I like to add a little bling to my layouts. I picked up these red and blue BoBunny jewels to coordinate with the design team red, white and blue themed papers this month. When I bought them I thought, great- some extra bling for my layouts! What I didn't count on was that the packaging could become a layout element. The theme of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' that's so 'in' now has always been a mantra of mine. I'm the recycler of items at our house-- we never throw out jars or anything that could be washed, have the labels removed and reused to contain some yummy treat and great new custom label for a special friend. I like the challenge of finding new, different or unique uses for items instead of throwing them away. So when I removed these jewels from the packaging and saw this...
I just couldn't resist! It has to be used on a page! The bottom edge has a nice scallop and the colors were perfect with the DT papers this month! So, I cut off the top label and it became my journaling tag on my layout!
I challenge you to look for fun ways to reuse your packaging instead of tossing it out!
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