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Useful Trash

Useful Trash
Useful Trash

It’s an oxymoron, right? My recent shower head purchase came with some useful packaging.

Look at that teeny tiny box that held the plumber’s tape! The main container is nice and sturdy with a hinged lid. It’ll bee great for storage! Maybe, I’ll cover it with gel prints!

I have no idea why that piece of cardboard is shaped like a cutting board, but it should make an unusual sign or collage backing.

There are two big sheets of tissue for gel plating or stamping. Even the strangely shaped pressed paper liner has a sculptural quality!

And oh! Here’s the little spool from the plumber’s tape. It can be used for mark making on the gel plate or in polymer clay. I can even wrap leftover threads or cords around it!

My husband has learned to ask, “Is it for art, honey, or can I throw it away?“

Saving the Last of the Dogwoods

Saving the Last of the Dogwoods
Saving the Last of the Dogwoods

The dogwoods in front of my house have been glorious!

Easter Sunset
Forgive me, I get carried away!

Now, the dogwoods are past their season. Surviving blossoms are pitiful.

I thought maybe I could use them to print on the gel plate. I used some blossoms to pull paint from the plate.

I used others like stamps, painting the bracts (petals,) and center.

The paint “celled” so badly, i kept adding paint till I produced this.

I’m anxious to pull this, but I can’t decide between light blue or a rich leafy green.

I also spent the better part of today dodging a telephone scam. Maybe that’s a craft, and I can find the energy to share that someday. For today, I’m exhausted.

Horizontal Lines

Horizontal Lines

You need them for journaling. I got this idea for a stamp from Nastasa at Treasure Books. https://youtube.com/c/TreasureBooks

I was cutting flaps off boxes to cover for storage, (I got lots over Christmas!) and decided to see if I could use Natasa’s idea. I fell the day after Christmas and skinned myself up pretty good. Skinning cardboard was no problem! It didn’t even hurt!