Mixed Medium with Shari Carroll: Earth Day
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?
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!
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!
Love the earth. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Very creative re-use of alternative materials! I love reusing materials for crafting and always appreciate more ideas! Thanks!
First comment ever! Great ideas to craft with my grandson. Simon says stamp ROCKS!
Great project for Earth Day! :)
Wowzer….This is so clever and very creative who would ever have thought to use the tops from soda cans. I love it. Thank you for sharing.
What a great Earth Day Project!
love your mix of materials
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.
Love the up cycling
Ok, I’m so impressed by that flower. What a great reuse of pop tops! Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh wow!!! Such a great way to celebrate the Earth Day!!! Awesome project!!!
Wow, this is amazing.
Awesome project!
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.
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
What a great way to upcycle! Happy Earth Day!
Beautiful. I always enjoy Shari’s mixed media videos.
Fabulous! The colours are great and I love the upcycling.
Fabulous project.
The soda pop can tabs are a genius idea! Fabulous project!
Omgee this upcycling is fabulous!!!
Great project!!
Wonderful project. Great ideas with the upcyling things.
What an adorable Earth Day project. Perfect for Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! I love this project!
Wonderful project. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Great job creating this with re-cycled items. We always have more recycling than trash too.
What a FAB idea for recycling. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love how you used recycled items to make the card. Very nice!
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!
Shari, You are amazing, with your creativity! I love this, and you rock, girl!
I think this is your best mixed media piece yet. You are very talented and creative. Such an important subject.
Amazing project!
Great earth day project! Love to reuse and recycle.
Happy Earth Day!! What a great project… love it ❤️
Such a fantastic project, loaded with recycled items!
Happy Earth Day! I love mixed media because I can use my wonderful supply of recyclables ♥
Over the top creative & wonderful, Shari! Love your project!
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!
This is so creative and unique, love watching you create.
Great project! Thanks for sharing how you used all the recyclables! It’s given me a lot of inspiration!
Great project, brilliant on the up cycling!!
What a fun way to upcycle/recycle materials by incorporating them into your project.
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”.
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!
Love this and love that it is made from recyclables!
Cute.
Love the flower beautiful!
Love your recycling ideas here. I find myself saving tops of bottles and empty toilet paper tubes!!!! Thanks for sharing!
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.