It will be February and Valentine's Day (alternately known as Singles Awareness Day), so I've started with the lovey-dovey stuff:
Today is the Featured Stamper challenge over on Splitcoast, and we're honoring Dockside this week by CASEing a card from her gallery. I chose THIS one.
Earlier this week I was reading a thread about using up paper scraps, and banners was one of the suggestions there. I don't have a lot of scraps currently, as I purged them all when we moved in October, but I still do have a lot of papers that need to get used up! I dug out Stampin'Up's Raspberry Tart collection (still one of my all-time faves) and an old Close to My Heart stamp (from the Because I Love You set) to stamp in SU! Rose Red ink. The only other details are some scored lines on each side of the banners and a ribbon across the top (Hobby Lobby).
I started to clean up the scraps from this card when I decided to challenge myself to use the "scraps of the scraps" on another card (in the interest of using things up this year instead of hoarding them). Here's what came out:
The petals on my flower are the triangles left behind when I cut the tails of the banners, the stem is a teensy strip resulting from trimming the width of one of the banners, and the leaves are another small scrap cut in half diagonally. The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp's "Prim Blessings" set, and the card base is Stampin'Up! Kiwi Kiss. AND - sometimes hoarding things for five years or more is actually a GOOD thing! Case in point: the brad in the center of the flower is from Target's $1 Spot, and never went with ANYTHING I tried to use it on before, but it works just fine here! Card size is 3 5/8" x 7 1/2".
I was going to do the promised tutorial today, but it's raining (shockingly), and pictures will not turn out well, so that's on hold for another day... Hope your weekend is going well, your playoff team is winning (if you follow football), and all the rest of it - thanks for stopping by!
FABULOUS! I love both cards and aren't you clever to use those scraps in such a delightful way!
Posted by: Brenda | January 12, 2015 at 05:10 AM
Love the cards! Especially the 'leftovers' one, because it doesn't look like leftovers! AND very happy to find you are back to blogging. I was reading the Weekly Inking over at Splitcoast and came across a comment of yours on the forum and zipped over here to see what you were up to! Going back now to catch up on the previous posts.
Posted by: Lu C | January 14, 2015 at 03:43 PM