Scrap Halloween Cards

One of the fun parts of making cards is all the scraps generated that I can’t seem to throw away.

One of the frustrating parts of making cards is all the scraps generated that I can’t seem to throw away.

Yup. I have a Pinterest board dedicated to card ideas for utilizing paper scraps, precisely because of my scrap hoarding problem. Really, we pay good money for our beautiful papers, so why throw way those pieces that are sure to come in handy later? Am I right? ;)

For the second time in a month, I actually have utilized scraps; though this time I made a set of four cards using mostly left over elements & scraps from my spooky forest cards from my last blog post. I was left with strips of Authentique & DCWV Halloween cardstock from cutting the papers down to 4.25” x 5.5” card size, extra aluminum foil strips & Hershey’s Kiss foil wrappers stamped with “Spooky”, and Echo Park Paper Co.’s“Happy Halloween” die cuts of witches’ boots, bats, and spider webs. The die cuts were the result of an evening spent getting rid of the pile of cardboard packaging on my desk by continuously die cutting while listening to pod casts. I ended up with a pile of random die cuts while reducing the pile of thin food packaging boxes. I felt so productive and considerate towards my future-card-making-self. However, my husband caught on to the fact that I’m trying to re-use our food packaging as much as possible instead of throwing it away, and I now have another pile larger than the first! What a good excuse to break out my newest, unused die sets from my latest craft supply order, huh?

Other than layouts, the only things I did for these cards were:

• trimmed some rough edges from the scrap paper strips,
• added black Colorbox pigment ink to the spider webs and bats,
• added a little black ink topped with silver Colorbox pigment ink to the witches’ boots,
• and sponged the card edges with black ink for contrast.

All elements adhered liberally with glue stick, Tombow rolling dot adhesive, and Beacon 3-in-1 liquid glue, and voilà! Quickly completed scrap cards!

{Crafted while listening to “The Night Eternal” audiobook by Guillermo Del Toro and "Welcome to Night Vale" podcasts}


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