Blondemommy's Blog: Addicted to CardMaking-Using up Scraps-Card #1

When the kiddos went back to school I decided to start cleaning and getting rid of excess! I did this with my craft stuff too! It was very hard, trust me. I am a paper hoarder/collector. I decided to only use scraps for projects. I first took all of my scraps of patterned paper and cut them into nice, neat quadrilaterals (fancy way to say four sides!). If the paper was big enough to make 6 x 6 pieces, I did that first. Reasoning behind that… I figured they were the right size to put on a Cricut mat. After I went to all that trouble, I decided that I was going to use only my scraps. Yes, that's right! I am only allowing myself to use scraps until they are gone or until the first of the year. This is my plan!!! The other benefit to doing this is I will not be creating any new scraps. You may be asking yourself, “how does she plan on scrapbooking?” Well, I did cut myself some slack! If I am making a layout (mine are always 12 x 12) I can use new paper. All of the die-cuts are made from scraps. So, my first challenge was to create cards for the Addicted to Card Making swap. I usually make 12 (I keep 2 for myself) identical cards. So, I had to make cards out of different papers in order to use up my scraps! Let me tell you, if you are looking for a challenge, challenge yourself to do this for a while! It really makes you look at paper in a different way and match paper together that you would have otherwise never done!

Here are the cards for September. The theme is Monochromatic...