Hello

I have been quite busy doing this doing that .. and auto teaching lessons jajajajajaja..
here is a little something...More than recycle it is re use, I was making something and went the way I didn't like it so...I din't  want to use it in my project...but throw it! NEVER! it means loosing time, effort and money...so I leave it there and now I am reusing it in something else...but the butterflies they are old bad packaging stuff..The stopper was made with a piece of acuarela paper(the back side jijiji) I stamp the wings were made from a very old butterfly I made that broke and I rescue part of it and that is all...with a little imagination you can save money! no more talk here it is...Does it looks good???

Yes, like I said in my last post...I have been taking a sabbatical??? jajajajajaj well in a way..
But here I am with some new stuff I work on.
I must say, stamping help to recycle, reuse reduce!  With stamps you can use very small pieces of paper and give it a very new life!  Even usin it in packing and making something different!
Also stamping give you a huge way to use them, not only with embossing, but with different types of paint or mediums, from pencil colours to acrylic paints, using glitter, different types of paper even form magazines or newspaper even cardboards and plastic packet (always read the recycle number in the back for this) (if you are using emboss techniques is always better to try it first and use precautions).
Well no more taking and here are some of the cards...

 In this one like we use stamping technique in the tags, in the base card to create a background, the base was made using resistant technique with mica powders. The tags were build up using tickets, stamps and little things that I have around leaving some space between the collage to stamp on it!  The right one is using new new papers with some leftover also. The green bg was emboss for this card, the leaves was a leftover and the embellishment was a ticket and stamping and heat embossing over plastic packets and cutting them, so it is more 3D.The verse was stamp in a leftover paper and some of the tear paper were pieces of leftover papers glue to the back.
This one is also a mix, the flower, the sentiment, the embellishment behind the figure of the gentleman
 and the bg of the gentleman are leftovers papers, fotocopy papers etc.


The Lady is a figure from a craft magazine, the bg, flowers even the ribbon are leftovers paste together in a blank card.

This one is a little note all from leftover papers and magazine images using stamping method.  

The box was printed in a normal card paper, but the flowers were made from grunge paper that was left form an older projects. The brad is a normal brad painted with acrylic gold.                                                           The inside of a box is mini-album, the pictures were paste in use f/c paper, and the different embellishment were stamps, little things around and some leftovers to make the mini tags and corners!  Some the brads were imitation ones made from glue and glitter.

 This one is completely re use and recycle, only the blank card that is paste over, the bg is made from different types of papers, newspaper, magazine etc, glue together and painted. The clocks were stamp also in different pieces f papers some emboss, other painted the sentiments also were stamped in used papers.  Also I use metal magic technique that is formidable for using with any kind of paper.  The flower or rosset in the last one was a back of a f/c used paper sprite with mica and then folded constantina. The matting and layering is using leftover papers some of them were glue together and joint for making the square, the matt and layering under the images is empty what you see are only stripes of paper that make it look like a frame.  With the kitchen one is almost the same technique only different stamps and using it like a collage

This  is also all leftover is a small card was the bottom of a card blank of one of the first cards a little of stamping using very small stamp ticket like sizes , one of the ladies face is stamp on magazine paper as the lady in front, the hat.  I cover the blank stamp also with a bg leftover from a card I made.This page show how much you can do with things we usually throw!

Here I add a ribbon some glitter and voila!

And this  b'day card all recycle and re used materials, only the ribbon, the embellishment in the side and the insert are new, but the toppers, sentiment,  even the sun is a stamped bottle top!

A Father's Portrait!

Well here I am... haven't been so busy lately
With this beautiful weather I am more outside than inside!
Well I will begin to upload again some of my creations!
And I have been doing a lot of jewellery! And many of them recycled
from old stuff...but I was thinking to made a new blog based on this theme better...
but something I tell you, how this new techniques I have learn give your old plastic acrylic or glass bead a new
life!
Also I want to thank this blog site were I download this background...if you have a blog you can download
some background also, http://blo64rt.blogspot.com/.
Her name is ITUKPILLI. is a wonderful blog and hope you visited it! And thank you for so beautiful background!

C ya soon!

Recycled more and more!

Surely I have been away for a too long period!
But I made an 800 KM!!! Yes 800 km cycling tour with my hubby!  From Roncesvalle (Spanish and French border) to Santiago de Compostela!  Wahoooo...
It took us 15 days of sun and rain and going up up in the beautiful spectacular Spanish Mountain side, to end up in Galicia...tiring but what a wonderful journey... you must see the picture in fb...
Here are some ATC made from the leftover of my Father's portrait!  (By the way he love it) Yupiiii
C ya soon!

Portrait of my father

My father's birthday is coming...wepa...big party!
wow....
Since I was a little girl 9 (not so long ago) if always though me not to waste or over spend, and that before throwing something see if we could use it in another way...and this much before all this recycling stuff came on fashion!  Some moons ago...
So honouring my father teachings, I made him a portrait so he will remembered always!
Happy Birthday my dear father...And thank for all your teaching and being there for me...I only can say, Thanks God for you and hope you live many many years more!
May God bless you today and forever!

La Nona
Tu zacarosa!
Te amo papi!

Acrylic paint!

Hey I have been working in some stuff...And I have discover the wonders  of acrylic paints!
Wow...with this you can transform things, I have been experimenting in card boards, packing and different stuff to bring them to you!
Also in th e market they are already brands that are eco-friendly!  This is so great, I bought some and they are great also, with lots of pigments...I haven't still finish some projects... but I will do it...
And you know why!  I am going to cycle approximation 500 miles in the North of Spain what is called the Santiago de Compostela way, through the French way...
I will let you know more about this...I have been training...(not hard enough) jajajajajaj but my trainer is trying to do the best with me...jijijijiji jnow we will see...I trust in God that I could make it!
Here are only 2 little atc that I made...using packing ...so the acrylic paint really works!

Cards, mail holder

Yes I am back again,  experimenting with different stuff, I had made some earring...and planing to do some new stuff....I am the crazy scientific of recycling jajajajaja!
By the way...I have been going to the gym, and loosing some weight!
Also planing to do a cycling trip of  2 week....wow...not bad at all...
Hope you like this new ATC and this card.

 This made with the back of photocopier paper  of course was already used.  We made some collage, the later is of some of those pieces.

This was made on the back of a packet using acrylic paint.

 Use some papers strips left overs and stamped.

A heart stamp as the moon over a crumpet back of paper and embellishment of some flyers.  

A b'day card done with several strips of different papers and a collage using stamp.

This is a mail holder made from cardboard from packaging, I glue some ATC I have and use a stamp for the other background.

This is part recycled, for the collage I used some left over pieces of paper that I stamp and painted with pro markers and watercolours . The letters were stamp over packaging strong plastic .  So why not mix new and old!

...enjoy!