Bottle Cap Picture Frame

Although the heaviest hand made gift I made this year, I was some what satisfied with this recycled picture frame.

Skill level: Super Easy

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Supplies: Bottle caps, spray paint, 

picture frame and hot glue.

Step 1:

Spray paint picture frame and bottle caps

Step 2: 

Glue painted bottle caps to the picture frame

It doesn't get any easier then that!

Confession Sunday

We hoard Christmas cards!! 

Reasons why...

1. They are too pretty to throw away
2. The guilt of throwing away overly priced cards from loved ones eats us up in side
3. We are determined to recycle them and reuse them in ways unimaginable (unimaginable may be a bit dramatic)

They all seem true but # 3 makes me feel less like the lady who finds dead cats in her garbage filled living room....

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Big sister - I like to break down the greeting cards from years past and turn them into new Holiday cards.

Greeting Cards Pre-op

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The patient is prepped for surgery 

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Creating a new base for the card (folded card stock in half)

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I used double stick tape to adhere the 

old greeting card image to the new folded card stock

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New cards made from old - mission accomplished!

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Little sister - She recycles her old greeting cards into gift tags.  

 Cut your desired shape, use a hole punch in one of the corners and put a ribbon or piece of yarn through the hole.  Attach your gift tag to whatever your hearts desires!

DIY Wall Art

There was a huge sale on canvases {at Hobby Lobby}. Of course I took advantage!  They sat naked until a recent idea came to me.  

Skill level: Moderate to Easy...

...if you can use a glue gun

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Supplies: Yarn, book pages, hot glue, acrylic paint 

(I used 3-4 colors), spray paint and Mod Podge.

 Step 1:  

Wrap yarn around the blank canvas in a grid like pattern - random and uneven (I thought I would glue the yarn down with paint dyed Mod Podge, however, it did not adhere to the canvas at all.  Hot glue did the trick!)

 

Step 2:

  Glue (Mod Podge) book pages atop the yarn and canvas to build a sturdy base.

Step 3:

 I don't have a picture of the next step - I used green spray paint to cover the book page covered canvas.

Step 4:

 Again, no picture - I strung hot glue vertically and horizontally...for what seemed like a lifetime.  
Layers and layers of hot glue.

Step 5: 

 I squeezed acrylic paint (color # 1) down the front of the canvas. I let the paint drip freely and dry outside.

Step 6:  

I dripped more acrylic paint down the front.

 Step 7:  

I goofed up a bit as the paint squirted out more then I would have liked (above).  Fix mistakes with the original spray paint color :)

I dripped white acrylic down the front - I ended up hating this layer and later toned it down with the original spray paint base color.

 

 

Step 8:  

I started to like what I was seeing but felt it was lacking.  Using book pages, I created a few different flower shaped templates ... 

...using the templates, I made several book page cut outs. 

 

Alternating the shapes, i layered the pages and stapled the middle to create these recycled flowers...

...then outlined the petals with blue paint. 

 Step 9:

I completed three paper flowers and glued them 

to the middle of the canvas.  

The End.