Slap! Another post with dueling crafters.

Boop!  Boop!  Beep!

Hi, there!  If you remember a crafty little duel between me and Michele-with-one-L from Michele Made Me, you will recall I made these cutie-fruity photo holder garlands:

Perhaps you also recall that the duel was for a kind of "Tag-You're-It!" chain of projects called:

(Click above to read all about it and see the projects so far.)

Now it's my turn to tag somebody!   My first victim is Carol, whose delicious blog is called "The Answer is Chocolate."  (Best blog name EVER!)  Michele gave us our challenge, as follows:

1. Make your craft with recycled plastic bread-bag tags.

2. Take inspiration from industrial architecture.

3. Give your craft to your opponent.

So.  What to do with these little critters?

In case you don't know, my worthy opponent is truly a wizard (witch?) at making elegant printables.  To follow Ms. Chocolate's blog is to be showered with delightful free graphics for card making, holiday decor and general DIYing!  So I decided to make her a printable.  Oh - and it's for you guys, too.

Mine won't be elegant like hers (hey, it's my first attempt), but I had fun.   My starting point: bread tags, spacer beads, craft wire and chain.

My industrial inspiration: I tinkered around a bit, picturing cogs and ductwork and nuts and bolts.  Eventually I discovered that if you assemble these tags in a certain way, they look like robots!  Cool!

So here are my robot printables.  In honor of Earth Day 2011.

Click, save to your computer and print as desired.  Maybe you are throwing an Earth Day party?  Sounds like a fun idea to me.  I say we all throw one!


But wait.  Naturally, I could not not make an item of recycled jewelry. So I created a li'l robot necklace, and here he (she?) is!

To make him (her?), you can refer to my computer key jewelry tutorial.  I used the same basic techniques for this robot head.  I pierced the bread tags with a hot needle at three strategic points, then used one jump ring and two headpins to fasten them together:

Here's a closeup of the back.  A little hard to see, but I turned tiny loops in back of the shoulders (um, nipples?) to act as a type of rivet.

And there you have it, my entry for this round of Make It Good!  I really really hope you like it.

And now, you MUST click RIGHT HERE to go see Carol's bread-bag tag project.  I know it's going to be a bit of witchcraft that we are all going to love!

This here project will go into the Make It Good archives.  And now - uh-oh!  It's Carol's turn to tag somebody.  Maybe it will be YOU.

Boop.  Boop.  Beep!  Mich out.