Welcome to a new challenge for  Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Paper Scraps…make a project and use up some of those paper scraps you have!Â
For my scrap buster card, I used a whole bunch of little card stock strips..some plain, some embossed. I always have these little strips left when I trim images and I’m pretty well known for saving everything, lol. I’ve made these type of strip backgrounds before, so I dug out some Christmas colors of these strips and stuck them onto a piece of sticker paper. Originally it was 4 x 5.25, but it looked a bit too busy so I cut it down to about 2 x 5 and attached it to left side of my 4.25 x 5.50 card.
After stamping the tree image on white, I also stamped it a few times on some designer paper scraps and paper pieced them onto the base image. I added just a little color w/ Copics and die cut it. One of the Merrys was stamped on a scrap of white and I used a smaller Labels 17 to cut the right side of it.
Please be sure to stop by and visit all of the Serendipity Design Team’s blogs:
Jeanne Jachna
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Pauline Pollington
Jenny Gropp
Vickie Zimmer
Julie Warner – you are here!
Karen Amidon
Anya Schrier
| Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Christmas Tree, Merry Merry Merry |
| Paper:Â Neenah white, green, dp scraps (Paper Studio, Cricut), various strips of card stock, sticker paper |
| Ink: Â Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx |
| Accessories:Â Copic markers, Spellbinders labels 17 & petite oval dies, Cuttlebug embossing folders |
Julie this is a fabulous Christmas card! I love your bright and jolly tree,mand the wonderful stripy panel. Like you,mi can’t bear to throw bits away!
Julie, your work is always wonderful! Great color combo and fun scraps. Really like how you used your Copics on some of your paper piecing.
Wow, you certainly went to town using your scraps. What a lot of work, but then again you always put so much time into all of your cards. Loving that tree. Your card really pops.
How cute Julie! Love the different colored layers of the tree and the Merry on the side!
Hi Julie, sorry I am so late to comment. I love what you did with your scraps. the thin layers to the side look beautiful! Love the layered tree too. Wonderful Christmas card!
Love the strip of paper scraps….you even save the embossed ones and they look perfect on this card!! That whimsical tree is perfect paper pieced!!