Cuties Miss you

I love to recycle.  If I see and ad or a box or anything that catches my eye I will make it into a card.  I got this in the mail a while ago.  It is for my dogs' heartworm pills.  The puppy and kitty were so cute that I wanted to "extend" their usefulness into a card.  Below is the ad.

 

And here is the card!

 

I matched the cardstock to the cat's eyes.  The color would be Summer Sun from Stampin Up which is sadly, long retired.  The stamp is from a retired set called You're a Gem.  The "miss you" is an old Cuttlebug die.  I'm proud of how I cleverly covered up those words in the corner with my little scalloped circle.  Enjoy your day! - Heidi

Let It Go!

We bought a Frozen Castle at Goodwill for my husband's niece and she was kind enough to give the box back to me.  I made this 8 1/2" X 5 1/2" card from a picture on the box.  The word birthday is stamped and embossed and I believe the stamp is from Papertrey Ink.  The die is also from Papertrey Ink and is called One-liners: Happy Die.

Not too shabby for a recycled card.  While you are enjoying this Frozen card why not revisit my Olaf Easter card. - Heidi

Luigi Card

Happy Wednesday to you!  I have another recycle and I've seen that before card.  We recently bought this remote, see below, at our Goodwill store.  On the side panel is a picture of Luigi.

 

With such a nice picture on the side - I had to make it into something!

I used the Little Letter Thinlits Dies and Draw the Line stamp Set from Stampin Up.  I think it turned out pretty cool for a recycled card! - Heidi

Sporty Lego Girls

I found these Lego patches at Goodwill and thought that I might be able to use them for a card or two.  I used my scalloped tag topper punch and glued the girls to their own tag.  Then I lined the bottom of each tag with a row of Legos.  This idea was a mimic of the card that the patches came on and I thought it was a clever copy.  Just a fun quick group of cards for Lego/sport loving kids.

The sentiment is from a set by A Muse.  Hope you enjoy! - Heidi

Monsters U and Juicy Juice

Good morning!  I have been working on these cards for a while now.  I wanted to finish the entire set before I posted them.  When I saw the Juicy Juice boxes I knew I had to make a set of cards just like I did when they had Disney Cars on the boxes.

See the Disney Cars cards here.

I apologize for the fuzzy pictures, but you get the idea.

Mike Wazowski:

Cardstock: Green Galore & Pacific Point

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & A Round Array

The images were an odd size so I went with a 5 1/4" square card, all with the same layouts.

Squishy Squibbles:

Cardstock: Poppy Parade & Green Galore

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & Off the Grid

Sulley:

Cardstock: Taken with Teal & Pear Pizzazz

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & Hexagon background (from A muse)
Sorry for the flash!

Art:

Cardstock: Lavender Lace & Rich Razzelberry

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & Positively Chevron background

Terri & Terry:

Cardstock: Peach Parfait, Wild Wasabi and Chocolate Chip.

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & Print Pattern background

Ms. Squibbles:
Cardstock: Strawberry Slush, Marina Mist & Green Galore
Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes & Secret Garden
Have an awesome weekend! - Heidi

Multiple Super Mario characters

My children each got a 5 pack of Super Mario Brothers plushies for Christmas.  On the back of the cardboard were these great circles with the characters in them.  I am certainly not one to throw away any good items that could be recycled into something useable.  So I made some cards, naturally!

Koopa Troopa Koopa

Yoshi.  Visit here and here for more Yoshi cards I made.

Luigi - Let's a go!

Mario

and Toad.

Card Sizes: A2.

Cardstock: YoYo Yellow, Real Red.

Ink: Real Red.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Other: embossing folder from Cuttlebug, circle die from spellbinders, word window, label punch and corner rounder punch.

Happy New Year! - Heidi

Ode to Starbucks

My Clinical instructor loves Starbuck coffee as he has a cup everyday.  We needed a thank you for him so I used the cup sleeve to make a card.  I think he liked it.  The stamp set is Teeny Tiny Wishes.

My friend at Clinical brought us all cake pops in a cute little Starbucks bag.  I had to make it into two cards!  I like them both, but they needed something more.  Google eyes were the solution!  The stamp sets are Petite Pairs and Perfect Punches.

Hope you have a great Christmas! - Heidi

From a tissue box!

I was at the Dollar Tree with my friend Karen a couple of weeks ago and I saw these tissue boxes!  They had Lightning McQueen and Disney Princesses on them!  I begged her to buy them for me because I left my purse at her house.  Below are three cards I made from the longer Cars tissue box that I didn't take a picture of.  Sorry!

Two of the smaller tissue boxes.  I am looking to see if they have a longer Princesses box at Dollar Tree, but I have been unable to find one.

The above card is a 4 X  6 and below are two letter envelope size cards.

Have a wonderfully creative day - Heidi

From Halloween coasters

While wandering through Jo-Ann's the other day I came across this pack of six Halloween coasters.  I am not one to complain especially when the price is 50 cents!  So I made six cards from them.  Not awesome, but they'll do.

Thanks for looking - Heidi

I'll make anything into a card

In the next installment of "I've seen that before" I have these three cards to offer to you.  I am the great recycler, you know.

Okay so the card below is not recycled, but the idea is.  I saw it in a magazine and tried to recreate it.  I hate this card.  Enough said. 

While looking through my Family Fun magazine I spotted this happy Lorax face in a DISH Network ad so I made it into a card.

A10 card size, Pumpkin Pie & Tempting Turquoise cardstock, Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

My kids' friend was having a birthday and I needed a card.  This is from a scrap booking chipboard set that I had hung on Isandro's wall.  I "borrowed" the storm trooper from him to make this card.  Previously I borrowed Darth Vader from him.  Needless to say Isandro wants me to replace what I have borrowed.
I think it turned out great! - Heidi

A2 card size, chipboard clone trooper, Yo Yo Yellow & Basic Black cardstock, Happiest Birthday Wishes stamp set.

iPhone cards

I was at Walgreens and I saw the above ads laying on the pharmacy counter.  The ads are in English and in Spanish on the other side.  What does this mean to you?  It means there are two phones per ad that you can cut out and use to make the card below or one similar to it.  I glued mine to an index card first using Tombow multipurpose liquid glue in order to give the iPhone more structure as the ad is flimsy.  In this previous post here I mistakenly identified this piece of technology as an iPod Touch, but I believe it is an iPhone.  In the previous post the picture I used was from a textbook company flyer I received in the mail.  The below one is from the Walgreens ad.

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes and Kindness Matters.

Ink: Rich Razzleberry and Tangerine Tango.

Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry and White

Paper: Sweet Pea DSP (long retired) & Walgreens ad

Then my thought was why couldn't I recreate the iPhone as an entire card?!  So I measured an iPhone and tried to keep the dimensions proportionate.  The below card does fit in an A2 envelope.  I hate it when someone post a card without the measurements so I will list them below the picture.

Cardstock: Basic Black, Sahara Sand (didn't have any light grey or going grey), White, Rose Red, Old Olive, Peach Parfait and Smokey Shadow (PTI).

Paper: old DSP from Stampin' Up.

Stamps: Build a Blossom and Birthday Wish (retired)

Tools: blossom builder punch, 1/4" square punch, 1/4" and 1/2" circle punches, horizontal slot punch, white gel pen, polka dot embossing folder and corner rounder.

NOTES: For the button at the bottom I punched a 1/4" square out of a piece of scrap cardstock.  I then laid it over the Smokey Shadow cardstock and traced the negative space (not the actual teeny tiny square!) with my gel pen.  Then you take the 1/2" circle punch and center it over the square you just drew and punch it out.  You have a perfect bottom button for your iPhone.  Don't worry if your gel pen doesn't work very well (does it ever!) as the button isn't very bright white in real life anyway.
You could make this ANY kind of card, graduation, birthday etc.  You could even print out the real screen from the Internet to place on this card.  Heck even a picture could be your "screen".  Have fun with it and show me your ideas, please!

Base of iPhone: 3 1/4" X 5 1/2" so cut 3 1/4" X 11" (white, here)

Face of iPhone: 3 1/8" X 5 3/8" (black used here)

Screen: 2 5/8" X 3 1/2" (white)

Bar above screen: 1/4" X 2 5/8" (Sahara Sand)

iPod Touch and s'mores

I have two very different cards for you today.  I really like them both!

The above card uses no stamps at all!  I wanted a s'more image, but I couldn't find any line drawings I liked online.  I printed the s'more and the sentiment and then used my dies to cut them out.  I made this card for my anniversary - 10 years we have been married.

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip and More Mustard (the perfect graham cracker color, who knew?)

Ink: printer

Stamps: none

Dies: circles, grommet tags and lacey circles from Spellbinders, word window from Amuse

Accessories: More Mustard brads, Stripes Embossing folder from Stampin' Up. 

This card uses a recycled ad that I got from a textbook company in a mailer.  I simply cut a piece of Whisper White to cover their words and stamped the greeting on it.  I love this - it looks just like a real iPod Touch.

Cardstock: Basic Black

Paper: Brights DSP stack

Ink: Pacific Point

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes

Have a great night - Heidi
NOTE on 7.29.2012: i think this may actually be an iPhone!

Happy Meals and Super Powers

This happy fella was on the side of my kids' Happy Meal box so I made it into a card!

Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Black, White, Poppy Parade

Ink: Basic Black

Stamps: Mega Mixed messages from Papertrey Ink & Super Powers from Close to My Heart.

Tools: embossing folder from Cuttlebug

Speaking of the Super Powers stamp set from Close to My Heart check out the card below!  I had to have this set when I saw it because it is cool!

Cardstock: Yo Yo Yellow, Real Red, Pacific Point, White, Basic Gray.

Ink: Staz-On Black, Tangerine Tango for the sun rays.

Tools: embossing folder from Tim Holtz/Sizzix, scissors

Stamps: Super Powers from Close to My Heart.

Sympathy and a Welcome card

I bought this punch from McGill (pine branch) with the idea of a sympathy card in my mind.  Finally something I envisioned turns out right! The stamp set is an older one from Stampin' Up called Brighter Tomorrow.  The dry embossed background uses the square lattice folder from Stampin' Up.  When I was laying the branches out I couldn't decide which direction to use for the card layout.  Naturally I had to make them both!  The colors are Night of Navy and Old Olive.

The below card is a welcome to the neighborhood card I made for our new neighbor.  This is a "recycled" and "I've seen that before" card.  It falls into those categories because of the kraft colored banner behind the main image.  That banner is the sleeve that fits over a coffee cup from Dunkin' Donuts.  You know, Starbucks has the little sleeves that slide over your cup because it is too hot.  I believe my friend Letitia thought I was crazy when she saw them on my craft table and I told her that I was going to use them on a card.  When my sister Jennifer saw the sleeves she thought that was a fantastic idea because the texture was deeply embossed.  Note to Sizzix and Cuttlebug make an embossing folder with triangles to mimic this design!  The flowers were added on using the trio flower punch.  This punch is still available in the Clearance Rack on Stampin' Ups website.  Colors used are: Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede and Dunkin' Donuts coffee sleeve. The stamp set is Up In the Air from a Stampin' Up.Have a great day - Heidi.

Another Lorax

In keeping with the "Ultimate Recycler" I recycled this Lorax from an IHOP promotion.  IHOP had bookmarks with tree seeds on them and I simply punched the Lorax out of the bookmark.  Previously I made a card using the kids menu from IHOP here. 

This card is fairly simple and very bright.  The colors I used were Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz from Stampin' Up.  The punches are from Stampin' Up and I doodled on the scalloped circle with a Pear Pizzazz marker.  The stamp is from Teeny Tiny Wishes by Stampin' Up. - Heidi

Happy Meal Card

I am beginning to think I should rename my blog "The Ultimate Recycler."  I just look or touch something and it has to be made into a card or something else useful.  This is the Happy Meal box that my kids had their lunch in yesterday.  It is extremely colorful and the side graphic panel was perfect for making a card!

The base and Lacey Oval are in Pacific Point.  The ribbon, to hide the box crease, is Real Red 1/4" grosgrain.  The stamp is from Perfect Punches by Stampin' Up.  My husband chuckled when he saw it.  Some people see a box and I think outside the box, I guess. - Heidi

 

Butterflies for Letty

This is the card I made for my very best friend's birthday. The stamp is from Stampin' Up and the set is called Bring on the Cake. The card uses some awesome Graphic 45 paper, a recycled piece of cardboard from a McDonald's toy. It also uses the new Striped Butterfly 2-in-1 Edger Punch & the Butterfly Layering punch both from EK Success. Why yes, I am a tool freak! Letty should get this card tomorrow in the mail so hopefully she doesn't this posting before then. - Heidi

Heroes and Butterflies!

The above card uses paper that I purchased from Paper Source called Heroes & Villians. It was so boy, retro cool I had to get some! The round batman is a kid's ring - you know tha kind that come on top of a cupcake. I recycled that by cutting the prongs off and sticking it to my computer generated saying. I love this card. Too bad I don't have anymore batman cupcake rings!

The card below uses DCWV paper from the Mariposa stack. It also uses a stamp from PTI and the paper doily die from stampin up. I spritzed the doily with smooch and fed some ribbon through it. Not bad! - Heidi

Lorax card

Not the best picture I have ever taken, sorry. This is the front of the kids menu at IHOP. I cut it out and made it into a card. The colors are Tempting Turquoise & Pumpkin Pie. Another fun color combo and a way to recycle! - Heidi

Juicy Juice cards

Juicy Juice is running this promotion where you can collect trading cards on their juice boxes from Cars 2. Those went to my five year old. I want the front of the packages! I made them into 5 X 7 cards! I am really into the recycling thing, I guess. I'd love to know what you think. I am going to try and put up the juice boxes picture and then my card picture - let's see if I can make this work.

Holley Shiftwell is on Rich Razzleberry & Orchid Opulence.
Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes

Mater uses Creamy Caramel & Green Galore.
Stamps: A Little Birthday Cheer

Finn McMissile uses Creamy Caramel & Brocade Blue.
Stamps: Petite Pairs

Professor Z is on Pool Party, Basic Grey & Melon Mambo.
Stamps: Party This Way



Lightning McQueen is on Basic Black and a piece of Cars scrapbook paper.
No stamps.



Fillmore is on Only Orange & Gable Green.
Stamps: Perfect Punches



Francesco is on Regal Rose, Cherry Cobbler & Glorious Green.
Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes (I loved this color combination - it was so much fun!)



Luigi uses Really Rust & Barely Banana.
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits (Papertrey Ink)



Here is where I am sad. I have been unable to locate this juice box pack so I do not have a Guido card to share with you. If anyone could help me locate a pack of Tropical juice boxes and would be willing to send me the package I would be so happy! I feel my creative collection is incomplete without him! - Heidi

*UPDATE*UPDATE*UPDATE*


My father was nice enough to snag not one, but two Guidos for me from Woodman's in Kenosha! So now my collection is complete! (until I get hooked on the next thing! Guido uses Lemon Tart (PTI) and Taken with Teal from Stampin' Up - Heidi