If you love paper crafts, you know how we all like to save those pretty paper scraps. Today I’m sharing a few ideas using those little bits of paper to make scrap paper embellishments.
How To Make scrap paper embellishments
Here I trimmed scraps of various papers and adhered them onto a plain white paper using archival-safe glue. These scrap paper strips can be as narrow or as wide as you want and can be monochromatic or span a palette of colors. You can see that I chose a totally colorful option here below.
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After I had adhered a whole row down, I trimmed it using a paper trimmer to form a long strip. This trimmer is my favorite, and recommended in my what do you need for scrapbooking? post
While this could be used as a border all by itself, here I chose to punch out evenly spaced circles and use it as a border to frame small embellishments. I chose a circle punch, but you could totally use any punch in any shape to amp up your border here.
I love the pop of color this border provides, and yet since I punched out a major portion of it, the colors are not too overwhelming.
Here’s a look at the layout I created using it. I placed the border beneath my photos and used it to frame some animal stickers.
I used the scrap paper embellishments I punched out to create another quick fun layout.
If you need more inspiration, check out these card making ideas with scraps
