With Earth Day coming up later this month, I decided to share an earth-friendly color combination, pulling some rich tones together from grass, soil, and sky: Garnet, Ponderosa Pine, Bamboo, and Twilight. I love the results! The cards are airy and welcoming, and our Memory Keeper box makes an ideal scrap container.
A hint for making this or other scrap-centric projects: store your paper scraps by color, rather than by kit. That way, you’ll have a great, eclectic mix of designs that are always at your fingertips and that coordinate perfectly. Believe it or not, all the Bamboo papers on this project came together from completely different paper packets, including Grace, Silhouette, Moondoggie, and Notebook. Talk about “reduce, reuse, recycle”!
To make this box, just tear your scraps at odd angles and strips, and layer them over each other, adhering as you go. Tie the torn paper together (and the whole look together) by adding inked elements like stamped titles, Dimensional Elements, or solid-color embellishments like felt. You can choose to modge-podge for a smooth finish or leave it rough hewn, like mine. This is the month to celebrate the “scrap” in scrapbooking and recycle your favorite looks into something fashionable and new!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Love Your Mother (Earth)
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I love the box. I just ordered one to make for my niece, but don't have enough of the retired paper pack to do what I planned. "Scrapping" it is the perfect solution!
ReplyDeleteI was so glad to see this color combination. Ponderosa Pine and Garnet are two of the colors that I use the least. I rarely see them used in the Idea Book also. They look great combined with the Twilight, I never would have tried that. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using the box for keeping my paper scraps. I have really enjoyed the Memory Keeper boxes and now I know what I'm going to make the next one for.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards and box. I have a question though. Is it Bamboo or Desert Sand? You state Bamboo but show a Desert Sand circle. Your projects appear to be Bamboo to me.
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I love finding ways to maximize my paper packs...and mixing & matching the colors together is perfect! Fun color combination - the difference in depth of hues really makes the Ponderosa Pine & Garnet pop!
ReplyDeleteLove those colors together. Thank you for this inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI keep all my scraps, but this is a much better way to store the odds and ends . . . and even better to come up with a project like the box to store them all in! Fun, fun!
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