Using Up Paper Scraps to Make Handmade Cards
October 01, 2024
Today we're Using Up Paper Scraps to Make Handmade Cards. For a couple of weeks we've been creating some great cards with designer paper and learning some neat tips & tricks to use up our scraps. This is our final week of this series with 2 more super fun and easy cards.
The designer paper we're using this week is the Flowering Zinnia Designer Series Paper--it's one of the most colorful and vibrant papers with which we are currently working...
Here is today's card...
& a bit closer look...
The Flowering Zinnia DSP is wonderfully coordinated with colors and designs which made our scrap selections quite easy for today's creation. The ones we chose were small designs with great blending colors. The strips were so easy--I'm sure your scrap bin has tons of 1" strips! You can even use designs from different designer paper series.
We layered these strips on Lemon Lime Twist and underlayed all with the Old Olive base card.
One of the design colors was Lemon Lolly which is quite light making it great for stamping our greeting.
Then our focal accent is the adorable Paper Butterfly. As you know these arrive in white and this makes them absolutely perfect for shading any color to match your current project. We daubered this one with Pumpkin Pie ink and they "painted" it with gold Metallic Enamel Effects--that gives it a lovely shiny rich sheen. This was then embellished with 3 sparkly rhinestones and the card is ready for sending!
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Directions:
1. Cut Old Olive cardstock 4 1/4 X 11, score long side at 5 1/2 (cardbase)
2.Cut Lemon Lime Twist cS 3 1/2 X 4 3/4; adhere to card front
3. Cut 3 pieces of coordinating scrap designer paper 1 X 4 1/2; adhere here these vertically on the Lemon Lime layer leaving equal borders all around each one.
4. Cut Lemon Lolly CS 1/2 X 2 1/2; stamp greeting (Simply Said) in black ink (e.g. Memento) to the righthand end; adhere to card front--see sample for placement.
5. Dauber a small white Paper Butterfly with Pumpkin Pie ink; brush on (or use dauber) gold Metallic Enamel Effects; adhere butterfly to left end of greeting strip. Adhere 3 medium rhinestones to butterfly body.
Your card is ready for sending!
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