This week is one of our favorite prompts at Jingle Belles - the one where we celebrate Earth Day (April 22nd) by creating a holiday card that features re-cycled, re-used or up-cycled elements.
It's time to use that stash of things that you saved because they were just too pretty to throw away ... break them out and create with them.
We have been counting our quarantine time via various milestones ... including rolls of toilet paper used. I had the last cardboard toilet paper roll sitting on my studio table to remind me to restock the bathroom, and I thought ... hmmm ... what could I make with the roll to make art to commemorate this unusual time.
I put a little Red Metallic Acrylic Paint on a paper plate, and then put a scrap of recycled kraft cardstock on top of an empty cereal box liner to protect my service from the paint off the edges. (My dear mother-in-law taught me that the plastic inside cereal boxes is some of the strongest, so you can use it as a cutting board or for other messy things and then just throw it away ... great for cubing tomatoes, because you can just pick-up the ends and funnel the chopped tomatoes into your dish). I then used the toilet paper roll as a stamp to make an overlapping circle background, and set it aside to dry.
For some reason, it felt like a holiday card make from a toilet paper roll should have a slightly irreverent bent.
I pulled out my Taylored Expression Big Grumpy Stamp and Die and stamped it on a lighter kraft cardstock before Die Cutting.
Since Taylor hasn't yet released any holiday sentiments for this stamp, I used a sentiment from Cathy Zielske's Simon Says Stamp Ho Ho Postage Sentiment (because doesn't he just scream cheer). I added some Spectrum Noir color to my Grumpy, paper pieced his eye balls, and finished with a few enamel stickers to complete the sign.
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