Green Crafting

Yesterday I spent the morning at Archivers having fun. I did a couple of make & take projects, and shopped the sales. When I came home and began unpacking my purchases, I thought about all the packaging that has to be thrown away. I do as much recycling as I can (it's pretty easy here with curbside service). However, most of the plastic packaging is not marked with the recycling symbol and ends up in the trash. One of the packages was mostly flat rather than curved plastic. It occurred to me that I might be able to run it through my Bigshot Express die cutting machine. It worked quite nicely. The most difficult part was cutting through the plastic to separate out the parts that weren't completely flat. I ended up with several flower shapes - and people pay good money at the scrapbook store for acrylic embellishments! I also decided rather than recycle all the posterboard-type packaging I'd run that through as well. I always enjoy stretching those craft dollars as much as possible!

Happy creating,
Immi