Here's the styrofoam letters that Joanna Slan created for one of her LO's......And if you read on, she'll tell you how she cut them out......Scrapping is Also My Passion—and I Love Going Green with It
By Joanna Campbell Slan
As a family, we’ve been working hard on going green. Today my husband David turned the car around (we were carpooling!) a block from home because he realized he’d forgotten to put out our recycling.
Lately, David’s been even greener than I am, and I'm pretty proud of him. His biggest complaint? Styrofoam.
Which got me to thinking. Couldn’t I find a way to use those flimsy containers they give us to take home leftovers? Yes, indeed. I used my Sizzix shadow alphabet set and punched out letters. Then I painted them with acrylic paint. Because the Styrofoam letters are lightweight, they tend to stick to the paint. I used a strip of masking tape, turned sticky side up, to hold the letters down as I dabbed them.
I think they’ll be great for a page I’m planning to celebrate us going apple-picking.
I’m not sure that my new scrapbook heroine Kiki Lowenstein has been bitten by the “go green” bug yet, but after my encouraging experiments with Styrofoam, you can bet I’ll add this tip to the next book in the series. This week is the official launch of Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-and-Craft Mystery (ISBN: 0-7387-1250-7). I’ll be bringing along my scrapbooks to signings in order to show people that I really do love the craft. One of the albums will be my Happy Father’s Day “trash” album, which is made from cereal boxes. I cut the large flat panels to size, covered them with flattened paper bags, and used parts of Father’s Day cards and envelopes inside. I also glued all sorts of objects—a guitar pick, receipts, the top of a golf ball package, and so on inside the back cover. Stuff I'd rescued from the waste paper can.
You know, archeologists call ancient trash sites “middens,” and these are highly prized because they are rich depositories of clues to cultures. Read more about middens here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
I figured I’d glue together our very own family midden in the back of David’s Father’s Day album. I’m glad I did. Years from now, we’ll look at it and remember what we ate, what we did, and how we spent a special day together. That’s a memory too precious to toss in the trash.
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To read an excerpt from Paper, Scissors, Death, go to www.youpublish.com/joannaslan
To order your copy—complete with a coupon for 50 Free Digital Prints—go to http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-Death-Lowenstein-Scrap-N-Craft/dp/0738712507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220378229&sr=8-1pattimar
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Paper, Scissors, Death
Fall 2008, Midnight Ink
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