Use it Tuesday March 13: Use Green

Created especially for Use It Tuesday, as the theme is green, I tried to use up as many as trash, reuse-able and recycled materials on my project. Also green color of course! 

Materials used:

- corned beef can
- Prima's pearl paper package
- a cardboard
- baguette/french bread wrapping paper (for the flowers)

 Embellishments:

Juneberry organza/tulle flowers

Clay-stamped-words (iClay Amos)

Little Yellow Bicycle clear stamps

Kaiser Craft clear stamps

Studio G rubber stamp

Prima brick clear stamp 

Buttons 

Dried-leaves

Yellow Tiny Plastic Flowers

Foliage Spellbinders Leaves

Glue

White Acrylic Paint

Silver Acryclic Paint

Painting Brush

Dew Drop Brilliance Black Graphite

Dew Drop Brilliance Pearlescent Olive

Stickles Star Dust 

Stickles Icicle

Here's the final look on my project.

Here's the steps how I created them.

I peel off the cardboard to get the textures I wanted.

Then I painted it all white.

Time to create the embellishments! 

I rolled up the iClay from Amos into a small ball.

I stamped it with clear stamp from Little Yellow Bicycle.

Here's the iClay packaging looked like. I bought them in a bookstore. 

The black one, I stamped it with Starlite Silver Dew Drop Brilliance Ink.

I want the rectangle shape, so I cut it that way.

It looked like this. 

I was not really happy looking at the edge, it looked rough.

I added some silver ink later to cover the rough look. :)

Here's the half-done-clay-embellisehments looked like.

I painted the circle with silver acrylic paint, leaving the words white. 

Here's the final look of the circled-one.

I add some stickles on the letters.

Stamping some Black Graphite Dew Drop Brilliance Ink on the words and edges. 

The stamps from Kaiser Craft 
and Little Yellow Bicycle made the can look gorgeous!

The sides of can, I stamped them with Studio G rubber stamp.

Cover them with leaves, cut in Spellbinders Foliage dies 

and some plastic leaves I found on my vase. :)

The close-ups:

A picture of me when I was a kid.. :)

The final look on the rectangle embellishents. 
I painted the letters with the smallest brush in silver acrylic paint, 
to create more brightness.
I added up some Stickles on it for the final touch.

The front side:

The other side: 

 I created this to remind myself, to love the earth, to stay green, to laugh more and be reminded always:
Life is Good.
Indeed.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could join us here for the challenge.


Eka

12th Wedding Anniversary Details and How-Tos

Here is the scraps I need to create the lay out. I have two used boxes. One cake box from the store and another is cappucino box. I have game tickets from my kids, which I use for tracing the pattern.

I put the ticket on the beautiful brown cappucino cardboard.

I stamped the edges using brown SEI chalk ink.

Then to add texture, I use Tim Holtz's Distress Ink, put the edge of the Distress Ink, and I got beautiful patterns on the tickets!

Now it's time to make the flowers. Cut the patterned paper about 2x12 inches, depending on how bloom you want your flower to be. For smaller flowers I cut 1.5x 7 inches long. Then crumple and twist the paper gently.

Then, using paper glue, put some in and start rolling. Continue rolling until end of the paper.

Voila! Your simple and beautiful paper flower is ready to use on your scrapbook lay out page!

Then it's time to make long strips for journaling. Cut according to your need, I cut mine about 0.5 inch, and cut the length randomly. Since the used cardboard is plain white, I wanted to give some brownish accent. I add the colors using the chalk and distress ink.

Here's my first lay out. Beneath the small cardboard, I put some brown tulle fabric. I burnt the edges using small candle to create the "burnt", old and torn look. The spotted light and dark brownish "paint" is actually tea. I infuse a teabag for sometime, and then squeeze the teabag gently on the cardboard. After 1-2 hours, it dried and ready to use.

I handsctiched along the edge, using brown thread. The newspaper for layering also was infused for sometime in the tea. :) I used hairdyer to make the drying process faster. It add old looks to the newspaper and fragrant smell since I only had Jasmine teabag in my cupboard. :)
Below is the detailed holes for sticthing and stamped tickets. I used "Yellow Bicycle" Clear Stamp-Family series. Thanks for looking!

Our 12th Wedding Anniversary Scrapbook go GREEN!

Here's my take on http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/forum/topics/earth-day-challenge-nature-in. I will later post the details on how to make the flowers, tags and tickets using used box. :) Thanks for looking.