Blog Hop?? Already??
Actually, I've been thinking 'trash to treasures' a lot the past few days, but with no camera to photograph, I thought I was doomed. Then, word came that Santa might be bringing me a camera, so I started to think of things to make...
On Christmas Eve we do 'crackers', and as the paper pieces were being thrown away, I saw them in a new light.
See the popped crackers?? They have little toys inside, which we pretty instantly throw away, so don't ask me why we do them~ I guess we love to wear the little paper hats inside, lol...
How do they look as favors?? I punched the Marvy pink scallop circles in Pure Poppy, and cut the torn crackers into pieces. They were already a tube, and you can see how the tubes were cut to allow the middles to fold in. I hope I'm making sense. I then glued the cut parts to the punched circle, and done they were!! These crackers have pictures in one direction only, so I am only able to get two favors from one cracker- since the bottom section has no cut edges to glue. Still, I had a dozen crackers, so I could get 24 favors from them. If I wanted to dig in the trash, that is!!
Oh, and if you are thinking Santa brought me a camera with bad color images, it's not true. I am still camera-less, sigh.
19 comments:
oh wow, those turned out so cute! I keep seeing those poppers in the store and wondering what could be done with them :)
fun project
I want a new camera too :)
Love the crackers they are fun to make. Wonderful job!
Great way to reuse these!
Wow, very clever! Love these!!!
Great projects...love the little pop crackers.
Sorry no camera - but super cute favors!!!!
Nice job. I am glad to see you got time to participate after all. Sorry about the camera.
what a totally cool idea!!
Super cute! We do the crackers too but haven't had such great paper.
So vintage looking!
Ohhh, now I regret telling my mother to just throw the cracker bits in the trash! Sorry about the no camera deal from Santa :(
never thought of remaking crackers, great idea!!
The favors look great...good too to see those vintage images reused. I love that. Hope you get your new camera soon.
I don't know if I know what poppers are, but nice job.
Fantastic idea! They turned out great!
Very smart idea. Good job.
What a great idea!! I LOVE them!! I made cards with our christmas crackers but that was last year, I had to do somehting different this year!! Nice job!!
What a great idea!!! Those are adorable!!!m
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