Recycling for scrapping

Over the years I have kept and horded various items with the idea that "one day" I might use them on a page.... well look at that the day finally arrived!  The November Recipe at Paper Mixing Bowl called for a recycled/found object.... so I dug around in my stash and found some lids off the coffee can that I had been keeping.  Now what to do with them?

First up I thought of punching flowers, but that didn't really go with the theme of my page, so in the end I found a chipboard frame in my stash and decided to alter it... here is how.

 I took the lid and cut it into strips just a bit wider than the frame... then wrapped them around each side.  As the strips weren't quite long enough to go from end to end, I then cute small bits which I added to the corners.

For extra effect I also wrapped some wire around the frame in places...

The finished frame stuck down.

The tab top of the lid also got added as a sort of "tag" under the top photos....

 I twirled a few smaller strips to make "ribbon" liks tendrils... and curled some wire around toothpicks to match too.

And there you have it... a finished layout using up a bit of tinfoil ....which by the way was the subject of this page too!