a few bites too, I'm not totally mean! I have to limit his chocolate intake, he's only 16 months old.



And here's the card I made out of it:


Chocolate egg box, Cuttlebug emboss folder, Nestabilities, Fiskars punch

I cut out the main bird shape as half had already been done on the box anyway and then got the smallest Nestabilitie circle I had and cut out the 'splats' and birdies. I quite enjoyed the Magnolia sketch challenge the other day so figured it would be a good idea to create myself a background and then see how everything fitted on top.

Got to use my new Fiskars punch (three arrived today - yippee) and used papers to match the colours on the box. I would never normally use brown and mustard yellow but hey, I like it!

I even decorated the inside with some left over bits to match



Victoria
x

11 comments:

  1. Amazing card made from rubbish!!!! Thanks for all your kind comments on my blog so appreciate them hugs Pascale

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  2. This is fantastic....I love this card!

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  3. Thats fantastic hun, you've done a great job, I love the colours ...well done you!! x x

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  4. That card and the colour scheme are lovely.It's great when manufacturers pick the colours for you and better still when they provide the embellies. Love Betty

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  5. Oh my god ! This card is fantastic ! I'm still struggling to find something that I can recycle and now I've seen your card I'm really worried !

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  6. Best bit of recycling I have ever seen!

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  7. Last year I used a Green & Blacks Easter Egg Box for loads of cards... but yours are just fabby! Brillaint.
    Chrissie

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  8. Brilliant card - love the colours and that border punch. You've given me an idea of what to do with my son's Thornton's easter bunny box...

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  9. Wow this is gorgeous! Lovely colours and layout.
    Jen x

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  10. hi, just stumbled across your blog and i really love it, you have a lovely unique style, i know, we really don't pay enough attention to what we throw away, but yet we all love to spend so much on craft stuff, i usually clock up about 40 quid a month, shhh tell my hubby :) those little punchies were really great! well done!

    regards
    anne :)

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  11. This is a fantastic card Victoria and what a fab colour inspiration, the end result is amazing :) Donna x

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