After spending days organizing my MANY paper scraps, I'm now working to USE them. I decided a great way to do so was to use up-cycled focals. Here are 2 of the resulting cards.
Card #1 (above): The golden background paper/frame is from a wallpaper scrap! The blue is from scraps of glimmer paper. The bird is cut from a used calendar. The music notes are from my stash. The "Happy Birthday" is cut with a Happy Birthday Caps die from Divinity Designs (formerly Our Daily Bread Designs), and the frames/mats are cut with a Journey Rectangle Long die from Fun Stampers Journey.
Inside:
The same materials are used on the inside with the same Journey Rectangle Long dies, a die from Divinity Designs' Many Blessings stamp/die duo, and stamps from JustRite's With Sympathy stamp set.
Card #2:
This card started with pieces cut from a greeting card that my grandmother received. The added papers are all scraps. The gold was embossed with a Spellbinders M-Bossability folder called Imperial. The leaves were die cut using dies from Spellbinder's Botanical Swirls & Accents. The additional flower were made using a cream colored flour from my stash, combined with free-hand cut pieces of pink scraps. The greeting is from HOTP stamp set called Heartfelt Greetings.
Inside:
I used more scraps to make borders for the inside. The border was cut and embossed with a die from Spellbinders Classic Postage Stamp Edgeabilities. I backed it with scraps of the two colors of pink that had been used elsewhere on the card. The flower was made in a similar way to the one on the front - with additional leaves from my stash.
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