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
Great idea on using all those scraps I’ve accumulated but can’t bear to throw out!
love this!! such a good idea. i love the way the animals are “peeking out” of your frames, too!
Such a fun tutorial! Thank you for sharing!