Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Plucky Repurposing

The university's celebration of the Feast of St. Francis was lovely. The Cliff Singers were of cheerful and powerful voice. Ahhh....the sound of a young and dedicated choir! They filled the chapel with joyful music appropriate to honoring the patron' saint of this Franciscan institution.

This project posting is a re-purposing of a packaging for the most incredible tweezers! I can't believe I just used those two words (incredible and tweezers) in the same sentence. (And I DON'T mean a craft tweezers!) Even MORE incredible - I can't believe I am BLOGGING about TWEEZERS!

This amazing grooming product is called La-Tweez Illuminating Tweezers. This honey of a tweezers has a light that is brighter than a pulsar burst aboard the Star Trek Enterprise. La-Tweez is an ingenious tool with a slightly blue tinted light will not only make plucking effortless it startlingly, highlights those annoying, unruly, solo, spikey, erroneously located keratin extensions! Okay, while I’m ‘baring’ my furry soul I must admit that occasionally these shockingly unfeminine, testosterone driven, errant hairs of the “chinny, chin, chin” have been known to congregate in decidedly male-pre-pubescent fashion.

My very favorite salon, Pemberley's in Omaha, NE, carries them. Not only is the 'tweeze' the 'bees knees' the packaging was just BEGGING to be re-purposed. It crisply snaps shut with a hidden magnet. Luckily my sister Gail, who avoids crafts like a college student avoids an 8 am class, tossed her tweezers packaging into the Sioux City 'Transfer of Crap' basket - so I have ANOTHER one to decorate!

I'm uploading several images so you can view it from all sides.

This is the front view.


This is a side view. (The sides of the package were originally black - I didn't do anything to the sides.)
A view from the back.

Here is a view with the treat box open.

And finally a view from the bottom.


Boo-T-Full~Base packaging - La-Tweez Illuminating Tweezer
~Front view - orange cardstock with google eyes to cover up the imprinted words La-Tweez; strip of shiny black cardstock - embossed with white embossing powder using Versamark and a small 'boo!' stamp; I left granules of white embossing powder randomly on the black background hoping for a 'spooky' look (The black strip covers packaging imprinted words.)
~The graphic on the top of the back flap was covered with more orange cardstock - edges smudged with black ink and the corner stamped with black ink using a small spider web stamp
~The rest of the back flap was covered with The Paper Studio - Halloween Words~The bottom of the packaging had text imprinted on it so I covered it with orange cardstock smudged with black ink and stamped with a Stampablities Spooky Boo! stamp
~Assorted ribbons
Challenges
Aud Sentiments - Use any Halloween sentiment on a treat holder
The Character Cafe - Recipe: orange, 2 embellishments (google eyes and embossing), and ribbon
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Fall theme plus ribbon
City Crafter - Hurray for Holidays
Now if I had just thought to tell daughter Amy to save the packaging from her La-Tweez...
Nancy

15 comments:

  1. Fabulous ... don't you just love it when you can use up packaging? You've done a fabulous job ... thanks so much for sharing with us at CCCB

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  2. Great job. I love it when you can find a way to use something that most people would throw away.
    Thanks for joining us at the cafe this week.

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  3. Great job! I love recycling. Thanks for playing along at TCC

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  4. Perfect, thumbs up for recycling! Thanks for playing along with us at CCCB

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  5. Cute idea. If you turn off your word verification you will probably get more comments. Thanks for joining us at The Character Cafe.

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  6. Fantastic! Thanks for joining us at The Character Cafe!

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  7. Cute! Great idea to refurbish. Makes a great treat bag. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments
    Hugs,
    julie

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  8. How fun is this.. I love it. Too cute. Thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  9. Great project, I love it, fantastic recycling. Thanks for joiing us at Aud Sentiments. Cheers Suzanne

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  10. What an awesome idea! Such a cute way to recycle! Thanks for joining us this week at The Character Cafe! Hope to see you again next week!

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  11. What an adorable treat bag. I love those eyeballs. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments and don't forget to enter in our October monthly drawing going on right now.

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  12. ADORABLE! Love this treat bag! :) Thanks for joining at at TCC challenge! Come again soon!

    -Chelsea
    TCC DT Member

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  13. Perfectly fun and fabulous! LOVE it! thank you for joining us at CCCB!

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  14. What a fabulous little treat bag. Love it. Thanks for joining our Halloween sentiment challenge at Aud Sentiments this time.
    Hugs
    Dawn x

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  15. Great idea! And awfully brave to share about those errant hairs!!!!

    Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments

    Rx

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