Connie Can Crop - REUSE, REDUCE, RECYCLE

This month's challenge over at Connie Can Crop is all about REUSING, REDUCING, RECYCLING.

This month's sponsor is:

 

The winner of the challenge will receive a $20.00 gift certificate.

I started with a very old gift bag that I really have no use for and an empty coffee jar.

 





I cut out the image on the front of the bag along with a strip of the paper (it says, "happy birthday") and the candles on the side of the bag. One of the candles was really crinkled up so I only used 3 of them.

 

For the jar I started out using some Mod Podge to adhere some used foreign postage stamps I had received from a pen pal to use in a project. When I had the stamps on the jar and added, "Japan" I found that I didn't like the result so I took everything off and started over, coming up with this little, "Japan Savings Bank" for my hopefully future trip to Japan to visit my son and his wife.

 

 

As you can see, I have a long ways to go to have enough money for that kind of trip.

 

Here are both projects together.

 

 

And the bank sitting on my kitchen/living room shelf so I can put my pennies into it every time I come home.









The card measures 8" wide x 5.25" tall, I embossed the card with a honeycomb embossing folder and adhered all of the pieces I had cut out with craft glue.

For the jar I used my Cuttlebug alphabet dies to cut the, "Japan" and added some extra jewels from my stash.

Come on over and join in the fun at Connie Can Crop.

Reuse Reduce Recycle

due 11:59 P.M., Sunday, April 30th, 2017

Pacific Time

 

Upcycled Bottle

Blog Quick Quotes is having an upcycle challenge this month. I had this empty bottle to play with and had a lot of fun playing with it.

 

Acrylic paint doesn't stick real well to glass on it's own so I asked my BFF Renee who is a decorative painter, designer, etc. over at Plum Purdy  (she owns it too) how to get around that and she told me that I needed to first put a coat of paint adhesion medium on the bottle. She very kindly sent me a bottle from her inventory.

 

After sponging the medium on, I made puddles of purple, cream, blue and sunflower paints and sponged them on in a bit of a mish mash. When that coat dried I went over it again with the blue and cream then again with the purple and cream paints.

 

When the paint was dry I added a layer of Mod Podge then added some bling from Zva Creative, flowers from Queen and Co. and a bow using ribbon from my stash.

 

The flowers were cut using Cricut's Mother's Day cartridge, I hot glued them to floral wire and added some leaves I cut using one of my punches.

 

I am entering this project into this challenges:

 

Blog Quick Quotes Challenge #64.

Jo's Scrap Shack #144 - Anything Goes.