Scrapy Birthday

Hello and welcome back to my blog!  Affiliate free I might add!!!  Glad you came!  Today I'm going to show a tutorial on how to make a card that will use up your scraps or all those 6x6 paper pads you have lying around (admit it you have a bunch, we all do!).

Ok so I'm going to go ahead and confess that I have a serious addiction to Pinterest.  Its bad.  I'm not going to go into detail you will just have to trust that this is true.  Its just too embarrassing to explain.  Anyway I'm always on the lookout for a simple birthday card for months such as July where I have 18 cards to make.  I found this card on one of my Pinterest harvests.  It uses up scraps or small paper pads, BONUS!!!  Usually I vary my cards even if I intend to make the same card I found the idea for.  But this time I stayed pretty true to what I found on Pinterest.  I'll just chalk that up to what an excellent idea the original card maker had.   

So first I picked a paper pad that would work for males and females.  Then I decided to use craft paper because it would match all the paper I was going to use and make it pop a little. I used my Firskars trimmer to trim up my carstock to size for my card base.  Then I pulled paper from my 6x6 pad and trimmed it in random width strips.

 Then I laid the strips out on a base to see what size die I needed to select from my nestling dies.

Then I used my Cuddlebug to cut out my white cardstock.

After I cut those I set them aside and assembled my cardstock and paper strips using miracle tape.

I used my Tim Holtz Large scissors to trim the ends of my strips to fit.

Then I got back to my sentiment.  I got out my acrylic stamp block, my stamp set, and my memento ink and got to stamping.

It was time to distress my sentiment.

And now it is time to add my twine!

I used a few different colors for variation.  Next I attached my sentiment using pop dots to add dimension and to hold the twine in place.

All that was left was to attach the card to the A2 card base and I had a very cute but simple birthday card!  I hope you enjoyed this card tutorial!  Below you will find a supply list and a plug for my favorite local scrapbook store.  The store carries most of the supplies I used for this card and many other unique papercrafting supplies that you can't find at the big box stores.  If you like the card but don't want to take the time to make it visit my Etsy shop where you can buy this card and many others!  https://www.etsy.com/shop/IslaBug?ref=search_shop_redirect

Supply list
A2 card bases
American crafts white and kraft cardstock
6x6 paper pad or paper scraps
Twine
Pop dots
Miracle tape
Cuddlebug
Dies for sentiment
Tim Holtz scissors
Fiskars trimmer
Tim Holtz distress ink
Lawn fawn Year Two stamps
Acrylic block
Memento ink


I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!