Recycling Christmas cards on layouts

Hi Everyone & a happy new year to you all! If the weather is cold & snowy where you are, I hope you are keeping safe & warm.

I was inspired by Jan's post below to re-use Christmas cards on my layouts.


To mat the photo on this layout I used a Christmas card I received this year, it's actually the inside of the card! The transparency at the bottom was also from another card.


Here I've used a card again for the title & I also used the reverse of the back of the card for my journalling space, I just stamped a label design and used my own handwritting.

Don't forget you can also re-use your Christmas gift tags, packaging & wrapping paper for your crafting!

~Alexa

Recycle for Winter Decor--- Make a Snowman!

Before I put all my Christmas decorations away, I had to make another gift!

So here is a cute little vignette snowman made from a Laughing-Cow round cheese box! It also utilizes a baked egg souffle cup from Panera Bread as the base, used dryer sheets for snow on top of the base and batting scraps from a quilting project. Hope my friend, Kathryn -likes it!

Click the pic for a larger view!

Milk Weed Pod Christmas Ornament

When I was a kid, my grandmother lived in the Catskill Mountains in New York. She was such a early recycler, never throwing away anything. She would say...Waste not, Want not!!! That was in the 1970's and she lived her entire life with that mantra. She was 96 when she passed last October, 2008 and I started looking for all the Christmas ornaments that we made with her. Here is a Milk Weed Pod that has been transformed! The outside or back was left natural. The inside, what you see, was coated with glitter and trim. The angel rests on a small tuft of fiber-fil! God Bless you Grandma... you are my recycling angel! ENJOY!

Rustic Woodland Reindeer

Hello, my name is Jean Marie .
Excited to be a part of the Create It Green Team.
Look forward to sharing Eco Friendly projects and ideas with everyone.

Thought I would like to share with you, a fun little project that is not only Eco friendly, but very easy and a fun seasonal decoration for the whole family to create together.
It also makes for a healthy family walk together in the woods.

Supplies needed are some twigs or sticks, a pair of nippers and hot glue.

1.Cut 4 sticks to an even size for the legs.

2. One stick slightly smaller for the body, try to break your stick at the joint so you will be left with a small nub for the tail.

3. for the neck and the head break of a piece of stick that has a branch off , at the top.
This will leave you with a nice head piece.

4. for the antlers it is much easier to use a small twig that has a Y already formed, building up your antlers with small nips of twigs as you go along.
Building your antlers all together before hot gluing to the head is the easiest way to go about this step.

5. Begin with the legs hot gluing to the body and continue to on to the neck & head than antlers.
If you find it uneven just give the legs a quick nip with the nippers.

There you have it...from nature to your home.
You can preserve these deer by adding a coat of sealer...or add to the mulch pile or kindling for the fire place when it is time to take down the Holiday decorations.

Gingerbread Men Party Decorations

Gingerbread Men made out of corrugated cardboard creates wonderful party decorations. Use large shipping boxes to cut out these oversize treats. A wide white paint pen provides the frosting look. Just go over the lines with liquid school glue that dries clear and iridescent glitter to make the design complete. Lastly...lean them in a snow cloud of fiberfill! We're ready to party!

Reuse your shiny Christmas ornaments!

Take a look at this on how to make these! Awesome idea!

Christmas Ornaments from CDs

Check out my link HERE for a tutorial on how I made them.