Sunday, February 15, 2009

Christmas card recycling


I participated in a swap at the Shack that asked for Christmas cards to be recycled into cards that could be used for other purposes. This is what I came up with...


I recycled the gold frame and used some lovely holiday red paper for the background.





This original background behind the fern was a painting like Christmas card front. I prepared a base piece of cardstock by running it through the xyron. I laid out the pieces as I cut them into strips. The burgundy background is sprayed with Radiant Rain. The fern is stamped on a transparency and dabber gold acrylic paint is on the back.
For this final card I used the back of a card for the background of this new one. The stamped images are made with shrink plastic.

4 comments:

  1. You have been busy creatively. These are gorgeous. Love that you used so many fun techniques including the shrink plastic and paper piecing the background.

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  2. What a great idea to recyle Christmas cards into something else. Love what you have done with yours.

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  3. These are all terrific, Jan. I'm especially drawn to the mosaic one. I like the way you stitched around the fern. Is that a fragment over the fern? I like the double rectange created by those two elements and the triangular shapes you made of the background. Just lovely.

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  4. These are great! I'm so happy to be in this swap. I can't wait to see what everyone has done!

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