Using Up the Bits

Lately I've been trying to learn, after I'm finished making cards, to use up all the little leftover bits and pieces by turning them into tags.  I can't bear to through pretty stuff away, yet my "scraps" bins are getting WAY too full. I find I haven't been using them very much, so as I make more cards, they just get heaped higher and higher!

However, when I went to start making tags with the leftovers from my Meowy Christmas card, I realized that though I didn't have very much of the patterned papers left over, it would STILL take me forever to use it up on little tags.  SO, I decided I needed to make a couple more cards first.  It was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to do that with the little bits I had left.  I added some other cut elements from the Pepple's paper pack and some coordinating scraps in plain & glittered card stock and glimmer paper.  I also used a Hunkydory Tag (2016 Essential Little Book of Christmas Greetings), and some of the twine I had out for use on the tags.  I embossed the red glimmer paper using Cuttlebug's Holly Ribbon 5X7 embossing folder, and "addressed" the post card.  When I determine who this card goes to, I'll put their name on the "naughty/nice" list & fill out the information there. :)

For the inside, I had to get creative again to figure out how to make something interesting with the little bit of remaining scrap I had.  Here's what I ended up with:

That took care of most of the turquoise paper, but I still had more of the mini Christmas elements paper.  Going through my brown scraps, I found the die cut (Spellbinders' Resplendent Rectangles) I hadn't used and decided to use the same die set to cut the patterned paper to fit the center.  I "attached" it with twine to a strip of brown card stock, hoping to make it look like a hanging sign.  I stamped a greeting on a strip of white card stock & created the greeting tag - which I added with foam tape.  A fussy cut stocking from scraps of the patterned paper completed the outside:

For the inside, I used another cut out element from the paper pad - with brown card stock scraps.  I wrote the message with a fine point brown marker, trying to make it look like a child's writing.  Then I added a few "candies" which I cut from scraps of the patterned paper.

Now the scraps were more manageable, but I DID still have enough to make 5 tags:

The center back row is one that has fluffy stuff snow on it, but you can't see that in the picture.  The greetings on the tags in the back row & the larger snow flakes on the one on the right (back row) are all chipboard elements that came in a card making magazine - couldn't tell you which one.  I added some mini-punched snowflakes to the one on the front left.  Stamped sentiments on both of the front tags were from a HOTP bulk set.