Monday, July 30, 2012

More Recycling Ideas

Happy Monday! Thanks for the fun comments on my ribbon organization idea. I hope it helps some of you get organized. So my tip today is a way to use up some scraps that you might have laying around.Check out the background of this new card.

There are times that I want to take something with me to do but I can't drag all my paper crafting "stuff" with me. So I have a Ziploc bag of scraps that I've cut into various size strips and I glue them to a backing to make some fun backgrounds for cards. Sometimes I do them by color or theme (like animal prints) or sometimes it's just a mixture of fun patterns. So this is just one of those fun background patterns. I colored the digital image with Bic markers. I'm sorry, I don't remember where I got this image so if you know please let me know so I can give proper credit. I used Eucalyptus Stickles to accent the scalloped circle and if you look carefully there are three dots of Stickles on the bottom left corner under my signature. I love making these backgrounds and I have tons of scraps to use up. I'm entering this card into these challenges:
I hope you've had a great start to your week. Thanks for popping by and have a wonderful Tuesday. Hope you will try a background like this. If you do drop me a comment so I can see too.

Donna

8 comments:

Lorie said...

I love this idea! What a great idea with the papers!

Stef H said...

this is stunnng. the black really sets it off.

i am loving your ribbon box. mine are all in ziplocks (gallon size - ugh). i may have to steal ur idea.

hugs :)

WencheP said...

Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

-Wenche

Dawn Easton said...

Fantastic use of scraps! I don't do that often enough! Your background turned out wonderfully! Thanks for playing along with us at the Paper Players!

LeAnne said...

Super cute card! I just had a little matching pile of scraps today on my desk and had in mind to do something similar! So glad you were able to play with the Paper Players this week!

Eret said...

Donna,your card looks fantastic. I love the background. Such a clever way to use scraps. Thank you so much for sharing your card with us at Digi Makeover Challenge - hope to see you back again :)
Hugs, Eret

Amy White said...

What a fabulous background! Such a great background for your image. Thanks for playing along with the Paper Players this week!

Rosie Guiher said...

great card idea Donna.

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