This month the letter of the alphabet is R for Recycle with colour options of red, rose and rust. To be honest I completely forgot about the colours and found this a very tricky one to do. It has turned out completely differently to what I started out to make but I guess sometimes you have to go with the flow.
I had some packaging that I was planning on using but then as I was emptying the shredder I thought I would try and make a background of shredded waste. There was some pink and yellow along with the white which looked quite pretty so I put glue on a postcard-sized piece of card and dunked it into the shredder bin. It took a few goes to get a fairly even coating of bits and then I brayered them down. I had to go over some again with a glue pen. I added some stamped text (CI 017) in Impress emerald green and ran the brayer over with a mesh roller and wilted violet DO. The double red markings you can see are stamped with an offcut from a foam insole!
I had some excess foil from lining one of my kitchen trays which I stuck onto card, coloured with raspberry and wild plum alcohol inks and ran through my Cuttlebug. The shadow text is a Synergy die and the top and bottom border is a Sizzix rose die cut in half. I added a few gems to finish.
