Sometimes we have to wait on art, and it is frustrating. I have a chandelier waiting to be born from recycled plastic water bottles. One crucial piece has not yet come to me from the great recycle-o-sphere. So, I wait. After reading today's newspaper, I thought I would spend no more than 30 minutes making something entirely from scrap materials I already had around the house and incorporate something from the newspaper. This is what the 30 minutes produced. Mine is penned as an Invitation but could just as easily be a greeting or post card. The point is, recycle and be creative. I already had left over supplies from other projects, thus the snazzy paper and envelope. I have made my own textured paper and I started to make the envelope from a brown shopping bag, however, I gave myself a 30 minute timeline and so I used left over supplies I had on hand.
As always, See it. Create it.
Today's paper and some left over project paper and an envelope
I tore an interesting picture from the paper.
I cut a piece of left over project paper to fit my envelope then glued the picture on the resulting card, allowing the paper to overlap to the back so that part of the image and interesting visual lines are on both sides of the card.
Finally, using a chisel-tip marker, I wrote You're Invited on the front. The back, of course, includes all the necessary information.
