Scrap box challenge

As most paper crafters know that when we are creating pretties we end up with endless amounts of off cuts and spare left over pieces of paper. I personally cannot bare to throw anything away and i am always looking for other uses for things so i ended up starting out with a little tin and now it's turned into a basket full of scraps in every colour and texture you could think of. 

As you can see it has turned into a crazy collection of bits just dying to be reused and reworked into something pretty and usable. I'm venturing into the world of scrapbooking over the next few weeks so i am looking for fun embellishments and accents to use on my pages as well as on my cards and papercraft projects. 

I'm starting to build up a fab collection of paper punches which are ideal to use on scraps, but not mulberry paper scraps as they get chewed up in the paper and only end up jammed or ripped sadly, but card and most other papers are fab for punches. I decided to make some fun strawberries from some of the pink, red and green scraps using a heart punch and a flower punch, it really was that simple. Personally i adore Woodware craft punches! The range is amazing, the are affordable and usable over and over again.

 

Simply cut the heart shapes from the pink and red card and the flowers from the green scraps.

Cut the green flowers in half.

Use a dot of glue or a bit of double sided tape and attach the half pieces of flowers to the hearts and there you have it gorgeous strawberries for any paper crafting project.

Amazing to think these were made from scraps that a lot of people would chuck in the bin and wouldn't use a new sheet of card to make them with.

Hope you give them a try :-) 

Emmie xxx