Scraps Cards

It's been way too long since I played along over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges! This week we were challenged to use scraps. I have A LOT of scraps.

I keep them divided up into bags, roughly by the size of the scrap. The larger/medium pieces are reserved for use in other projects, the little ones I use for piecing, but Ellie also has access to the bag for her projects.

So, this week we got out the bag of scraps and both made some cards.

Here's Ellie's card. She's definitely my daughter - see the fussy cutting on the watermelons? ;)



For my card I used scraps from the Stella papers. This is one of my all time favorite collections, so I'm pretty happy that it's one of the four that was carried over from the last Idea Book.

The sentiment is from last month's Stamp of the Month, Live Out Loud, and I colored in the words You and Better with Spectrum Noir markers. It's hard to tell from the photo, but that panel in front with the tiled strips of paper is popped out using some zap dots.

One other thing I wanted to mention. I often collect up the cards I have on hand and send them out when people are collecting cards for different drives. My go-to card size is usually 4x6, but I recently learned that Operation Write Home accepts only A2 (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") cards. So, I'm going to make a conscious effort to make more A2 size cards in the future.

Thanks for coming by, have a great rest of your weekend!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock: CTMH - Stella papers, Lagoon and Cocoa cardstock, Colonial White Bulk card base
Stamps: Live Out Loud
Ink: Cocoa
Other: Helmar Zap Dots, Tombow Mono Adhesive, Spectrum Noir DR3, BT5