Hi there! It's designteam time of the week again and we wanted to let you know we have some fun stuff plannend for next week since next week is National Scrapbookingday! So make sure to check our blog next Saturday (several times) since we will be here with some fun stuff and of course....give aways! As a part of the fun you can ask everything you ever wanted to know of us, the designteam members from Cosmo Cricket. You can place your questions in todays comments section, do not forget to let us know for who the question is meant :) And the most original, funniest or best question will win a price! Now, do not forget to comment on Amy's post down here because I can tell you, it's great!
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Hi Everyone! Amy here today to tell you about some tips and tricks that I do help with one of the biggest problems I have in scrapbooking-little teeny pieces of scrap paper everywhere! We all have this problem right? (please say right so that I am not the only one! :D) They are such a pain sometimes! It seems a waste to throw it away, yet you can seriously only so many 1 1/2 inch squares of the same patterned paper! LOL! Well I decided I would try to show some ways that I I use on my LOs to work on diminishing my pile. I must tell you that none of these ideas are new or my own genius! They are ideas I have seen for a while now, and absolutely LOVE using on my own pages all the time! I just thought I would come on here today and share them!
This first LO does a couple of things that are fun and handy! I used quite a few tiny strips of patterned paper as simple and subtle accents to the page. In the first spot was the border, where not only was this a color accent to the picture but also the frame for my LO. I had some little half inch strips in my paper scraps bag and decided to cut those in half longwise to create the little strips. Then on the bottom of my LO, just below the picture, I have two more strips of paper that I used decorative scissors on. Actually to be honest, one of them is the negative of another time that I used the scissors on a piece of paper! (Can you believe I even keep those?! :P Yeah I do.)
On a sidenote: I wanted to point out the hand cut clouds and other characters on the LO because those are from the border strip papers! I will admit I have a little difficulty using the border strip papers only because I am unsure how to get them on the page! So instead I hand cut all the super cute little things on the strips! I love doing that because it gives me all these sweet and teeny things to use on my pages!
Now this next page uses punches as the basis for using up scraps! :D For example, I used punches of paper and adhered them to my LO to create a kind of scalloped circle! Well I guess it is not really scalloped because I used a pinked circle punch, but it is kind of the same thing! :D On this LO I used multiple punches to create my embellishments and accents. The pinked circle border was super easy-all I did was punch them, use a little bit of repositional glue (just in case I needed to move them), stuck em on and sewed the whole thing together! Super simple! Moving further down the LO you can see I made a tab for my journaling tag with a punch. And then even further down I created kind of the center piece embellishment for my page by layering punches of paper!
On a sidenote: Notice how I painted my background paper white? I decided to do this because I wanted that paper but just not as bright as it normally is. Painting it white made the pattern and color more subtle, and ended up making all my embellishments and picture on the page stand out that much more!
I did something similar on this next LO. I used several cut outs from the Girl Friday Wednesday paper on my LO, but didn't want them to be quite so dark, so I gave them a quick wash over with some diluted white paint! :D Don't be afraid to change a paper to suite what you need! I do this all the time!
This LO incorporates all the things that I had discussed with the last two LOs. My accents on this page are created solely from punches, decorative scissors, and hand cut shapes. I layered and layered, and then sewed them all into place. All the butterflies were cut out of pieces of paper that seriously I don't know what else you would have been able to do with them!
Well I hope you enjoyed this today, and that I have helped inspire some ideas into helping reduce the amount of little scraps you might have! :D
Have a great weekend!
