My Guest Design Team project(s) for Recycle, Re-Purpose and Reinvent

The overall theme of CS Designs blogs focuses on Recycling 

and using Throwaway items in your Art.

I hope you like my Guest Design Project for this wonderful blog that I have the fabulous honor to be a guest for this month of October. I will be posting another
project in a couple of weeks. For this first challenge of Recycle, Re-Purpose and Reinvent
Ive transformed recycled a milkshake powder tub that my teenage daughter was
about to throw away. I instantly thought of a sturdier holder for the larger pairs of scissors that I use in my crafting (3 pairs lol). The largest & heaviest being my ribbon scissors, (see the photos below, as the dark purple handled scissors are the pair that Im on about). So I started getting my stash ready for this project. 

First I need to tell you about: 

We're Also Having A Blog Hop with lots of Fun Prizes

To help us Celebrate our 1st challenge here on Recycle, Re-Purpose & Reinvent.    There are 7 blogs participating in this Hop and 6 Great Prizes to be given out. Because we want you to become acquainted with our  fabulous new team you must  visit and leave a comment on Every Participating Project Post along the way in order to be eligible to win any of our prizes. 

There will be 6 winners altogether,:  3 will be chosen from all the comments left on our participating posts, 2 will be chosen from all those that participate in our 1st challenge and 1 from those that find the hidden ghost somewhere on the CS Designs Store. Our Blog Hop starts today Oct 1st, 2014 and ends  at 11:55 October 13th, and winners will be announced on Nov 1st. All Winners will receive their choice of 3  digital designs from the CS Designs Online Store.    Art you ready to party?   

You need to start HERE - ON THIS BLOG (There are two ways to win on this blog, join our challenge or leave us a comment) Angela …   The Paper Craft Nook Blog Judy …  In Search of my Creative Side Laine … Hugs 4 the Heart Designs Marg..Crafty Cards by Marg(You are here) Chris ... Doodle Pieces  Chris ... / CS Designs   .. The store does not allow comments so to play and be eligible for a prize you will have to find my little ghost hidden somewhere among my designs and write to me with where you found him. I will chose 1 winner from all those who find him.

 

Note: Because we all live in different parts of the world, our blogs may not all go live at the same time, so if you visit a blog and can not find the blog hop post, come back  here a little later, check the links and try visiting again.  

Now back to my project of transforming the milkshake tub. (Ive posted photos below showing before and after).

I started with the blank tub and glued on 2 pieces of backing papers from my own stash to cover over the details of what was in the tub. I also took the paper slightly higher than the top of the tub so it wasnt showing the silver coloured trim. I then added a thin strip of black lace using extra strong double sided tape, followed by a strip of dark brown "eyelash" trim (so called as it looks like eyelashes). The next thing I did was to wrap a wide strip of loose weave hessian around the base and tied a bow using an old piece of garden twine that I found in my "oddments" drawer in the kitchen.. lol (I dont suppose anyone else has one of those drawers do they???)

After making sure that all the lace/twine & hessian were stuck down & dry I coloured a picture of 

Zombie Powder
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Dark And Edgy / Artful Sentiment
from the 
Haunting Apparitions 
section of the website

in an Almond colour from my Graph It marker/alcoholic pen collection to give it an antique/classic/old look about it. It turned out rather good if I say so myself.  Now to the back of the tub, I didnt want it to look "bare" without a picture/image so I decided to add the 

Shrunken Head 1
Shrunken Head Digital Stamp
from the 

Haunting Apparitions

which was coloured with a mixture of Promarkers & Graph It pens, apart from the "nail" through the hair tie which I coloured with a Silver coloured Sakura metallic pen. He was close cut out and stuck down with Collall glue gel.

Thats it!! I hope you have liked my first post for Recycle, Re-Purpose and Reinvent Challenge Blog and that you will join in our Blog Hop, which gives you the chance to see the Design Team members of this wonderful blog, take a look through at their styles & their previous creations. 

regarding the blog hop, dont forget to start off on the first one on the above list, which is the Challenge Blog itself!!!  Good Luck!!

I am entering this project in to the following challenges:

The Sisters of Craft, October, Theme is Anything Goes http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sisters-of-craft-october-anything-goes.html

Divas By Design, Wednesday, 1 Oct 2014, Theme is Spooky Creations

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/spooky-creations.html

Inspiration Destination, #1 Theme is Anything Goes

http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/AG-ch-1.html

Little Tangles #46, theme is Anything Goes
http://www.littletangles.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/challenge-46-anything-goes.html

Sassy Studio Designs DTBST #249, theme is Anything Goes
http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/dtbst-249-anything-goes.html

The Pink Elephant #270, theme is Anything Goes
 http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe270.html

My Craft Creations challenge 29/9-11/10/2014, theme is Anything Goes
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-challenge.html

Crafting By Designs October, theme is Anything Goes
http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/october-anything-goes.html

Creative Inspirations, Challenge 283, theme is Lovely Lace!
http://cinspirations.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/challenge-283-lovely-lace.html