Arts and Crafts And Recycling
Sunday, July 5, 2009 12:10
There are many ways to integrate recycling and crafts still have hours of fun and maybe make some gifts.
One of my favorite crafts is decopauge. The materials needed for this purpose are simply old magazines, a pair of scissors, glue and something to decorate. I have seen people use this medium of art for each product type, wood boxes header queen advice.
Once you have the item (or items) you want to decorate, you can put to one side and begin to browse through magazines for pictures and words, as you jump through or transmit anything you want to say. The good thing about this profession is that there are no “bad” way. Some people use a combination of advertising, including the background in the notice in May and cut the other person or an object in the background. The idea is to have a piece of a page that is superimposed on the object to decorate.
After you have enough words and pictures cut out, you can start decorating your article. The ideas and creativity, this item is endless! Use all the cut flowers and birds for decorating your project, cut each image of a dog and see how you can find and use all recycled decorating your project!
Organize your clippings on the surface of what we are going to reuse or to decorate and put a layer of glue on the entire project. Using white glue or Mod Podger gives an overlap of art and when this layer is dry, cover again, and so on. The glue-coated to protect your work and if you use a glossy finish, which will have a good shine to it too.
I started to do “Blessing Box” for Christmas gifts that I give to my kids teachers. I would like to reuse an old shoe box and cover the entire outside with pictures cut from magazines. The main objective was to cover the brand of shoes out of the box with pictures and words.
The idea of “Blessing Box” is that throughout the year, when it was a blessing in their lives, perhaps a ticket to a baseball game or a movie shares with a friend, birthday cards, and get maps, etc. these benefits were rather on the box. The best part is that this year, when there was a day when they feel blue and need a smile, you always know they can open their “Blessing Box” to remember the beautiful things that have happened in their lives.
These donations were the speeches of the primary school in the first year I did and I would say that at the beginning of each year after that, my children, the teachers do let me know how they thought my beautiful creations , and (wink wink), they do not have a mind for themselves!
The best part is that I never spent more money in one of these gifts! It was a success because of all recycled materials.
