Paper Scraps

I'm going to share a secret with you; I hoard paper scraps. In the process of making a scrapbook page or other paper arts, I end up with a lot of scraps! In a later post, I'll talk about how I store all those pieces of paper. For today, I wanted to share some cards I made yesterday, mostly from scraps. The card bases are not made from scraps; those are 8 x 11.5 pages cut in half.



Birthday Card

• Torn scrap of dictionary page, painted
• Scrap of blue patterned paper
• Shipping tag (office supply store), painted & stamped; small scrap of blue on the end; scrap of ribbon through the hole

Birds on Blue Card

• Torn scrap of book index, painted & stamped
• Black scrap, deliberately torn
• Leftover piece of blue paper

Birds

• Torn strip from book index, painted
• Torn piece of tissue paper, stamped
• Shipping tag, painted (acrylic) & stamped; blue scrap on the end; ribbon scrap through the hole

Celebrate

• Torn scraps from book index, painted
• Blue scrap, stamped
• Flower border, stamped & watercolored
  

Simple Thanks (L)

• Shipping tag, stamped & swiped with ink pads; scrap of hem tape (swiped with ink pads) through hole
• Leftover paper flower embellishment
• Scrap red paper, torn
• Scrap brown patterned paper

Simple Thanks (R)

• Scrap from book index, painted & cut in shape of tag; stamped; edged with red from ink pad; red eyelet through hole
• Leftover paper flower embellishment
• Scrap brown patterned paper, torn
• Scrap red paper, torn
• Scrap black paper
• Bird, made with punch (Martha Stewart)