Scrapbox challenge 2 paper girls

I have been looking at the scrap box again thinking what other goodies i can make from my every growing scrap box and decided to make some fun girls heads to use as toppers for my cards and scrapbooking projects that i am going to make a start on once i can move to get into my creation cave, just waiting for my legs to start working to get me there.

Anyways what you will for this project.....

Scrap paper and card

Circle Dies

Scalloped Edge circle dies

Gems

Flesh coloured pen

Fine liner pen

Start by cutting out your hair and faces with a circle die and scalloped die.

Take the larger black circle and cut it in half.

Tale a half and cut a v out of it to make a fringe type effect.

Attach some double sided tape to the back and stick on the flesh coloured circle.

Take the scalloped cuts and attach double sided tape to the lower edge of them.

Attach them to the back with tape like so.

Add gems to the hair and draw in a face with a little blush on the cheeks.

And there you have it a fun paper girl for loads of projects.

Fiddle around with different colours and hair styles to make more funky girls.

Let me know if you try them out and what you use them on.

Emmie xxx

                     

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