So I've been on quite the crafting binges lately. And a lot of them have involved reuse of otherwise unused objects. Partly because of thrift, and partly because we live on an island now, and I'm a lot more sensitive to our waste these days. Not that I wasn't before, but when you live on a very small pinpoint in the middle of the sea from which our garbage gets shipped, anything I can do to recycle or upcycle seems prudent. Anyhow, I saw a how-to online for cardboard 3-D stars (which will be perfect for Christmas cards later this year - we'd already recycled a ton we'd saved before we moved). So I took a cereal box and pizza box that otherwise would have gone in the recycling bin, grabbed my x-acto knife, and got to work!
Then I painted my stars a silvery sage green, plus an extra pearly coat on the smaller stars.
Some I left cardboard-colored, scored, and folded them into 3-dimensional stars.
Then I grabbed a nasty wire hanger (you know, the cheapy ones that your dry-cleaning comes back on - blech), fashioned it into a circle, bent the top back into a loop, and then hot-glued the crap out of it on the back.
Stuck the 3-d stars on top of the flat green ones, making sure to gob them with hot glue wherever they touched the stars under them.
Close-up of the bottom.
On the door! There's a sheer shimmery ribbon that matches it quite well that's looped around the top where the hook is - but I may take it off. Haven't decided.
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