Scrappy Christmas to all . . .

A few weeks ago, Cath Edvalson previewed the Paper Crafts magazine special issue, Practical Solutions for Paper Crafters, over on the Moxie Fab World blog. Soon after, I was paging through the issue in person and found myself inspired to tackle my scraps bin. The issue contains tons of innovative ideas for using and/or storing paper scraps. For instance, there was a wreath created by overlapping short strips of ribbon in a circle. And then there were the flowers made by layering short, thin strips of paper and securing with a brad. Super cute ideas!

Before long, there I sat in the art room floor, thinking about trying those flowers and beginning to cut paper into strips. It just so happened to be green paper, and inspiration struck! So I grabbed my phone and took a quick picture of my scrap pile:

I snapped another once the scraps took on the shape of a Christmas tree:

Finally, I decorated the tree with some flocked dots (just took the paper off one side of a foam dot and covered it with flocking powder), topped it with a star punched from a scrap of glitter paper, and layered it alongside some other scraps.  A leftover piece of white cardstock I'd embossed with snowflakes; a scrap of kraft cardstock transformed with an oval die, a trip through the crimper, and some inking around the edges; and a piece of snowflake ribbon from my ribbon bin to tie it all up—yep, I see a theme here.

Here is my card, made almost entirely from scraps. It is inspired by Paper Crafts magazine special issue, Practical Solutions for Paper Crafters, and I have entered it in the Paper Scraps Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. Entries are accepted through midnight, Monday, April 9, so if you are a paper crafter yourself, what are you waiting for? Get out those scraps and make something! 

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