We Create August Blog Hop Let's Recycle

Welcome to the We Create August Blog Hop and this month our theme is "Let's Recycle". Our Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you. There are so many options to explore and ways to recycle things around us to create fun projects. 

For my card design today, I chose to use the scraps and strips of cardstock I had left over from cards I have made over the past couple of months. Each month I create cards for blog hops as well as card swaps and challenges, so I accumulate quite a lot of thin strips of cardstock when I cut card fronts and layers for my designs. I also had some flower die cuts and circles that I have kept in a bag that were from a swap that I participated in. Rather than throwing away these scraps and left over pieces, I like to recycle them and use them to create strip cards. This card design features strips of approx. 1/4" wide in colors of Misty Moonlight, Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon and Moody Mauve that I had left over from cutting card fronts. The focal design was created using left over die cuts created using the Sending Smiles stamp set and coordinating Sending Dies along with a Basic White 2 3/8" Circle Punch from a swap. I love how these scraps combined to create a beautiful new card design instead of ending up in the trash. 

Products Used:

Layering Leaves stamp set (item #161277)

Sending Smiles stamp set (item #158701)

Sending Dies (item #159271)

2 3/8" Circle Punch (item #161354)

Lost Lagoon Cardstock (item #133679)

Misty Moonlight Cardstock (item #153081)

Pretty Peacock Cardstock (item #150880)

Moody Mauve Cardstock (item #161723)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Lost Lagoon Classic Ink Pad (item #161678)

Boho Blue Classic Ink Pad (item #161650)

Daffodil Delight Classic Ink Pad (item #147094)

Tinsel Gems Three Pack (item #161624)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Lost Lagoon Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

1/4" Strips for card front

Pretty Peacock Cardstock

1/4" Strips for card front

Misty Moonlight Cardstock

1/4" Strips for card front 

Moody Mauve Cardstock

1/2" Strips for card front

Basic White Cardstock

Layer 1 - 4 1/4" x 4"

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" trimmed to 5" x 3 3/4" once strips are adhered to card front

Circle punched out with the 2 3/8" Circle Punch

Flowers stamped and die cut (left over from previous card design)

This design was a fun experiment with different colored strips to create a colorful background for my card. I started by arranging the strips on my Basic White cardstock card front until I was happy with the order of colors. I chose colors from my stash of cardstock strips that I thought would work well together but would have a variety of contrasts. Once I was happy with the order, I adhered the strips to the card front, leaving a small amount of white space between the strips to add to the design. Once I had finished creating the card front design, I trimmed it to the finished size of 5" x 3 3/4" and then adhered it to another piece of Basic White cardstock measuring 5 1/4" x 4" to create a clean white border around the edge of the card front. I then attached these layers to the Lost Lagoon card base with Stampin' Dimensionals. For the focal design, I stamped the sentiment from the Layering Leaves stamp set using Lost Lagoon Classic ink and attached the circle to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals. The flowers that I chose to use were left over from a card swap I created recently and I chose to use two of them to decorate the sentiment circle. The flowers were stamped using Boho Blue and Daffodil Delight Classic inks using the Sending Flowers stamp set and they have been die cut with the coordinating Sending Dies. I attached the flowers, one at the top left and the other towards the bottom right of the circle. To complete the design, I added several Misty Moonlight Gems from the Tinsel Gems Three Pack to add a touch of bling. The wonderful thing about creating strip cards with left overs from your cards, is that each card will have a unique design and feel to it. It's a fun and creative way to recycle your left over supplies to create beautiful cards.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to recycle your scraps of cardstock to create your own beautiful projects. There are so many wonderful possibilities to explore and each card design can be a unique work of art to share with family and friends. 

Now it's time to visit Cheryl's blog and see what she has created. Just click on the Next button below to visit her blog. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

Roll Call List
Kimberley Morris
Tricia Butts
Cheryl Curtis

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Until Next Time

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Tricia Butts
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