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)