Male card with recycled material

Hello bloggers,

Here is a male card to show you today which has been made with partly recycled material. The matt gold cogs have been die cut using an old wallpaper sample. The bright gold cogs were die cut from wrappings of Ferraro Rocher chocolates. The little round shapes are the waste bits which I had to stick at strategic positions to hide some flaws. The black paper was very fancy gift packaging in its previous life. The sentiment is a die cut as well. 

I will participate in the following challenges with this card:

https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Monica 

Live Love Laugh

Hello lovely peeps,

Here is a card made with watercolours painted by Aleeza. She put masking tape to keep the white space in the middle. The colour ran out a little and entered below the masking tape but I quite liked the effect. 

The watercoloured background was layered on to black cardstock. 

The sentiment die was bought from a wee little store while we were in Perth last October. 

 I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ - make your own background

http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - Christmas /anything goes

Monica