Celebrate Earth Day - With A Recycled Cardboard Pow!

Holy Fist Fight! Oof!

I really hate to toss anything into the trash which might have even a drop of crafty potential still left in it. (It's a thin line between Crafter DNA and horder DNA and a line that I tread daily.) That's why I love the idea of repurposing and recycling: you're challenged to be clever and to come up with interesting ways to give second lives to items which would normally just be thrown into the garbage heap. So with Earth Day coming up on April 22, I thought I'd give some old cardboard and fridge magnets the gift of life. Comic book super hero style and super hero easy.

Comic Book Hero Recycled Cardboard Magnets

Materials:

- cardboard 

- old advertising magnets (the thin sheet kind like you get from realtors, dentists and pizza delivery places)

Tools:

- assorted markers and paint pens 

- a die cutter & dies (I used Accucut Flower #5 and Sizzix Build A Flower #3)

- black ink pad

- dotted rubber stamp (the one I used is from Inkadinkadoo)

- glue

- scissors

Here's what you do:

1. Cut flower shapes from cardboard using the die cutter and dies.

2. Use a bright marker to color the entire cardboard shape. 

3. Ink up the dotted rubber stamp with black ink and stamp dots on the cardboard shape.

4. Write an expressive word on the shape with a black paint pen. Think action hero! Then outline the entire shape in black too.

5. Outline the word with a white paint pen to make it pop!

6. Finish up by cutting a piece of the old advertising magnet and glueing it onto the back to cardboard shape. 

Kapow! Another pile of cardboard and old magnets saved from the waste basket! 

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You can see more fun Earth Day creative projects at the linky party going on at 100 Directions.  It's earth friendly fun!