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Low budget tip: Working your scraps into a fun project!

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So, what to do with all of these leftovers from your papercraft projects? Design paper scraps, cardstock scraps and even chipboard scraps – do you throw them all out? That could work, clutterfree living is a ‘thing’ nowadays after all.

However, you can also choose the Frugal Crafter’s perspective: when I consider my scraps, I don’t see waste, I see paper real estate! That’s why this week’s post is about a practical way to work with several different kinds of leftovers and create a very fun project with them. And it will be very budget-friendly indeed šŸ™‚

Also, it’s a new video tutorial on how to create my so-called scrapĀ mats.Ā IĀ have done one before but that was many many moons ago, so I thought it time for a fresh one…

I’m working with the leftovers of my recent Double-Stacked Too album, with papers from the Serenade and Clippings collections by Basic Grey.

ScrapĀ matsĀ makeĀ brilliantĀ backgroundĀ matsĀ forĀ yourĀ projects

Quickscrap Project: Springtime Tag / Bookmark

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Spring is coming, and although it’s still howling and storming with raging winds and rain here in the Netherlands, I already pruned my apple & pear trees and the first daffodils are blooming in my garden šŸ™‚

So, time to take my CelebrateĀ SpringĀ collection by Studiolight and create something happily colorful. I created a relatively large tag, using some papers, diecuts and cut-aparts. The butterfly is a Prima butterfly made from white fabric, which I sprayed and inked myself.

Since this tag was going to function as a bookmark, I made sure to keep everything as flat as possible. The only little bit of dimension I used was near the top edge, since that would be sticking out from a book šŸ™‚

And since it would also go with a birthday gift to my friend, I gave it a birthday theme on both sides!

Fancy more of my under-1-hour Quickscrap projects? Click here, where you’ll find them all!

Quick Scrap: Eight cute bookmarks

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Here’s several ideas for some bookmarks, large & small.
Bookmarks are the ideal quick scrap project: it’s quick, fun and perfect for using up those lovely scraps you have left over from your other projects. Also, they make a great gift, for instance as a companion piece to a novel that you’re gifting someone (or, in my case, a hardcover comic šŸ™‚ ).

These bookmarks have no bulk whatsoever of course, for they have to fit tightly between the pages of your novel. Except for their very top, for that will be the show piece, sticking out above your book šŸ˜‰

As always, enjoy the video and let me know what you think. Also: like & subscribe šŸ™‚