Making Xmas Cards out of Packaging materials and Workshops

Card Making and Recycling two things that I really like.

Soon I was thinking: "Why not try to make 1 or 2 Xmas cards out of packaging materials?" and then I made another and another and before I knew it, I had lots of ideas and cards and was thinking of sharing this fun activity with kids.


So this is one of my ideas:
I started cutting triangle shapes out of the Baked Beans Heinz packaging, Peppermint tea packaging and perfume packaging ( any white packaging that i could find around the house)

Then I used a coloured tab divider that I had and cut a rectangular shape for the background and stuck it to a blank greeting card.

Then I bought some foam squares to raise the triangle shapes. I also bought  1 meter of  nice ribbon where it said"Merry Christmas" on it, glued the little stars and a little golden ribbon and star for the tree to make a nice finish  and voila!

 Project Recipe:

• Scissors
• Glue
• Foam Squares
• Little colourful stars
• 1 meter of  a "Merry Christmas" Ribbon that you can buy in any Crafts shop (Inspiring ideas Shop in this case)
• Food Packagings
• 1 star and a golden ribbon but you can cut a Star or a snow flake design out of a magazine or advertising that comes through your letter box and it will do nicely.  
• Colourful Tab divider

I will be doing a Christmas card making Workshop for kids ( 9 to 12 years old)  in:

• Hunstown Community Center - Wednesday 11th of Dec  - from 4 to 5:30 pm
• Mountview Youth and Community Center - Friday 13th  of Dec- from 5 to 6 pm. 
•  Hunstown Community Center - Wednesday 19th of Dec  - from 4 to 5:00 pm
• Mountview Youth and Community Center - Friday 20th  of Dec- from 5 to 6 pm.

 So join in!

Warm Regards
Laura A Speedwing