Mixed Medium with Shari Carroll: Earth Day

Mixed Medium with Shari Carroll

Welcome to the blog my friends! Today is Earth Day. It’s a great time to think of ways we can take care of our dear mother Earth. I am a recycler, on average we have two bins of recycling and one kitchen bag of regular garbage per week. I think that’s a good start!

To take my recycling a step further, I’ve created a project by pulling out some items from the bin and up-cycled them into a mixed medium project.

I’ve used soda can tabs for the flower petals, a water bottle lid for the center and a plastic straw for the stem. The leaves are created from a cut up toilet paper tube. And finally, the flower sits atop a grassy hill made from corrugated cardboard. Fun isn’t it?

Mixed Medium, Shari Carroll

I started out with the Tim Holtz mini clip board, which was perfect for tucking my typed and printed title under the clip. Today would be a good day for creating a project like this with children. You could use the moment to teach them ways they can recycle, up-cycle and have fun at the same time!

Earth Day, Mixed Medium, Shari Carroll

I’ve filmed the process of creating this project which you can view below or on our YouTube channel HERE.

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Thanks for stopping by and happy Earth Day!

  1. What a fun project – for both kids and adults alike.
    I like that the clipboard can easily hang anywhere!
    And I love the message here.

  2. Happy Earth Day! Thank you for this awesome project, Shari!! Love the way you incorporated recycled items, especially the flower petal sofa can tabs. We recycle as much as we can, too. I use paper towels a lot (what did people DO before paper towels?) so I feel better that we send out bags of paper to recycle each week!! And I try to use cloth towels more. But that takes water to wash, so….?! It’s sooo important to be aware and conscious of caring for Mother Earth. I’m always appalled at the trash I see on roadsides!! I’m happy that we celebrate Earth Day to help educate everyone on the importance of caring for our planet.

  3. Thank you for this fabulous project Shari! I love all of your mixed media pieces of art and this one especially made me want to make one myself. TFS

  4. This is just adorable, AND it is something I could do with my young grandsons. My daughter does crafty projects at home with them all the time and they love it and of course when they are here they LOVE my craft room and all of “Nanny’s fun stuff”! Such a great message and it is a fantastic way to keep things out of the landfill!
    We live in the country and grew up with this mindset so we have very little garage to put curbside. You cannot avoid it totally but we all can certainly make an impact!
    Happy Earth Day to you as well!

  5. I think this is your best mixed media piece yet. You are very talented and creative. Such an important subject.

  6. This is incredible. . .what a great way to celebrate Earth Day. I know I’ll be looking around the house for elements to make my own Earth Day celebration. Thanks so much for sharing this!

  7. Great project! Thanks for sharing how you used all the recyclables! It’s given me a lot of inspiration!

  8. I love the idea of recycling (not only when making cards). It is always fun to see what beautiful creations can be made from “trash”.

  9. This is so beautiful! Love your creative use of these recyclables most of us already have in our homes! This would make a cute gift as well!

  10. Great project to celebrate earth day. When my two youngest grandsons come to stay, they always want to paint, glue, cut out, etc. and we will get some art supplies from the recycle bin and go from there. Lovely project. The soda can tab flower is too cute! Their projects will most likely have a dinosaur or Star Wars theme, however.

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