More is More

So I started to straighten up my stamp room a bit on Saturday (didn’t get very far) and  was throwing away little scraps around my paper cutter.  I saw all these strips of Summer Picnic designer paper left from cutting my class projects and thought “hey – I can make something with those!”  LOL!  This is why we crafters have so much trouble throwing stuff away!  I decided it was either make something right then or the scraps were going in the trash.

These strips were already cut exactly this size.  I just layed them out on a piece of black cardstock and adhered them down.  Seredipity 🙂  I used a Daisy D rub-on roller (got it at CHA) for the zig zag stitch at the bottom – cool, huh?  Then I went searching for what stamps to use.  I love this red wagon from the retired SU set The Wheel Thing.  I colored it with markers and combined it with the little flowers from Loads of Love.  The image was punched out with my Marvy Oval and layered onto Olive punched with a Marvy scallop Oval.  I know that Nestabilities are all the rage – and I do have the rectangles – but I still love my Marvy punches and reach for them often! The top was finished off with some wide red grosgrain ribbon and a Making Memories epoxy chipboard button.  A card just for fun.

I also had some little square scraps so I made this quick 3×3 card too.

The stamp is from SU’s Riveting and the ribbon is Bashful Blue Tafetta.  I used a clear glaze pen on the heart and a black glaze pen for the dots on the scallops.  (Glaze pens from www.eclecticpaperie.com)

So what scraps of designer papers do you have lying around or have you saved?  Go make something out of some of them and then come give me a link!  Go on….right now…it’ll only take you 20 minutes…go on…do it!!!! 

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!