Scraps

Hi, everyone!  I'm here with some mid-month inspiration for you for the Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra.  As always, we are a month-long anything (Christmas-related) goes challenge.  I set a challenge for myself to use up some scraps that were all that were left from a paper pack I'd had for a couple of years.  I had finally gotten it down to these 5 pieces:

When I had mentioned this is an earlier post, someone had left a comment saying I could turn them into Christmas trees.  I thought about it for a while and this is what I came up with:

I think it was a genius idea!  Thanks, Dot!  I took the largest scrap and cut it into 1/2 in strips.  I used the full width of the first piece for the base, and then trimmed off a little bit of the rest in a graduated fashion, adding the smaller off cut pieces to add to the top of the tree.  A piece of scrap brown for the trunk, a piece of gold recycled wrapping paper for the star on top and a snowbank cut out of a scrap piece of white and this card is almost entirely made of scraps.  I love how it turned out, so much so, in fact, that I used a mirror layout and another of the scrap pieces for my second card:

This piece was smaller and so I ended up with a skinny tree, a bit like a Charlie Brown tree, but it's still cute!
On to my next card.  I was really at a loss on how to use the poinsettia scrap piece.  It was just angled a bit weirdly, and although I had trimmed it a bit earlier, it still didn't look right due to it being printed along the edge of the paper.  But, I came across the layout I ended up using and it actually seemed to fit.  Also, on this card, I was able to use some more scraps from a different paper pad.

One more to go, and we're going to switching holidays for this one.  But as I used the rest of the scraps on it, I decided to add it to this post.  I cut as many hearts as I could out of the striped paper.  It is a Christmas paper, but with the reds and pinks in it, I thought it could also work for Valentine's Day.

Since I was able to cut out 4 hearts, I found 3 matching colors of cardstock and cut the same number and shape of hearts out of each of them.  I lined them all up and actually used my sewing machine to stitch a line through each column.  A sentiment and a bit of ribbon, and a very pretty CAS card that used up the last of my scraps!!

Phew, that was a long post.  Thanks for sticking with me.  I hope I was able to inspired you with some ways to use up some of your scrap stash.  'Cause I KNOW you've got them.  : )

Supplies:

Card 1:

Stamps: Verve "Peace On Earth" sentiment

Dies/embossing folders: Simon Says stamp stitched hill die; MFT "Star STAX"; Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments ##171--anything goes with a sentiment

Sugar Pea Designs #27--anything goes

Cuttlebug Mania--winter wonderland

Merry Christmas Challenge #15--CAS

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #264--anything goes with snippets

Love to Craft #6--anything goes

Crafting with an attitude--anything goes

Card 2:

Stamps: Verve "Peace On Earth" sentiment

Dies/embossing folders: Simon Says stamp stitched hill die; MFT "Star STAX"; Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder

Challenges:

Sweet Stampers #3--winter/snow

Penny's Challenge #311--anything goes

CASology #231--forest

Tuesday Throwdown #325--snowflakes (embossing folder)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round--add snowflakes (on embossing folder)

Card 3:

Stamps: A Day For Daisies "A Special Gift"; PTI "Inspired: Jesus"

Dies/embossing folders: PTI "Inspired: Jesus"; MFT "Fancy Flourish"; Spellbinders "A2 Matting Basics A" rectangle

Challenges:

Hiding In My Craft Room #284--super scraps Saturday

Hanna & Friends #264--Christmas

Creative Knockouts #176--celebrations (celebrating Jesus' birth)

Little Miss Muffet #154--anything goes

Creative Fingers #182--anything goes

ABC Christmas--A is for anything goes and B is for something beginning with B (I used both anything goes and blue in my image)

Word Art Wednesday--anything goes

A Day For Daisies #158--2 or more layers

Card 4:

Stamps: Verve "Take Note" sentiment

Dies: Sweet 'n' Sassy Stamps heart dies (I used 4 of the smaller ones)

Challenges:

Brown sugar #233--anything goes

Southern Girls--Stitch me up

Inspiration Destination #110--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #278--add ribbon and/or lace

Creative Craft #79--ribbons and/or pearls

Crafty Creations #332--anything goes

Scrapper's Delight #62--anything goes

CraftDee Bow-Z--anything goes with handmade bow