If you’ve been crafting for a long time, you may find yourself with some of the packaging from the products we buy. It’s always FUN to find new ways for repurposing & recycling product packaging like the projects I’m sharing with you here today. CutCardStock makes it easy and fun to create projects like this. You can always find all the perfect colors, weights and varieties of cardstock you desire when you shop at CutCardStock.
Gathering Your Supplies
For this Repurposing & Recycling project, I used some old Maya Road packaging. You’ll also need some small candies such as Tic-Tacs or jellybeans, etc. You can gently clean the inside of the packaging since you’re adding a food product. This is also a great time to select your CutCardStock colors. Both projects use Cougar White Cardstock for the base, which explain further in just a bit. The additional colors I chose for my first project include Habanero Red, Lessebo Brick Orange, DCS Yellow Jacket Cardstock for the flowers, and Pop Tone Jelly Bean Green as well as Pop Tone Gum Drop Green for the leaves.
Next Steps
Take out the piece of sliding cardboard from the back of the packaging and trace it onto a piece of Cougar White Cardstock. I shaded these a bit by rubbing some ink to the edges that will match each repurposing and recycling project. The fun part of repurposing & recycling product packaging is that you probably already have some of these items sitting around in your craft room. If not, they’re not hard to find.
Adding the Candy
Open your Tic-Tacs (or other candy) and pour them into the open space where your product once was. Replace the small plastic cover that holds everything in place, and then just slide that pretty new piece of cardstock right in there where the product packaging once was. It’s already CUTE! But the fun part continues…..more CutCardStock.
Adding CutCardStock to the Product Packaging
Once everything was in place, I cut several die-cut flowers and leaves as well as a to/from tag. I layered them together with glue and started placing them on my project(s). Once you get down the process, you can create these FUN repurposing & recycling product packaging goodies pretty quickly. CutCardStock makes it SO colorful and lovely.
I added some bundled string to the top of each project before attaching the flowers and leaves. There’s really no “right way”, or wrong way for that matter, to decorate your projects. Just have FUN and always remember that CutCardStock is there to provide the perfect cardstocks every single time. What a joy that is, right? LOVE it.
My second project followed the exact same process. The only difference being the colors of CutCardStock that I chose for each. This second version uses Pop Tone Pink Lemonade Cardstock, Pop Tone Grapesicle Cardstock, DCS Plum Cardstock, and more of the Cougar White Cardstock. Which version is your favorite? And what colors would YOU have used on this fun repurposing & recycling product packaging art?
Any time you think about cardstock, we hope that you’ll always think of CutCardStock first. They really do have it all when it comes to cardstock (and more). You can find so much great inspiration on the CutCardStock Blog as well as on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. You won’t want to miss any of it. Happy crafting, everyone!