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Sunday 25 April 2010

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

29 comments:

  1. Great piece of work Claire,
    Beryl x

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  2. Way to go Claire, if i got one of these for Christmas i'd be well chuffed :)

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  3. I LOVE this Claire...it's gorgeous! Another good use for useless CDs lol! Thanks for the giggle when I read about photoing your spinning Sweetie!!!! :) :)

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  4. Hi Claire... this is fantastic! I love it - epecially the use of the earrings.... this will be a delight to look at come Christmas... I'm so glad that it was such a fun project for you - especially the photography of it!
    Hugs from Oz,
    P:auline

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  5. Wooooooow.....it's awesome job....Really I love each detail you have....

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  6. I love it Claire, I love making christmas decorations, what an inspiration for this year!

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  7. Claire! This is gorgeous!! I cant believe this was once a plain old cd!! What an amazing job you did on your ornament!! I love all of your recycled materials and you brought them together to make such a stunning peice of art!! Thank you so much for a wonderful Earth Day blog hop entry, Claire!!:)

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  8. Wow!! This is a great idea, Claire. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  9. so clever and creative! very pretty! :)

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  10. What a beautiful creation you have made by recycling an old CD!! This is absolutely stunning!!!

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  11. Hi Claire
    Your ornament is beautiful. Great use of all the materials. :)

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  12. Hi Claire! this is simply gorgeous! I love to use old CD´s that way! and you did an excellent one! I just love it! Hugs!!

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  13. I love it Claire! Colors are great, beautiful!

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  14. Lovely idea! Very attractive and unusual.

    Janet xx

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  15. Wow Claire, this is a great use of an old CD!!! I love the blues and all the beads too.

    Hugs
    Pattie

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  16. What a lovely creation, great idea. I found you through Sunday Stamper challenge. Glad I popped by your artwork is lovely. Tracy Evans x x

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  17. Claire, This is such a good idea ....I have so many unusable Cd's, I think I'm going to give this a try.
    I just love your ornament its so sparkly
    Thanks for sharing
    Hugs Jean

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  18. Wow, this is stunning! what a great idea you came up with. Those snowflakes turned out pretty - not sure what icicle tex ep is though, lol! I don't know how to make cards so tend to be unfamiliar with the tools of the trade.
    Michelle's stamps sure are pretty!

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  19. This is gorgeous Claire! Anything with glitter and beads is fabulous in my book! Bravo!

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  20. What a great job. I love how you made the hanger with the beads. TFS.

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  21. Oh, what a beautiful job you did on Sweetie! I enlarged the pic & was even more amazed at her beauty! Your coloring is awesome & I love the glitter! Great use of those earring leftovers! Everything worked together so wonderfully!

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  22. what an adorable project.

    {hugs}
    M.E.

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  23. This is beautiful and I so know what you mean about being thankful when the cd's don't break. Great job.

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  24. Hi Claire! This is such a wonderful idea and it looks amazing!! Love the sparkles
    Sammi
    xxx

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  25. Well done Claire, another great use for these CD's that pile up. This would be lovely if you made a few of them to decorate all over your house at Christmas. I really like this idea.
    Hugs,
    Trish

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  26. thanks so much for sharing the detail on what you used and how you made this project. I have a bucket of jewelry and now I know exactly how I am going to create "GREEN" "RECYCLED" materials. Great job

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  27. This piece of art is just STUNNING!
    I'm out of words...
    Hugs, Randi WS

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