This week is one of our favorite prompts at Jingle Belles – the one where we celebrate Earth Day (April 22nd) by creating a holiday card that features re-cycled, re-used or up-cycled elements.
It's time to use that stash of things that you saved because they were just too pretty to throw away … break them out and create with them.
We have been counting our quarantine time via various milestones … including rolls of toilet paper used. I had the last cardboard toilet paper roll sitting on my studio table to remind me to restock the bathroom, and I thought … hmmm … what could I make with the roll to make art to commemorate this unusual time.
I put a little Red Metallic Acrylic Paint on a paper plate, and then put a scrap of recycled kraft cardstock on top of an empty cereal box liner to protect my service from the paint off the edges. (My dear mother-in-law taught me that the plastic inside cereal boxes is some of the strongest, so you can use it as a cutting board or for other messy things and then just throw it away … great for cubing tomatoes, because you can just pick-up the ends and funnel the chopped tomatoes into your dish). I then used the toilet paper roll as a stamp to make an overlapping circle background, and set it aside to dry.
For some reason, it felt like a holiday card make from a toilet paper roll should have a slightly irreverent bent.
I pulled out my Taylored Expression Big Grumpy Stamp and Die and stamped it on a lighter kraft cardstock before Die Cutting.
Since Taylor hasn't yet released any holiday sentiments for this stamp, I used a sentiment from Cathy Zielske's Simon Says Stamp Ho Ho Postage Sentiment (because doesn't he just scream cheer). I added some Spectrum Noir color to my Grumpy, paper pieced his eye balls, and finished with a few enamel stickers to complete the sign.