More Recycling

Remember this? Debby Boltman: Happy Saturday Recycling!

Well I had a question about a recycling item in the pic, particularly the rug stay in place thingy. So I went to work.

I ship stuff in ugly envelopes. I have this particular ugly envelope lying on a roll of paper I use all the time for spraying and masking. Might make a great background at some point.

I layed the rubber carpet thingy over my envie and sparyed with color mists from outside the margins. 

i let the color mists dry then i started stamping.

i also wanted to use the rubber stuff as a stamp so i simply wrapped it around a wood mounted stamp that was sitting on my desk.

and stamped with rubber side down. if some of the pattern came thru. cool. and i used acrylics. i love using acrylics to stamp. a little messy and distressed. i love it!

than i was looking around for something and saw this plastic thing that you put under heavy items and the carpet doesn't get squished. Well trust me they don't work for that. So I dipped the pointy ends in to the cute little pile of white acrylic paint and made my own little polka dot background :)

and then oh know! Do not pour the acrylics out because i go a bit nuts and start looking for colors and materials and papers and anything that might make something cool.

i haven't used the piece below on anything yet. i will though.

Here are some cards I made with the backgrounds created above.

Pretty cool huh?! I would love to see what YOU do with those cool things hanging out in your recycle bin. You know the paper towel rolls or tp rolls could be made in to napkin holders ;)