SUNDAY SCRAP DAY 1

Hi Everyone

I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday.  It is quite cold here but the sun is shining .. .. which is lovely to see.

I have decided to set myself my own challenge .. .. which I am going to follow every Sunday in an attempt to reduce my craft pod of clutter.

Sunday is going to be my Sunday scrap day!!!  I am sure I can't be the only one who has loads and loads and loads of bits of paper that just cannot be thrown away .. .. .. and ribbon too for that matter .. .. .. and I need to use some of it up!!!

So my Sunday rules are .. ..

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.

So every Sunday I will be posting a card (perhaps sometime more than one if things go well) which have been made from craft pod scraps. 

When you see my scrap bits below you will realise why.. .. LOL!!!

So here is Sunday Scrap Day Project No. 1

I won't be going to go through what papers I have used because there will be lots of mixing and matching going on over the weeks .. .. but if there is a particular paper you like you can always ask and I will try and tell you where it originally came from.

So today I have used:

Papers:  From the Scrap Drawers
Ribbon:  From the Scrap Bag
Josy Rose:  Nail Heads
Martha Stewart Punch:  Traditional Scallop
X-Cut Punch:  Butterfly
Button and sticky pearls
So that is this Sunday's creation.. it didn't use much paper up did it LOL!!!

Here are the reasons for me going down this route

Two sets of overflowing plastic drawers from ASDA
Each draw is colour co-ordinated to hold
Black, Pink, Purple, Blue, Green, Brown, Yellow and Red paper

Elsewhere there are similar drawers that hold gold, silver and white
(Yes I even save stupid bits of white card too!!  LOL!!)

One large plastic drawer that is just full of offcuts.
But sadly this is not colour co-ordinated and ideally would
fit in the little drawers above.

One plastic bag full of the smallest bits of ribbon you could
possibly imagine.  Some are as small as 2" long!!!

As you can tell I have a long way to go if I am going to make a hole in this lot .. .. but if I don't start it can only get worse and I just cannot bear to throw any of it away because with a bit of thought it is all useable LOL!!!

If anyone else wants to play along then please let me know you have made something following these rules and I can come and see what you have made .. .. or if anyone has any great ideas of how to use up some of these offcuts then all suggestions are gratefully received. 

I could perhaps even do some links showing good ways to use up our scrap using your inspiration. 

Have a great rest of the day.

Love