Earth Day Blog Hop

Hi everyone. In honor of Earth Day, I decided to join in  Michelle Perkett's Earth Day Blog Hop.  If you have arrived here from Lee's Blog, then you are in the right place.  If not, you may want to go back to Michelle's blog and start at the beginning. You would not want to miss all the great ideas!
She gave us a challenge to create something using recycled material such as  plastic, paper, or cardboard, and also include the color green in your work.  Since I am not very crafty,  I ended up doing a painting of a dryad (click for larger look).

 I have so much cardboard from all the books I order, so I started with a piece of cardboard, upon which I glued paper from an old music book.  The dryad's skirt and  leaves are made of pages from last year's phone book. The writing you see around her is a poem by Robert Frost called 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' (see below).
The poem starts on the left arm, and continues around her body.
That's supposed to be a bird's nest with baby cardinals in her hair. It was tricky working on this much texture, but I enjoyed the challenge.

 Your next stop is the lovely  Lynne's Blog.

Do try and visit all the participating blogs to see what wonderful creations they came up with. The last stop on this  hop is Michelle's Studio Blog, where you will find a poll to choose your favorite entry.  Thank you for visiting, and enjoy!

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost