SUNDAY SCRAP DAY 2

Hi Everyone

Well here I am again continuing on my mission to use up the scrap papers I manage to create!!! 

People seemed surprised last week that I had accumulated so much scrap LOL!!!  .. .. .. but in my defence I would like to say that those scraps have been building up now for 3 years and the drawers I use are not huge big things .. .. they are fairly small in fact - I think the photograph just made them look bigger than they are (well that's my story and I am sticking to it LOL!!!).

So three years of building it up .. .. it had better not take that long to get rid of them again!!!

Anyway, my mission continues by following my Scrap Sunday Rules which I set myself when I started out this quest last week were:

1. No cutting into any new sheet of design paper .. .. only pages that have chunks already taken out of them can be used.

2. No cutting into new sheets of coloured card for matting and layering .. again only those with chunks taken out can be used.

3. No taking ribbon off a reel

4. No stamping or printing off of images and colouring them .. .. only paper-piecing is allowed

5. Embellishments are allowed .. .. but if I am able to make the embellishments from scrap so much the better.

Another rule is being added this week

6.  Printed or stamped sentiments are allowed as I do think I need to include these

This week's Scrap Sunday offering is here

This used:

Image:  Is an Anita's stamp that I have stamped and cut out three times and layered up
Fiskars Punch:  Threading Water
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder:  Stylized Flowers
Leone Em Pty Punch: "CP30" Ash BranchAll papers and card from the scrap drawers.. yay!!!  .. .. .. no whole and complete sheet of paper or card was harmed in the making of this creation -therefore mission accomplished LOL!!!!!
Josy Rose:  Acrylic Stones
Diamond Stickles

 Quite a few of you thought that my self inflicted rules were a good idea for getting scrap used up .. .. it seems to be something that the majority of us has hanging around.

Annmaree .. .. who herself took the challenge on and made a gorgeous Sunday Scrap card which you can find here.  Thanks for sharing Annmaree .. .. I am so pleased you enjoyed yourself .. .. though you don't have quite as much scrap to get rid of as I do LOL!!!

I was also contacted by another lady Mrs Miles who left me a message to say

"HA! You and I think along the same lines. I have "inherited" 99% of my supplies so its always like this for me. Actually, I've taken a 12 x 12 scrapbook album and inserted paper in the seperate pages (turning each page into a pouch)- sorted by colors. So, a page with SOLID red, then the opposite side PATTERNED reds. and so on. Yes, the book is big and bulky but I keep it standing up and its so easy to find what I need.

Mrs Miles emailed me a photograph of her album which she was happy for me to share with you all .. .. I think it is a good way to store your scrap as it is so well organised and colour co-ordinated.  Love it that plain and patterned papers are separated.  Mine are all mixed together in the one drawer.

Anyway .. .. here are the photographs and thank you for the inspiration Mrs Miles.

Good idea don't you think?

My post of last week (you can find it here) also came in useful for making people feel much better about themselves as they didn't have as much scrap as I do (sadly I save the smallest of pieces and hardly anything goes into my bin) .. .. .. in fact one person actually dragged her husband along to see "just how much I actually had !!!".  But I feel no shame .. .. my scrap is a direct result of masses of crafting and thriftiness LOL!!!

So that is me for today.

A little more scrap used up .. ..  LOL!!!

Have a lovely rest of Sunday.

Love