Second Hand Love

I did some craft recycling this afternoon and made a Valentine using parts 'donated' by family members to my recycle box ... which will no doubt soon be overflowing with Christmas cards ready for me to dissect, reassemble and give back to them LOL.

The gorgeous ribbon was originally used on a Christmas gift and the heart was cut with decorative scissors from an old Valentine's card which I kept hold of because I loved the glossy textured effect.

My new Purple Cow trimmer created the decorative edging on the background card ... and a gold metallic ink pen helps to highlight it just a little more.

Obviously, using 'recycled' components from shop bought cards to make new cards means that they can't then be sold, (or passed on to anyone else to sell), because of potentially breaching copywrite of the original card manufacturer.

But that's fine and dandy because I CAN give it to my hubby on 14th Feb ... and I may well do that if I can't come up with something I like better before then.