Season's Greetings

Hello. I'm playing in the clean and simple challenge of Tag, you're it over at The Paper Players today.

I upcycled a Lucky Brands tag from a pair of purchased jeans.

The snowflake die is from Echo Park. The sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink and I used an old 5 x 7 Provo Craft snowflake embossing folder for the background.  

I used a frost spritz spray on the snowflakes and in real life they are so sparkly, but hard to capture on camera. 

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Also adding this card into the following challenge at Inkspirational:

POTW - Happy new baby!

Hello. It's my turn to come up with a project of the week and this time I've chosen to do a bit of recycling.

I got this little paw print bag at my vet when I refilled my oldest Malamute Noah's meds recently. I saved it of course because, well, it's cute! 

Here is what I did with it.  Sending this off to a co-worker who just got a new puppy! Don't mind the play on the sentiment, they are all our babies whether they're human or animal. 

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Project of the week - upcycling for a masculine card

Hello, it's my turn to pick the project of the week and this go around I've decided to do a bit of upcycling.  So, here is the definition I found on the subject.

Upcycling:

Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless and/or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

I saved this paper bag and cut it down to use as a back drop on the card below.

To obtain additional texture on this, I crumbled up the paper bag, unrolled it and then used vintage photo distress ink direct to paper to bring out some of the creases. I then adhered it onto a piece of white cardstock using Distress Collage Medium in vintage. The sheet music stamp was used for the next layer. I tore the cardstock and distressed it a bit too, then painted on some more collage medium. The canvas heart was left over from last weeks card, so I stuck that on here with another die cut for added interest. The vertical "happy birthday" sentiment is stamped onto the back of the paper bag (plain side) and layered with dark brown cardstock. 

The collage medium in vintage brown was really fun to work with. Great glue to get all the bits and pieces onto the card. 

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