Hi! This card was made for today's Limited Supply Challenge: Going Green. We were to reuse/repurpose/recycle something on our card.
Well, if you know me, I am one of the CHEAPEST women alive. But, Speedy the Cat's fraternal grandmother, (Hey, he thinks he's Markie's little brother!!!), was the most frugal woman on the planet. That woman cut buttons off the shirts that had been worn thread bare by her 5 children! Then, she made the shirt a rag. Then, when it wasn't worth it's salt as a rag, she threw it in a blender and made paper pulp out of it!!! She MADE her writing paper, with a screen she found in someone's garbage! Now, she wasn't crafty, just CHEAP! And, she was PROUD of it! LOL! (Oh, and they were "well to do!")
So, being the wife of one of those 5 children, I have learned to cut buttons off shirts...I have a basket of buttons that just sits on the headboard of my bed, a tribute to my husband's mother....
So, today, I got out two metal buttons and fashioned them into "faux" Build A Brads! I found the bubble stickers a few months ago in a GAME at the Goodwill and thought...Hmm....I can use those! LOL!
AND...ALL the paper, including the base, were in my REJECT pile!!! I even used this rose that I colored and thought, "OMGoodness....Now that's a weird color!" a week or so ago...
The rose was stamped in Noir Black Palette Hybrid ink and colored with SU! Basic Black, Sahara Sand and Mellow Moss markers. I used an aqua painter to blend the colors.
Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44964
Fri, Dec 12, 2008 @ 3:59 AM
WOW! Like I said in a previou comment.....I MUST have access to your reject bin!!!! LOL! Faith, this is just beautiful! I love those brads! I, too, have three containers of buttons from my great-grandmother, grandmother and mom! They must have had a thing for buttons!!!!!!
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Registered: September 18, 2006 Location: SingStampShine, Florida Posts: 53481
Fri, Dec 12, 2008 @ 4:00 AM
This is a real beauty Faith! I love the color of the rose! I am amazed at the potential you see in your *finds* when you go shopping! I hope some of that rubs off on me!
Registered: November 3, 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 10333
Fri, Dec 12, 2008 @ 4:01 AM
Well this card is recycled perfection! I love your story, and your homemade buttons are tooo cute! You and you reject roses!!!! I think this looks amazing how you colored it! Awesome recycle card!...and how was THE Panda report??!!
Registered: July 29, 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 6251
Fri, Dec 12, 2008 @ 5:26 AM
What a beautiful card. Just lovely. That's so funny that speedy thinks he's markie half brother,rofl.
I am from a very frugal mother and father. Back then I thought it was funny my mother use to re-wash plastic baggies and reuse foil-I recycle my foil not using it again. Maybe I can use it in a card-Huh