Michelle Perkett Studios Earth Day Blog Hop

Good morning everyone, there's an Earth Day blog hop today starting at Michelle Perkett Studio  and hopefully you will have arrived here from Pattie's blog (isn't her creation gorgeous??). Michelle has challenged us to create a recycled project for Earth Day, I love this sort of challenge and I've made a Christmas decoration using a recycled cd and Michelle's gorgeous digistamp 'Sweetie'.

I covered the cd with thick white card as a base. I've made bp from copier paper heading for the bin - stamped snowflakes with icicle tex EP and then sprayed with lots of glimmer mists in shades of blue and the oversprayed with firework inks in pink and green (part of the challenge is to include green). I cut circles for the back and front on  my cricut, stuck them on the cd and then added glitter around the edge. Sweetie is coloured with promarkers and has lots of glitter too. I punched holes in the cd with my cropodile (huge sigh of relief when it didn't crack lol) and then strung some old beads (I get loads of jewellery from charity shops and recycle  the beads) on to some clear fishing wire (? I dont think thats the proper name but it was in the shed just waiting to be recycled lol) and suspended Sweetie from the wire. I added another thread of beads with a crystal dangle (again from my recycled beads) at the bottom.  A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get a load of jewellery findings from a scrap store locally. Its a FAB shop and sells off stuff that businesses are throwing away to local crafters and charities. Anyway I used 2 earring bases, took the clips off the back, filled them with silicone glue and some glitter and used them to cover up the holes in the cd 

I've tried to get a pic of Sweetie hanging up but the combination of my dreadful photography skills and the fact that she was moving round all the time made it very difficult ... my son was in stitches watching me trying to take this photo

Thanks for looking, your next stop is Mary's fabulous blog on your way to Michelle Perkett Challenge and Inspiration blog where you can vote for your favourite recycled project

Claire xx