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May 14, 2024

Use Up Your Scraps - Squares

Hi Everybody,

I made lots of envelopes a little while ago for all the cards  I had made and I had lots of pieces of left over panels that are too good to simply throw away.

So I got our my dies and used the smaller  dies from  the nesting shapes to cut into the papers. You could also use punches if you have them.

The squares are my first offering and these two cards have dies of different sizes. The smallest dies are the green card and the slightly larger ones are for the pink one.

Both  cards have the same sentiment added to them as I find birthday cards are the ones I use  and make the most of.

One card is an A6 and the other is a 5x7 both with the folds at the top of each card.


I used some really fine glitter on the pink card and added in mirror card to the green one.

It used up a lot of my left over scraps and I still have some left to make even more.

You can add them in any orientation you like to vary the look of your designs, and as long as your colours blend then you can use any patterns that you have to complete the look.

For this card I  added ink to a white panel  and then used an embossing folder for the background and ran my fingers of the raised areas with gilding wax to add the interest. 

I added the small squares to black card and cut  the black card close to the patterned square leaving a small border around the edge.

They have ben added in a diamond pattern with foam squares underneath to raise them up

I have used a gold pen to add tiny dots around the card and the sentiment is one from a pack of many.


I will be adding more videos using scraps of other shapes as I have a lot of left over papers still to use 
from other projects
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More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

5 comments:

  1. Love these cards Christina what a great idea. Love Anne Owens ❤️

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  2. Great use of using up scraps and very pretty cards thanks for the inspiration Christina xx

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  3. What a lovely idea to use up the leftover pattern paper by die-cutting into squares to decorate the card.

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  4. Lovely cards & a great way to use up scraps.

    Michele

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  5. Nice cards Christina, the last one is my favourite
    Joycex

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