Reduce, reuse, recreate

Reduce, reuse, recycle.  It’s something that we are all hearing a LOT lately.  I saw this AMAZING tutorial of Geninne handcarving her own stamps, but unfortunately none of those supplies are available here in Morocco.  (If I lived in the States I would have run out right THEN and bought up the supplies) but since I could not do that I had to get creative.  If you have ever ordered any stamp sets from Stampin’ Up then you likely have the rubber remnants left over.  I’ve been saving mine for a while “just in case” I could find some use for them.  Well, I was so inspired by Geninne’s stamps that I just pulled out the rubber remnants and a pair of scissors and got to cutting.  I had to do simple shapes because it’s kind of difficult to get a clean cut, but I am THRILLED with the result.  And Parker was too!  I think I’m going to make another one of these and frame it for his room because he begged to have it (and I had already added the sentiment.)  After stamping the images I used a Sharpie to draw in the road and outline the buildings and car.  You can also see here where I used the car for another project!

If you are one of my papercrafting girls, check out this link for a really cool Gallery Idol competition at PaperCrafts Connection!