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Unbounded Love Scraps Card

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Unbounded Love Scraps Card

It was time to look through the little pile on my table of an assortment of die cuts and stamped images. They are just extra pieces that I made or didn’t use and sometimes these scrap piles can really grow! From those scraps, I designed this Unbounded Love Scraps Card! If you have a pile of scraps of various kinds, stop and look through them and see what you can design.

This card base is one of the new In Colors, Summer Splash. I realized I have barely used the new In Colors so I thought I should get busy with one of them! I didn’t add a layer to the card base, just started placing my scrap pieces to see what I could do.

I began with these white oval die cuts from the Unbounded Love Dies. I could have made some sort of shaker card with these pieces, but for now, I was looking for an easy card. I simply placed these ovals on the card and then planned out what flowers or pieces I could fit inside them and make a nice-looking card.

I won’t list all the stamp sets that are represented but some are Sentimental Park, Poised Peony, and Painted Lavender. Besides the ovals, some of the dies used were Painted Lavender and Sentimental Park. I stamped, colored, and die-cut a few flowers and foliage to fill in the ovals with the right size of images, but mostly I used my scraps. The cross-hatch stamped designs on the card are from the Spotlight on Nature Stamp Set. They are stamped in the same color as the card, Summer Splash ink. I just needed a little something for the background. It’s usually best to stamp first and then glue things, but I lucked out and didn’t ruin anything!

The greeting is in the Heartfelt Hexagon Stamp Set. I stamped it on Basic White in Summer Splash ink. Since I was rather limited in space on the card, I just cut around the stamped greeting. That takes up less room and still looks good!

For a final touch, I added a few 2024-2026 In Color Shimmer Gems in Summer Splash and Peach Pie on the card. What is a card without the bling?!

You could use this card for lots of occasions or even omit a greeting and just send it! It’s a good way to use up scraps and extra pieces that you have!

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Flowers & More Scraps Card

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Flowers & More Scraps Card

As I was going through my designer papers, I had lots of scraps of this one that I was tempted to throw out, but then I got the idea to make this Flowers & More Scraps Card. You can vary the width of the strips and you can make them laid out vertically as on this card or horizontally. It’s really a fun way to use up your scraps!

The paper I used is the Flowers & More 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. It’s a Host Reward in the Spring Mini that you can choose for your Stampin’ Rewards if you have an order of $150 or more. You’ll find it on page 90 and you’ll see it in the upper left-hand corner. It will be retiring along with the Spring Mini but if you want a huge pack of colorful and fun paper, get this!

I think it is easiest to use a backing of Basic White cardstock or even a color if you are leaving some spaces in between the strips and want to see the coordinating color. This way if you need to trim off a tiny bit on the sides or top or bottom you could do that before adhering to the card base.

These five strips are cut at 1″ x 4″ and layered on a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Basic White cardstock. You can do the math and change the width, the number of strips, the length of the scrap piece, or whatever you want to do. My card has the tiniest little space in between the strips. It might work best to adhere the strips for the ends down first and then fit the other three into the empty space in between.

The card base for this card is Melon Mambo but this designer paper has SO many coordinating colors you could use almost anything. Here is another card I made not long ago with some designer paper for Sale-A-Bration, Dandy Designs.

For the greeting, I stamped “thanks” in Shady Spruce ink and diecut it with one of the Tailor Made Tags. Because it is retiring, I used the Evening Evergreen 3/8″ Windowpane Ribbon. It’s on the Last Chance Sale for only $3.00, less than half the regular price of $7.50. Even though I used different greens I think it still goes with the card.

So if you have used up a lot of designer paper and have small scraps, try a card like this Flowers & More Scraps Card. You can go crazy with the combinations of the paper on the card!

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