making cards with scraps

Happy Monday!!

I was sorting through a few plastic storage containers that seemed to have a little bit of everything in them - embellishments, scraps of paper, card bases, embossed papers, stamped sentiments - when I had a great idea!  I would sort out the embossed papers and scraps to start making cards!  I am signed up to make 30 birthday cards for my son's high school staff for their April and May birthdays.

This is what I started with:

I had to stop along the way to stamp some more sentiments and that's when I found a bunch of card bases I had made a year or so ago, when I donated cards to a local assisted living center.  I guess I am already ahead for the next batch of cards. :)

 Finally, here are my finished cards!  I noticed that the card base color really impacted the pattern paper scraps and that I tend to like white card bases.  Even though I made 13 cards ... not a dent in the scraps!  LOL!!

Thanks to Jolene for a lot of these embossed papers and stamped sentiments! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by my blog today!

~Carolyn

Scrappy organization

I am still settling into my new craft room and it is amazing how I just threw things together to pack up my scrap room!  It is nice to finally sort things out.

Last week I saw a post on Facebook where someone repurposed their nail polish organizer into their scrappy organization - I loved this idea for my liquid inks and I jumped on Amazon to buy one!

I picked this one because I liked the large compartment on the upper left side.

Since I had a lot of space left over, I thought I'd add my stickles too ...

Okay, so I have wayyyyy more stickles than I thought LOL ... debated on buying another container or larger container but for now I have decided against it.  Maybe this will motivate me to use the stickles more often especially since a handful have barely any left.

Here it is stacked nicely on the shelf:

There was a small casualty during the move with some spray inks - totally bummed!

Thanks for stoppin' by my blog today!

~Carolyn