Recycle at Crafty Boots

This fortnights challenge at Crafty Boots has been set by the lovely Gabrielle aka Crafty_Thoughts and she has challenged us to recycle something be it a previous project / tag / card or anything else that can be reused. I have tried to do a bit of everything and came up with this creation.

I have used a large tag and covered it with words and descriptions from the letter r pages of a dictionary that is no longer used but I kept back the first letter and also the word recycle.

Once the background was dry I roughly stained it with picket fence and bundled sage and then added some forest moss DI.

Around the edge I glued some garden string that I found lying in the greenhouse on my currently rare trips out in the cold which I then also inked up.

The corrugated backing behind the letter and description was part of some packaging which I cut and inked.

The metal lid background to the heart and leaves(which were taking of an old tag that was lying around) was from a spam tin which I painted in distress paint.

And to finish it all of I attached an old piece of chain from a broken necklace with more string through the hole in the top.

I hope this will give you some ideas and inspiration to try and redo an old project or create a new one from bits lying around that would normally just get thrown away.

Thanks for stopping by xxxxx.