It's a Celebration!

The Lollydoodle collection lends itself to great cards for little girls' birthdays.  The pink.  The sparkley.  The fun shapes.  This card uses mostly scraps for a checkerboard effect to bring in all of the great colors from this collection.  Stamp and cut out the cute heart crown and embellish with Flamingo Dots.  The "It's a Celebration" stamp can be found in the Banner Wishes stamp set.

 

Lollydoodle Scrapbooking Kit

Ribbon Flower

 

Many times, I have short scraps of all papers from a workshop that are still useful, but not quite for a whole scrapbook page.  Perfect for a card!  This card uses the Blue Ribbon stamp set to show off the Sweet Leaf flowers from the Skylark Assortment.  Strips of paper from each B&T plus the zip strip makes a colorful striped background.

Skylark Sunday Scraps

The Skylark paper packet has a lot of good colors to mix and match, particularly with scraps.  As anyone who's attended my card making workshops knows, I am in love with all kinds of techniques.  That makes me a Technique Junkie!  Today's card is from the technique called Embossed Scraps, from the April/May 2013 issue. 

Using the brand new Embossing Folders, emboss several different scraps with different lengths and widths and attach to the card.

SUPPLIES

Paper: Slate CS, SkylarkPaper Packet

Images:Skylark WOTG

Embellishments: Skylark Assortment

Embossing Folders

Cloud Nine Scraps

With a few more scraps left over from Cloud Nine Paper Crafting kit from January, I made a few more cards.  This card uses tiny thin scraps, about 1/2" wide.  They don't even have to stretch all the way across the card, because the square covers the middle area.

Using your stamps, build a nice image incorporating all of the colors from the patterned paper.

Add color to a plain card base by using colored ink a little darker to make a small focal point in the corner.

Cloud Nine Embossing

I had several scraps left over from last month's constant campaign, Cloud Nine.  This month's constant campaign introduces our new Embossing Folders.  

 These fun products are huge for embossing folders, a full 5" X 7" size.  And they have these nifty slits in the top of the folder to help emboss longer strips of paper.  Check out this video to show how to use the folders.

This card is 5" X 5", so it fit right into 5" X 7" folder.  I used the Quatrefoil pattern.  Four little scraps arranged in a pleasing cluster and two small flowers stamped in Lagoon Ink and centered with Sunset brads make this a super quick card.

Owl Grid

 

This fun Sunday Scraps idea comes from Mariana Grigsby.  When you have left over strips, or even our CTMH Zip Strips from the B&T paper, you can create a grid pattern to cause texture.  The little owl was colored with markers.

 

SUPPLIES

Paper: White Daisy, Juniper CS, Sparkle and Sprinkle B&T

Images: Season's Tweetings

Sprinkle Flags

Today's Sunday Scraps uses the scraps from the Sparkle and Sprinkle paper pack to make small flags and chevrons to create fun visual interest.  This idea came from a card that Jeanie did over on Clearly Cards for World Card Making Day.

With CTMH's double-sided Background and Texture papers, I had lots of patterns and color to choose from.  Another fun way to use the shimmer trim is to punch circles from it and make glittery balls for the card.

SUPPLIES

Paper: Colonial White and Juniper CS, Sparkle and Sprinkle B&T

Images: Season's Tweetings

Embellishments:Red Shimmer Trim

Sunday Scraps

We all have a lot of times when we've used up most of our paper from a paper pack, but you don't have enough to make another layout.  If you are like me, it is hard to throw out paper, no matter how small (well, ok, maybe if it is smaller than 1/2"?)  When I create card workshops, I try to have a few cards that use our left over paper scraps.  

This Sunday Scraps idea came from Andrea Walford's Circle Circus.

Using a variety of cardstock and patterned B&T, punch paper into circle shapes.  Then you can decorate the circles with stamping or sparkles or other 3-D artwork.

 

SUPPLIES

Paper: Colonial White and Cocoa CS

Images:variety of patterned stamps

Embellishments: mini-sparkles, Huntington Assortment, Base and Bling Floral