Papermaze DT - July PT III

Below is a post I recently shared on the PAPERMAZE BLOG - I hope you enjoy

What do you do with your paper scraps?

I used to collect them in a box, promising myself that I would use them eventually....yeah, right. I found myself drowning in scraps and ended up throwing boxes of them away.

These days I challenge myself to create a card and/or tag as soon as I finished a project with some of the left over scraps. Right now I am totally addicted to make tags, because you have the best of both worlds with them - either use them to adorn a gift or stick them on a blank card and you have a quick greeting card when you need it.

Here are two examples I created from a few left overs.

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Cardstock: Bazzill

Papers: Crate Paper - Portrait "Something Blue"

Beads: Dew Drops "Clear"

Pen:Uniball Signo "White"

Ink: Staz On "Blazing Red"

Cardstock: Bazzill

Papers: Crate Paper - Emma's Shoppe "Sweets", "Quilts"; The Girl's Paperie "Birds of a Feather"

Stickers: Jenni Bowlin - Black Tiny Dot

Mists: Cosmic Shimmer - Aqua Lagoon, Ancient Copper; Tattered Angels - Olive Vine

Punches: Woodware

Beads: Dew Drops "Clear"

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In answer to Monica's question in the below comments,  I really don't remember how I created that flower. I think I just folded a piece of paper strip in concertina fashion and cut into the edges...I am kicking myself now that I did not take any notes of how what I did.

Better be prepared next time, right?

The first cut...

..is the deepest - as Bryan Adams rightly sang a few (ha!) years back.

And nothing hurts as much as cutting for the first time in some beloved patterned paper. But I am embracing it these days and cutting up papers with bold patterns has become one of my favourite techniques.

Reaad more on the {{Papermaze Blog}} about how I created this layout:

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