Showing posts with label Scraps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scraps. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Wallflower Scraps

Well here we are nearly at the end of another month! How quickly the time passes. 

Jennie here with you today with my second make of the month and sorry! but I had to use the doily again!


Now I did say at the beginning of the year that I was really going to try and use up some of my scraps this year. My beloved and much used Tim Holtz Wallflower Paper Stack is now looking like this:


But it is amazing that as you start looking through you can find enough to make a simple card (with a feel good factor too!).


The doily was cut again in cream cardstock. Now this is just as it popped out the die and you can see how cleanly it cuts - just one or two little bits to pop out.


I had found a bigger piece of the green for the base of my card, but I managed to punch these flowers out of really small scraps! They got a spritz of water and a scrunch and then were left to dry.


Then everything got layered on the card. I had cut the doily down a bit to fit the scrap cardstock and the oval was die cut again from a very small scrap. The flowers were layered on top of each other and clustered with a stamped butterfly and a few more of the punched leaves I seem to have on everything these days!



A stamped sentiment in the bottom corner and a few gems and I was finished.  Another card for the birthday box and it feels so good to have used a few scraps.

Thank you for joining me today and have a great week!

Jennie x







Monday, 22 February 2016

Kraft and White



Good morning everyone! 

Jennie here with you today to share a little card made from some of my favourite colours - Kraft and White - BUT with that all important splash of red!


As you will all know by now I just love 4 x 4 cards, so I normally have a little stack of white cardstock already cut ready just to go. This piece was first stamped with some of my favourite little stamps using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I stamped off first, so this was a second generation stamp in order to keep it light. A little ink was blended around the edges and a I added a few splatters. Finally I added some texture paste through a layering stencil.



Again I often keep a little stack of kraft and cream crardstock already cut to size (8 x 4) so I can layer my front layer quickly.


Some of these pieces were in my scrap box having been stamped or cut for other projects (I am a bit of a kraft/brown person really!).  The small leaf was punched from the Tim Holtz Leaf Punch and coloured with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.


The small flower, and my pop of colour, was made using Tim Holtz's Spiky Floral Punch. I punched five flowers from a small piece of scrap card in my overflowing box. The three inner petals were scrunched and glued together whilst the outside two layers were rounded on the reverse with a ball tall.


I have a flower tutorial on my blog HERE for a similar flower made from the Tattered Floral Die which you might like to have a look at if you want to make a similar flower to mine.


And then it was just a matter of layering everything onto the card. Another card for the box and nice to know that I have used a few more scraps !

Have a lovely day and I hope you manage to find some crafting time.

Jennie x