It's a Creative World: Using up your scraps.

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Using up your scraps.

I am a lazy scrapper, which is why I love the ScrapRoom kits. No worries about finding co-ordinating cardstock and embellishments or trying to pick only a few papers from each range (rather than buying the WHOLE lot!).

I manage at least 2 layouts from each pack which is 8 layouts a month, and sometimes I use black or white cardstock if i've got some paper left over. But once all I have left are scraps, they just sit in my space doing nothing.

Until last month when I was on holiday! The weather was a bit poop so I decided to do some crafting. Imagine my horror when I discovered over twenty, yes 20, baggies of patterned paper scraps taking up precious space on my stash shelf.

So I set about using them. I emptied one bag at a time and used as much of the paper as possible to make cards.

Some baggies had very little embellishment left so had to add a flower here and a brad there, but on the whole I managed to make 2 to 3 complete cards from each baggie.