Cardboard Tube Tree

 

My latest creation...a cardboard tube tree, which I made by painting the cardboard tube brown, drawing a cloud shape on green construction paper and cutting that out for the leaves, cutting a small slit on either side of the top of the tree and inserting the leaves into the slits. So simple and so...well...tacky...but fun. :)

 

What do you think about cardboard tube crafts? Tacky...or fun?

Toilet Tissue Roll Octopus

By now, you know about my love of trash, so it should come as no surprise that my next project, Henrietta the Octopus, was made from garbage-yes, she is crafted from an empty toilet tissue roll. I simply painted her purple, cut slits about midway up to form legs, glued on a pair of wiggle eyes, drew on a mouth then used a hole punch to punch out circles (tentacles) from yellow construction paper. Then, as a crafterthought, I glued on a bow. What do you think of sweet Henrietta...a hit or a miss?

My Easter Bunny Basket

 

 

 

 

Yesterday,  I blogged about my love of trash. Here's the idea I came up with for reusing those empty coffee containers. I simply painted the container brown, cut some ears, whiskers, teeth and a handle from colored construction paper, glued on some wiggle eyes and a button nose followed by a cotton ball to form the tail. What do you think of my basket...hit...or miss? I'd love to get some opinions!

What to Do With Empty Maxwell House International Coffee Containers

One of my favorite things in the world to do is to take a piece of "trash" and figure out various ways to repurpose it. I drink a lot of Maxwell House International Coffees and my latest mission is to figure out ways to recycle these neat little containers into fun and useful objects. I've begun transforming one of them as we speak and I hope to share the finished product with you very soon. What about you? What do you turn your Maxwell House International Coffee containers into? I'd love to hear about it!-Cherie

Welcome:Meet Your Creative Bang Blogger

Welcome to my blog! Here on Creative Bang , I'll be posting about many of the craft projects I'm working on. My name is Cherie, by the way, and I hope you enjoy my blog and get inspired by some of the projects I post. Thanks for stopping in and having a peek around.