Friday, December 16, 2011

What to do with your lame paintings....


Make cards or gift tags out of your lame paintings...

Robert Genn suggests burning your paintings that miss the mark... but I have another idea.

You can vent your frustrations by taking scissors or a craft knife to the paintings and then re-purposing them....

Gift tags

Make up some gift tags by cutting out some simple shapes and glue or tape them together. (I used double stick tape) The "To: and From:" can be written on the flip side with a sharpie marker.

christmas card

...or make some cards by cutting out ornament shapes and hanging them on a tree branch drawn with colored pencils. (The "bad painting" ornaments can be cut out of canvas as well as paper.)

You can make the card by quarter folding a piece of printer paper. The envelopes are "invitation" size and can be purchased at any office supply store.

So instead of a bonfire...(though that sounds sort of good on this snowy, chilly day)

...snip snip snip... glue glue glue and spread some holiday cheer.

4 comments:

cathyswatercolors said...

Hi Lauren, super cute ideas... I'm doing it tooo!:0) Merry Christmas!

Lauren Everett Finn said...

Merry Christmas to you too, Cathy!

Gerry said...

I wonder if that would work for writing tossed on the mulch pile too - cut out a shape . . . wait, wait I'm going to try it.

Lauren Everett Finn said...

Gerry... leave it to you to think of that...hehehe I imagine mulched pages would have a nice patina.

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