Julia asked us to find ways to be frugal for this week's Ways to Use It challenge. I love using trash in creative ways and as an extra challenge I decided to be extra frugal and only allow myself to use what was out on the desk in terms of stamps and ink!
Frugality:
- the circle is cut from a tomato paste tube, embossed with a CB folder and swiped with Stazon for a more aged effect (the metal is soft enough that regular scissors and Nesties will go through, no problem) - ETA: I didn't know tomato paste packaging was culturally-specific! In the UK, in generally comes in tubes which is frugal in itself, you just put the cap back on and save it for next time! I googled for you US dwellers and apparently Italian grocery stores often carry it or you can buy it on Amazon! {here}
- the popped up star is cut from chipboard pulled from a board-backed envelope used to mail a magazine
- the card base is one I'd folded and pierced for another project and then dropped an ink pad on (the ink blot is under the metal circle!)
The stamps and ink were out on my desk as I'd just made this month's cards for "the 25th Club" (make a couple of Christmas cards on the 25th each month rather than trying to do it all in November/December).
Ink:
Stazon by Tsukineko (Timber Brown)
Tim Holtz Distress by Ranger (Vintage Photo)
Other:
Scrap chipboard
Tomato paste tube
Classic Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinder
D'Vine Swirl embossing folder by Cuttlebug
Inkssentials white pen by Ranger
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 GMT Views: 1985
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132008
Thu, Feb 26, 2009 @ 11:50 AM
I like this a lot, Joanne. Too brain-dead to try a total recycle job on my card today but it's certainly a fun thing to do. The tomato-paste circle is especially WOW. Alas, while I do use the tube over the tin, mostly I prefer real tomatoes, so by the time I get a tube of paste finished it's pretty mangled.
Registered: November 14, 2006 Location: Largo, Florida Posts: 6301
Thu, Feb 26, 2009 @ 1:19 PM
OMGosh! Awesome! You were very frugal and super creative. I love that metal circle and I can't believe it's from a tube of tomato paste. Here it comes in a can and I always end up trowing away what I don't use. Very wasteful.