Hi!
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. A day set aside to appreciate nature and promote environmental awareness by going green. We, as crafters, can go green by following the 3 R’s and making our own embellishments. Here’s my flower pot-shaped card made using nature’s gifts and recycled items.
The flower pot is recycled cardstock from my kids' old project, onto which I glued strips of corrugated cardboard from packaging and the sliding card, recycled cardboard from a syringe box. To decorate the pot, the embellishments are nature’s gifts- sand and seashells. The flowers are stems of the coconut and leaves cut from the loose bark of the coconut tree. Both were painted with acrylics and adhered with the glue gun. The sentiment is handwritten. I also added a stand behind the pot to make it stand. Sorry, forgot to picture the back of the card.
As I was in a hurry to send this card (hand delivery), I did not make a box-shaped envelope, but made this bag.
It was a large bag, made smaller to fit the card in. It was painted freehand with green (because it was a green card) acrylics (pearl and regular), and jute string was added for the handles.
I sent this card to my kids' former headmistress, against my husband’s wishes, as it was recycled. However, she very much appreciated it and called back on her birthday itself to thank me for it. For those of you not familiar with the tropical coconut tree parts, here are some images to show the parts I used.
This is a mature coconut with the stem on top; once pulled out, it looks like a flower on the inner side.
This image shows the loose bark husk that lies beneath the palm leaves.
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