Monday, November 3, 2008

A 5 Minute Card using Recycled Materials.


I don't know about you, but every day my mailbox is stuffed with catalogs and advertisements. Some of these things have such amazing graphics that I feel it's a same to toss them in the recycling bin. I've made it a personal challenge to start using some of these in my cardmaking. This one came in a packet of advertising postcards from Macy's. While most of the images were photos of models, I thought this black and white silhouette was really striking and was the perfect size to use on a card. All I had to do was mat it, slap it on a premade black card and cover the small amount of print with primas and adhesive pearls. Voila! Quite a chic notecard or a sentiment could be added inside. Wish I could do all my cards this fast.

9 comments:

  1. OMG!!! Donna, this is gorgeous!! It is nice when you receive such lovely graphics. You certainly nailed this one girlfriend! TFS

    ~L~

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  2. Donna Wow what a fab card love it so creative have to keep this is mind before user the shredder!!

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  3. WOW, what a gorgeous card girlie...way to recycle!!!! HUGS!!

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  4. Wow!!! What a great idea. I usually never leave comments, but this was so great I just had to!

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  5. I really love pink and black colors together- very beautiful!

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  6. Oh my Donna that is tre chic! What a fab idea you obviously have nicer junk mail in the US than we do in the UK! That image is stunning and what you've done with it is amazing!

    Hugs

    Juliexx

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  7. What a great idea Donna and beautiful results! The only problen in the UK is like what Julie said, it's not pretty!!
    Hugs
    Lana x

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  8. WOW! Amazing what you can do with junk mail! That is just stunning!

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