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Mother's Day Wishes

It's that time again....Mother's Day is just around the corner. And because I knew Mother's Day was coming up, I decided to get started early. One week early, in fact.

I don't know about you, but I've been told time and again that getting a handmade card is on the top of my mom's "want" list. I've even been  chastised when, in a rush, I didn't have time to make something and mistakenly strayed into the card aisle at Target.

Call me a creature of habit, but I just love the flair. Line & Letter Flair, in fact. I feel like you can make a super fancy card, add a ton of embellishments, and it's somehow not finished until you put that last button on.

Well, fingers crossed that this thing even makes it through the mail.

Don't forget to tell your mom, or a mom you know that you love them on their special day! And I'm sure they wouldn't be offended if you make them a card, either.

xoxo,
Stephanie

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Stephanie | 1/17

With Valentine's Day coming up, I took a little time over the weekend to get an early start on a few cards. My husband and I don't really spend money on each other on Valentine's, but I always do my best to make him a card.

For this, I took a few Line & Letter Chevron tags, cut them in half, alternated them on the card, then layered elements from the Fact or Fiction Dots n' Spots, the Fact or Fiction Flappers and Line & Letter Mix Tags.

I misted, added a few staples and a Tim Holtz film transparency. Then I cut the edges along with the Chevron pattern for a little added element.

The card turned out masculine, which is the look I was going for. I had fun putting it together and I think my sweetie will be pleased to receive it!

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Earth Friendly. Paper Love: Product Packaging

Hi everyone! It's Pam here today and I am going to show you an idea I had for reusing the product packaging. I keep all of my Ormolu goodies in a little basket and when I used some of them up, I hung on to the packaging so I could stick little treats in them, wrap some twine around it, add a note and have a quick little gift to give.

We are going to use the sentiment strips from the 2-Day Hooray Cut Sheet. Grab some candy bars and twine and pretty patterned paper and we are set to go.

To cover the top part of the packaging (that has the hole-NOT the opening part), I cut a strip of patterned paper the width of the packaging and folded it over, then stitched it shut. I then adhered the hip-hip hooray! sentiment strip to the top of the packaging, added a second little sentiment I created on the computer and stitched that on. I filled the bag with treats (get it-hip-hip hooray! congrats on making all A's...and I used smarties?!) and sealed it up.

For these 2, I took some of the smaller packaging and trimmed a piece of patterned paper the width of the packaging. Then I wrapped the sentiment strip around the packaging, overlapping the patterned paper, and stitched that on. I added some twine and candy bars, then sealed the bag. Unfortunately, I had bought 3 candy bars to go in the 3 Cheers bag, but only 2 would fit...so I had to eat one;)

There you go! I hope you start saving your packaging...there are so many options as far as what to fill the packaging with!

SUPPLIES:
2-Day Hooray Cut Sheet
Packaging

Earth Friendly. Paper Love: Leftovers...

Hi everyone! Emily here. :)  I tend to fall on the "green" side of things in my daily life. My rather conservative father likes to call me his "greenie tree-hugger" daughter. I'll take that... ;)  We use things at our house like cloth diapers and re-usable grocery bags, and I'm a bit of a recycling fanatic. There is one area of my life, however, where I am decidedly (and embarassingly) much less green.  What is my big greenie downfall?  You guessed it...scrapbooking.  I love this hobby so much, but I do not love how wasteful it...well, let's be real...how wasteful I am.  Between the plastic packaging that so many products come with and all the extra paper, there isn't much about my scrapbooking that is "green" at all.

I am an 8.5 x 11 scrapper, which means that without fail, there is a lot of extra paper left every time I make a layout.  I have tons and tons of 3.5 inch wide paper scraps leftover from where I cut an 8.5 x 11 inch background out of a 12 x 12 piece of patterned paper.  Today I just wanted to share some quick and easy ways to use up all those paper "extras" that are left behind after you have finished creating.

First, I made a layout using some great Ormolu product. :)

I was left with the standard strip of green, a bunch of yellow, and even more orange. I figured with Halloween around the corner, I could use the extras to make a couple of Halloween projects... :)

Some other ideas?  Cupcake toppers, punched garland, toothpick flags, other handmade embellishments for your pages...

And finally, my favorite way to use up scraps? Give them to the kids!! This isn't using exactly the same papers from my layout, but it is a great way to use scraps...and my daughter loved it!

I'd love to hear some of your suggestions for being a green scrapper and using scraps! Have a great weekend!

Ormolu products used:
2-Day Hooray Fabric Swatches
Letter and Line Chevron Package Tags
Line and Letter Button Embellishments
Write-on Paperchain
2-Day Hooray Dots 'n Spots
Blank Packaging Tags (Kraft)
Flora Embellishments (Vignette)