Wednesday 23 January 2013

Recycled Ballet Dancer Make Up Bag


Over on Happy Daze the challenge for this month is to recycle. How about recycling some of your Christmas cards and decorations now you have taken them down? Or maybe some of that left over pretty packaging? Today's recycling was a Tesco make up bag that had contained nail care bits and pieces and was pink and covered in white butterflies. I covered it in Tim Holtz Composer tissue wrap so that you can still see the white butterflies peeking through. I then stamped the little girl at her ballet class from the Artistic Outpost set onto tissue paper and coloured her with Distress Inks, and added some of the text from the same set, all applied with Matte Gel Medium. I finished it off with some pleated ribbon trim, some lace flowers, and a friendly plastic flower from a homemade mould, made from a piece of broken jewellery.

I am entering this into the Artistic Outpost referral programme. If you are in the US you can get their amazing array of stamps direct from them, but if you are in the UK you can get them from Happy Daze, along with lots of other unusual crafty and altered art goodies.

I hope you will join in this month's challenge, which was chosen by me!! I love to recycle; it is so rewarding.

14 comments:

  1. Morning Lucy, what a lovely recycled bag :)
    Von ♥

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  2. You just reminded me that I have the friendly plastic and have not used this! Lucy, this little handbag is gorgeous. Love the pink and that sweet little AO dancer looks right at home! Beautiful recycling!!! Big Hugs!

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  3. Like Terry I have got some FP not used - somewhere!!
    Love the pretty pink to go with the ballet dancer, just like my grandaughters. The butterflies just peeping through the tissue wrap give real added dimension.
    See you Friday.
    hugs {brenda} x0x

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  4. I love your recycled bag- the process you described- thank you- lends to a wonderful transformation. Love the image and the flower of FP.

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  5. Hi Lucy, you did a bang up job on recycling that little bag. FP is hard to find around these parts, used to make a lot of jewelry with it. Fun stuff!

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  6. Hi Lucy, Such a sweet and beautifully stamped little purse. I love how you have the butterflies showing through, gorgeous. xx

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  7. I always love your bags, and this one's no exception... what a great way to use that tissue wrap, too!

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  8. Great item to recycle and it looks fab, love the subtle effect of the original pattern showing through!

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  9. Too cool! Lovely!

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  10. OMG this is fantastic Lucy! Wow so cleer and what great images!

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  11. A lovely recycled bag Lucy.
    xxx Hazel.

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  12. How pretty, love your altered purse! Thanks for playing along with us at Artistic Outpost!

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  13. I loved this over at Happy Daze... just popped in to say lovely to have you join us at Artistic Outpost!
    Alison x

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  14. This is beautiful! Have to say the photo' doesn't do it justice, a really lovely piece. I would never have thought of doing this, great inspiration Lucy. xx

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