We Love Leftovers!

Clearly we are not the only crafters who save scraps, swap diecuts and stamp things, then fail to use them. Equally clearly we are not the only cardmakers who value the opportunity to sift through those lovely unused items and make them into beautiful holiday cards. 

Brenda B of Brenda's Scraps of Life

...happened upon an orphaned journal card, some pretty diecuts and even a stamped-but-unused sentiment; then used them to whip up this lovely confection of a card!

Marina of My Perfect Life

...cleverly took some of her leftovers along on vacation and used them to make a discarded fancy-fold with pretty paper panels into this adorable interactive greeting!

Barbara G of Barb's Creative Corner

...made this adorable and vibrant card entirely from items in the (temporarily) discarded pile... even that super-cute owl was already stamped, colored and fussycut!

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Many thanks to everyone who played along, there were some incredibly inspiring cards, so if you haven't scrolled through the Leftovers Readers' Gallery, we highly recommend the trip. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt that we hope will inspire some good old-fashioned creativity!

Raiding the Refrigerator (or Craft Stash)

We're still creating with Holiday Leftovers at Jingle Belles this week ... remember we want to see you use all of those little crafty leftovers that you saved because they were too pretty to throw away or recycle. 

Here how we raided our crafty stashes this week to create our holiday cards:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Periodically, I get in the mood to make this sort of quiltish, paper-pieced strip backgrounds, so I'll make a bunch, use a few, put the rest aside, and... forget all about them, lol. So in a way, this is a story about DOUBLE leftovers, because the background itself was made from offcut strips; and then it, too, became a leftover! On top of the background I've got a blue patterned paper offcut from last week's card; some poinsettias embossed with Ranger's Red Glitter Embossing Powder; the last three brads from an ancient My Mind's Eye brad set; and a glossy red metallic Cut-plorations' Jingle Bells diecut. I added all of the above to a white A6 card, machine-stitched around the whole thing... et voila!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I went back the same pile of leftovers on my studio table, and I was thrilled to be able to put together a second card using-up most of my leftovers and a teal card base.  I was so glad I found a home for that cute little Polar Bear.  I finished with some red bling and a Hello Bluebird Typed Christmas Sentiment."

Holiday Leftovers

One of our favorite things about the holiday meal is the leftovers... maybe you enjoy a little stuffing and cranberry sauce on your ham sandwich; or eating sweet potatoes topped with pecans and  marshmallows for breakfast.

So this fortnight, we're celebrating Holiday Leftovers by creating cards using all of those little leftover pieces of papers, alphabet letters, stickers, ribbon; you know, all those things we've saved somewhere because they were just too lovely to throw away or recycle. Well, now we want you to retrieve a few and use them to make some fun holiday leftover cards.  

Here's how we created with our Leftovers this week.

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "This card was made from all of the leftovers I had sitting on my studio table (pile shown on my blog).  I loved how the bits leftover from several of my last few holiday cards worked together to form this ultra-layered design.  I was even able to find a *sentiment* from one of the scraps."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "My batch of leftovers (you can see them on my blog) consisted of an already paper-pieced version of Spellbinders' Snowman Hugs die set; a background where I stamped and masked with several different Wendy Vecchi background stamps and her gorgeous Leaf Green Archival Ink; a few paper strips that had been border-punched; and the de-bossed side of a panel of green cardstock on which I had inked the em-bossed side... but then not liked it. All I had to do to make the leftovers into the card was round the corners on the two panels, add another layer of patterned paper, and machine-stitch around the edges. Easy, peasy!"

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This "Holiday Leftovers" challenge runs until 6pm (Eastern) on the evening of Wednesday, August 14th. Keyword for galleries, etc, is JB2416.

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