Wishes TP mini album {Earth Day, Birthday Blog Hop}

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In honor of Earth Day, I recycled toilet paper tubes, losing lottery tickets, gems from a lotion bottle, and ribbon that came with my son's pajamas for this project.

I started out with all of my losing lottery tickes.  I used my Sixxiz flower die to cut them into flower shapes.

I inked them purple with a Versa Color mini stamp pad.  I wanted some of the lottery ticket image to show through, so I did not ink too much!

My friend loves tanning beds and I saw this label on her tanning lotion in her car.  I had to have it!!!  She peeled it off and handed it to me and just rolled her eyes (thanks Karyn)!!

I took 4 tp tubes and flattened them with my bone folder.  I put them under some heavy books for about a week to flatten them out.  I cut my paper into 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 rectangles to cover the tp tubes.  I used my ATG gun to glue the paper on.

Here are my album pages ~ it is hard to see here but I inked the edges with purple ink.

I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch holes in the tubes.

This ribbon came tied around a box of pajamas I bought my son.  I always save free ribbon!!!  The white did not really go, so I inked it.

Here is the same ink I used on the flower.  I also inked some ribbon lime green.

Here is one of the crystals from the lotion bottle.

Here is the ribbon I inked lime green.

I have a file in my Gypsy saved with tags for the tp album.  {***Added}The tags for the inside of the tp tubes measure 2.53w x 3.95h.  I only needed 4 for my project, but cut them all out and will use the others for a future project.

I found the work Wish from Gypsy Wanderings cartridge and welded "es" from Lyrical Letters to the end of it for my title.

Here are the other words I found.  Happiness and Dreams are from CM Cheerful Season, and Family is from Gypsy Wanderings.

 I cut the tags from Lacy Labels in a creme cardstock and inked the edges with purple.

Here is my Wishes Mini Album once again.  This will make a nice gift for a friend to write down her wishes and add some small photos!

I have some blog candy and I will use Random.org to select my winner on Sunday, April 24th.  In order to qualify for the Blog Candy, you need to #1 be or become a follower, #2 provide me a way to reach you if you are the winner, and #3 tell me your favorite item/project that you have recycled!

This is a 3x5 notebook that I made.

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