Trash to be treasured!

July 17, 2010 at 11:01 am (General crafts, My crafts, Submissions to Artsy Craftsy)
Tags: July Challenge

Shruti’s July challenge says that Trash should be treasured 🙂 Below are my treasures, from a couple of months ago –

My first submission is a flower made from used dryer lint.  I coloured the lint using diluted acrylic paint, scrunched it up to make petals and then tied the petals together with tread.

The second submission are again flowers, made using the brown tube underneath tissue and toilet paper.  These are very simple to make –

1. Start collecting the brown tube beneath toilet/tissue paper .  Family may look at you strangely and wish to disown you, but keep at it, remember perseverance pays!
2. You can arrive at the desired number of tubes if you can befriend your neighbour and have them also contribute to your loot 🙂
3. Once you have your tubes, make marking on them about an inch apart and using a good pair of scissors cut the tubes on the markings. This will give you nice petal like shapes.
4. Paint the petals with whatever colour you choose.
5. Hot glue these shapes together and embellish the flower with anything you fancy.

Untill next time!

Tata!